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Sample Grid Computing Projects

NSF Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation

(NEES) 2004 – to date

Transform our ability to carry out research vital to reducing vulnerability to catastrophic earthquakes

from I. Foster

Environment/Earth

SURA Coastal Ocean Observing and Prediction Program (SCOOP)

http://scoop.sura.org/

https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/

Medicine

Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN)

http://www.birncommunity.org/

http://amp.ucar.edu/

neuGRID project ended Jan. 31st 2011 .

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Large Hadron Collider experimental facility for complex particle experiments at CERN

(European Center for Nuclear Research, near Geneva Switzerland).

Physics

CERN LCH Computing grid (LCG)

Started in 2002. Now operational.

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http://lcg.web.cern.ch/LCG/public/

http://www.es.net/

http://weathermap.es.net/index-flex.html

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Grid computing infrastructure projects

Not tied to one specific application

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Funded by NSF in 2001 initially to link five supercomputer centers. Hubs established at Chicago and Los Angeles . Five centers connected to one hub:

• Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) (Chicago hub)

• National Center for Supercomputing Applications

(NCSA) (Chicago hub)

• Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) (Chicago hub)

• San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) (LA hub)

• Caltech (LA hub)

• National Center for Supercomputing Applications

(NCSA) (Chicago hub)

TeraGrid

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Hubs at Chicago and Los Angeles Interconnected using 40 Gigabit/sec optical

backplane network .

Five centers Connected to one hub using 30 Gigabit/sec

connections

State-of-the-art optical lines could reach 10 Gigabit/sec in the early 2000s

Four lines used to achieve 40 Gigabit/sec.

Three lines used to achieve 30 Gigabit/sec

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TeraGrid circa 2004

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TeraGrid as of 2008

eXtreme Digital (XD)

National Science Foundation’s new Cyberinfrastructure program which will replace and expand upon the existing TeraGrid program.

Started in summer 2011.

https://portal.teragrid.org/

http://amp.ucar.edu/

http://dasilveira.cems.umn.edu:8080/gridsphere/gridsphere

http://www.phylo.org/portal2/login!input.action

http://desktop2petascale.org/

https://www.nbcr.net:8443/worksphere/start/

http://www.earthsystemgrid.org/home.htm

http://www.earthsystemgrid.org/about/overview.htm

Open Science Grid (OSG)Started around 2005, received $30 million funding from

NSF and DOE in 2006:

• Boston University• Brookhaven National

Laboratory• California Institute of

Technology• Columbia University• Cornell University• Fermi National Accelerator

Laboratory• Indiana University• Lawrence Berkeley National

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• Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

• University of California, San Diego

• University of Chicago• University of Florida• University of Iowa• University of North

Carolina/RENCI• University of Wisconsin-

Madison 

http://www.opensciencegrid.org/

SURAGrid as of 2011Southeastern Universities Research Association

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http://sgportal.cct.lsu.edu:8080/gridsphere/gridsphere

http://www.nersc.gov/users/software/grid/

National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center

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National GridsMany countries embraced Grid computing in early-mid 2000’s and set-up Grid computing infrastructures:•D-Grid, Germany•DutchGrid, Netherlands•Grid–Ireland, Ireland•Hungrid, Hungary•National Grid Service, UK•Norgrid, Norway•SweGrid, Sweden•TNGC, Thai National Grid Center•TWGrid, Taiwan etc, …

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UK e-Science GridEarly 2000’s

UK National Grid Service• Follow-up from UK e-Science Grid

• Founded in 2004 to provide distributed access to computational and database resources, with four core sites:– Universities of Manchester, Oxford and Leeds,

and Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

• By 2008, it had grown to 16 sites.

• Access free to any academic with a legitimate need.

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http://www.ngs.ac.uk/

National Grid Service

Multi-national Grids

• 2000-2005, several efforts to create Grids that spanned across many countries.

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http://www.egi.eu/projects/egi-inspire/

http://www.egi.eu/export/sites/egi/about/press/EGI-InSPIRE-FactSheet-2010.pdf

EGI-InSPIRE Framework Programme 7 (2007-2013) Research infrastructures project. In addition to over 40 partners located within Europe, EGI-InSPIRE includes 8 unfunded partners from Asia Pacific region.

http://www.euindiagrid.eu/index.php/about

DEISA(Distributed European

Infrastructure for Supercomputing

Applications)

DEISA-1 project from 2004 - 2008.

DEISA-2 started in 2008, to extend to

2011Still active

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http://www.eu-eela.eu/

Europe and Latin America

http://www.gisela-grid.eu/

http://latinamericangrid.org/index.php

Vision of a single universal international

Grid such as the Internet/World Wide

Web

May never be achieved though.

More likely - Grids will connect to other Grids but will maintain their

identity.

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