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C3.ca in Atlantic Canada
Virendra Bhavsar
Director, Advanced Computational Research Laboratory (ACRL)
Faculty of Computer ScienceUniversity of New Brunswick
Fredericton, [email protected]
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Outline
» Personal view of C3.ca
» Resource providers in Atlantic Canada
» ACRL• Hardware & software• Users• Expertise
» Other Atlantic RPs: MUN, St. Mary’s, Dalhousie
» Using C3.ca resources: an example
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C3.ca: a personal view
»What is C3.ca about?•Sharing resources•Sharing expertise
»How to promote use of High Performance Computing (HPC)?•Make access easier
• Better interfaces• GRID
•Training of HPC application developers
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Resource Providers in Atlantic Canada
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ACRL Workshops
»High Performance Parallel Computing - Getting Started on ACRL's IBM SP, a half-day workshop, was given by Dr. Eric Aubanel by Dr. Virendra Bhavsar in December, January and July
»Feb. 2001: Dr. Eric Myra (IBM USA) gave a three-day parallel programming workshop
»Workshops at MACI and HPCS2001
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»First Atlantic Canada High Performance Computing Consortium (AC3) Meeting held Feb. 24 2001
»MUN, UNB, UPEI, StFX agreed to create AC3 to coordinate effective use of Atlantic Canada’s HPC systems•Dalhousie & others have joined
»www.cs.unb.ca/acrl/ac3/ac3.html
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»Atlantic Grid proposal to AIF
»www.cs.unb.ca/acrl/ac3/ac3.html
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The AC3 GRID
An investment in the future of Atlantic Canadian R&D Infrastructure
Dr. Virendra C. Bhavsar
UNB, Fredericton
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What is a GRID System
» Cooperative network of shared resources• Scaleable wide area network that supports resource
sharing and distribution• Composed of geographically distributed, autonomous
resource providers
» Includes computers, network links, human resources and databases• Exploits the heterogeneous characteristics of the
participating resource providers• Generalized data handling, computing and client support
system
» Supports the development of advanced R&D applications in Science, Engineering and Technology Development, Finance and the Arts.
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GRID Applications
» Large scale and resource intensive frontier applications• R&D applications that go beyond current technological
capabilities• Technology development applications in multi-media,
finance, production arts, hard sciences and engineering.
• Advanced telecommunications protocol and services development
» Require specialized facilities and networks• Need for high bandwidth, high priority access to
bandwidth• Need for access to HPC sites• Need for access to more than one of a set of
heterogeneous, geographically distributed resources• Have large computational or data requirements• Need high performance visualization facilities at remote
locations.
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Some Application Areas
» Geo-Data processing in Meteorology, Remote Sensing, Oceanography, Space Science.
» Computational Chemistry, Biology, Medical Science and Services
» Simulation Modeling for Transportation,Telecommunications and Policy Analysis
» Financial modeling
» Multi-media applications such as embedded video, digital video servers and video conferencing.
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AC3 Grid
» Peer network of providers and users• Resource providers are autonomous installations located
at Atlantic Canadian universities
» Distributed access to all facilities and support resources of the GRID• Any client with an Internet connection can access • Uniform WEB based user interface• Common support software available to all clients
» Secure access to resources and data• Single point of entry to GRID services
» GRID wide monitoring of resource consumption and distribution• GRID wide scheduling and management of shared
resources
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AC3 Grid
» Shared access to heterogeneous facilities• Standard user interface to GRID resources
» Shared training and support resources• Standard training tools and resource information
databases
» Common development and support tools• GRID application development and debugging
environments
» Resource brokering amongst facilities• Easy discovery of available GRID resources
» Integration with other GRID systems either Regional or
International
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AC3 GRID Road Map
» Strategic Plan
» Resource and Technology Inventory
» Interim GRID deployment using GLOBUS and Legion
» Core Software Base
» Administrative Arrangements
» Prototype Demonstration
» Initial Deployment
» Resource Discovery Mechanisms
» Advanced Feature Deployment
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Concluding Message
»Canadian HPC resources and expertise are growing and are readily available
»Visit www.c3.ca for details
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HPCS 2002
»www.umoncton.ca/hpcs2002
»Deadline for submissions: Dec. 14
»All aspects of HPC:• Parallel
Architectures and Networking
• Software Systems • Parallel Algorithms • Applications