Presentation on Colorado Grid Computing Initiative directed at sharing computational resources across Colorado

1. November 5, 2004 ISTec IAC Meeting
COGrid
Colorado Grid Computing Initiative
(COGrid)
Robert Marcus, Director

2. November 5, 2004 ISTec IAC Meeting
Colorado Grid: Vision and Status

3. November 5, 2004 ISTec IAC Meeting
COGrid: Colorado Government Objectives
Creating A Computing Infrastructure For The
Future of Colorado
Maintain and enhance Colorado’s ability to attract and
retain high-technology industry
Enhance Colorado’s education system
Knowledge and experience in high-performance computing
Keep and attract the best minds
Participate in national/international initiatives
Continue to improve our ability to govern through
development and implementation of advanced
modelling capabilities

4. November 5, 2004 ISTec IAC Meeting
Other State Grid Initiatives
North Carolina (MCNC)
BioGrid
Start-Up Grid
Hosted a “Grid Services Providers” Workshop
NC Research and Education Network
Texas HPC Across Texas
Texas Internet Grid for Research and Education
Texas Advanced Computing Center
West Virginia High Tech Consortium
Global Grid Exchange on all government computers
Ohio Supercomputer Center
Cluster Ohio

5. November 5, 2004 ISTec IAC Meeting
I2,NLR
Colorado HPC Resources
FC
Hub
Boulder
Hub
CSprings
Hub
Pueblo
Hub
Denver
Hub
(FRGP)
CSU
USDA
CDC
40 Gb/s backplane
Backplane router
Compute server
NCAR
Data storage
Storage server
Visualization server
UC-Boulder NREL
30 Gb/s backplane
State of CO
(MNT)
AFACAD
CSU-
Pueblo
UC-CS
…

6. November 5, 2004 ISTec IAC Meeting
COGrid Vision of “End-to-End Grid” Computing
Instruments
Data
Visualization
Large-Scale
Databases
Small
Computers
HPC
Mobile
Computing
Sensors

7. November 5, 2004 ISTec IAC Meeting
Potential COGrid Users
Academic Researchers
High Technology Industry and Start-ups
Governmental Agencies
Colorado Enterprises
First Responders
Homeland Defense
Higher Education
Citizens

8. November 5, 2004 ISTec IAC Meeting
COGrid Installations at Colorado State
Web Site is http://cogrid.colostate.edu/
The ISTec/COGrid installation consists of the following:
A SunFire 6800 containing 24 processor and 90 GB RAM configured
as a single domain
A SunFire 6800 containing 24 processors and 90 GB RAM configured
into 3 domains with 12, 4 and 8 processors respectively
Hitachi 9500V 2 TB Storage Area Network
Oracle 10g Grid
Engineering Grid computers consists of the following:
12 SUN Blade 2000 workstations with 2GB of RAM and running
Solaris 9.
1 HP Visualize J5000 with 2 processors , 512 MB RAM and running
HP-UX 11.00
A Grid Portal providing access to these resources
A Linux Hub mainframe running multiple Linux servers

9. November 5, 2004 ISTec IAC Meeting
COGrid Applications
Tracking livestock to determine past history and
contacts (initial simulation under development)
Teaching Grid-based research courses (underway)
Collaborative authoring environments (an initial
installation at CSU is underway)
CapWIN port for homeland security applications
Computing on Demand demonstration
Modeling of both agricultural and human-borne
diseases (e.g. diabetes treatment on a PC Grid)

10. November 5, 2004 ISTec IAC Meeting
Spring ISTec/CIT Workshop Plans
Form an interim Strategic Planning Committee to help
organize spring workshop
Hold a Spring ISTec/CIT Workshop to set up a
permanent infrastructure
Opportunity to host a Workshop for other States and
public Grid Server Providers

11. November 5, 2004 ISTec IAC Meeting
Feedback from IAC to COGrid
What do the IAC companies want from CoGrid?
How can they make use of it?
What facilities should CoGrid provide to be of
most use to our IAC companies?