Sun's Vision and Strategy for Grid Computing

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1 Sun's Vision and Strategy for Grid Computing John Barr Grid Computing Specialist

2 Sun's Vision and Strategy for Grid Computing What does Grid mean? Sun in escience & Grid Standards Sun's Grid Products & Services Example Grid Implementations Customers and Success Stories Grid and N1

3 What does Grid mean? Free PC cycles accessed over the Internet Connecting Crays together...provide pervasive, dependable, consistent and inexpensive access to advanced computational capabilities, databases, sensors and people DTI escience web page

4 What does Grid mean? Cluster Grid Enterprise Grid Global Grid

5 Key Issues Cluster Grid - resource management Enterprise Grid - policies Global Grid - security

6 UK escience Programme National Centre Sun DCG Project Regional Centres LeSC, Imperial EPIC: Portals Computational Markets Oxford & OCCF Cambridge

7 Sun and Grid Standards 1 st sponsor of Global Grid Forum Member of GGF External Advisory Committee JINI working group DRMAA working group OGSA / OGSI

Sun Grid Solution Stack Web Interface Sun Grid Portal Cluster Grid Infrastructure Sun HPC Cluster Tools Forte tools Enterprise Grid Infrastructure GridXpert GridServer Global Grid Infrastructure

8 Sun Grid Solution Stack Web Interface Sun Grid Portal Cluster Grid Infrastructure Sun HPC Cluster Tools Forte tools Enterprise Grid Infrastructure GridXpert GridServer Global Grid Infrastructure Globus Avaki Distributed Resource Management Sun Grid Engine Family Solaris Operating Environment & Linux Sun Enterprise and Sun Fire Servers Sun StorEdge Systems and HPC SAN Thin and Bladed Servers SPARC & Intel

Globus Avaki Distributed Resource Management Sun Grid Engine Family Solaris Operating Environment &

10 Sun ONE Grid Engine

11 Sun's Blade Program is more than just Blades System Management Blade and Chassis Setup Service Provisioning and Deployment System Component monitoring integration Blade Systems SPARC/Solaris Blade Servers X86 Solaris and Linux Blade Servers Special purpose Load-balancing & SSL Proxy blades New Sun NAS Storage System Up to 840GB of raw storage in 2U Distributed Cache Accelerator for 10X faster response times Blade Server Solutions Community Document, test, publish and demo Solution Sets from best-of-breed partners Sun PS System Management Pack for Blade Servers Iforce Centres will feature Solution Sets in U.S., Europe and Asia

Storage System Up to 840GB of raw storage in 2U Distributed Cache Accelerator for 10X faster response times Blade Server Solutions Community Document, test,

12 Blade Server Architecture 3U 16 slots (1 slot per 1P server) 3 RU high (5.25 ) Fits in standard 19 rack 24 deep chassis (26.5 with handles) Front-to-Back cooling UltraSPARC IIi 650MHz 1P x86 1.4GHz Dual UltraSPARC IIi 900MHz 2P x86 min 2.0GHz (wide) Load Balancing Blade SSL Blade

5 with handles) Front-to-Back cooling UltraSPARC IIi 650MHz 1P x86 1.

13 Grid Services Grid Workshop Grid Assessment Service systems, network, storage, applications Grid Architecture Service Grid Pilot Projects Implementation Services Sun Grid Software Stack Portal SGE EE (HA, Globus integration) Pre-configured Cluster-Grids Application Performance Tuning

Implementation Services Sun Grid Software Stack Portal SGE EE (HA,

14 Example Grid Architecture Portal Access to Applications SGE

15 Evenings and Weekends Portal Access to Applications SGE

16 Utilise Spare Data Centre Cycles Portal Access to Applications SRM/SGE Integration SGE

17 Customer Access to Applications Portal Access to Applications Internet Access SGE

18 Access External Resources Portal Access to Applications Internet Access to ASP SGE

19 Benefits of Grid Architecture Flexibility Maximise use of resources save money Future proof Cluster Grid is Enterprise Grid and Global Grid enabled

20 Sun Grid Customers

21 Oxford GlycoSciences Life Science (BLAST) Use SGE to exploit spare data centre cycles Job scheduled for 3 months completed in one week

22 3 sites 4 major systems Portal access SGE EE Globus Production Global Grid DAME (Rolls Royce)

23 WRG Hardware Maxima Maxima Snowdon Pascali Titania

24 Grid and N1 Common goals Reduce cost and complexity maximising ROI increasing utilisation shorten time-to-market Virtualisation Automation N1's focus is management Grid's focus is job execution SGE / N1 PS integration

25 Sun's Vision and Strategy for Grid Computing Vision leverage grid technology to deliver: compute capability as a utility flexibility improved ROI shorter time to solution Strategy complete solutions: hw, sw & services open standards, open source

26 Where to get more information Grid overview, products, success stories Grid Engine detail Grid Engine Open Source project Grid Solutions Grid customers identified in this presentation N1 information

27 John Barr Grid Computing Specialist

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