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Members of IDGF-SP consortium - http://IDGF-SP.eu 2/8 D5.5.1 – Desktop Grids for e-Science Road Map Table of Contents 1 Status and ChanGe History .................................................................................................. 4 2 Glossary............................................................................................................................... 5 3 Introduction...........................................................................................................................6 Document: ManaGement Part.................................................................................................... Document: Technical Part.......................................................................................................... WP3 © 2013. Members of IDGF-SP consortium - http://IDGF-SP.eu 3/8 D5.5.1 – Desktop Grids for e-Science Road Map 1 Status and CHange History Status: Name: Date: Signature: Draft: Ad Emmen 2013-12-23 n.n. electronically Reviewed: RoBert Lovas 2013-12-27 n.n. electronically Approved: Ad Emmen 2013-12-27 Version Date Section/Part AutHor Modification Ad Emmen ContriButions in V1.0 20-12-13 all separate parts Update previous Road Map Added list with V1.1 27-12-13 chanGes Ad Emmen Added list with chanGes V1.2 27-12-13 ALL Ad Emmen Final editinG WP3 © 2013. Members of IDGF-SP consortium - http://IDGF-SP.eu 4/8 D5.5.1 – Desktop Grids for e-Science Road Map 2 Glossary CO Confidential BioVeL Biodiversity Virtual eLaBoratory DoW Description of Work DIRAC DistriButed Infrastructure with Remote AGent Control EC European Commission EDGeS EnaBlinG Desktop Grids for e-Science EDGI European Desktop Grid Initiative EGI European Grid Infrastructure HDMI HiGh-Definition Multimedia Interface IDGF International Desktop Grid Federation IDGF-SP Desktop Grids for International Scientific CollaBoration NGI National Grid Infrastructure PU PuBlic RSS Remote Site Summary USB Universal Serial Bus VO Virtual orGanisation Worldwide e-Infrastructure for Nuclear MaGnetic Resonance and structural WeNMR biology WP WorkpackaGe WP3 © 2013. Members of IDGF-SP consortium - http://IDGF-SP.eu 5/8 D5.5.1 – Desktop Grids for e-Science Road Map 3 Introduction This deliveraBle consists of two documents (that are included in this deliveraBle): • A manaGement part; • A technical part. These documents are updated versions from previous versions of the documents that were produced By the DEGISCO project. WP3 © 2013. Members of IDGF-SP consortium - http://IDGF-SP.eu 6/8 D5.5.1 – Desktop Grids for e-Science Road Map 4 Major changes to tHe Road Map documents This chapter provides a short overview of the major chanGes in the Road Map documents since the previous versions that were produced By the DEGISCO project for IDGF. Management part – Links checked and updated – Included WCG survey – Updated eco system description – Communication part updated – Future part updated with moBile desktop Grids and Crowd computinG TecHnical Part – Links checked and updated – Included Best practice information from technical deliveraBles of IDGF-SP – Road map part: many details and lists BrouGht up to date with 2013 situation – Crowd computinG introduced as term – Country policy section updated with 2013 information, includinG new e-IRG recommendations and EIROForum info. – Company description part updated with new innovative companies and concepts – Technical documentation of Desktop Grid technoloGies BrouGht up to date to 2013 status – Application portinG BrouGht up to date, introduced Virtual Box – Communication part BrouGht up to date and included CE experiences – Included update on EGI/IDGF collaBoration – Added information from technical deliveraBle in the Green Desktop Grid chapter WP3 © 2013. Members of IDGF-SP consortium - http://IDGF-SP.eu 7/8 Produced by the IDGF-SP project for the International Desktop Grid Federation A Road Map Desktop Grids for eScience Management part – December 2013 IDGF/IDGF-SP International Desktop Grid federation http://desktopgridfederation.org Edited by Ad Emmen (AlmereGrid, the Netherlands) Contributions: Leslie Versweyveld (AlmereGrid) Fabio Tumiatti (Atos, Spain) Oleg Sukhoroslov (ISA RAS, Russian Federation) Robert Lovas (MTA SZTAKI, Hungary) Bernhard Schott (AlmereGrid) Vicky Huang (TaiwanGrid, Taiwan) Francisco Vilar Brasileiro (OurGrid, Brasil) Xuanhua Shi (ChinaGrid, China) Graphics are produced by the projects. version 8.1 2013-12-19 © 2013 IDGF-SP Consortium: http://idgf-sp.eu IDGF-SP is supported by the FP7 Capacities Programme under contract nr RI-312297. – 2 – We will explain what kind of scientific applications Reducing the HPC gap can most benefit from Desktop Grids. Introduction For countries that do not have a large computer infrastructure to support science yet, desktop Road map process What Desktop Grids grids are an opportunity to catch up quickly: the The document you are reading provides an good news is that Desktop Grids can be seamlessly overview of all the relevant topics. As said, a more bring to Science integrated into existing scientific computing detailed technical companion document is available infrastructures world-wide. Hence your scientists with descriptions and how to’s. Today’s desktop computer is as powerful as a 20 can more easily collaborate with scientists in other million euro supercomputer of two decades ago. universities, countries and continents. During the coming year we will improve these two There are more than one billion of them in the documents based on many consultations and with world, growing to 2 billion in 2015. And most of Technology is the easy part of Desktop Grids: there data gathered through the survey., that you are them are not doing anything most of the time. is a wide variety of Desktop Grid software kindly requested to also fill out: available, ranging from mature to advanced. http://desktopgridfederation.org/survey This unused computing time can be put to good use for science or business applications. In this Legal issues Road Map we will mostly concentrate on scientific Setting up an organisation to support a Desktop The new version will be ready at the latest in applications. Grid, legal issues, Green issues, are more difficult. In November 2014. this Road Map we provide an overview on how to Putting all this unused computing time to good use handle these issues. In a companion detailed is not easy. But, if you know what and how to do, it document we provide a detailed guide with a lot of is not very difficult either. links and how to’s. In this Road Map document we will describe Green Desktop Grids several routes to deploying large numbers of An advice that environmentally conscious persons Desktop computers, lap tops, and game computers give is: put out your computer when you do not for scientific applications. use it. A good advice, but we have an even better one: donate your unused computing time to Benefits science. This makes even better use of your You can use the computers in your organisation, as computer and is better for the environment. Why? a start - we call that a local Desktop Grid; but it is We explain that later in this document. also possible to deploy computing time donated by thousands of volunteers at home, we call that a Desktop Grids have an impact already volunteer Desktop Grid or with a term that is The e-Infrastructure Reflection Group, a pan more en vogue: crowd computing. European policy group, maintains a Knowledge Base containing a lot of data about scientific computing You can use Desktop Grids as a way to save infrastructures, mainly in Europe. This data shows money: you make better use of existing computers. that in number of computers or computer cores, You can use them as an addition to existing public Desktop Grids are amongst the largest computing infrastructure, and you can use them to computing infrastructures already. strengthen the relation between science and citizens. – 3 – The City centre of Almere, a few metres below Einstein@Home is a volunteer computing sea level at the border of the Weerwater lake. Successes project with over 2.500.000 computers from (© 2010 Picture ALCA Natuur BV.) Best practices over 350.000 volunteers from over 200 countries, and a performance of over 500 Tflop/s.