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Grids, Clouds and Computation:Getting to Ground Truth under Mostly Cloudy Conditions

Presented by: Steven Armentrout, PhD President & CEO


History: Parabon Computation

Founded in 1999

Launched the first COTS grid platform –

Frontier®

Operate the only brokered computation service

Customers in the government, academic,

non-profit, and private sectors

Sponsor of Compute Against Cancer®

Privately-held small business based in Reston,

VA


Overview

Motivation and History

How Parabon does ―cloud‖

Applications

Considerations


Is Cloud Computing Different than Grid Computing?



No


Cloud Computing’s Pedigree

Distributed (4 - 11)

Utility (3 - 7)

Internet (3 - 8)

Peer-to-Peer (3 - 3) “P2P”

Cluster (2 - 7)

Grid (1 - 4)

Cloud (1 - 5)

Net (1 - 3)<- Prediction

(Syllables - Letters)



Distinguish Requirements and Implementation

Key User Requirement:

Resources delivered as on-demand utility

services Applications

Information

Computation

Implementation:

Driven by other requirements Security

Economics

Technical constraints


Computation as a Utility

“If computers of the kind I have

advocated become the computers of

the future, then computing may

someday be organized

as a public utility just as the telephone

system is a public utility... The computer

utility could become the basis of a new

and important industry.”

—John McCarthy, MIT Centennial in 1961


The Big Switch

Recall the world before the Internet

Imagine the world before electricity

―The Big Switch,‖ by Nicholas Carr (Jan 2008) draws strong parallels between the maturation of the electricity and computing industries

The implications for IT are profound


The Big Switch

IT is racing toward a new paradigm: Computing delivered as an on-demand service

The transformation is like that of the electric industry during the 20th century

It’s the biggest IT transformation sincethe introduction of the World Wide Web


Within the DoD, why now?

Consumer market successes Awareness

Unprecedented capability Potential

Technical advances Feasibility

Virtualization

Security

Economic pressures Necessity

Adoption by adversaries Competition

―Retirement of the Boomers‖ Openness to

change


Frontier Online Service



1. Security



4. Scalability



5. Usability


Frontier Enterprise


Frontier Enterprise

6. Unobtrusiveness


Frontier Enterprise

7. Ease of Admin.


1. Remote or Local

Security

Cost

Data

Considerations: Locality


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Only file headers need to be transmitted

so Locksmith is suitable for a public grid.

DNA Frontier

NIJNATIONAL

INSTITUTE

of JUSTICE

An online decryption service to serve law enforcement developed with AccessData®

Locksmith Decryption Service


Who are the end users?

Unix wizards

Support staff

Warfighter

Considerations: User Interface


Frontier Dashboard


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Watchman™




Watchman™


What are the computational demands

of the applications?

Web apps load = transactions / s

Grid apps load = calculations / s

Data apps load = throughput / s

Considerations: Types of Applications


Automated design of spacecraft antenna

NASA OriginThe Ultimate Source

from Which to Evolve TM

Non-branching:

ST5-4W-03

Branching:

ST5-3-10


NASA OriginThe Ultimate Source

from Which to Evolve TM

Automated design of spacecraft antenna

Evolved antenna flew

on three nanosats (20‖)

for ST5 mission


InSēquio™

Synthetic DNA can be used as a nanoscale

construction material and woven into designs

See CAD View of DNA




InSēquio™

Using its complementary binding properties, DNA can

be ―programmed‖ to self-assemble into target designs

9 strands9 strands9 strands9 DNA strands

1 DNA motif 4x4 grid 8x8 grid


100 nm

The limit of microtechnology:

1 micron box shown in blue

on a smooth muscle cell


100 nm

The limit of microtechnology:

1 micron box shown in blue

on a smooth muscle cell



��80 nm

Using the binding properties of DNA,

inSēquio enables molecules to be

engineered at the nanoscale.


InSēquio™

The resultant structures have the important property

of being uniquely addressable.


Applicable Domains for the D0D

Assembly planning

Biodefense

Bioinformatics

Biometrics (multi-modal)

Combinatorial opt.

Data mining

Decision support

Decryption

Drug discovery

Environmental modeling

Evolutionary computation

Financial forecasting

Genomic sequencing

Logistical planning

Machine learning

Modeling and

simulation

Molecular modeling

Monte Carlo simulations

Nanotechnology

Operations research

Optimization

Parameter studies

Photorealistic Rendering

Proteomics

Psychometric profiling

Robotic motion planning

Search

Statistical analysis

Steganography

Weather Prediction

Does your organization do any of the following?


Considerations: Feature Set

Business reporting capabilities

Ease of administration

Fault tolerance (―How many 9s?‖)


Considerations: Cost of Dedicated Hardware

100 node (200-400 core) cluster ~ $200,000 /

yr(includes cost of power, space, cooling, labor &

support)

Frontier Online

$0.10 - $0.30 / cap-hour (Ch)

100 C @ $0.15 / Ch for 10 hrs = $150

Frontier Enterprise

A 10 : 1 price-performance advantage

over comparably powered hardware


The DoD has ~5M desktops

At 20% utilization, rougly $10B of capacity

is wasted annually

At the same time, there are few examples

of high-value SOA mashups that demonstrate

the value of this latent capacity

This ―Mashup Gap‖ has resulted in

requirements

that may not live up to the demands of the

applications that will ultimately create the most

value for the DoD

Final Considerations


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