Distributed EU-wide Distributed EU-wide Supercomputing Facility as a New Supercomputing Facility as a New Research Infrastructure for EuropeResearch Infrastructure for Europe

Gabrielle AllenAlbert-Einstein-Institut, Germany

Jarek NabrzyskiPSNC, Poland (naber@man.poznan.pl)

Ed SeidelAlbert-Einstein-Institut, Germany

Maciej StroińskiPSNC, Poland

Computational Needs not MetComputational Needs not Met

Great scientific and engineering talent in EU Many EU programs now beginning, with training

mission, but: No EU-wide facilities No Collaborative Infrastructure No HPC Training (except for do-it-yourself) Rely on US connections

What do others do?? In many cases, they do toy problems EU science and engineering fall behind Germany, UK, France are slight exceptions, but no large

scale Many countries (mainly NAS, but not only) simply cut off

from modern science

Discovery Channel Movie (June 3, Discovery Channel Movie (June 3, 2002!)2002!)::

•3000 frames of Volume Rendering of TB 3000 frames of Volume Rendering of TB of simulation dataof simulation data•EU Project simulation had to be EU Project simulation had to be computed and visualized in US!computed and visualized in US!

How did we do this EU How did we do this EU Calculation?Calculation?

Used largest Academic machines for simulation LBL/NERSC (US DOE) NCSA Platinum cluster High Speed backbone for data transfer

Flew students from Berlin to Illinois 3 weeks analysis, visualization, using special

facilities unavailable to our project in EU Brought 1TB data back on 6 hard disks

purchased in US

US ProgramsUS ProgramsAvailable to academic researchers from every US state, Available to academic researchers from every US state,

occasionally to EUoccasionally to EU

NSF PACI Program Started 20 years ago 5 National Centers, now 3, combining to form

TeraGrid US DOE

LBL/NERSC, LANL, etc. NASA

Goddard, JPL, Ames, etc. US far ahead of EU in this regard

But even there, widely recognized that facilities are woefully too small for today/tomorrow’s science/engineering

Other effortsOther efforts

Not a unique idea! ARCADE, CERN, ENACTS, GRIDSTART, other

projects, many ideas presented today Requirements

Must be application oriented Build both Infrastructure and Expertise Centers Leverage Grid projects, CS efforts, National centers,

networks, etc Work united with other project organizers, Long term funding process is required!

Our Vision for the EU FacilityOur Vision for the EU Facility

Science and Engineering Drivers Expertise Centers (CFD, Astrophysics, Computational

Biology, Aerospace, etc.) Sheparding/building communities across Europe

Present science/engineering calculations require TB/Tflop/sec, but just scratching the surface! Need much more!

Enabling new science Computational Science Drivers

Need Grid Software infrastructure Cycles, networks, visualization centers

Partnerships with existing centers, networks, etc

Vision of the FacilityVision of the Facility Distributed Nature

Pushes networking technologies through apps Works to integrate European efforts, scientific, cultural,

etc. East and West at 100Gb/sec! Multi-lambda backplane (GEANT?)

Unique EU facility in the HPC world Leapfrog Teragrid with Big Machine, but also Draw on unique, more diverse EU research strengths

Beginning of a Worldwide Grid Effort Unique challenges to integrating diverse EU grids Already strong support from US, NSF, DOE principals

Scientists/engineers know they have expanding facility over coming decades (can affect their projects)

Our VisionOur Vision

Major Center

Major Center

Satellite

Satellite

Satellite

Satellite

Satellite

Satellite

Worldwide GridWorldwide Grid

Main BH Simulation starts here

All analysis tasks spawned automatically to free resources worldwide

User only has to invoke “Spawner” thorn…