www.grid.am ASNET-AM Annual Report 12 March 2010 International Grid Infrastructures Current activities in Armenia H. Astsatryan Institute for Informatics and Automation Problems, National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia
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International Grid Infrastructures Current activities in Armenia
H. Astsatryan
Institute for Informatics and Automation Problems,National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia
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Outline
• eInfrastructures and Grids
• Recent Projects in Armenia
• Armenian National Grid Infrastructure
• Local Services and International Involvement
• Future Activities
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Outline
• eInfrastructures and Grids
• Recent Projects in Armenia
• Armenian National Grid Infrastructure
• Local Services and International Involvement
• Future Activities
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Grid Definition: Word Meaning
The term Grid computing or Grid
suggest a computing paradigm similar
to an electric power grid - a variety of
resources contribute power into a
shared "pool" for many consumers to
access on an as-needed basis.
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Grid Components
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EVisualization
User
Access
Suprecomputers,clusters
Internet, networks
Experiments, sensors, etc..
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Brief History of Computing
• 1980: "DOS addresses
only 1 Megabyte of RAM
because we cannot
imagine any applications
needing more." -Microsoft
on the development of
DOS.
• 1981: "640k ought to be
enough for anybody." -
Bill Gates
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eInfrastructures
Old World New World
Static
Silo
Physical
Manual
Application
Dynamic
Shared
Virtual
Automated
Service
Enabling large-scale innovative research to be conducted through collaboration of distributed teams of scientist across the European Research Area (ERA) paves the way towards a long-term vision of a sustainable, transparent, ubiquitous electronic infrastructure (eInfrastructure) open to a wide range of scientific user communities providing the development of Information Society in Europe.
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e-Infrastructure: Reference Model
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e-Infrastructure: Reference Model
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e-Infrastructure:GÉANT Topology
GÉANT is the pan-European data network dedicated to the research and education community. Together with Europe's national research networks, GÉANT connects 40 million users in over 8,000 institutions across 40 countries.
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e-Infrastructure: Reference Model
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e-Infrastructure: Reference Model
293 sites56 countries87,000 CPUs5 PetaBytes>15,000 users>150 VOs>100,000 jobs/day
ArcheologyAstronomyAstrophysicsCivil ProtectionComp. ChemistryEarth SciencesFinanceFusionGeophysicsHigh Energy PhysicsLife SciencesMultimediaMaterial Sciences…
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e-Infrastructure: Perspectives
International Monitoring Systems
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e-Infrastructures: Grid Projects
ContractorsGRNET GreeceCERN SwitzerlandSZTAKI Hungary IPP-BAS BulgariaICI RomaniaTUBITAK TurkeyASA/INIMA AlbaniaUoBL Bosnia-
HerzegovinaUKIM FYR of MacedoniaUOB SerbiaUoM MontenegroRENAM MoldovaRBI CroatiaIIAP-NAS-RA ArmeniaGRENA Georgia
Third Party ssociate universities / research centres
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Applicationsimproved services for academia,
industry and the public
Support Actionskey complementary functions
Infrastructuresgeographical or thematic coverage
International Grid Projects
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e-Infrastructure: Reference Model
Standards
OGF
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e-Infrastructures: Situation
• Need to prepare permanent, common Grid infrastructure• Ensure the long-term sustainability of the European e-Infrastructure
independent of short project funding cycles• Coordinate the integration and interaction between National Grid
Infrastructures (NGIs)• Operate the production Grid infrastructure on a European level for a wide
range of scientific disciplines
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Outline
• eInfrastructures and Grids
• Recent Projects in Armenia
• Armenian National Grid Infrastructure
• Local Services and International Involvement
• Future Activities
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Armenian National Grid Initiative
• Creation of Armenian Grid Joint Research
Unit. Agreement signed in September 2007
• Armenian National Grid Initiative
Foundation, Kick-off meeting 31 October
2008. Juridical Status is in process
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♦State Scientific Committee of the Ministry of Education and Science ♦National Academy of Sciences♦State Engineering University of Armenia ♦Yerevan State University ♦Yerevan Physics Institute after A. Alikhanian ♦Institute for Informatics and Automation Problems of the National Academy of Sciences♦Armenian e-Science Foundation
The SEE-GRID-SCI initiative is co-funded by the European Commission under the FP7 Research Infrastructures contract no. 211338
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Recent Projects
ContractorsGRNET GreeceCERN SwitzerlandSZTAKI Hungary IPP-BAS BulgariaICI RomaniaTUBITAK TurkeyASA/INIMA AlbaniaUoBL Bosnia-
HerzegovinaUKIM FYR of MacedoniaUOB SerbiaUoM MontenegroRENAM MoldovaRBI CroatiaIIAP-NAS-RA ArmeniaGRENA Georgia
Third Party / JRU mechanism usedassociate universities / research centres
GRNET.gr
SEE-GRID-SCI partnership
MTA SZTAKI .hu
IPP .bg
ICI .ro
TUBITAK.tr
UPT.al
UKIM.mk
UoBL.ba
RBI.hr
UOB.rs
RENAM.md
UOM.me
GRENA.ge
IIAP-NAS-RA.am
The SEE-GRID-SCI initiative is co-funded by the European Commission under the FP7 Research Infrastructures contract no. 211338
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State Target Project
• Deployment of Armenian National Grid Infrastructure
Current Implementations:
The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model is a next-generation mesoscale numerical weather
prediction system designed to serve both operational forecasting and atmospheric research needs. The
effort to develop WRF has been a collaborative partnership, principally among the National Center for
Atmospheric Research, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Forecast Systems
Laboratory, the Air Force Weather Agency, the Naval Research Laboratory, the University of Oklahoma, and
the Federal Aviation Administration.
The Community Multi-scale Air Quality (CMAQ) modeling system has been designed to approach air quality
as a whole by including state-of-the-science capabilities for modeling multiple air quality issues, including
tropospheric ozone, fine particles, toxics, acid deposition, and visibility degradation. CMAQ is an active
open-source development project of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that consists of a suite of
programs for conducting air quality model simulations.
Recent Projects
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Project A-1451(2007-2009)
• Development of Scientific Computing Grid on the Base of Armcluster for South Caucasus Region
Participants
• Institute for Informatics and Automation Problems NAS RA; Yerevan State University; State Engineering
University of Armenia; Institute of Radiophysics and Electronics NAS RA; Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory
NAS RA; Institute for Physical Research NAS RA
Main Results
• General framework in the following R&D areas: quantum physics, astrophysics, molecular dynamics, 3D
periodic artificial microwave structures, IT infrastructure library performance, quantum 3D reactive scattering in
the 3-body system, identification and recognition of objects from video images by using digital signal and image
processing methods, two-dimensional cellular automata, decision-making and nonlinear boundary parallel
algorithms.
Recent Projects
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ISTC(International Science and Technology Center) Project A-1606(2008-2010)
• Development of Armenian-Georgian Grid Infrastructure and applications in the Fields of High Energy Physics,
Astrophysics and Quantum Physics
Participants
• Armenia: Institute for Informatics and Automation Problems NAS RA; Yerevan Physics Institute; Yerevan State
University; Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory NAS RA
• Georgia: Georgian Research and Educational Networking Association; Georgian E.Kharadze National
Astrophysical Observatory; Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
Expected Main Results
• High Energy Physics: The calculation of NNLL QCD corrections for B > Xsγ decay; Monte Carlo production for
the HERMES; Determination of the spin structure of nucleon-nucleon interaction; Spin-filtering experiment;
Astrophysics: Development of Armenian-Georgian Virtual Observatory; Quantum Physics: High performance
computer modeling of quantum optical devices and microstructured Nonlinear Materials
Recent Projects
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Outline
• eInfrastructures and Grids
• Recent Projects in Armenia
• Armenian National Grid Infrastructure
• Local Services and International Involvement
• Future Activities
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National Grid Infrastructure
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Computational Resources
# Processors, Peak Performance (GFlops) and RAM (GB) IIAP NAS RA YSU SEUA YERPHI IRPHE NAS RA
proc. Rpeak RAM proc. Rpeak RAM proc. Rpeak RAM proc. Rpeak RAM proc. Rpeak RAM
Clusters 176 8399 176 176 1440 144 48 480 48 48 480 48 48 480 48
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Infrastructure
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Infrastructure operations
• Operational tools:• Static Database: HGSM
(Hierachical Grid Site Management)
• Monitoring– SAM (+SQL port), GStat, GridIce,
Googlemap/earth, MonaLisa, Real Time Monitor, Nagios, Pakiti
• Ticketing system (ops and user support): OneOrZero
• Accounting: RGMA and accounting portal
• Operations wiki• Portal
• Fully interoperable with EGEE,
overlapping
• SLA definition, monitoring and
enforcement and corrective
actions
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User Communities
• Biology
• Mathematics
• Informatics and Computer Science
• Astrophysics
• Meteorology
• Environmental Protection
• Seismology
• High Energy Physics
• Quantum Physics
• Cross-border user communities and beneficiaries
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Monitoring System
Local Monitoring SystemGanglia is a scalable distributed monitoring system for high-performance computing systems such as clusters and Grids. It is based on a hierarchical design targeted at federations of clusters.
The Relational Grid Monitoring Architecture (R-GMA) provides a service for information, monitoring and logging in a distributed computing environment.
Global Monitoring SystemsGStat is a centralized monitoring service, which monitors the worldwide Grid Information System. Its primary goal is to detect faults, verify the validity of and display useful data from the Information System. BBmSAM availability monitoring of the infrastructure is carried out by using SAM (Service Availability Monitoring) system developed in EGEE (Enabling Grids for E-science in Europe) project. SAM consists of server and client components that communicate over web services. The client initiates periodical test of infrastructure and published data to server which stores them in database.
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Outline
• eInfrastructures and Grids
• Recent Projects
• Armenian National Grid Infrastructure
• Local Services and International Involvement
• Future Activities
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Armenia: European Grid Initiative
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Grid Core Services
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Grid Core Services
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Higher-Level Grid Services
Basic Grid services:AA, job submission, info, …
Higher-level grid services (brokering,…)
Application toolkits
Application
Grid middlewareCommand line tools
Portals and GEMLCAGraphical interface
Grid middlewareCommand line tools
Graphical interface
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Higher-Level Grid Services
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International Monitoring Systems
SAM (Service Availability Monitoring): https://c01.grid.etfbl.net/bbmsam/
Job Accounting: http://gserv4.ipp.acad.bg:8080/AccountingPortal/
WatG Browser (What is at the Grid Browser) :http://watgbrowser.scl.rs:8080/
Nagios (Monitoring tool):https://portal.ipp.acad.bg:7443/seegridnagios/
GSTAT : http://goc.grid.sinica.edu.tw/gstat
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Monitoring Systems: GSTAT
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SEE Regional Infrastructure
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Outline
• eInfrastructures and Grids
• Recent Projects
• Armenian National Grid Infrastructure
• Local Services and International Involvement
• Future Activities
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International Projects: Submitted
European Grid Initiative: Integrated Sustainable Pan-European
Infrastructure for Researchers in Europe (EU FP7)
Central to this proposal and key to coordinating an Integrated Sustainable Pan-
European Infrastructure for Researchers in Europe (InSPIRE) is a new legal
organisation EGI.eu which will be the lead partner in the EGI-InSPIRE project.
Currently, being established in Amsterdam, EGI.eu‘s focus is coordinating the
continued operation and expansion of today‘s production grid infrastructure that
supports over 13,000 researchers, many of them already heavy users of the
infrastructure, across diverse disciplines such as Earth Science, Astronomy &
Astrophysics, Fusion research, Computational Chemistry, Materials Science, Life
Sciences and High Energy Physics.
Coordinator: Participants:
Nikhef , Netherlands 39 EU countries + CERN
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International Projects: Submitted
High-Performance Computing Infrastructure for South East Europe’s
Research Communities (EU FP7)
HP-SEE focuses on a number of strategic actions. First, it will link existing and
upcoming HPC facilities in the region in a common infrastructure, and provide
operational solutions for it. As a complementary action, the project will establish
and maintain GEANT link for Caucasus. Second, it will open this HPC
infrastructure to a wide range of new user communities, including those of less
resourced countries, fostering collaboration and providing advanced capabilities
to researchers, with an emphasis on strategic groups in computational physics,
chemistry and life sciences. Finally, it will ensure establishment of national HPC
initiatives, and act as a SEE bridge for PRACE.
Coordinator: Participants:
GRNET, Greece 14 countries
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International Projects: In Prep.
Remote Sensing Methods to Assess Heavy Metal
Pollution in the Kura River Basin (ISTC)
Brief Description: Environmental pollution is one of major concerns to the South
Caucasus. The main objective of this Project is to deploy a regional research
universal infrastructure for the monitoring of frontier farmlands and decision-making
in this context. The infrastructure will provide mechanisms and tools for fast
detection of sources and definition of levels of Heavy Metal pollution, which is
crucial for the safety of the population.
Partners: Institute for Informatics and Automation Problems of NAS RA, Center for
Ecological-Noosphere Studies of NAS RA , Tbilisi State University, Georgian
Research and Educational Networking Association, GIS and RS Consulting Center
GeoGraphic
Collaborators: Belgium (1), France (1), Greece (1), Hungary (1), Poland (1),
Romania (1), USA (4), Support Letter (Turkey)
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