UK e-Science Grid and
Activities of the Engineering
Task Force
Dr Richard Sinnott
Technical Director - National e-Science Centre |||
Deputy Technical Director Bioinformatics Research Centre
University of Glasgow
www.nesc.ac.uk
6th November 2003
Centre of Excellence Meeting
UK Grid
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Belfast
Newcastle
Lancaster
Manchester
Daresbury Lab
Midlands
Cardiff
York
Leeds
Sheffield
Leicester
Cambridge
Hinxton
Oxford
UCL
RAL
Bristol Reading Imperial
Southampton
Centre of Excellence Meeting
UK Level 2 Grid Project
WP0 Project management
WP1 Middleware development
WP2 Grid information systems
WP3 Authentication and the CA
WP4 User mgt and accounting
WP5 Grid security
WP6 Grid platform deployment
WP7 Operational monitoring
WP8 Applications
Rob Allan
Nick Hill
Rob Allan
Alistair Mills
Steven Newhouse
Jon Hillier
Alistair Mills
David Baker
Simon Cox
Centre of Excellence Meeting
UK Grid Status
Main resources available on Grid (≥ 32 processors)
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Daresbury HPCx 1280 Power 4 procs in 40 IBM Regatta p690 nodes,
AIX5.1
Daresbury 64x alpha cluster, RedHat 7, PBS
Daresbury IBM SP 8x IBM Power2 Winterhawk nodes, AIX5.1,
LoadLeveler
Manchester Computing Green 512 proc SGI Origin 3800, Irix, LSF
Manchester Computing Fermat 128 proc SGI Origin 2000, Irix, LSF
Manchester Computing Bezier 32 proc SGI Onyx 300, Irix, with 6
InfiniteReality3 graphics pipes
Imperial College Condor pool Large teaching pool
Imperial College Sun Large SMP enterprise system
Imperial College Viking cluster 236 proc Pentium IV
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Hrothgar cluster 16x dual AMD
Athlon, RedHat Linux, PBS
University College London Condor pool Around 500 proc Pentium IV
University of Southampton around 400 proc PIII and PIV, RedHat Linux,
EasyMCS
CardiffWesc9-comsc 32-proc SGI O300
…Glasgow ScotGrid, neptune, condor teaching pool…
…Edinburgh BlueDwarf, lomond, gilmour, …
Centre of Excellence Meeting
UK Grid Status …ctd
Operational and heterogeneous Level-2
Grid based on Globus Toolkit 2
Demonstrated broad set of applications running
across it
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Monte Carlo simulations of ionic diffusion through radiation
damaged crystal structures
Integrated Earth system modelling
BLAST on the Grid
Nimrod/G
DL_POLY and Portals
Grid Enabled Optimisation: Vibrations in Space Application to
Satellite Truss Design
RealityGrid-Lite
Grid Integration Test Script Suite- from WP7
Centre of Excellence Meeting
UK Grid Status …ctd
Prototype status…
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Fragility?
Security ?
Reliability ?
Predictability ?
Dynamicity ?
Maintainability ?
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Gap analysis identified numerous deficiencies in Grid
technologies generally
– http://www.nesc.ac.uk/technical_papers/UKeS-2003-01/index.html
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Real usage?
Centre of Excellence Meeting
UK Grid Plans
Plan to move to more robust Production Quality Grid
Built using GT2 technology
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will incorporate JISC data and compute clusters
– (planned to go on-line for 12th December)
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will attempt to provide predictable, reliable level of service building
on existing L2G technologies
currently identifying specific work packages and assigning
responsibilities
– CoE involvement?
Relationship with other Grids being investigated
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e.g. GridPP – intersecting Grids
Will work with OMII, NDCC
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Expected output around mid-2004?
Discussions on-going in establishing Grid Operations
Centre for managing/operating UK Grid
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Will assume role of ETF, Grid Support Centre
Expected to be operational April 2004?
Centre of Excellence Meeting
Getting involved
Some (all?) CoE already are…
Websites, Email list
etf@jiscmail.ac.uk
www.grid-support.ac.uk/etf
http://www.grid-support.ac.uk/l2g/
http://esc.dl.ac.uk/InfoPortal/
Fortnightly (mostly) access grid meetings
Centre of Excellence Meeting
UK OGSA Grid
Transition to OGSI/OGSA Grid being discussed
Open issues to be resolved
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OGSA definition / delivery
Hosting environments & platforms
Combinations of services supported
Material and grids to support adopters
Two UK OGSA Test Grid projects due to start
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UCL, Imperial College, Universities of Edinburgh and Newcastle
Universities of Portsmouth, Reading, Manchester, Westminster and
CCLRC Daresbury Laboratory
Expected time line
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Current GT3 M/W development & evaluation
End Q4 2003 GT3 L1 Grid
End Q2 2004 significant project transition to GT3 L2
End Q4 2004 most projects transitioned, operational UK OGSA Grid
Centre of Excellence Meeting