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May 23, 2008
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The Swiss Multi-Science Computing Grid
AAA/SWITCH Project
Wibke SudholtUniversity of [email protected]
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Project Description
Swiss Multi-Science Computing Grid (SMSCG) project• Proposed to / funded by the AAA/SWITCH program (matching funds)• Will apply to become SwiNG Working Group
Primary goal• Providing of computational resources to solve scientific computational problems• Installation, commissioning, and operation of a computational grid across several
institutions of the Swiss higher education sector• Active involvement of applications from different scientific domains
Key properties• Be multi-disciplinary and user-driven• Include support for users and applications• Foster cooperation between IT infrastructure providers and computational scientists• Employ simple, extensible, and flexible grid middleware• Have integrated user management• Specially focus on security• Be policy-based and sustainable
Grid middleware• NorduGrid ARC chosen as initial middleware• Interoperation with a second middleware stack will be investigated
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Project Participants
ETH Zurich – Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS): pendingHaute Ecole Spécialisée de Suisse Occidentale (HES-SO) – Grid and Ubiquitous Computing Group: approvedUniversity of Geneva – Proteome Informatics Group (PIG): non-fundedSwiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) – Vital-IT: non-fundedSWITCH: approvedUniversità della Svizzera Italiana (USI) – Faculty of Informatics: pendingUniversity of Bern (UniBE)
• Laboratory for High Energy Physics (LHEP): approved• Computer Services Department: approved
University of Zurich (UZH)• OCI Computational Chemistry & Grid Computing / Grid Computing Competence
Center (GC3): approved• IT Services: pending• Computational Structural Biology: non-funded
Eidgenössische Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft (WSL): pending
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Project Details
Responsible Institution• University of Zurich
Project management• Leader: Wibke Sudholt, UZH
• Deputy: Placi Flury, SWITCH
Runtime• Begin of project: 1.5.2008,
1.8.2008, 1.10.2008, or 1.1.2009 (depending on institution)
• End of project: 31.3.2010
Total budget (contributed and requested)
• Manpower: 121.9 PM
• Hardware: 8 resources
• Funding: ca. CHF 1.6 Mio
Expected number of users• Initially: 15-20
• For mature infrastructure: 50-100
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Infrastructure Architecture
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Software Architecture
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Work Packages
WP1: Initial installation and operation
WP2: Evaluation of additional middleware components
WP3: Software repository and validation
WP4: Monitoring and accounting
WP5: Security and policies
WP6: Support
WP7: Applications• WP7a: General tasks and plain applications
• WP7b: Alpine3D and POP-C++
• WP7c: swissPIT and JOpera
WP8: Project management
