Motivation - Current situation of HPC
| High Performance Computing (HPC) systems are crucial resources for research and development | |
| Users want to focus on their science rather than becoming HPC specialists | |
| Operation of HPC systems requires specialised centres | |
| European HPC centres offer a variety of HPC architectures from different vendors with frequent innovation | |
| European HPC centres and users are
connected by high-bandwidth networks |
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| Build a European Grid infrastructure | |
| that gives users | |
| a seamless, secure access to | |
| High Performance Computing resources | |
| and that advances computational science | |
| in Europe |
| Support the e-Science concept | |
| Integrate resources of leading European HPC centres into a European HPC GRID | |
| Develop new software components for GRID computing | |
| Demonstrate the ASP model for HPC access (‘HPC portal‘) |
| HPC Centres | |
| SCSC Manno (CH) | |
| FZ Jülich (D) | |
| ICM Warsaw (PL) | |
| IDRIS Paris (F) | |
| Univ Bergen (N) | |
| Univ Manchester (UK) | |
| Users | |
| Deutscher Wetterdienst | |
| EADS | |
| debis Systemhaus (Assistant Partner) |
| Application GRIDS: application-specific interfaces, evaluation of GRID solutions |
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| Bio-GRID | ||
| Meteo-GRID | ||
| CAE-GRID | ||
| HPC GRID Infrastructure: connect HPC centres using UNICORE technology |
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| Development and integration of new components | ||
| Dissemination and exploitation | ||
| Operate a GRID for biomolecular simulations |
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| Develop interfaces to existing
biological and chemical codes |
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| Develop a relocatable version of DWD‘s weather prediction model | |
| Goal: weather prediction on-demand as an ASP solution |
| Coupled simulation of aircrafts (e.g.
structural mechanics and electromagnetic compatibility) |
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| Goal: internal HPC portal for EADS engineers |
| Provide HPC portal to engineers at Daimler-Chrysler and partners | |
| Develop GRID technology for computing cost estimates and billing |
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EUROGRID Infrastructure and Components
| Based on UNICORE system | ||
| Develop additional GRID components | ||
| efficient data transfer | ||
| ASP infrastructure | ||
| resource broker | ||
| application coupling | ||
| interactive access | ||
| Integration of new components by Pallas and Fecit | ||
| EUROGRID-0 has been installed by partners | |
| HPC-Grid is running | |
| Development of application specific user interfaces begun | |
| UNICORE test system is available (www.fz-juelich.de/unicore-test) |
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| Joint workshop with DataGrid planned for GGF3 | |
| EUROGRID booth at SC2001 in Denver | |
| GRIP project about UNICORE – Globus interoperability proposed and positively evaluated |