1. Cracow Grid Workshop, November 5-6, 2001 Overview of the CrossGrid Project Marian Bubak Institute of Computer Science & ACC CYFRONET AGH, Kraków, Poland and Michał Turała Institute of Nuclear Physics, Cracow, Poland

2. Cracow Grid Workshop, November 5-6, 2001 Towards the CrossGrid –1 st meeting January 24, 2001, to join DataGrid –CPA9 Call –Extended collaboration meeting at GGF1 (March 7) 23 partners New type of applications –Proposal submitted – April 22, 2001; 22 partners –Comments of reviewers and PO –Negotiations October 24, 2001; 21 partners –...

3. Cracow Grid Workshop, November 5-6, 2001 CrossGrid Collaboration Poland: Cyfronet & INP Cracow PSNC Poznan ICM & IPJ Warsaw Portugal: LIP Lisbon Spain: CSIC Santander Valencia & RedIris UAB Barcelona USC Santiago & CESGA Ireland: TCD Dublin Italy: DATAMAT Netherlands: UvA Amsterdam Germany: FZK Karlsruhe TUM Munich USTU Stuttgart Slovakia: II SAS Bratislava Greece: Algosystems Demo Athens AuTh Thessaloniki Cyprus: UCY Nikosia Austria: U.Linz

4. Cracow Grid Workshop, November 5-6, 2001 Main Objectives –New category of Grid enabled applications computing and data intensive distributed near real time response (a person in a loop) layered –New programming tools –Grid more user friendly, secure and efficient –Interoperability with other Grids –Implementation of standards

5. Cracow Grid Workshop, November 5-6, 2001 Interactive, Compute and Data Intensive Applications (WP1)  Interactive simulation and visualisation of a biomedical system  Flooding crisis team support  Distributed data analysis in HEP  Weather forecast and air pollution modelling Grid Application Programming Environment (WP2)  MPI code debugging and verification  Metrics and benchmarks  Interactive and semiautomatic performance evaluation tools HLA Grid Visualisation Kernel Data Mining Datagrid GriPhyN... Services New Grid Services and Tools (WP3)  Portals and roaming access  Grid resource management  Grid monitoring  Optimisation of data access Globus Middleware Fabric Infrastructure CrossGrid Architecture

6. Cracow Grid Workshop, November 5-6, 2001 Key functionalities of applications –Data gathering Data generators and data bases geographically distributed Selected on demand –Processing Needs large processing capacity on demand Interactive –Presentation Complex data require versatile 3D visualisation Support interaction and feedback to other components

7. Cracow Grid Workshop, November 5-6, 2001 Why Interactive Computing? –Goal: From Data, via Information to Knowledge =>Planning and Management –Complexity: Huge data-sets, complex processes –Approach: Parametric exploration and sensitivity analyses: Combine raw (sensory) data with simulation Person in the loop: Sensory interaction Intelligent short-cuts

8. Cracow Grid Workshop, November 5-6, 2001 Common issues of applications –Inherently distributed applications profit from grid approach –All tasks require high performance & MPI 1.1 and 1.2 - interactive, near-real time 1.3 and 1.4 - high throughput –Data mining 1.3 and 1.4 –Data discovery 1.2 and 1.4

9. Cracow Grid Workshop, November 5-6, 2001 Example – medical application

10. Cracow Grid Workshop, November 5-6, 2001 Architecture

11. Cracow Grid Workshop, November 5-6, 2001 Complementarity with DataGrid HEP application package: Crossgrid will develop interactive final user application for physics analysis, will make use of the products of non-interactive simulation & data- processing preceeding stages of Datagrid Apart from the file-level service that will be offered by Datagrid, Crossgrid will offer an object-level service to optimise the use of distributed databases: - Two possible implementations (will be tested in running experiments): –Three-tier model accesing OODBMS or O/R DBMS –More specific HEP solution like ROOT. User friendly due to specific portal tools Distributed Data Analysis in HEP

12. Cracow Grid Workshop, November 5-6, 2001 Several challenging points: –Access to large distributed databases in the Grid. –Development of distributed data-mining techniques. –Definition of a layered application structure. –Integration of user-friendly interactive access. Focus on LHC experiments (ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb) Distributed Data Analysis in HEP

13. Cracow Grid Workshop, November 5-6, 2001 Objectives specify develop integrate test tools that facilitate the development and tuning of parallel distributed high-performance and high-throughput computing applications on Grid infrastructures WP2 - Grid Application Programming Environments

14. Cracow Grid Workshop, November 5-6, 2001 Six Tasks in WP2 2.0 Co-ordination and Management 2.1 Tools requirement definition 2.2 MPI code debugging and verification 2.3 Metrics and benchmarks 2.4 Interactive and semiautomatic performance evaluation tools 2.5 Integration, testing and refinement WP2 - Grid Application Programming Environments

15. Cracow Grid Workshop, November 5-6, 2001 WP2 - Components and relations to other WPs Analytical model Benchmarks (2.3) Grid monitoring (3.3) MPI verification (2.2) Performance measurement Visualization Automatic analysis Performance analysis (2.4) Application source code Application WP1 running on testbed WP4

16. Cracow Grid Workshop, November 5-6, 2001 WP3 Objectives Tools for development of interactive compute- and data- intensive applications To address user-friendly Grid environments To simplify the applications and Grid access by supporting the end user To achieve a reasonable trade-off between resource usage efficiency and application speedup To support management issues while accessing resources

17. Cracow Grid Workshop, November 5-6, 2001 WP3 Portals (3.1) Roaming Access (3.1) Grid Resource Management (3.2) Grid Monitoring (3.3) Optimisation of Data Access (3.4) Tests and Integration (3.5) Applications WP1 End Users WP1, WP2, WP5 Testbed WP4 Performance evaluation tools (2.4)

18. Cracow Grid Workshop, November 5-6, 2001 Testbed Organisation (WP4) –Testbed setup and incremental evolution from several local testbeds to fully integrated one –Integration with DataGrid common design, environment for HEP applications –Infrastructure support flexible fabric management tools and network support –Verification and quality control reliability of the middleware and network infrastructure

19. Cracow Grid Workshop, November 5-6, 2001 Partners in WP4 WP4 lead by CSIC (Spain) CrossGrid WP4 - International Testbed Organisation Auth Thessaloniki U v Amsterdam FZK Karlsruhe TCD Dublin U A Barcelona LIP Lisbon CSIC Valencia CSIC Madrid USC Santiago CSIC Santander DEMO AthensUCY Nikosia CYFRONET Cracow II SAS Bratislava PSNC Poznan ICM & IPJ Warsaw

20. Cracow Grid Workshop, November 5-6, 2001 Tasks in WP4 4.0 Coordination and management (task leader: J.Marco, CSIC, Santander) –Coordination with WP1,2,3 –Collaborative tools (web+videoconf+repository) –Integration Team 4.1 Testbed setup & incremental evolution (task leader:R.Marco, CSIC, Santander) –Define installation –Deploy testbed releases –Trace security issues WP4 - International Testbed Organisation Testbed site responsibles: –CYFRONET (Krakow) A.Ozieblo –ICM(Warsaw) W.Wislicki –IPJ (Warsaw) K.Nawrocki –UvA (Amsterdam) D.van Albada –FZK (Karlsruhe) M.Kunze –IISAS (Bratislava) J.Astalos –PSNC(Poznan) P.Wolniewicz –UCY (Cyprus) M.Dikaiakos –TCD (Dublin) B.Coghlan –CSIC (Santander/Valencia) S.Gonzalez –UAB (Barcelona) G.Merino –USC (Santiago) A.Gomez –UAM (Madrid) J.del Peso –Demo (Athenas) C.Markou –AuTh (Thessaloniki) D.Sampsonidis –LIP (Lisbon) J.Martins

21. Cracow Grid Workshop, November 5-6, 2001 Tasks in WP4 4.2 Integration with DATAGRID (task leader: M.Kunze, FZK) –Coordination of testbed setup –Exchange knowledge –Participate in WP meetings 4.3 Infrastructure Support (task leader: J.Salt, CSIC, Valencia) –Fabric management –HelpDesk –Provide Installation Kit –Network support 4.4 Verification & quality control (task leader: J.Gomes, LIP) –Feedback –Improve stability of the testbed WP4 - International Testbed Organisation

22. Cracow Grid Workshop, November 5-6, 2001 Technical Coordination –Merging of requirements –Specification and refinement of the GrossGrid architecture (protocols, APIs; HLA, CCA...) –Establishing standard operational procedures repository acces procedures problem reporting mechanism handling changed requests mechanism release preparation procedure –Specification of the structure of deliverables –Approach: rapid prototyping and iterative engineering

23. Cracow Grid Workshop, November 5-6, 2001 Project Phases M 1 - 3: requirements definition and merging M 4 - 12: first development phase: design, 1st prototypes, refinement of requirements M 13 -24: second development phase: integration of components, 2nd prototypes M 25 -32: third development phase: complete integration, final code versions M 33 -36: final phase: demonstration and documentation

24. Cracow Grid Workshop, November 5-6, 2001 Clustering with # Projects –Objective – exchange of information software components –Our partners DATAGRID DATATAG GRIDLAB EUROGRID and GRIP –GRIDSTART –Participation in GGF

25. Cracow Grid Workshop, November 5-6, 2001 Expected Results of the CrossGrid –Grid enabled interactive applications –Elaborated methodology –Generic application architecture –New programming tools –New Grid services –Extension of the Grid in Europe and to new virtual organisations

26. Cracow Grid Workshop, November 5-6, 2001 Dissemination & Exploitation –Methods & software developed will be available to scientific community –Each collaboration partner topic conferences, GGF, national Grid initiatives MSc, PhD and lectures on Grid technology –Centralised CrossGrid vortal workshops, seminars, user/focus groups newsletter, brochures industrial deployment

27. Cracow Grid Workshop, November 5-6, 2001 1.0 Coordination 1.1-1.4 Applications 2.0 Coordination 2.1 Requirements 2.2-2.4 Tools 2.5 Tests 3.0 Coordination 3.1-3.4 Services 3.5 Tests 5.1 Coordination & Management 5.3 Dissemination & Exploitation 5.2 Architecture Team 4.0 Coordination 4.2 Integration with DataGrid 4.1, 4.3, 4.4 Testbeds GGF DataGrid Other Grid Projects Overall Links between WPs and Tasks

28. Cracow Grid Workshop, November 5-6, 2001 Ready to start January 1, 2002