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Grid Computing @ PDC

Olle Mulmomulmo@pdc.kth.se

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Recent activities www.pdc.kth.se/grid/

• International Globus Alliance, GGF, NCSA collaboration

• Continental (European Grid Support Centre), EGEE, NextGrid NEG, (NorduGrid), Lyon collaboration

• National SweGrid, VR-IT NGSSC Grid Computing Course

• Local SICS collaboration Own research and development

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Collaboration is key!

• The problem space is gigantic

• Funding is insufficient

• ”Grid ecosystem” Complementary building blocks Common design philosophy Common ”standards”

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The SweGrid Accounting System (SGAS)

BankLUTS

JARMJob SpecificationCertificates

PAT

LUTS

LUTS – Logging and Usage Tracking Service

JARM – Job Account Reservation Manager

PAT – Policy Administration Tool

SLA – Service Level Agreement

SLA

SLASLA

Joint with UmU, UU, SICS andINSA Lyon

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Presentations and Publications

• 6th NorduGrid Workshop, Lund, November 28, 2003

• In Proc. PARA’04, Copenhagen, June 20-23, 2004

• European Grid Technology Days 2004, Brussels, September 15-17, 2004

• Nordic Grid Neighborhood, Linköping, October 20, 2004

• In Proc. 2nd International Conference on Service Oriented Computing, New York City, November 15-19, 2004

More at http://www.sgas.se

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Status & Current Research Projects

• In Production at PDC since September 2004, other centers to follow

• Nordic: SweGrid, NDGF• EU: EGEE, NextGrid• International: Globus Alliance• Component Contributions: AuthZ Framework,

Message-level Security

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PDC Grid Research Contributions

Architecture and Protocols• Active in Global Grid Forum

Steering Group, OGSI-WG, Security Area

• EU Framework Programme 5, and 6 architecture work EDG, EGEE, NextGRID

Implementation• Contributors to international Open Source toolkits

Globus, Axis, openssl, EDG, gLite, ARC, Heimdal

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EGEE in one slide

• 70 institutions in 28 countries,federated in regional clusters

• 32MEUR for first 2 years(plans for another 2 years)

• Deployment andreengineering project

• 50% operations & support,25% training & appl. support,25% reengineering

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Northern European ROC

• One of nine Regional Operating Centres

• Split responsibility between Sweden and NL

• Sweden: PDC, HPC2N, NSC• SNIC ROC 3+3 FTE

ROC Manager (Per Öster) Deployment team Operations team

• Geographical areas of responsibility SARA - Netherlands and

Belgium SNIC - Estonia, Denmark,

Finland, Norway, Sweden map points indicate federations and are not geographically precise

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PDC’s role in the security area

• Security head (Åke Edlund) Overall responsibility, project management

• Security architect (Olle Mulmo) Trust models, technologies, middleware

• Other security experts at PDC M. Ahsant J. Danielsson R. Levitte T. Sandholm G. Volpato

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NextGrid

• FP6 project started Sept 1st 50% academia, 50% industry

• Goal: To meet the needs of business users security and scalability economically viable business models legal and privacy issues

• Research and exploration project: A 5-10 year lookout

• www.nextgrid.org