accidentally using grids
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Accidentally Using Grid Services
Charlie CatlettCIO, Argonne National Laboratory
Senior Fellow, Computational Institute of the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory
HPC2008 Cetraro, ItalyJuly 2, 2008
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To Rule the Cloud
“Captain, he is intelligent, but not experienced. His pattern indicates two dimensional thinking.”
“Helm, Z minus 10,000 meters; stand by photon torpedoes.”
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Any of us... A reasonably well-respected institution...
Perspectives from 2001
(GGF-1, Amsterdam)
Well... sort of...
“Objects are further away than
they appear”
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Several Key Ideas
• Layered Architecture
• (you can innovate underneath)
• Open Standards - Generative approach
• (you can innovate on top)
• Clear definition of “user”
• Simplicity
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Layers: “Leave the Driving to Us”
TCP/IP
media
App
IP
media
TCP
App
IP
media
TCP
Libraries
App
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Open Standards; Simplicity (or not)
Web Services
App
Internet
HTTP
Mash-Ups
S3
OpenID
OAUTH
Directory Svcs
OGSA
Co-Scheduling
Remote Job Sub
[email protected] July 2008 HPC2008 - Cetraro, ItalySource: Kathy Sierra
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Using Grids; Building Grids
Libraries
App
Resources
GRIDS
User Difficulty
Build (and Manage) Difficulty
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Approaches, Trade-OffsUser Pain
Provider Pain
Heterogeneous
Homogeneousor
Single-System
Single Provider
Collab Providers
Competing Providers
HPC App
Workflow
HTC
Tight-Coupling
Clouds
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Target audience - end user or repackager (portals and science gateways... or Smugmug, Rightscale, etc.)
Other dimensions...
Providing just run-time vs. Shell, Code Development
How much you care about accounting, strong auth*
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User and Provider Difficulty Ratings
Source: Kathy Sierra