October 15, 2003 Art Vandenberg Internet2 Fall Member Meeting1 Taking Grids out of the Lab and onto the Campus at Georgia State University – Case Study – Art Vandenberg Director, Advanced Campus Services Information Systems & Technology Georgia State University

October 15, 2003 Art Vandenberg Internet2 Fall Member Meeting2 Getting Grids Going NMI components - test drive Finding a starting point - Physics & Astronomy Building Interest Knowledge Discovery: catalog of people, applications... Working with Intra-testbed sites Iterative deployment

October 15, 2003 Art Vandenberg Internet2 Fall Member Meeting3 NMI GRID Components Test Drive NMI Integration Testbed - (team component) – NMI Components: –Globus Toolkit (& GPT, Grid Packaging Tool) –Network Weather Service –Condor-G –MyProxy Technical focus –“How does it work?” “What resources required?”

October 15, 2003 Art Vandenberg Internet2 Fall Member Meeting4 Finding a starting point Dr. Xiaochun He, Physics & Astronomy Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven –Phenix: remote access to large datasets (terabytes) of high-energy nuclear physics (By the way: –“If I’m at an Internet2 school, why’s my connection just 10mbps?” Related discussions as to network connectivity, security... Lead to improvement options for Physics Lab.) Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN Muon Detector project with Georgia High Schools

October 15, 2003 Art Vandenberg Internet2 Fall Member Meeting5 Muon Detector Grid? “Large Area Cosmic Muon Flux Measurement” –“Rain” of cosmic particles –Detection is a challenge –Measurement, correlation to weather, electronics –Pilot outreach for high school, middle school in Georgia –200 detectors with cpu/gps Well, why not a Grid? –Management, security –Testing and learning

October 15, 2003 Art Vandenberg Internet2 Fall Member Meeting6 Building Interest… Tiau tiau da lu tung Roma Dr. Vijay Vaishnavi, CIS –Collaboration on metadata & organizational knowledge –Clustering techniques & tools –genetic algorithm across Grid nodes Victor Bolet, Joseph Liang (undergrad, Masters CIS) David McBride, University Educational Tech. Svcs Dr. Rob Harrison, CS Dr. Irene Weber, Biology Dr. Yi Pan, CS Dr. Sham Navathe, Dr.Chris Shaw – Georgia Tech

October 15, 2003 Art Vandenberg Internet2 Fall Member Meeting7 GRID GSU Purpose is to: –Build effective GRID infrastructure –Identify applications that benefit from GRIDs –Attract & retain faculty & students –Foster research activities and opportunities –Encourage funding – Linked purposes –NMI Integration Testbed –Georgia State VP Research – interest in faculty research support –Georgia State Provost – State fund allocations limited, and will remain so. Do more with less. [Grids as growth sector]

October 15, 2003 Art Vandenberg Internet2 Fall Member Meeting8 Catalog as Catalyst Why a catalog? –Data: a shared KNOWLEDGE base for our virtual organization –What’s Georgia State already doing / not doing? ROADMAP “No one’s doing any grid stuff…” Ok, that’s a red flag! “Grids require major hardware investment.” Fact? –Establish a REFERENCE set for intra-testbed sites –ENGAGE discussion, comment Grids are really just for parallel processing, intensive computation “I just set up our own, too complicated to build shared grids.” Grids are for distributed resources? –Identify OPTIONS –Find FOCUS areas

October 15, 2003 Art Vandenberg Internet2 Fall Member Meeting9 Catalog Draft… Begin: Georgia State University researcher interest NMI NSF/REU – Nicole Gieger (Physics) Anish Shindore (CIS) Physics, then CS, BIO, CIS, Chem Key words: “grid” to “parallel processing” to “computational…” Expand: to NMI Testbed sites ( GSU, UFL, FSU, UAB, UAH, UVa, UMich, TACC, USC ) (DRAFT) Results – –~ 1% of all faculty (177 persons at 9 sites)  99% opportunity! –Next level: catalog Testbed hw resources Links to national Grid projects? Potential clustering of interests: researchers, resources, projects

October 15, 2003 Art Vandenberg Internet2 Fall Member Meeting10 Intra-Testbed Grid NMI Integration Testbed Intra-Testbed GRID –Revised SOW work, some re-directed funds –Funding for Masters Students (through August 2004) Value of peer collaboration –(Extending beyond NMI sites?) Taking Grid “out of the lab” –Real world environment –Heterogeneous grid resources –Certificate issues & interoperation Leveraging starting points: –Muon Grid (with GPS, weather, geomagnetic components...) –…and other

October 15, 2003 Art Vandenberg Internet2 Fall Member Meeting11 Iterative Deployment NMI Component trial & test drive Application identification Building researcher interest Peer collaboration –To solve a technical issues –To share best practices –To discover potential research/application opportunities –To work together on funding (repeat as needed)

October 15, 2003 Art Vandenberg Internet2 Fall Member Meeting12 Contact Art Vandenberg,

October 15, 2003 Art Vandenberg Internet2 Fall Member Meeting13 NSF Acknowledgement This material is based in part upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. ANI and Grant No. ITR Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF).