CERN News on Grid and openlab François Fluckiger, Manager, CERN openlab for DataGrid Applications

Grid Update

3 François Fluckiger GRID News at CERN   EGEE Project   Started   GRID for LHC accelerator (LCG)   Being deployed

4 François Fluckiger EGEE Project Goal Create a European wide production quality multi science grid infrastructure on top of regional grid programs Scale 70 partners in 27 countries Initial funding for 2 years Activities Grid operations and support

5 François Fluckiger Preparing for 7,000 boxes in 2008

6 François Fluckiger LCG-2 25 Universities 4 National Labs 2800 CPUs Grid3 30 sites 3200 cpus

last update 20/03/ :58 LCG How many middleware flavours? Many opposing forces at work On the timescale of LHC startup - we are going to have to live with a few different middleware implementations/standards

8 François Fluckiger Transport network Data replicas Grid Middleware Layers? Issues   Topology Management   Configuration   Changes   Optimization   Monitoring   Inter-domain Operation Authentication Ser Resource Brokering

CERN openlab

10 François Fluckiger What is the openlab? nA framework for “R&D” in collaboration with Industry nPartner commitments n3 years nContributions may be a mix of nIn kind (HW, SW, services, …) nIn cash (in general for fellows) openlab framework  Contributor commitments  1 year  Lower level

11 François Fluckiger Partners

12 François Fluckiger What are we doing in the openlab? n Evaluate and Integrate cutting edge solutions n Current project: opencluster n IA-64 Compute farm (Intel + HP) n 10 Gb Ethernet (Enterasys + Intel) n Storage (IBM) n 10g servers (Oracle) n Infiniband (Voltaire, contributor) openlab framework opencluster project

13 François Fluckiger The CERN opencluster Objectives Build an ultrahigh performance computer cluster Build an ultrahigh performance computer cluster Link it to the DataGrid and test its performance Link it to the DataGrid and test its performance

14 François Fluckiger What is new with the openlab? n Is it really different from conventional n joint projects with industry? n field tests?  openlab is not a collection of disjoint bi-lateral evaluations  Implies  A common "agreement" framework  A common technical objective  An active collaboration between all parties

15 François Fluckiger Framework and Project n openlab: n an agreement framework to host projects n Current project: opencluster openlab framework opencluster project HPCN-centric project

16 François Fluckiger New project in preparation Computer Security openlab framework opencluster project security project