Grid Computing by Mireille Raad

Grid Computing by Mireille Raad

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  Grid computing Mireille Raad
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  Computational Grids enable Dynamic sharing – exchange – discovery – selection - aggregation of geographically/Internet-wide distributed heterogeneous resources • Supercomputers • Compute clusters single unified resource for solving • Storage systems large-scale compute and data intensive • Data sources computing applications • Visualization devices • Scientific Instruments • People
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  LHC Volunteer Grid LHC : our “scientific instrument” UK physicists have successfully taken part in a challenge to test an international scientific computing Grid under working conditions. During the week-long challenge, the LHC Computing Grid sustained transfer rates of a gigabyte per second. - a world first for a permanent, international Grid using
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  Global Grids andSoftware Toolkits Global Grids • SETI@home Project • GPUGRID.net (Perform full-atom molecular simulations of proteins on Nvidia GPUs for biomedical research) • NFCR Centre for Computational Drug Discovery : Screensaver Lifesaver • Worldwide LHC Computing Grid • World community grid • GridPP a collaboration of particle physicists and computer scientists from the UK and CERN. • World-Wide Grid network Middleware Unicore – Globus – Gridbus – Legion Grid-enabled languages and utilities HPC++ or MPI
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  Personal Experience withGrids And My “realistic” Future plans (geeky partners needed) Experience: Volunteering with World Community Grid Grid Storage using TAHOE-LAFS 7 PCs Lab Plans Step1 : Work in somehow controlled environment like companies to aggregate un-used storage on typical laptops/desktops – may not need full grid architecture. Step2: Ability to combine CPU power of many computers for corporate or personal use
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  Why it isExciting • Dream about computing again • Abundant computing powers gone un-used while needed at large scale • IPv6 • Analogy to electricity grid – in the same way we need power – we may just need grid and use it as instantly as we do with basic resources • Infrastructure for more grainy interconnections on economy level : bitcoin – un-controlled • Opt-in, free, secure