TeraGrid Overview
Cyberinfrastructure Days
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10/9/07
Mark Sheddon
Resource Provider Principal Investigator
San Diego Supercomputer Center
sheddon@sdsc.edu
TeraGrid
• Funded by the Office of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI)
within the National Science Foundation (NSF)
– Grid Infrastructure Group (GIG)
• Coordination software development and deployment
• Integration and tracking of general partnership activities
• Lead by University of Chicago/Argonne National Labs (Dane Skow)
– Nine Computational Resource Providers (RP’s)
– Four Software Integration Partners
TeraGrid Facility Partners
UW
Grid Infrastructure
Group (UChicago)
PSC
UC/ANL
NCAR
PU
NCSA
Caltech
UNC/RENCI
IU
ORNL
USC/ISI
SDSC
Resource Provider (RP)
TACC
Software Integration Partner
August 2007
TeraGrid Objectives
• DEEP Science: Enable Petascale Science
– Make science more productive through an integrated set of
very-high capability computational resources
• Address key scientific challenges prioritized by users
• WIDE Impact: Empower Scientific Communities
– Bring TeraGrid capabilities to the broad science community
• Partner with science community leaders – e.g. “Science Gateways”
• Create an OPEN Infrastructure, OPEN Partnership
– Provide a coordinated, general purpose, reliable set of
services and resources
• Partner with campuses and facilities
More Than Just Fast Computers
Start-up and
9
Large
Allocations Resource
Providers
Over 300
Tflops
Computing
Security and
Access
Applications
Packages
Security
Input
Security
Archive
2D
.
and
3D
Shibboleth
Retrieval
Data
Storage &
Collections
Authorization
Search
Central
Help
Desk
Human
Support
Science
Gateways
Ontologies
Training
Authentication
Over 100
Collections
Schema
Metadata
Display
Tools
Accounting
Training
Education
And
Outreach
ASTA
Policy
Software
Visualization
Servers
Resource
Providers
Governance
Campus
Partners
Scientific
Instruments
Control
Data
Generation
ORNL
SNS
Over
1,000
PIs
Researchers
Educators
Students
Over
3,200
Users
Faculty
Users Come From Many Scientific Disciplines
TeraGrid Projects by Institution
Blue: 10 or more PI’s
Red: 5-9 PI’s
Yellow: 2-4 PI’s
Green: 1 PI
TeraGrid allocations are available to researchers at any US educational
institution by peer review. Exploratory allocations can be obtained
through a biweekly review process. See www.teragrid.org.
1000 projects, 3200 users
How Can You Get Involved?
• Apply for an Allocation
– Computing Resources
– Applications Support
• Access through a Science Gateway
• Participate in EOT Activities
– Institutes, Workshops, Online Tutorials
– TG Conference
• Become a Resource Provider
Requesting Allocations of Computer Time
• TeraGrid resources are provided for free to
academic researchers and educators through peer
review process
– Development Allocations Committee (DAC) for start-up
accounts up to 30,000 hours of time are requests
processed in two weeks
– Medium Resource Allocations Committee (MRAC) for
requests of up to 500,000 hours of time are reviewed four
times a year
– Large Resource Allocations Committee (LRAC) for
requests of over 500,000 hours of time are reviewed twice
a year
Helping Applications Take Best Advantage of TG
Resources
Advanced Support for TeraGrid Applications (ASTA)
Large Data; Virtualized Resources: Earthquake Simulation
Olsen (SDSU), Okaya (USC), Jordan (USC), Southern California Earthquake Center
Movie SDSC
TeraGrid Science Gateways Initiative:
Community Interface to Grids
• Common Web Portal or application interfaces (database access,
computation, workflow, etc).
• “Back-End” use of TeraGrid computation, information management,
visualization, or other services.
Gateways are Growing in Numbers
• 10 initial projects as part of TG proposal
• >20 Gateway projects today
• No limit on how many gateways can use
TG resources
– Prepare services and documentation so
developers can work independently
•
Open Science Grid (OSG)
•
Special PRiority and Urgent Computing
Environment (SPRUCE)
•
National Virtual Observatory (NVO)
•
Linked Environments for Atmospheric Discovery
(LEAD)
•
Computational Chemistry Grid (GridChem)
•
Computational Science and Engineering Online
(CSE-Online)
•
GEON(GEOsciences Network)
•
Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation
(NEES)
•
SCEC Earthworks Project
•
Network for Computational Nanotechnology and
nanoHUB
•
GIScience Gateway (GISolve)
•
Biology and Biomedicine Science Gateway
•
Open Life Sciences Gateway
•
The Telescience Project
•
Grid Analysis Environment (GAE)
•
Neutron Science Instrument Gateway
•
TeraGrid Visualization Gateway, ANL
•
BIRN
•
Gridblast Bioinformatics Gateway
•
Earth Systems Grid
•
Astrophysical Data Repository (Cornell)
Wide Variety of HPC Training/Education Options
• Live/Access Grid Sessions include:
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Introduction to UT Grid Rodeo
Using the National Microbial Pathogen Data Resource
BlueGene Applications Workshop
Introduction to Parallel Computing
Summer Institutes
Toward Multicore Petascale Applications
Introduction to Scientific Visualization
•
On-line Self-Paced Tutorials
– Over 35 topics and growing
•
Curricular Focused Workshops
– Introduction to Interdisciplinary Computational Science Education for Educators
– Computational Biology for Biology Educators
– Computational Chemistry for Chemistry Educators and
– Computational Physics for Physics Educators
– Computing in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
– Parallel and Cluster Computing
Workshop Sites 2007
TeraGrid RP
2/4 Yr. College
Research 1 Univ.
Minority Serving Institution
Workshop
TeraGrid ‘07 Conf.
Conference Tutorial (e.g. SC, AAAS, AAPT)
Broadening Participation in TeraGrid
Keynote: Anita Jones (U. VA)
Technology Keynote: Paul
Strong (eBay)
Science Keynote: Phil
Maechling (USC/SCEC)
Science, Technology, and Outreach Sessions
Student Competitions for high school, undergraduate and
graduate students!
Over 350
Attendees
www.teragrid.org/events/teragrid07
Coming Down the Track
TeraGrid Resource Futures
• TACC
– Sun (Ranger), 500 TF (peak), Dec 2007
• LSU
– IBM Blade, 25 TF (peak), 1Q08
• U. Tennessee
– Cray XT, 1 PF (peak), 1Q09
• NCSA
– IBM Power, ~1 PF (sustained), 2011
ONWARD!
www.teragrid.org
Helping Applications Take Best Advantage of TG
Resources
Advanced Support for TeraGrid Applications (ASTA)
Large Data; Virtualized Resources: Earthquake Simulation
Olsen (SDSU), Okaya (USC), Southern California Earthquake Center
Sources: Tom Jordan (USC). Images SDSC.