Speaker
Dr
Syed Naqvi
(CETIC-CoreGRID)
Description
Context:
Centre of Excellence in Information and Communication
Technologies (CETIC) has a
cluster of the following specifications:
Number of Nodes: 38
Number of Processors: 74
RAM size: 160 GB
Disk storage: 10 TB
This cluster will eventually be a part of the Belgian Grid.
CETIC is seeking
assistance from the EGEE project in the deployment and
administration of this Grid
platform.
Scientific Goals:
The Grid platform at CETIC will serve as a research test-bed
to support
experimentations, prototyping, simulations, and other
associated research activities.
The Grid platform will also be made accessible to companies
for testing and
benchmarking purposes.
Description:
As the Belgian Grid is going to switch from LCG-2 to gLite
middleware, CETIC Grid
will have to opt for the same middleware – gLite. The CETIC
Grid team's objectives
start from deploying a grid platform with a set of computing
resources to administer it.
Grid Added-value:
Besides Belgian Grid (BEgrid), CETIC is a partner of a
number of European projects
including Business Experiments in Grid (BEinGRID) [1] and
Highly Predictable Clusters
for Internet Grids (HPC4U) [2]. These projects require Grid
platform to facilitate
the experimentation of the envisioned pilot applications.
Potential User Community:
CETIC has active collaborations with Belgian companies and
universities. Moreover,
CETIC is involved in a number of European projects [3].
There will be a broad
spectrum of potential user community of CETIC Grid. It will
comprise of academics,
researchers, and industrial R&D teams.
EGEE Impact:
EGEE consortium has rich expertise in the deployment of Grid
platforms. gLite is the
middleware of the EGEE project. The experts from the EGEE
consortium are in the most
fortunate position to provide assistance in the deployment
and administration of a
gLite-based Grid platform.
Grid Services Needed:
It is difficult to quantify the set of Grid services sought
by the CETIC, as the
intended Grid platform will also be made accessible to
companies for testing and
benchmarking purposes and the required services will vary
for every experiment. In
other words, CETIC requires a comprehensive set of Grid
services for its activities.
Key Issues:
The key issues include the successful deployment of a Grid
platform, its
administration, and its integration with the Belgian Grid so
that experiments of the
Grid projects can be performed, CETIC’s and its partners’
researchers can prototype
and/or simulate their propositions. For example, prototyping
of secure fault tolerant
replica generation mechanism for Grid-based data management
systems [4]. The Grid
platform will also be made accessible to companies for
testing and benchmarking purposes.
References:
1. Business Experiments in Grid – www.beingrid.com
2. Highly Predictable clusters for Internet Grid (HPC4U) –
http://www.hpc4u.org
3. CETIC Newsletter, January 2006 –
www.cetic.be/article372.html
4. Naqvi S., Massonet P., Arenas A., 'Security Requirements
Model for Grid Data
Management Systems', International Workshop on Critical
Information Infrastructure
Security 2006 (CRITIS'06), August 30 – September 02, 2006,
Samos Island, Greece
Author
Dr
Syed Naqvi
(CETIC-CoreGRID)
Co-authors
Mr
Damien Hubaux
(CETIC)
Mr
Simon Alexandre
(CETIC)
Mr
Stephane Mouton
(CETIC)