The GRIDS Center, part of the NSF Middleware Initiative The GRIDS Center: Defining and Deploying Grid Middleware presented by Tom Garritano University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory

The GRIDS Center, part of the NSF Middleware Initiative 2 NSF Middleware Initiative (NMI) GRIDS is one of two original teams, the other being EDIT New NMI teams just announced (Grid portals and instrumentation) GRIDS releases well-tested, deployed and supported middleware based on common architectures that can be extended to Internet users around the world NSF support of GRIDS leverages investment by DOE, NASA, DARPA, UK e-Science Program, and private industry

The GRIDS Center, part of the NSF Middleware Initiative 3 GRIDS Center GRIDS = Grid Research Integration Development & Support Partnership of leading teams in Grid computing –University of Chicago and Argonne National Lab –Information Sciences Institute at USC –NCSA at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign –SDSC at the University of California at San Diego –University of Wisconsin at Madison –Plus other software contributors (to date: UC Santa Barbara, U. of Michigan) GRIDS develops, tests, deploys and supports standard tools for: –Authentication, authorization, policy –Resource discovery and directory services –Remote access to computers, data, instruments

The GRIDS Center, part of the NSF Middleware Initiative 4 The Grid: What is it? “Resource-sharing technology with software and services that let people access computing power, databases, and other tools securely online across corporate, institutional, and geographic boundaries without sacrificing local autonomy.” Three key Grid criteria: –coordinates distributed resources –using standard, open, general-purpose protocols and interfaces –to deliver qualities of service not possible with pre-Grid technologies

The GRIDS Center, part of the NSF Middleware Initiative 5 R R R R R R R R R R R R Virtual Organizations Distributed resources and people

The GRIDS Center, part of the NSF Middleware Initiative 6 R R R R R R R R R R R R Virtual Organizations Distributed resources and people Linked by networks, crossing administrative domains

The GRIDS Center, part of the NSF Middleware Initiative 7 R R R R R R R R R R Virtual Organizations R R Distributed resources and people Linked by networks, crossing administrative domains Sharing resources, common goals VO-B VO-A

The GRIDS Center, part of the NSF Middleware Initiative 8 R R R R R R R R R R Virtual Organizations Distributed resources and people Linked by networks, crossing administrative domains Sharing resources, common goals Dynamic VO-B VO-A R R

The GRIDS Center, part of the NSF Middleware Initiative 9 R R R R R R R R R R R R VO-A VO-B Virtual Organizations Distributed resources and people Linked by networks, crossing administrative domains Sharing resources, common goals Dynamic Fault tolerant

The GRIDS Center, part of the NSF Middleware Initiative 10 GRIDS Center Software Suite Globus Toolkit ®. The de facto standard for Grid computing, an open-source "bag of technologies" to simplify collaboration across organizations. Includes tools for authentication, scheduling, file transfer and resource description. Condor-G. Enhanced version of the core Condor software optimized to work with GT for managing Grid jobs. Network Weather Service (NWS). Periodically monitors and dynamically forecasts performance of network and computational resources. Grid Packaging Tools (GPT). XML-based packaging data format defines complex dependencies between components.

The GRIDS Center, part of the NSF Middleware Initiative 11 GRIDS Center Software Suite (cont.) GSI-OpenSSH. Modified version adds support for Grid Security Infrastructure (GSI) authentication and single sign-on capability. MyProxy. Repository lets users retrieve a proxy credential on demand, without managing private key and certificate files across sites and applications. MPICH-G2. Grid-enabled implementation of the Message Passing Index (MPI) standard, based on the popular MPICH library. GridConfig. Manages the configuration of GRIDS components, letting users regenerate configuration files in native formats and ensure consistency. KX.509 and KCA. A tool from EDIT that bridges Kerberos and PKI infrastructure.

The GRIDS Center, part of the NSF Middleware Initiative 12 E-Science Benefits Substantially from GRIDS Components Large-scale IT deployment projects rely on GRIDS components and architecture for core services –BIRN, the Bioinformatics Research Network –GEON, the Geoscience Network –GriPhyN, Particle Physics Data Grid, International Virtual Data Grid Laboratory –NEESgrid, part of the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation –International projects such as the UK e-Science Program and EU DataGrid GRIDS standard tools let projects avoid building their own infrastructure –Increases interoperability, efficiency –Prevents “balkanization” of applications BIRN MRI Data for Brain Imaging

The GRIDS Center, part of the NSF Middleware Initiative 13 Industrial and International Leaders Move to Grid Services GRIDS leaders engage a worldwide community in defining specifications for Grid services –Very active working through Global Grid Forum –Over a dozen leading companies (IBM, HP, Platform) have committed to Globus-based Grid services for their products NMI-R4 in December will include Globus Toolkit 3.0 –GT3 is the first full-scale deployment of new Open Grid Services Infrastructure (OGSI) spec –Significant contributions from new international partners (University of Edinburgh and Swedish Royal Institute of Technology) for database access and security –UK Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (CCLRC) users rank deployment of GT3 as their #1 priority

The GRIDS Center, part of the NSF Middleware Initiative 14 Acclaim for GRIDS Components On July 15, the New York Times noted the “far-sighted simplicity” of the Grid services architecture The Globus Toolkit has earned: –R&D 100 Award –Federal Laboratory Consortium Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer MIT Technology Review named Grid one of “Ten Technologies That Will Change the World” InfoWorld list of 2003’s top 10 innovators includes two GRIDS PIs GRIDS co-PI Ian Foster named “Innovator of the Year” for 2003 by R&D Magazine

The GRIDS Center, part of the NSF Middleware Initiative 15 Future GRIDS Plans GRIDS is completing its second year in October –Original three-year award, through Fall 2004 –Very successful in establishing processes, meeting twice/year release schedule, defining broadly accepted Grid middleware standards, and increasing public awareness of Grid computing GRIDS Center 2 plans –Further develop and refine core NMI releases and processes –Deploy tools based on Open Grid Services Architecture –Expand testing capability –Create a federated bug-tracking facility –Public databases: Grid Projects and Deployments System and Grid Technology Repository –Increase outreach to communities at all levels: Existing major Grid projects (e.g., TeraGrid, NEESgrid) Major projects that should use Grid more (e.g., SEEK, NEON) New communities not yet using Grid (e.g., Computer-Aided Diagnosis)

The GRIDS Center, part of the NSF Middleware Initiative 16 Upcoming Tutorials GRIDS is extremely well-represented at SC03, the supercomputing conference –Tutorials, technical papers, BoFs, demonstrations –Phoenix, AZ, November – GlobusWORLD 2004 conference –Co-sponsored by GRIDS –San Francisco, CA, January –Academia and Industry both well-represented –

The GRIDS Center, part of the NSF Middleware Initiative 17 For more information The GRIDS Center NSF Middleware Initiative The Globus Alliance