1. May 23, 20081SwiNG Scientific Council Meeting The Swiss Multi-Science Computing Grid AAA/SWITCH Project Wibke Sudholt University of Zurich wibke@oci.uzh.ch

2. May 23, 20082SwiNG Scientific Council Meeting Project Description Swiss Multi-Science Computing Grid (SMSCG) project Proposed to / funded by the AAA/SWITCH program (matching funds) Will apply to become SwiNG Working Group Primary goal Providing of computational resources to solve scientific computational problems Installation, commissioning, and operation of a computational grid across several institutions of the Swiss higher education sector Active involvement of applications from different scientific domains Key properties Be multi-disciplinary and user-driven Include support for users and applications Foster cooperation between IT infrastructure providers and computational scientists Employ simple, extensible, and flexible grid middleware Have integrated user management Specially focus on security Be policy-based and sustainable Grid middleware NorduGrid ARC chosen as initial middleware Interoperation with a second middleware stack will be investigated

3. May 23, 20083SwiNG Scientific Council Meeting Project Participants ETH Zurich – Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS): pending Haute Ecole Spécialisée de Suisse Occidentale (HES-SO) – Grid and Ubiquitous Computing Group: approved University of Geneva – Proteome Informatics Group (PIG): non-funded Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) – Vital-IT: non-funded SWITCH: approved Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI) – Faculty of Informatics: pending University of Bern (UniBE) Laboratory for High Energy Physics (LHEP): approved Computer Services Department: approved University of Zurich (UZH) OCI Computational Chemistry & Grid Computing / Grid Computing Competence Center (GC3): approved IT Services: pending Computational Structural Biology: non-funded Eidgenössische Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft (WSL): pending

4. May 23, 20084SwiNG Scientific Council Meeting Project Details Responsible Institution University of Zurich Project management Leader: Wibke Sudholt, UZH Deputy: Placi Flury, SWITCH Runtime Begin of project: 1.5.2008, 1.8.2008, 1.10.2008, or 1.1.2009 (depending on institution) End of project: 31.3.2010 Total budget (contributed and requested) Manpower: 121.9 PM Hardware: 8 resources Funding: ca. CHF 1.6 Mio Expected number of users Initially: 15-20 For mature infrastructure: 50-100

5. May 23, 20085SwiNG Scientific Council Meeting Infrastructure Architecture

6. May 23, 20086SwiNG Scientific Council Meeting Software Architecture

7. May 23, 20087SwiNG Scientific Council Meeting Work Packages WP1: Initial installation and operation WP2: Evaluation of additional middleware components WP3: Software repository and validation WP4: Monitoring and accounting WP5: Security and policies WP6: Support WP7: Applications WP7a: General tasks and plain applications WP7b: Alpine3D and POP-C++ WP7c: swissPIT and JOpera WP8: Project management