In Production at pdc since September 2004, other centers to follow

Grid Computing @ PDC

• Olle Mulmo [e-mail]

Recent activities www.pdc.kth.se/grid/

• International

• Globus Alliance, GGF, NCSA collaboration

• Continental

• (European Grid Support Centre), EGEE, NextGrid
• NEG, (NorduGrid), Lyon collaboration

• National

• SweGrid, VR-IT
• NGSSC Grid Computing Course

• Local

• SICS collaboration
• Own research and development

Collaboration is key!

• The problem space is gigantic

• Funding is insufficient

• ”Grid ecosystem”

• Complementary building blocks
• Common design philosophy
• Common ”standards”

The SweGrid Accounting System (SGAS)

Presentations and Publications

• 6th NorduGrid Workshop, Lund, November 28, 2003

• In Proc. PARA’04, Copenhagen, June 20-23, 2004

• European Grid Technology Days 2004, Brussels, September 15-17, 2004

• Nordic Grid Neighborhood, Linköping, October 20, 2004

• In Proc. 2nd International Conference on Service Oriented Computing, New York City, November 15-19, 2004

• More at http://www.sgas.se

Status & Current Research Projects

• In Production at PDC since September 2004, other centers to follow

• Nordic: SweGrid, NDGF

• EU: EGEE, NextGrid

• International: Globus Alliance

• Component Contributions: AuthZ Framework, Message-level Security

PDC Grid Research Contributions

• Architecture and Protocols

• Active in Global Grid Forum

• Steering Group, OGSI-WG, Security Area

• EU Framework Programme 5, and 6 architecture work

• EDG, EGEE, NextGRID

• Implementation

• Contributors to international Open Source toolkits

• Globus, Axis, openssl, EDG, gLite, ARC, Heimdal

EGEE in one slide

• 70 institutions in 28 countries, federated in regional clusters

• 32MEUR for first 2 years (plans for another 2 years)

• Deployment and reengineering project

• 50% operations & support, 25% training & appl. support, 25% reengineering

Northern European ROC

• One of nine Regional Operating Centres

• Split responsibility between Sweden and NL

• Sweden: PDC, HPC2N, NSC

• SNIC ROC 3+3 FTE

• ROC Manager (Per Öster)
• Deployment team
• Operations team

• Geographical areas of responsibility

• SARA - Netherlands and Belgium
• SNIC - Estonia, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden

PDC’s role in the security area

• Security head (Åke Edlund)

• Overall responsibility, project management

• Security architect (Olle Mulmo)

• Trust models, technologies, middleware

• Other security experts at PDC

• M. Ahsant
• J. Danielsson
• R. Levitte
• T. Sandholm
• G. Volpato

NextGrid

• FP6 project started Sept 1st

• 50% academia, 50% industry

• Goal: To meet the needs of business users

• security and scalability
• economically viable business models
• legal and privacy issues

• Research and exploration project: A 5-10 year lookout

• www.nextgrid.org