Transcript How Interoperability? The SEE Grid Community

APAC Grid Geosciences Project:
Linking Academia, Industry and Government to HPC
Robert Woodcock, CSIRO and pmd*CRC
Ryan Fraser, IVEC and Curtin
15 March 2005
www.csiro.au
Introduction - APAC Grid program
AUSTRALIAN PARTNERSHIP FOR
ADVANCED COMPUTING
“…building a national grid
infrastructure integrating the APAC
and partner facilities to give
Australian researchers seamless
access the computational and data
resources in these facilities.”
APAC Partners
ac3 - Australian Centre for Advanced
Computing and Communications in NSW
ANU - The Australian National University
CSIRO
IVEC - Western Australian Interactive
Virtual Environments Centre
QPSF - Queensland Parallel
Supercomputing Foundation
SAPAC - South Australian Partnership for
Advanced Computing
TPAC - University of Tasmania acting as
host for the Tasmanian Partnership for
Advanced Computing
VPAC - Victorian Partnership for Advanced
Computing
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Why?... e.g.. decision support…
a knowledge-base is a prerequisite, but
CGKN
Federal
1. Maps are not enough…
Geo-information
bedrock
surficial
• many decision-makers do not understand
geoscientific maps;
Provincial
• they require derived products that inform
socio-economic conditions: e.g. assessments,
Territorial
mineral
geophysical
geochemical
geochronologic
hyrdrogeological
GEON
Grid
resource, vulnerability, risk, integrated
2. If we build it ‘they’ may not come …
Regional
• many decision-makers do not use maps or
assessments, nor know how to;
Municipal
• they need decision support tools and
scientific engagement:
NGO

tools: that use maps and assessments

engagement: to ensure good use
knowledge base
?
With acknowledgement to Boyan Brodaric, Geological Survey of Canada
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Industrial
decision makers
Linking Industry, Government and Academia
Visualization
Decision Support
• collaboration
Assessment
Modeling
Boundary
Objects
• deliberation
Posters, papers
• consultation
Council
Negotiated
Concepts
Actors
Public
Risk
Advisory
Committees
Aquifer vulnerability
Stewardship
Groups
Sustainability
Water Scarcity
With acknowledgement to Boyan Brodaric, Geological Survey of Canada
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APAC Grid Geoscience Project Objective
… to identify and establish
the geoscience community
specific interoperability
“standards” for the APAC
Grid network.
Via
 Community Standards (SEE
Grid)
 Service Interfaces
 Information models
 Test bed applications
 Computational Services –
Mantle Convection
 EarthBytes 4D Data Portal
 Grid infrastructure
 Design Patterns
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APAC Grid Geoscience: Our problem is linking...
• Conceptual models
• Databases
• Modeling codes
• Mesh generators
• Visualization packages
• People
• High Performance
Computers
•Mass Storage Facilities
Atmosphere
Biosphere
Upper
Crust
Oceans
weathering
lower Crust
Subcontinental
lithosphere
Sediments
Oceanic Lithosphere
Upper
Mantle
Deep Mantle
Core
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Oceanic
Crust
APAC Grid Resources for Geosciences
QPSF
CSIRO
nil
90xDual Xeon, 64xAltix
IVEC SRB: 5Tb tape mirror
AC3
ANU 152xDual Xeon
Compaq SC40
NEW system
Alphaserver
NEW system
SRB: 2Tb disk, 5Tb tape
VPAC
90xDual Xeon,
SAPAC SRB
128xDual Xeon
TPAC
nil
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Grid Technology Layers
Community-specific Knowledge Environments
and Networks for Research and Education
Customised for discipline- and project specific applications
eg, ESDN, Geochronology, Palaeontology, Oceanography, Groundwater
e-Science and e-Geoscience Layer
Data and
Information
Infrastructure
Data and
Knowledge
Portals
Visualisation
3-D models
Application
Portals
Base Computing Technologies
Networks,
Communications
High
performance
computing
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High Volume
Storage
Middleware
Architecture
The Trial Application... Mantle Convection
Components Required:
• Observational Databases
 access via SEE Grid Information
Services standards
• Earthbytes 4D Data Portal
 Allows users to track observations
through geological time and use
them as model boundary
conditions and/or to validate
process simulations.
• Mantle Convection
 solved via Snark on an HPC
• Modeling Archive
 stores the problem description so
they can be mined and audited
Trial application provided by:
•D. Müller (Univ. of Sydney)
•L. Moresi (Monash Univ./MC2/VPAC)
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The Trial Application… Service Interactions
User
Mantle Convection Application
Login
Edit Problem
Local
Run
Job
Archive
Description
Repository
Simulation
Monitor
Search
WS-Security, SAML, Shibboleth…
Common
Gridsphere,
Component
JSR 168 Portlets…
Authorisation,
Authentication
& Audit
Service
Registry
Resource
Registry
Job
Data
Globus,
WS-RF…
ebRIM,Management
WSDL, UDDI… Management
Portal
Portal
ebRIM, OGC Catalog Service…
Results
Archive
SRB, ebRIM…
Snark Profile, GPML, XMML…
Job
OGC WFS, XMML,Management
Service Profiles…
Service
Observational
Databases
EarthBytes Profile, GPML, XMML…
Geology
Rock Prop.
W.A
W.A
Geology
Rock Prop.
S.A
N.S.W
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EarthBytes
Service
Snark
Service
HPC
Repository
Summary
• The APAC Grid Geosciences project seeks
 …to identify and establish the geoscience community specific
interoperability “standards” for the APAC Grid network
 …to demonstrate their use in supporting collaborative research
between distributed researchers in different organisations
 …to enable Industry, Government and Academia to construct
networks of service interactions (for decision support) and utilise the
resources of the (APAC) Grid
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CSIRO Exploration and Mining
IVEC
Name
Robert Woodcock
Name
Ryan Fraser
Title
Projects Manager
Title
Software Engineer
Phone
+61 8 6436 8780
Phone
+61 8 6436 6800
Email
[email protected]
Email
[email protected]
Web
www.seegrid.csiro.au
Thank You
Contact CSIRO
Phone
1300 363 400
+61 3 9545 2176
Email
[email protected]
Web
www.csiro.au
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