the teragrid: an essential tool for 21st century science craig stewart, associate dean, research...
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The TeraGrid: An essential tool for 21st century
scienceCraig Stewart,
Associate Dean, Research Technologies
Chief Operating Officer, Pervasive Technology Labs
Chair, Coalition for Academic Scientific Computing
IU TeraGrid Resource Partner PI
Indiana University
17 February 2008
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Outline• Why this workshop may be valuable to you
– (Time consuming computations on the critical path of you research? Need more storage? Do you provide scientific services/resources over the Web?)
• What is cyberinfrastructure?• Examples of TeraGrid uses• More detailed info about the TeraGrid
– Architecture– Storage– Computation– Science Gateway use and support, including Visualization– Data source and service hosting
• How can you get going using the TeraGrid?– Resources are available to use– Help using the system is available– At the end of the talk we will help those who wish (and have laptops
here) start the application process. You need your CV to finish the whole process, but you can do some of the work and save it
• NB: ‘Tufte was here’
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What is Cyberinfrastructure?• Indiana University’s definition of Cyberinfrastructure:
“Cyberinfrastructure consists of computing systems, data storage systems, advanced instruments and data repositories, visualization environments, and people, all linked together by software and high performance networks to improve research productivity and enable breakthroughs not otherwise possible.”
• This and other information in Wikipedia definition of Cyberinfrastructure• Some basic terms
– TFLOPS - Trillions of FLOating Point operations per Second (mathematical operations) (10^12)
– Processor hour - one hour of processor (CPU) utilization– TB - terabyte; PB - petabyte– Parallel programming– MPI - Message Passing Interface – WSRF - Web Services Resource Framework
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What is the TeraGrid?
• An instrument (cyberinfrastructure) that delivers high-end IT resources - storage, computation, visualization, and data/service hosting - almost all of which are UNIX-based under the covers; some hidden by Web interfaces
– A data storage and management facility: over 20 Petabytes of storage (disk and tape), over 100 scientific data collections
– A computational facility - over 750 TFLOPS in parallel computing systems and growing
– (Sometimes) an intuitive way to do very complex tasks, via Science Gateways, or get data via data services
• A service: help desk and consulting, Advanced Support for TeraGrid Applications (ASTA), education and training events and resources
• The largest individual cyberinfrastructure facility funded by the NSF, which supports the national science and engineering research community
• Something you can use without financial cost - allocated via peer review (and without double jeopardy)
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• Simulation of TonB-dependent transporter (TBDT)
• Used 400,000 processor (CPU) hours on systems at National Center for Supercomputing Applications, IU, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center [45 years with one processor]
• Modeled mechanisms for allowing transport of molecules through cell membrane
• Experimental analysis not possible!
• Work by Emad Tajkhorshid and James Gumbart, of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Mechanics of Force Propagation in TonB-Dependent Outer Membrane Transport. Biophysical Journal 93:496-504 (2007).
• Results of the simulation may be seen at www.life.uiuc.edu/emad/TonB-BtuB/btub-2.5Ans.mpg
Image courtesy of Emad Tajkhorshid, UIUC
Examples of what you can do with the TeraGrid:Simulation of cell membrane processes
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Predicting storms
• Hurricanes and tornadoes cause massive loss of life and damage to property
• TeraGrid supported spring 2007 NOAA and University of Oklahoma Hazardous Weather Testbed–Major Goal: assess how well ensemble
forecasting predicts thunderstorms, including the supercells tornadoes
–Nightly reservation at PSC–Delivers “better than real time”
prediction–Used 675,000 CPU hours for the
season–Used 312 TB on HPSS storage at PSC
Slide courtesy of Dennis Gannon, IU, and LEAD Collaboration
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Solve any Rubik’s Cube in 26 moves?
• Rubik's Cube is perhaps the most famous combinatorial puzzle of its time
• > 43 quintillion states (4.3x10^19)
• Gene Cooperman and Dan Kunkle of Northeastern Univ. proved any state can be solved in 26 moves
• 7TB of distributed storage on TeraGrid allowed them to develop the proof
Source: http://www.physorg.com/news99843195.html
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• Resources for many disciplines!
• > 40,000 processors in aggregate
• Resource availability will grow during 2008 at unprecedented rates
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SDSC
TACC
UC/ANL
NCSA
ORNL
PU
IU
PSC
NCAR
Caltech
USC/ISI
UNC/RENCI
UW
Resource Provider (RP)
Software Integration Partner
Grid Infrastructure Group (UChicago)
The TeraGrid Map
Tennessee
LONI/LSU
Network Hub
©University of Chicago, Courtesy Dane Skow, Director, TeraGrid Grid Infrastructure Group. Used with Permission.
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But you don’t care - TeraGrid Architecture
ComputeService
VizService
DataService
Network, Accounting, …
RP 1
RP 3
RP 2
©University of Chicago, Courtesy Dane Skow, Director, TeraGrid Grid Infrastructure Group. Used with Permission and modified substantially from original by Craig A. Stewart
TeraGrid Infrastructure (Accounting, Network, Authorization,…)
POPS (for now)
Science Gateways
UserPortal
Command Line
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Data storage and management: Tape
• TeraGrid provides persistent (up to Feb 2010+) storage on disk and tape
• Could you benefit from having a spare copy of your data stored someplace removed from your home location?
• Allocatable tape-based storage systems:– IU (Indiana University) - geographically distributed– NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research) - also supports
dual copy– NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing Applications)– SDSC (San Diego Supercomputer Center)– Note: most sites have massive data storage systems that provide
storage in support of computation• Command line usage is reasonably straightforward with GridFTP; IU is
developing a GUI
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13©Trustees of Indiana University. May be reused so long as IU and TeraGrid logos remain, and any modifications to original are noted. Courtesy Craig A. Stewart, IU
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Data storage and management: Disk• GPFS-WAN (General Parallel File System Wide Area
Network). ~ 1 petabyte– Home at San Diego Supercomputer Center; may be
accessed as if it were a local file system from NCAR, NCSA, IU, UC/ANL
• IU Data Capacitor - Lustre– 1 petabyte of spinning disk– Primarily for short term storage of data
• Long term disk storage allocations– Indiana University, National Center for Supercomputing
Applications, San Diego Supercomputer Center
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TeraGrid High Performance Computing Systems 2007-8
Computational Resources (size approximate - not to scale)
Slide Courtesy Tommy Minyard, TACC
SDSC
TACC
UC/ANL
NCSA
ORNL
PU
IU
PSC
NCAR
2007(504TF)
2008(~1PF)Tennessee
LONI/LSU
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Two examples of TeraGrid supercomputers
• Newest addition to the TeraGrid - Texas Advanced Computing Center’s Ranger– Biggest open supercomputer in
world
– 504 TFLOPS Sun Constellation
– 15,744 AMD Quad-core “Barcelona” processors
– Disk subsystem - 1.7 petabytes
• IU’s Big Red– 30 TFLOPS
– Particularly good for molecular dynamics codes
– Biggest system in the TeraGrid in summer 2006
Ranger info courtesy of Tommy Minyard, TACC
Big Red
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Science Gateways
• A Science Gateway is a domain-specific computing environment, typically accessed via the Web, that provides a scientific community with end-to-end support for a particular scientific workflow
• Science Gateways are distinguished from Web portals (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_portal) in that portals “present information from diverse sources in a unified way.”
• Hides complexity (pay no attention to the grid behind the curtain…)
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LEAD (portal.leadproject.org)
• Simple enough an undergraduate can use it!• National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and IU teamed up to
support WxChallenge weather forecast competition. 64 teams, 1000 students, ~16,000 CPU hours on Big Red
• XBaya is available from http://www.collab-ogce.org/
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Purdue’s NanoHUB (www.nanohub.org)
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U. Chicago SIDGrid (sidgrid.ci.uchicago.edu)
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Image by Chris Matusek Image by Ralf Frieser
IU Render Portal
• Supports scientific visualization • Supports education in visualization, graphics, and new media
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Purdue TeraDRE
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TeraGrid Science GatewaysAccessible at http://www.teragrid.org/programs/sci_gateways/
Title Discipline
Open Science Grid (OSG) Advanced Scientific Computing
Special PRiority and Urgent Computing Environment (SPRUCE) Advanced Scientific Computing
Massive Pulsar Surveys using the Arecibo L-band Feed Array (ALFA) Astronomical Sciences
National Virtual Observatory (NVO) Astronomical Sciences
High Resolution Daily Temperature and Precipitation Data for the Northeast United States
Atmospheric Sciences
Linked Environments for Atmospheric Discovery (LEAD) Atmospheric Sciences
Computational Chemistry Grid (GridChem) Chemistry
Computational Science and Engineering Online (CSE-Online) Chemistry
Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) Earthquake Hazard Mitigation
GEON(GEOsciences Network) Earth Sciences
NanoHUB Nanotechnology
TeraGrid Geographic Information Science Gateway (GISolve) Geography
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TeraGrid Science GatewaysAccessible at http://www.teragrid.org/programs/sci_gateways/
Title Discipline
CIG Science Gateway for the Geodynamics Community Geophysics
QuakeSim (QuakeSim) Geophysics
The Earth System Grid (ESG) Global Atmospheric Research
National Biomedical Computation Resource (NBCR) Integrative Biology and Neuroscience
Developing Social Informatics Data Grid (SIDGrid) Language, Cognition, and Social Behavior
Neutron Science TeraGrid Gateway (NSTG) Materials Research
Biology and Biomedicine Science Gateway Molecular Biosciences
Open Life Sciences Gateway (OLSG) Molecular Biosciences
The Telescience Project Neuroscience Biology
Grid Analysis Environment (GAE) Physics
SCEC Earthworks Project Seismology
TeraGrid Visualization Gateway Visualization, Image Processing
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Hosting services
• Remember that old Waffle House commercial?• If you have a data set or a data resource that serves
a national community (or even a community that extends beyond your home institution… or a community you would like to extend beyond your home institution) …
• Hosting of your service is available from Indiana University via our Quarry system!
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MutDB (www.mutdb.org)
http://www.chembiogrid.org/
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Getting an account and allocation• Get a POPS (Partnership Online Proposal System) account• Apply for a DAC allocation (Development Allocation
Committee): < 5 TB disk, < 25 TB tape storage, and/or < 30,000 Standard Units (SUs - related to CPU hours - in general an SU on one of the newer TeraGrid systems is about 0.5 CPU hours)
• Wait a month (although IU can help you shorten that!)• Read the introductory documentation• Use the TeraGrid KB if you need• Ask for help ([email protected], [email protected])• Go discover!
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Go to the POPS page - https://pops-submit.teragrid.org/
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Create a POPS Login
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Indicate that you are “New” to the Teragrid
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Indicate that this is a “Start-up” Request
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Select DAC-TG (nonintuitive)
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Fill out PI information
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Skip Co-PIs probably (unless Co-PI has current funding and you don’t)
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Fill out info on your project
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Fill out info on your funding
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Make reasonable estimates about your computing
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Upload your CV and Submit!
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Additional info
• www.researchtechnologies.iu.edu (also pervasive.iu.edu)• Getting started guide - includes examples of good proposals:
http://www.teragrid.org/userinfo/getting_started.php• Review criteria:
http://www.teragrid.org/userinfo/access/allocationspolicy.php• When you’re in a foreign country there is nothing like a guide. If you
need help with the application process contact IU consultants at [email protected] or submit a help request via the TeraGrid ([email protected])
• If you are interested in having a data collection or science gateway hosted on the TeraGrid, definitely contact IU directly ([email protected]). Do the same if you are interested in Advanced Support for TeraGrid Allocations
• If you are anxious to get going, contact us as soon as you have your DAC allocation request submitted and we can provide a local login for up to 6 weeks of use
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Acknowledgements• IU’s involvement as a TeraGrid Resource Partner is supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grants No.
ACI-0338618l, OCI-0451237, OCI-0535258, and OCI-0504075.
• The IU Data Capacitor is supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. CNS-0521433.
• The Grid Infrastructure Group management of the TeraGrid, and Dane Skow's leadership thereof, is funded by NSF grant 0503697.
• Purdue’s involvement as a TeraGrid Resource Partner is supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. OCI-050399.
• This research was supported in part by the Pervasive Technology Labs and the Indiana METACyt Initiative. Both Indiana University initiatives are supported by the Lilly Endowment, Inc.
• This work was supported in part by Shared University Research grants from IBM, Inc. to Indiana University.
• The LEAD portal is developed under the leadership of IU Professors Dr. Dennis Gannon and Dr. Beth Plale, and supported by NSF grant 331480. Marcus Christie and Surresh Marru of the Extreme! Computing Lab contributed the LEAD graphics
• The ChemBioGrid Portal is developed under the leadership of IU Professor Dr. Geoffrey C. Fox and Dr. Marlon Pierce and funded via the Pervasive Technology Labs (supported by the Lilly Endowment, Inc.) and the National Institutes of Health grant P20 HG003894-01.
• Many of the ideas presented in this talk were developed under a Fulbright Senior Scholar’s award to Stewart, funded by the US Department of State and the Technische Universitaet Dresden.
• Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Lilly Endowment, Inc., or any other funding agency.
• This work is made possible by the dedicated efforts of the expert staff of the Research Technologies Division of University Information Technology Services, the faculty and staff of the Pervasive Technology Labs, and the staff of UITS generally. Erik Cornet, Mike Lowe, Scott Tiege, Michael Grobe, and Malinda Lingwall helped with this presentation.
• Thanks to the faculty and staff with whom we collaborate locally at IU and globally (within the US via the TeraGrid, and internationally via collaboration with Technische Universitaet Dresden)
Thank you! Any questions?