suragrid update sura bof @ internet2 smm april 23, 2007 mary fran yafchak, [email protected] sura it...
TRANSCRIPT
SURAgrid UpdateSURA BoF @ Internet2 SMMApril 23, 2007
Mary Fran Yafchak, [email protected] IT Program Coordinator, SURAgrid project manager
SURAgrid Vision
SURA regional development:• Develop & manage partnership relations• Facilitate collaborative project development• Orchestrate centralized services & support• Foster and catalyze application development• Develop training & education (user, admin)• Other…(Community-driven, over time…)
Project-Specific View
SURAgrid Resources
SURAgrid Resourcesand Applications
“MySURAgrid” View
Sample User Portals
Industry PartnerCoop Resources
(e.g. IBM partnership)
InstitutionalResources
(e.g. Current participants)
Gateways to National Cyberinfrastructure
(e.g. Teragrid)
Other externallyfunded resources
(e.g. group proposals)
VO or ProjectResources
(e.g, SCOOP)
Heterogeneous Environment to Meet Diverse User Needs
SURAgrid
Project-specific tools
SURAgrid Growth & “Mix” University of Alabama at
Birmingham University of Alabama in Huntsville University of Florida Georgia State University University of Michigan University of Southern California Texas Advanced Computing Center University of Virginia
As of April 2004 (25%)
(Key: SURA member; not SURA member)
SURAgrid Growth & “Mix” University of Alabama at Birmingham University of Alabama in Huntsville University of Florida Georgia State University University of Michigan University of Southern California Texas Advanced Computing Center University of Virginia Tulane University University of Arkansas George Mason University University of South Carolina Great Plains Network Louisiana State Mississippi Center for SuperComputing
Research
Texas Tech University of Louisiana at Lafayette North Carolina State University Texas A&M University
As of April 2005 (21%)
(Key: SURA member; not SURA member)
SURAgrid Growth & “Mix” University of Alabama at Birmingham University of Alabama in Huntsville University of Florida Georgia State University University of Michigan University of Southern California Texas Advanced Computing Center University of Virginia Tulane University University of Arkansas George Mason University University of South Carolina Great Plains Network Louisiana State Mississippi Center for SuperComputing
Research
Texas Tech University of Louisiana at Lafayette North Carolina State University Texas A&M University University of North Carolina, Charlotte University of Kentucky Old Dominion University Vanderbilt University Bowie State University Louisiana Tech University University of Maryland
As of April 2006 (23%)
(Key: SURA member; not SURA member)
SURAgrid Growth & “Mix” University of Alabama at Birmingham University of Alabama in Huntsville University of Florida Georgia State University University of Michigan University of Southern California Texas Advanced Computing Center University of Virginia Tulane University University of Arkansas George Mason University University of South Carolina Great Plains Network Louisiana State Mississippi Center for
SuperComputing Research
Texas Tech University of Louisiana at Lafayette North Carolina State University Texas A&M University University of North Carolina,
Charlotte University of Kentucky Old Dominion University Vanderbilt University Bowie State University Louisiana Tech University University of Maryland Kennesaw State University Clemson University Wake Forest University
As of April 2007 (27%)Potential with talks in-progress: 33%
(Key: SURA member; not SURA member)
GSU
UAB
USC
ULL
TAMU UFL
MCSR
Tulane
UArk
TTUSC
LSU
GPN
ODU
UNCC
NCState
Vanderbilt
UAH
UMich UKY
UVA
TACC
GMU
SURAgrid Participants(As of March 2007)
= SURA Member = Resources on the grid
UMD
Bowie State
LATechKennesaw
State
Clemson
= non-SURA Participant
Wake Forest
And new SURAgrid staff too!
A warm welcome to… Linda Akli, Grid Application & Outreach
Specialist (as of January 2007)
Mary Trauner, Contractor in resource deployment & support (as of last week!)
SURAgrid Infrastructure Specialist (coming soon - interviews in progress…)
SURAgrid Application Growth Five teams showcased their app at I2 FMM in Dec 07
– GSU: Multiple Genome Alignment on the Grid– UAB: Dynamic BLAST– ODU: Bioelectric Simulator for Whole Body Tissues– NCState: Simulation-Optimization for Threat Management in
Urban Water Systems– UNC: Storm Surge Modeling with ADCIRC
Documentation– Application “glossies” (see handouts)– Running Your Application on SURAgrid, v2
• http://www.sura.org/programs/docs/RunAppsSURAgridV2.pdf And more applications in the pipeline (see handout)
More on SCOOP & SURAgrid Current collaboration
– SURA IT staff in SCOOP planning & communications– Active deployment on SURAgrid resources
• Supported individual model runs in 2006 hurricane season• Planning to support integrated model runs in 2007
Future collaboration?– SURA IT & SCOOP management seeking to increase
resources for SCOOP-SURAgrid integration– Areas of potential co-development:
• Event-driven resource scheduling• Data storage, discovery, redundancy, etc. (“data grid”)• Secure multi-level access (Integrated portals, tiered PKI?)• Access to computation & facilities for high quality visualization
SURAgrid Resource growth Contributors about the same but nature is changing…
– Several test resources being replaced by larger resources, or those from production environments
– Several institutions now contributing multiple resources New additions
– GSU’s IBM P575 (first from the SURAgrid-IBM partnership)• LSU & TAMU integrations pending…
– LSU’s SuperMike• See http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/1320723.html
– Production cluster from UMich (also supports ATLAS)• See https://hep.pa.msu.edu/twiki/bin/view/AGLT2
Total combined capacity as of March 2007: 1991 CPUs for total of approximately 10.5 teraflops, with 4.6 terabytes of storage.
Infrastructure Development Updates to SURAgrid portal (maintained by TACC):
– Improvements in user documentation – Enhanced system detail & resources “at a glance”– Test scripts at the service level – See Documentation & Resource Monitor at gridportal.sura.org
Access management (developed by UVA):– Tiered-PKI being designed to provide multiple levels of
assurance within SURAgrid– Plans underway for most critical but affordable components
while seeking funding for the rest– SURAgrid CA (at current LoA), strong authentication for site
administrators, foundational policy documentation
Infrastructure Development
New! SURAgrid Accounting Working Group to address the immediate need for grid-wide views of resource and application activity– Participants: UAB, GMU, GSU, LSU, UMich, ODU,
TAMU, TTU; SURA facilitating
New! SURAgrid “stack packaging” task force– TTU leading, with participation from GSU, GMU,
LSU, UAB
And with growth…we need things like: More formal governance process Increased need to find the means to expand
& sustain the effort
Governance & Decision-Making
SURAgrid Project Planning Working Group– Established at Sept 2006 In-Person Meeting to develop
governance options for SURAgrid– Participants:
• Linda Akli, SURA• Gary Crane, SURA• Steve Johnson, Texas A&M University• Sandi Redman, University of Alabama in Huntsville• Don Riley, University of Maryland & SURA IT Fellow• Mike Sachon, Old Dominium University• Srikanth Sastry, Texas A&M University• Art Vandenberg, Georgia State University• Mary Fran Yafchak, SURA
Governance Overview To date SURAgrid has used consensus-based decision
making with SURA facilitating Maturity & investment requires more formal structure
– Ensure those investing have appropriate role in governance– Support sustainable growth & active participation
Suggested initial classes of membership– Contributing Member: HE or related org contributing significant
resources to advance SURAgrid infrastructure• SURA is contributing member by definition
– Participating Member: HE or related org participating in SURAgrid activities other than Contributing Member
– Partnership Member: Entity (org, commercial, non-HE…) with strategic relationship with SURAgrid
Proposed Governance Structure
Formation of SURAgrid Governance Committee – Primary governing body, elected by SURAgrid Contributing
Members – Will act on behalf of SURAgrid community
• Guidance, Facilitation, Reporting
Initial SURAgrid Governance Committee will have 9 members: – 8 elected by current SURAgrid Participating Organizations, 1
appointed by SURA– Current SURAgrid Participating Organizations defined as all
those participating as of December 31, 2006
Transitioning to New Governance SURAgrid Participating Organization designate a
SURAgrid lead representative – Done New governance process/structure approved by SURA
IT Steering Group – Done New Governance process/structure approved by vote
of SURAgrid Participating leads – Done Call for nominations for SURAgrid Governance
Committee candidates – Done Nominations will be accepted through midnight April 28
– In progress Election of SURAgrid Governance Committee members
is expected to be completed by May 12
Sustaining the effort, Part 1 Continuing to seek external funding for SURAgrid
through collaborative proposal development – SURA-led NSF STCI (Strategic Technologies for
Cyberinfrastructure) proposal (under review)
• Expanded grid-wide operations & support, Portal maintenance & development, Development of two-tiered PKI (Public Key Infrastructure)
• Submission included 9 letters of support from other SURAgrid sites as well as Teragrid, SCOOP & NCSA
– SURAgrid as grid service provider in NSF CCLI (Course, Curriculum & Laboratory Improvement) proposal led by UNC-C (Barry Wilkinson) & UArk (Amy Apon) (under review)
• Other partners: LSU, GMU, Lewis & Clark University, UNC Wilmington, Southern University & Howard University
Sustaining the effort, Part 2 SURAgrid included as participant in LSU’s Nov 06 submission
to NSF 06-599 “High-Performance Computing for Science and Engineering
SURAgrid was also a partner in LSU’s Feb 07 NSF proposal submission to the NSF 06-573 “Leadership-Class System Acquisition - Creating a Petascale Computing Environment for Science and Engineering” program.
SURA staff have also been working with John Connolly (Director of the University of Kentucky Center for Computational Sciences) and several IT leaders from SURA’s EPSCoR community to explore the development of a SURA program to leverage SURAgrid and SURAgrid’s Corporate Partners program to create a cyberinfrastructure program targeted at the SURA EPSCoR community.