27/10/2006, Catania EGEE Industry Day Filling the gaps: Advanced Grid portal and desktop grid technologies for industry Robert Lovas MTA SZTAKI Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems

27/10/2006EGEE Industry Day, Catania 2 Outline Introduction … a CEO’s concerns Solutions P-GRADE Grid portal SZTAKI Desktop Grid Co-operation opportunities / offers Upcoming events

27/10/2006EGEE Industry Day, Catania 3 Introduction Research division of MTA SZTAKI from 1998 Head: Peter Kacsuk, Prof. co-editor in chief (with Ian Foster) of the Journal of Grid Computing Deputy head: Robert Lovas, PhD 22 research fellows Annual budget: ~ 1 MEuro Foundation member Central European Grid Consortium (2003) Hungarian Grid Competence Center (2003) Participant and/or coordinator in the most significant European and national Grid research, infrastructural, and educational projects (from 2000) FP5: GridLab, DataGrid FP6: EGEE I-II, SEE-GRID I-II, CoreGrid, ICEAGE Central European Grid Training Center in EGEE I-II (from 2004) 

27/10/2006EGEE Industry Day, Catania 4 Research topics, competences Parallel and distributed systems Grid systems/middleware Graphical software development and run- time environments & portals Application and resource monitoring Performance analysis and visualisation Desktop grid systems

27/10/2006EGEE Industry Day, Catania 5 Current situation and trends in Grid computing Fast evolution of Grid systems and middleware: GT2, OGSA, GT3 (OGSI), GT4 (WSRF), LCG-2, gLite, … Many production Grid systems are built with them EGEE (LCG-2  gLite), UK NGS (GT2), Open Science Grid (GT2  GT4), NorduGrid (~GT2) Although the same set of core services are available everywhere, they are implemented in different ways Data services Computation services Security services (single sign-on) Brokers (if there are…)

27/10/2006EGEE Industry Day, Catania 6 CEO’s concerns about the application of Grid How to concentrate my own business if the tool, my company would like to use, is in continuous change? How can our IT specialists learn and understand the use of the Grid? How can our programmers develop Grid applications? How to port (‘gridify’) our applications to the grid? How to migrate our applications from one grid to another? How can our clients/employees execute grid applications? How to tackle performance/security issues?

27/10/2006EGEE Industry Day, Catania 7 Charles Loomis’ slide at EGEE06 in Geneva  Parameter study support  Remote storage handling, brokering  Direct acyclic graphs, secure file transfers  MPI support at job level  Legacy code support with GEMLCA (UoW)  App-oriented portlets (add-ons), monitoring … and some of the main features of P-GRADE Grid portal

27/10/2006EGEE Industry Day, Catania 8 P-GRADE portal in a nutshell…  portal.p-grade.hu Workflow Certificate Performance Execution design management visualisation on Grid(s)    Applications: simulation of air pollution (Hungary) urban traffic simulation (UK) CHARM chemistry application (USA)

27/10/2006EGEE Industry Day, Catania 9 GEMLCA legacy code architecture To deploy legacy code applications as Grid services without reengineering the original code and minimal user effort To create Grid workflows where components can also be legacy code applications To make these functions available from a Grid Portal GEMLCA GEMLCA & P-GRADE Portal Integration 

27/10/2006EGEE Industry Day, Catania 10 References of P-GRADE portal Official portal of SEE-GRID infrastructure HUNGRID infrastructure VOCE (Central European Virtual Organisation of EGEE) Croatian Grid Turkish Grid EGRID GIN VO Resource Test Portal Baltic Grid P-GRADE portal is available as service for: UK National Grid Service GILDA Under preparation for OSG, TeraGrid, NorduGrid SwissGrid, Bulgarian Grid, Macedon Grid

27/10/2006EGEE Industry Day, Catania 11 And much more… Grid interoperability with GIN VO Resource Test Portal P- GRADE/ GEMLCA Portal GEMLCA Repository Public GGF18, Washington

27/10/2006EGEE Industry Day, Catania 12 Desktop Grid systems Goal: exploitation of underutilized IT resources Some of the applications areas: Drug discovery DSP (data signal processing) Data mining Performance of SZTAKI Desktop Grid (> PC):  szdg.lpds.sztaki.hu

27/10/2006EGEE Industry Day, Catania 13 SZTAKI Local Desktop Grid: main features Based on BOINC technology Make it suitable for enterprises Easy-to-install packaging of the server software Out-of-the-box working default configuration Simple tools to manage projects and applications Recommendations to address security issues DC-API: minimalist API developed to support the master-worker concept Removes the direct dependency of the application on BOINC for Condor, traditional Grids and local execution clusters can be used (not only desktops) as well… 

27/10/2006EGEE Industry Day, Catania 14 Major references: industrial/business applications T-COM (Hungarian telecommunication company) from 2004: Grid prototypes and studies AMRI (US biotech company)  drug discovery AdmetoxGrid: release in Q3/2006 Grid-based cancer research involving European laboratories and institutes from Jan 2007 (budget: 3 MEuro) Econet.hu (Hungarian IT company) Desktop Grid for meteorology (grant: 1.4 MEuro) SUN Hungary service-oriented Grid

27/10/2006EGEE Industry Day, Catania 15 Co-operation opportunities / offers Training on parallel and Grid systems Consultancy on parallelisation and ‘gridification’ of complex applications with high resource demands Contractual R&D projects, joint EU projects Distribution and/or joint development of our technologies for industry

27/10/2006EGEE Industry Day, Catania 16 Learn more about our technologies? November, Supercomputing ‘06, Tampa Booth of Hungarian Grid Competence Center (#350) 24 November, EGEE Industry Day, Helsinki Miklos Kozlovszky’s talk Industry Day in Budapest, Q1/2007 EGEE Regional Summer Schools in Budapest 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 (with ICEAGE), …

27/10/2006EGEE Industry Day, Catania 17 Thank you for your attention … Any questions? Websites: portal.p-grade.hu szdg.lpds.sztaki.hu