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Enhancing Scientific Research through the NW-GRID Project: Advancing Grid Technologies

The NW-GRID Project, rooted in the North West of England, aims to establish a world-class deployment of Grid middleware for academic and industrial applications. With strategic partnerships between leading universities and organizations, the project leverages a significant investment to enhance computing capabilities. It focuses on utilizing advanced network technologies, including Condor pools, to improve collaboration in various sectors like pharmaceuticals, bioinformatics, social sciences, and environmental research. The initiative fosters practical applications and User Interfaces tailored for practicing scientists, ensuring robust support for research innovation.

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Enhancing Scientific Research through the NW-GRID Project: Advancing Grid Technologies

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  1. Setting the scene Cliff Addison

  2. A Unique North-West Project:advancing Grid Technologies and Applications Technology “tuned to the needs of practicing scientists”. Hooks to other Grid consortia: NGS, WRG Top end: HPCx and CSAR Applications and industry Pharma, meds, bio, social, env, CCPs Portals, client toolkits, active overlays Mid range: NW-GRID and local clusters User interfaces Sensor networks and experimental facilities Advanced Network technology Desktop pools: Condor etc.

  3. The NW-Grid ProjectAims and Partners • Aims: • Establish, for the region, a world-class activity in the deployment and exploitation of Grid middleware • realise the capabilities of the Grid in leading edge academic, industrial and business computing applications • Leverage 100 posts plus £15M of additional investment • Project Partners: • Daresbury Laboratory: CSED and e-Science Centre • Lancaster University: Management School, Physics, e-science and Computer Science • University of Liverpool: Physics and Computer Services • University of Manchester: Research Computing, Computer Science, Chemistry, Bio-informatics

  4. The NW-GRID ProjectFunding Project Funding: • North West Development Agency • £5M over 4 years commencing April 2004 • £2M capital for systems at four participating sites with initial systems in year 1 (Jan 2006) and upgrades in year 3 (Jan 2008) • £3M for staff – about 15 staff for 3 years Complemented by “Teragrid competitive” private Gbit/s link among sites.

  5. Condor Pools • Often an excellent starting point for a Campus Grid. • General issues for pooled systems: • Which PC’s to allocate to a pool? • How decide when a Condor job can run? • Who can run jobs? • What executables can they run? • How is the input / output handled? • Energy issues?

  6. Other interesting topics • Mark Calleja’s (Cambridge) ideas: • Virtualisation • Can applications be sand-boxed in a “safe” OS? • Do we run node images (i.e. application+OS) rather than simple applications? • Where do we go from here? • How avoid “painting Campus Grids into a corner”? • Where obtain future funding? • How integrate with external grids?

  7. Ideas for today • Most talks have a 45 minute slot • I hope there is lots of time for questions, but try to leave these to the end. • Lunch is at 12:30 • Tea / coffee at 15:00 to go along with the discussion. • I’ll attempt to record questions that have been asked and bring these back into discussion at the end of the day. • Ideas have also been raised about a follow-up “work-in” meeting to discuss practical issues – likely at Manchester in the December-January timescale, but nothing confirmed yet.

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