1. MiG Projects DM75

2. Runtime Environment DB Problem: –Many Grid jobs assume that the binaries and libraries are already available –Even if this is the case – where are those files placed? Solution –Build a database for maintaining runtime environments –Define rules for environment settings –Allow automatic testing for correctness of those settings

3. Runtime Environment DB Example: –POV-Ray –Define POV_RAY_EXE_PATH /usr/local/bin/pov34/bin –Define POV_RAY_LIB_PATH /usr/local/bin/pov34/include –Test correctness which povray34 = /usr/local/bin/povray34/bin/povray34? find $POV_RAY_LIB_PATH colors.inc = lib/colors.inc

4. Remote File Access Proxy Problem –Not all systems has HTTPS access from the nodes Solution –Assuming that the nodes and the front-end can communicate - place a proxy-server on the front-end

5. Remote File Access Proxy Direct Access Proxy Access

6. Remote File Access Proxy Issues –Security token handling –Performance Potential –Caching –Prefetching without CPU interference

7. Resource specification detection Problem –A resource is defined by a large set of parameters: Architecture, memory, diskspace,… Access rights, user-id, node-access, queue-system Runtime enviroments Solutions –Have the sysadm add all the information automatically –Run a program that identifies as many components as possible

8. Resource specification detection Examples –OS = `uname` –if OS==‘Linux’ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep CPU | awk ‘{print $4}’ tempdrive = `mount | grep /tmp’ if tempdrive = ‘’ tempdrive = ‘/’ space = df $tempdrive gcc_ver = `gcc –v’ if gcc_ver != ‘’ gcc_env = gcc_ver

9. Monitor We would like to make nice presentations of the state of MiG –# users –#jobs –#Resources ID of resources that are not anonymous –Estimated time to start execution All sorted, filtered and presented as the users requests

10. Accounting We need to do realiable accounting When a job is submitted to a queue the server must ask a bank to deposit credits corresponding to the maximum use After execution the server must ask to be given the credits corresponding to the resources that were actually used

11. Accounting Server Bank Job: 10h 1GB mem Reserve (10,1) Run Job Actual use (<=(10,1) Confirm Debit (x,y) Confirm

12. Accounting Secure Reliable What happens if –The job crashes –The server crashes –The Bank Crashes ?

13. Grid Units We need to be able to define the performance of a system –Processing speed –IO performance –Networking performance Units: –Generic single CPU Balanced CPU speed and IO –Generic MPP Balanced of all 3 –Individual of the 3

14. Grid Units The definition of a system should be determined automatically by a program A user should be able to run his applications and get an idea of the Grid units it uses –time a.out Tells us disk need and CPU need Determining network dependency is harder!!!

15. Applications Dalton Pov-Ray BLAST Others…

16. Dalton Very important application i chemistry Fairly small input files Fairly small output files Huge runtime Local expertise Very well suited for a Web-portal!!!

17. Dalton Portal

18. POV-Ray Popular Simple Can be parallelized using Grid Fairly small input Medium to small output Very well suited for a Web-portal!!!

19. POV-Ray

20. BLAST Very important –Right now these guys eat a lot of the time on Horseshoe National expertise Large input files Small output-files Should be scriptable But portals are also interesting

21. Bio-BLAST E.Coli vs. Human 1GB 512 MB

22. Shared data-structures for Grid There are many scenarios where Grid jobs could communicate through shared data- structures Examples –Single variables –Bounded buffers –Arrays –Objects All access must be secure!!!

23. Interfacing with other Grid Implementations It is interresting for MiG to accept other Grids as –Users –Resources Examples: –NorduGrid –gLite –Gridbus –Unicore –OfficeGrid

24. Supporting more Queuing systems Different resources use different queuing systems Examples –PBS/Torque –LSF –LoadLeveler –OfficeGRID

25. Programmers API It is interesting for programmers to be able to Grid enable their applications directly –Access Grid files –Submit jobs –Retrieve results For this a library with these features must be designed and implemented

26. Statistics Just like monitoring it is interresting to obtain statictics on Grid Examples –Usage –#Users –Turn-over-time –Activation time –#Resources –etc…

27. Many others Including your own proposals!