NorduGrid and Advanced Resource Connector课件.ppt

ARC Grid A Grid based on ARC middleware Driven (so far) mostly by the needs of the LHC experiments One of the world’s largest production-level Grids Close cooperation with other Grid projects: EU DataGrid (2001-2003) SWEGRID, DCGC … NDGF LCG EGEE Assistance in Grid deployment outside the Nordic area 精品文档 Challenges 精品文档 Grid computing: the challenges Network connectivity is NOT a problem (normally) Bandwidth is yet to be saturated Storage/data management servers are the bottlenecks Computing and storage resources Different ownership Often incompatible purposes, practical and political Often incompatible allocation and usage policies Often competition/distrust within a single country, let alone different ones Different technical characteristics Whole spectrum of operating systems (mostly GNU/Linux though) Whole range of hardware (CPUs from Pentium II to Opteron, RAM from 128MB to 2GB, disk space from 1GB to 2TB, network connectivity from 10Mbps to Gbps etc) Big variety of cluster configurations (PBS in many flavours, SGE, Condor, standalone workstations) 精品文档 Grid challenges: continued Users and applications Different users’ background Ranging from a novice user to a sysadmin Everybody has a preferred OS (many prefer MS Windows) Most are reluctant to learn new ways Very different applications Whole spectrum from data-intensive to CPU-intensive tasks Very different requirements on CPU, memory, disk and network consumption Each application needs a certain runtime environment, which is sometimes an obscure application-specific piece of software, and sometimes – a licensed s/w. Users and resources are not in the same administrative domain 精品文档 Middleware RD versus production facility deployment and support Technical solutions for distributedcomputing and data management are a-plenty; however, political and sociological obstacles are even more NorduGrid focuses on providing technical solutions for Grid computing, trying to leave “testbed” management and politics to o