1. www.grid.bas.bg SEE Regional Workshop, Athens, 19 April 2006 National Grid Initiative in Bulgaria Institute for Parallel Processing Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Director: K. Boyanov

2. SEE Regional Workshop, Athens, 19 April 2006 Outline Bulgarian Grid Consortium National Grid Events Providing information Nationwide information days Maintaining dedicated web-page Media coverage Bulgarian Grid Sites Bulgarian Grid Applications and Grid Users Expansion of the National Grid Initiative Conclusions

3. SEE Regional Workshop, Athens, 19 April 2006 About IPP The Institute for Parallel Processing of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences has a leading position among the scientific institutions in Bulgaria in: Computer Science Scientific Computations Parallel and Grid Computing Linguistic Modeling Communications and Control Current Grid Projects: EGEE, SEE-GRID, CoreGrid, 3 national grid-related projects

4. SEE Regional Workshop, Athens, 19 April 2006 Bulgarian Grid Consortium starting position Members Founders: Institute for Parallel Processing (former CLPP-BAS) and Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy (INRNE-BAS) – (Agreement signed in September 2002) Members since 2004: Institute of Mathematics and Informatics (IMI), Bulg. Academy of Sciences Institute of Mechanics (IM), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics (FMI), Plovdiv University American University in Bulgaria (AUBG) Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics (DIT-FMI), Sofia University. Institute of Electrochemistry and Energy Systems (IEES), BAS. University of Mining and Geology “St. Ivan Rilski” Institute of Astronomy (IA), BAS Space Research Institute (SRI), BAS Objectives: Sharing of resources and expertise in Grid Development of Grid applications Creating a human network

5. SEE Regional Workshop, Athens, 19 April 2006 National Grid Events GRID Workshop in Bulgaria: “EU Grid projects and Bulgarian Participation”, October 30-31, 2004, Borovetc. Purpose: To disseminate the ideas and to spread technical information for the EU projects EGEE and SEE- GRID To present Bulgarian Grid-related projects To discuss the activities of the Bulgarian Grid Consortium 57 participants (project team members, representatives of the BG Grid consortium, interested parties, BAS officials, journalists, etc)

6. SEE Regional Workshop, Athens, 19 April 2006 Grid Events Grid presentations at institutions – members of the Bulgarian Grid Consortium Institute of Mechanics (2004) Plovdiv University (2004) American University in Bulgaria (2005, 2006) University of Economics in Varna (2005) University of Mining and Geology (2006) IPP-BAS (2004, 2005, 2006) Grid presentations at the major international conferences held in Bulgaria – 8 conferences Training for grid administrators BG Grid members show interest in: Establishing Grid sites Development and deployment of Grid Applications Education and training

7. SEE Regional Workshop, Athens, 19 April 2006 Providing information EGEE Dissemination day dedicated to EGEE applications, 29 June 2005, Sofia Audience: 110 Participants, Potential Grid users and Grid application developers. Lecturers: Dr. R. Berlich (FZK - Karlsruhe), Dr. R. Hopkins (NeSC, UK) Dr. E. Atanassov (IPP-BAS) Nationwide Information Day on Research Infrastructures Organized by the Ministry of Education and Science Program: European experts presentations (Maria Douka, Wim Jansen) Participants: 110 representatives of Bulgarian academic organizations

8. SEE Regional Workshop, Athens, 19 April 2006 BG GRID on the Web (www.grid.bas.bg) Providing updated information: Upkeep www.grid.bas.bgwww.grid.bas.bg Section for Bulgarian Grid Consortium EGEE SEE-GRID Grid News Grid Information Grid Cafe Media coverage (articles in BG newspapers and in the Inf. Bulletin of BAS, radio interview, etc.) Meeting and discussions with BgGrid Consortium members

9. SEE Regional Workshop, Athens, 19 April 2006 Existent BG Grid sites 4 EGEE, 1 SEE-GRID IPP, IM, INRNE, SU Total CPUs > 60 Total Storage > 1 TB BG04-ACAD (12 nodes) BG01-IPP (21 nodes) Very soon in IPP-BAS a new cluster with unique resources for special MPI jobs (80 CPUs and low-latency Myrinet interconnection) will be deployed The BG GRID sites were build with the strong support of the State Agency for Information Technology and Communications

10. SEE Regional Workshop, Athens, 19 April 2006 VOs supported at Bulgarian sites SITEaliceatlas biome d cmsdteamesrlhcb magi c see seegri d sixtTotal BG- INRNE 0003,133490000003,182 BG01- IPP 31010,31210,02521,7701392773,4861,729185396248,631 BG02- IM 03683607501007961,033 BG04- ACAD 3032,2887101,4335608,26900298013,357 BG05- SUGrid 02012300000017

11. SEE Regional Workshop, Athens, 19 April 2006 Support for CERN HEP VOs Normalized CPU Time [units 1K.SI2K.Hours] Consumed per VO Normalized CPU Time [units 1K.SI2K.Hours] Alice atlas cms lhcb

12. SEE Regional Workshop, Athens, 19 April 2006 BG Grid applications and users SALUTE (Stochastic ALgorithms for Ultra-fast Transport in sEmiconductors) is a Grid application developed for solving computationally intensive problems in quantum transport. It consists of a bunch of Monte Carlo algorithms for solving quantum kinetic equations which describe the considered model. ENVMOD (Environmental modeling) is a Grid application for air pollution transport and prediction Grid users: mainly accepted in regional VOs, but also in ESR and dteam VO

13. SEE Regional Workshop, Athens, 19 April 2006 BG Application SALUTE Wigner function 800 x 260 points t=175 fs

14. SEE Regional Workshop, Athens, 19 April 2006 BG application in ESR VO – air pollution prediction Transition from HPC to Grid computing

15. SEE Regional Workshop, Athens, 19 April 2006 BG GRID cluster - the near perspectives New GRID cluster with following initial parameters 40 working nodes with 2 CPU Opteron 2,4 GHz, 4GB RAM, 160 Gbytes SATA hard disk and 2x1Gbps LAN 2 Maintenance servers with 2 CPU Opteron 2,4 GHz, 4GB RAM, 36 GB SCSI hard disk and 2x1Gbps LAN 2 Storage servers with 2 CPU Opteron 2,4GHz, 4GB RAM, 36 GB SCSI hard disk, 2x1Gbps LAN and 2 ports Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter (FC-HBA) 2 Fibre channel (FC) Switches with 8 ports each High performance RAID Disk Storage Subsystem – 2 FC-FC controllers, 1,75 TB total raw capacity Low performance RAID Disk Storage Subsystem – 2 FC-SATA controllers, 4,0 TB total raw capacity High speed Myrinet based Communication Subsystem (initially for 12 working nodes only) Tape Library with 2 LTO Ultrium-2 drives The GRID cluster were build with the support of the State Agency for Information Technology and Communications

16. SEE Regional Workshop, Athens, 19 April 2006 Expansion of the National Grid Initiative NREN development Increase the international connectivity capacity to the GÉANT2 network Extend/upgrade the NREN backbone and connect more universities, schools etc. Deploy new services/protocols in the national backbone - IP telephony, IPv6 etc. Enhancement of the university courses making use of the newly available network and GRID infrastructure like Grid technologies, Parallel and distributed systems, Parallel and distributed data processing, etc. Provide access to state of the art network an GRID infrastructure for research in the medicine, linguistics, biology, quantum computing etc.

17. SEE Regional Workshop, Athens, 19 April 2006 BG Grid contact information Working team : Kiril Boyanov Director of IPP-BAS Emanouil Atanassov Todor Gurov, Aneta Karaivanova Hristo Turlakov Vladimir Dimitrov Dimitar Todorov http://www.grid.bas.bg/

18. SEE Regional Workshop, Athens, 19 April 2006 Conclusions…