GRID COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES

FOR PUBLIC SERVICES

International Forum

Electronicс Services - solutions and prospective

Chisinau, 11- 13 March 2009

by V. Sidorenco

Technical University of Moldova, RENAM

www.renam.md

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RENDERING OF ELECTRONIC SERVICES

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Back O

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ELECTRONIC SERVICES

E-services are interactive

Requests via web interface to back-office systems

Main parameter is QoS

Critical: back-office systems peak performance

Minimal delay of reply time

Broadband connectivity

The solution: cluster, grid, cloud computing

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GRID COMPUTING

Grid computing is a technology to build virtual supercomputers by utilizing/sharing unused resources on connected PC’s.

Network itself is a virtual supercomputer

This technology has achieved maturity recently and brought a new opportunity for developing countries to build their national computing powers.

Distributed Computing evolution

1985 1992 1996 2000 2006

Computing Ubiquity

DC Research

Distributed Batch QueuingNQS, DQS, Condor, … LSF Batch

Grid Research

Internet Grid Computing

JobSchedulerParallelAnalyzerMultiCluster

UNIX workstations & supercomputers

SMPs & UNIX workstations

Linux & Windows farms with commd. chips

2 Vaxen + Ethernet

System Arch Trend :

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Grid-aware operating systems:

XtreemOS

Microsoft Windows Azure

2008

1. Task request2. Task splitting into

jobs and jobs submission

3. Subresults collection4. Final result

assembling (aggregation)

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GRID COMPUTING PRINCIPLE

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HIGH RELIABILITY COMPUTING

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DATA GRIDS

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GRIDS FOR PUBLIC SERVICES

• The national computing power can be built based on emerging computing technology paradigm: the Grid computing.

• There will be many PC’s at the public access points and many servers of Public Internet Nodes. These computers are to be connected by Internet and the expected utilization rate is not high.

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GRIDS FOR PUBLIC SERVICES

• Therefore, these PC’s will provide a huge opportunity to build virtual supercomputers. These supercomputers can help to improve the content provision on the PIN itself, but can also help other

o social, o economic, o technical and scientific areas’ development.

• Once the powerful supercomputers can provide software services online, it can also provide cheap PC’s for the people in low income rural areas. This will help to bridge the digital divide.

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SEE-GRID-SCI: e-Infrastructure for regional e-science

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SEE-GRID-SCI Project Participants

Moldova

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SEE-GRID-SCI PROJECT PARTNERS

ContractorsGRNET GreeceCERN SwitzerlandSZTAKI Hungary IPP-BAS BulgariaICI RomaniaTUBITAK TurkeyASA/INIMA AlbaniaUoBL Bosnia-HerzegovinaUKIM FYR of MacedoniaUOB SerbiaUoM MontenegroRENAM MoldovaRBI CroatiaIIAP-NAS-RA Armenia - newGRENA Georgia - new

Third Parties30 universities / research centres

Start date: 01/05/2008Duration: 24 monthsTotal Budget: 2,499,969 Є

GRNET.gr

SEE-GRID-SCI partnership

MTA SZTAKI .hu

IPP .bg

ICI .ro

TUBITAK.tr

UPT.al

UKIM.mk

UoBL.ba

RBI.hr

UOB.rs

RENAM.md

UOM.me

GRENA.ge

IIAP-NAS-RA.am

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APPLICATIONS AREA

The project is focusing on forming regional research teams that are engaged in elaboration large scale applications of common regional interest:

Seismology VOMeteorology VOEnvironmental VO

The work programme envisages analysis of the mentioned VOs requirements, their gridification and run-time support of the target applications. These three strategic Virtual Organisations will bring together users across the region within a common research space, enabling them to share data, applications, tools and results of their work.

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New communities integration in the regional eInfastructure

GRNET.gr

MTA SZTAKI .hu

IPP .bg

ICI .ro

TUBITAK.tr

UPT.al

UKIM.mk

UoBL.ba

RBI.hr

UOB.rs

RENAM.md

UOM.me

GRENA.ge

IIAP-NAS-RA.am

SEEFIRE + Geant Support

SEE-GRID

SeismologyVO

MeteorologyVO

EnvironmentalVO

SeismologyVO

MeteorologyVO

EnvironmentalVO

SEE-SCI

e-Infrastru

cture

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SEE-GRID infrastructure nodes

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MD-Grid Consortium in SEE-GRID-SCI

Moldova participates in the project as MD-Grid JRU Consortium with RENAM as Contractor and following third parties - JRU members:FRT TUM - Faculty of Radioelectronics and Telecommunications of Technical University of MoldovaIGS ASM - Institute of Geology and Seismology of Academy of Sciences of MoldovaSHMS - State Hydrometeorological Service of Moldova

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Tasks distribution among participants from Moldova (1)

RENAM is responsible for NGI development and its sustainable operation, extension of the National Grid infrastructure by installation of new clusters and their inclusion into common Grid segment of Moldova and into the SEE-GRID infrastructure.

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Tasks distribution among participants from Moldova (2)

FRT TUM is hosting grid-clusters, assists in gridification of applications and cooperates with a significant number of universities and centers from different countries, participate in SEE-GRID-SCI project as third party behind RENAM Association.

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First GRID cluster in Moldovamounted at FRT TUM in April 2006

GRNET.gr

South East EuropeGrid

Infrastructure

MTA SZTAKI.hu

IPP.bg

ICI.ro

TUBITAK.tr

ASA.al

UKIM.mk

BIHARNET.ba

RBI.hr

Pan-EuropeanProduction-level

Grid Infrastucture

UOB.cs

RENAM.md

UOM

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Tasks distribution among participants from Moldova (3)

IGS ASM provides contributions on real-time monitoring of earthquakes and development of regional monitoring capacities, implementation of real-time seismic data processing and real-time data exchange at regional and international level.

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Tasks distribution among participants from Moldova (4)

SHMS contributes to the environmental VO by testing and deployment of GreenView application and Meteo VO applications. The service infrastructure and specialists are involved into MD-Grid JRU scientific research and production grid activities in requirements definition, input data provision and interpretation of results on national, regional and international levels.

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Distribution of applications according to VOs

Meteorology VO: 2

Seismology VO: 6

Environmental VO: 6

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Seismology VO

Following applications were identified for the seismology VO:

Seismic Risk Assessment Massive Digital Seismological Signal Processing with the Wavelet

Analysis Numerical Modelling of Mantle Convection

Seismology virtual organization involves researchers from FYR of Macedonia, Moldova, Bulgaria, Albania, Hungary, Greece and Turkey. The partnership is coordinated by TUBITAK (Turkey).

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Cumulative Seismic Activity in Romania and Moldova

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GRNET.gr

SEE-GRID eInfrastructure

MTA SZTAKI .hu

IPP .bg

ICI .ro

TUBITAK.tr

UPT.al

UKIM.mk

UoBL.ba

RBI.hr

UOB.rs

RENAM.md

UOM.me

GRENA.ge

IIAP-NAS-RA.am

Seismology VO relationship with other initiatives

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Meteorology VO

Meteorology VO involves researchers from Greece, Serbia, Moldova, Montenegro, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The partnership is coordinated by the National Observatory of Athens (NOA).There are two sets of applications :

Regional scale Multi-model, Multi-analysis ensemble forecasting system. Study of the interaction of airflow with complex terrain.

The results produced within the meteorology VO will allow the meteorological entities participating in the project to assess the probability of a particular weather event to occur and to provide this information to the authorities, the general public, etc, in order to help them to make the necessary decisions based on this probabilistic information. Special focus will be given at the SEE-wide scale where detailed forecasts are necessary for the protection of life and property.

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Environmental VO

Environmental VO bring together scientists and research institutions, working in the domains of Environmental modelling, Geomagnetism, Environmental security, Environment evolution supervision and impact of climate-related events in the SEE region. Environmental VO covers the following main applications set:

Modelling System for Emergency Response to the Release of Harmful Substances in the Atmosphere (MSERRHSA)

Monte Carlo Sensitivity Analysis for Environmental Systems (MCSAES) Multi-scale Atmospheric Composition Modelling (MSACM) Regional Modelling of the Geomagnetism Environment oriented Satellite Data Processing (ESIP) - GreenView

RENAM, FRT TUM and State Hydrometeorological Service of Moldova supports pilot application for the ESIP/GreenView development, platform testing and deployment.

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Total (dry+wet) oxidized nitrogen deposition [mg/m2], 4 scenarios

Grid-mode tests: CMAQ CB-4 Mechanism Response to Reduction of Main Ozone Precursors Emissions in the Balkans

a. Basic scenario b. 50% reduction c. 50% reduction d. 50% NOx and of NOx of VOC 50% VOC

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French wine makers look to the skies for help

http://in.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idINL871922520080826?sp=true

French vinters are turning to outer space to outwit foreign rivals, with new satellite technology giving an overview of vineyards' physical characteristics and potential.

The satellite images in the near-infrared produced by French wine consultancy body ICV and geo-information provider Infoterra, give growers information on water stress and grape composition amongst others, allowing better management of the vinification.

Student’s Microsatellite of Moldova Project

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WWW.GRID.MD

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CONCLUSIONS

Grid computing technologies and infrastructure are capable to significantly improve basic parameters of the Quality of Public Electronic Services

SEE-GRID-SCI project helps to deploy a sustainable Grid infrastructure, which, coupled with human networking activities is of particular societal, educational, and political importance to the SEE region, including Moldova.

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Thank you!

Questions?Questions?

svv@renam.mdRENAM AssociationWWW.RENAM.MD

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Thank you!