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Condor services for the Global Grid:interoperability between Condor and OGSA
In order for existing grid middleware to remain viable it is important to investigate their potentialfor integration with emerging grid standards and architectural schemes. The Open Grid ServicesArchitecture (OGSA), developed by the Globus Alliance and based on standard XML-based webservices technology, was the first attempt to identify the architectural components required tomigrate towards standardized global grid service delivery. This paper presents an investigation intothe integration of Condor, a widely adopted and sophisticated high-throughput computing softwarepackage, and OGSA; with the aim of bringing Condor in line with advances in Grid computing andprovide the Grid community with a mature suite of high-throughput computing job and resourcemanagement services. This report identifies mappings between elements of the OGSA and Condorinfrastructures, potential areas of conflict, and defines a set of complementary architectural optionsby which individual Condor services can be exposed as OGSA Grid services, in order to achieve aseamless integration of Condor resources in a standardized grid environment
The CMS Integration Grid Testbed
The CMS Integration Grid Testbed (IGT) comprises USCMS Tier-1 and Tier-2
hardware at the following sites: the California Institute of Technology, Fermi
National Accelerator Laboratory, the University of California at San Diego, and
the University of Florida at Gainesville. The IGT runs jobs using the Globus
Toolkit with a DAGMan and Condor-G front end. The virtual organization (VO) is
managed using VO management scripts from the European Data Grid (EDG). Gridwide
monitoring is accomplished using local tools such as Ganglia interfaced into
the Globus Metadata Directory Service (MDS) and the agent based Mona Lisa.
Domain specific software is packaged and installed using the Distrib ution
After Release (DAR) tool of CMS, while middleware under the auspices of the
Virtual Data Toolkit (VDT) is distributed using Pacman. During a continuo us
two month span in Fall of 2002, over 1 million official CMS GEANT based Monte
Carlo events were generated and returned to CERN for analysis while being
demonstrated at SC2002. In this paper, we describe the process that led to one
of the world's first continuously available, functioning grids.Comment: CHEP 2003 MOCT01
Grid Integration of Robotic Telescopes
Robotic telescopes and grid technology have made significant progress in
recent years. Both innovations offer important advantages over conventional
technologies, particularly in combination with one another. Here, we introduce
robotic telescopes used by the Astrophysical Institute Potsdam as ideal
instruments for building a robotic telescope network. We also discuss the grid
architecture and protocols facilitating the network integration that is being
developed by the German AstroGrid-D project. Finally, we present three user
interfaces employed for this purpose.Comment: 4 pages, 5 Figures, refereed proceedings of "Hot-wiring the Transient
Universe", June 2007 (Tucson); version 2 including latex geometry package as
recommended by arXiv and minor changes as requested by AN except removal of
two figure
Buildings-to-Grid Integration Framework
This paper puts forth a mathematical framework for Buildings-to-Grid (BtG)
integration in smart cities. The framework explicitly couples power grid and
building's control actions and operational decisions, and can be utilized by
buildings and power grids operators to simultaneously optimize their
performance. Simplified dynamics of building clusters and building-integrated
power networks with algebraic equations are presented---both operating at
different time-scales. A model predictive control (MPC)-based algorithm that
formulates the BtG integration and accounts for the time-scale discrepancy is
developed. The formulation captures dynamic and algebraic power flow
constraints of power networks and is shown to be numerically advantageous. The
paper analytically establishes that the BtG integration yields a reduced total
system cost in comparison with decoupled designs where grid and building
operators determine their controls separately. The developed framework is
tested on standard power networks that include thousands of buildings modeled
using industrial data. Case studies demonstrate building energy savings and
significant frequency regulation, while these findings carry over in network
simulations with nonlinear power flows and mismatch in building model
parameters. Finally, simulations indicate that the performance does not
significantly worsen when there is uncertainty in the forecasted weather and
base load conditions.Comment: In Press, IEEE Transactions on Smart Gri
Data access and integration in the ISPIDER proteomics grid
Grid computing has great potential for supporting the integration of complex, fast changing biological data repositories to enable distributed data analysis. One scenario where Grid computing has such potential is provided by proteomics resources which are rapidly being developed with the emergence of affordable, reliable methods to study the proteome. The protein identifications arising from these methods derive from multiple repositories which need to be integrated to enable uniform access to them. A number of technologies exist which enable these resources to be accessed in a Grid environment, but the independent development of these resources means that significant data integration challenges, such as heterogeneity and schema evolution, have to be met. This paper presents an architecture which supports the combined use of Grid data access (OGSA-DAI), Grid distributed querying (OGSA-DQP) and data integration (AutoMed) software tools to support distributed data analysis. We discuss the application of this architecture for the integration of several autonomous proteomics data resources
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ASEAN grid flexibility: Preparedness for grid integration of renewable energy
In 2015, ASEAN established a goal of increasing its renewable energy share in its energy portfolio from approximately 13–23% by 2025. Renewable electricity, especially intermittent and variable sources, presents challenges for grid operators due to the uncertain timing and quantity of electricity supply. Grid flexibility, the electric grid's ability to respond to changing demands and supply, now stands a key resource in responding to these uncertainties while maximizing the cost-effective role of clean energy. We develop and apply a grid flexibility assessment tool to assess ASEAN's current grid flexibility using six quantitative indicators: grid reliability, electricity market access; load profile ramp capacity; quality of forecasting tools; proportion of electricity generation from natural gas; and renewable energy diversity. We find that ASEAN nations cluster into three groups: better; moderately; and the least prepared nations. We develop an analytical ramp rate calculator to quantify expected load ramps for ASEAN in an integrated ASEAN Power Grid scenario. The lack of forecasting systems and limited electricity market access represent key weaknesses and areas where dramatic improvements can become cost-effective means to increase regional grid flexibility. As ASEAN pursues renewable energy targets, regional cooperation remains essential to address identified challenges. Member nations need to increase grid flexibility capacity to adequately prepare for higher penetrations of renewable electricity and lower overall system costs
Spherical Harmonic Decomposition on a Cubic Grid
A method is described by which a function defined on a cubic grid (as from a
finite difference solution of a partial differential equation) can be resolved
into spherical harmonic components at some fixed radius. This has applications
to the treatment of boundary conditions imposed at radii larger than the size
of the grid, following Abrahams, Rezzola, Rupright et al.(gr-qc/9709082}. In
the method described here, the interpolation of the grid data to the
integration 2-sphere is combined in the same step as the integrations to
extract the spherical harmonic amplitudes, which become sums over grid points.
Coordinates adapted to the integration sphere are not needed.Comment: 5 pages, LaTeX uses cjour.cls (supplied
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