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IWR

Ideen werden

Realität

Forschungszentrum Karlsruhein der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft

Institute for Scientific Computingin the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe

Overview

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LCG 3D Meeting

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Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe

Structure of matter

Earth and Environment

Key Technologies

Health

Energy

• Sustainability and Technology• Atmosphere and Climate

• Biomedical Research• Regenerative Medicine

• Nuclear Fusion• Nuclear Safety Research• Efficient Energy Conversion

• Microsystem Technologies• Nanotechnology• Scientific Computing

•Grid Computing

• Structure of matter

One of the biggest research institutions in Europe with 3800 employees

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Institute for Scientific Computing (IWR)

Office-Services

Print-Services

DatabaseServices

FZKFZKComputing Computing CenterCenter

WEB

DATA SERVICES

DatabaseServices

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Core EGEE activities@FZK

• FZK plays a central role in many EGEE and LCG activities:– Home of the GridKa Tier-1

centre (visit after lunch)

– Home of the Global Grid User Support centre (GGUS, SA1)

– Lead organisation in the German/Swiss federation for Grid Operations (SA1)

– Lead organisation in the German/Swiss federation for User Training & Induction, Dissemination & Outreach (NA2, NA3)

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Grid Operations: Lead Organisation in DE/CH

DESY

GSI

FhG SCAI

FZK

HU Berlin

LRZ München

U Wuppertal

RWTH Aachen

TU Karlsruhe, IEKP

Dist. ROC (EGEE2)

RC

RC to be certified

U Freiburg

U Dortmund

DESY Zeuthen

FhG ITWM

CSCS

MPI München

(May 06)

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Gobal Grid User Support (GGUS)

gus.fzk.de

Coordination of and Synchronization with regional

and VO specific Support Units

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Dissemination, Outreach and Training Events (DE/CH)

Impressions – GridKa School 2005

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2004

2005

2007

2006

2008

2009

Grid applications with standard interfacese.g. Bioinformatics

production Grid with intelligent resource broker

Testbed for middleware components

prototype Grid with SAN filesystem VO management and other middleware components

Virtualization of a heterogeneousIT Environment for Scientific Computing

• R&D topics– Real-time data

transfer protocols– Global user

Management– Grid file system– Resource broker

with optimization• Several generations

of testbedscommon production environment

CampusGrid

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D-Grid

German e-Science Initiative sponsered by

e-Science Initiative

D-GridKnowledge Management e-Learning

Organisation of D-Grid

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