Computational and Data Grids and High Performance Networking

Until Nov., 2003 I was the lead for two major Grid projects:
The Information Power Grid project (see  www.ipg.nasa.gov ) and the DOE Science Grid project (see  doesciencegrid.org)

Since Nov. 2003, I have been the Manager of DOE's Energy Science Network (www.es.net) , a National high performance network serving DOE and US University science.

On this page are collected links relevant to all three projects.


"The Advanced Networks and Services Underpinning Modern, Large-Scale Science: DOE's ESnet"

William E. Johnston, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Paper (PDF)

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This paper is adapted from a chapter in: L. Grandinetti (ed.), "Grid Computing and New Frontiers of High Performance Processing." Elsevier, 2005

Of historical interest - the view from 1998.

“High-Speed, Wide Area, Data Intensive Computing: A Ten Year Retrospective,” (PDF)

William E. Johnston.
Copyright IEEE

7th IEEE Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing July 29-31, 1998, Chicago, Ill.)
The Seventh International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing is a forum for presenting the latest research findings on the use of networked systems for high-performance computing. Submissions are encouraged on all aspects of high performance distributed computing, including hardware technologies, the middleware that ties distributed resources together into ``computational grids," and tools and languages that support application development.


"Semantic Services for Grid Based, Large-Scale Science"

William E. Johnston, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and NASA Ames Research Center

Paper (PDF)

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IEEE Intelligent Systems, Special Issue on e-Science,
January/February (Vol. 19, No. 1), pp. 34-39


"High Performance Network Planning Workshop"
"Data Intensive Applications" Panel

William E. Johnston, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (Panel Chair and author)

Report Homepage

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Reston, Virginia, USA, August 13-15, 2002.

"DOE Science Networking: Roadmap to 2008"
"Technology and Services" Panel

William E. Johnston, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (Panel Chair and author)

Report (PDF)

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Reston, Virginia, USA, June 3-6, 2003.

"Computing and Data Grids for Science and Engineering"

William E. Johnston, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and NASA Ames Research Center

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PDF (6 MBy)

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Invited keynote talk at the inagural meeting of the Japanese National Research Grid Initiative project.
Tokyo, Japan, 02 July 2003.

See "NaReGi (National Research Grid Initiative):2003~2007" - Kenichi Miura
www.gridforum.org/Meetings/ggf7/presentations/presentations/GGF7-talk.ppt


"Grid Infrastructure for Science"

William E. Johnston, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and NASA Ames Research Center

Power Point (7.8MBy)
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The companion to this talk is:

"Grid Services Overview"
Keith R. Jackson, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

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Versions of these talks were presented at:


"The Evolution of Cyberinfrastructure for Science: From IP to OIL"

William E. Johnston, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and NASA Ames Research Center

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"Implementing Production Grids for Science and Engineering"

William E. Johnston, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif. and NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. (USA)
John M. Brooke, Manchester Computing and Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester (UK)
Randy Butler, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA)
David Foster, CERN LHC Computing Grid Project, Geneva (Switzerland)
Mirco Mazzucato, INFN-Padova (Italy)

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The Grid, 2 ed., I. Foster and C. Kesselman, eds., To appear.


"A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE ON THE QUESTION OF WHAT IS A GRID?"

William E. Johnston

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Grid Today,
AUGUST 12, 2002: VOL. 1 NO. 9


"The Computing and Data Grid Approach: Infrastructure for Distributed Science Applications"

William E. Johnston, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and NASA Ames Research Center

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Computing and Informatics, To appear.


"Core Grid Functions: A Minimal Architecture for Grids"

William E. Johnston, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and NASA Ames Research Center

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"Thoughts on Grid Architecture"

William E. Johnston, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and NASA Ames Research Center

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"Implementing Production Grids"

William E. Johnston, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and NASA Ames Research Center,
the NASA IPG Engineering Team,
and the DOE Science Grid Team

Power Point
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two-up, PDF

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The DOE Science Grid

"NASA’s Information Power Grid: Application Experience in a Production Distributed Computing and Data Management Grid"

William E. Johnston, et al.
NASA Ames Research Center

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"Scaling Issues for Large-Scale Grids: Security and Directory Services"
William E. Johnston, Distributed Systems Department, NERSC Division and Michael Helm, DOE Energy Sciences Network, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
PDF - full page, screen resolution
PowerPoint

Presented at the DOE ESNet Steering Committee meeting Sept. 11, 2001, Santa Fe, NM.


"Computational and Data Grids in Large-Scale Science and Engineering"
William E. Johnston, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and NASA Ames Research Center
PDF

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Future Generation Computer Systems, To appear.
(This is a revised version of the paper below.)


"Role of Computational and Data Grids in Large-Scale Science and Engineering"
William E. Johnston, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and NASA Ames Research Center
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The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, Volume 15, Number 3, Fall, 2001


"Motivation, Requirements, and Issues for Large Scale Science Grids"
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Oct., 2000.


"Vision and Strategy for a DOE Science Grid"
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June, 2000.


"Vision for Collaboratories and the DOE Science Grid"
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June, 2000.


"Information Power Grid: Distributed High-Performance Computing and Large-Scale Data Management for Science and Engineering"

William E. Johnston, Dennis Gannon, and Bill Nitzberg
Numerical Aerospace Simulation Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA

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Presented at
COMPUTING IN HIGH ENERGY AND NUCLEAR PHYSICS
February 7 - February 11, 2000, Teatro Antonianum, Padova (Italy)
and at the NASA High Performance Computing and Communications Computational Aerosciences Workshop (CAS 2000), NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, February 15-17, 2000.


" The Evolution Towards Grids: Ten Years of High-Speed, Wide Area, Data Intensive Computing "
William E. Johnston
Information and Computing Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and NAS Division, NASA Ames Research Center

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Cluster Computing: the Journal of Networks, Software Tools and Applications, 2000.


" Real-Time Widely Distributed Instrumentation Systems "
William E. Johnston and Brian Tierney
Information and Computing Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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Chapter in The Grid: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure
Edited by Ian Foster and Carl Kesselman. Morgan Kaufmann, Pubs. August 1998.
Copyright Morgan Kauffman
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