INFSO-RI Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE general project update Fotis Karayannis EGEE South East Europe Project Management Board representative GRNET Slides are based on EGEE GGF16 presentation, presented by Erwin Laure

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI GGF 16 - February The EGEE project Objectives –Large-scale, production-quality infrastructure for e-Science  leveraging national and regional grid activities worldwide  consistent, robust and secure –improving and maintaining the middleware –attracting new resources and users from industry as well as science EGEE –1st April 2004 – 31 March 2006 –71 leading institutions in 27 countries, federated in regional Grids EGEE-II –Proposed start 1 April 2006 (for 2 years) –Expanded consortium  > 90 partners in 32 countries (also non-European partners)  At final stages of negotiations

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI GGF 16 - February SA1- EGEE Infrastructure Scale > 170 sites in 39 countries > CPUs > 5 PB storage > concurrent jobs per day > 60 Virtual Organisations

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI GGF 16 - February ,000 jobs /day From Accounting data:  ~3 million jobs in 2005 so far  Sustained daily rates (per month Jan – Nov 2005): [2185, 2796, 7617, 10312, 11151, 9247, 9218, 11445, 10079, 11124, 9491]  ~8.2 M kSI2K.cpu.hours  >1000 cpu years  Real usage is higher as accounting data was not published from all sites until recently

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI GGF 16 - February Hierarchical Operations Structure Operations Management Centre (OMC): –At CERN – coordination etc Core Infrastructure Centres (CIC) –Manage daily grid operations – oversight, troubleshooting  “Operator on Duty” –Run infrastructure services –Provide 2 nd level support to ROCs –UK/I, Fr, It, CERN, Russia, Taipei Regional Operations Centres (ROC) –Front-line support for user and operations issues –Provide local knowledge and adaptations –One in each region – many distributed User Support Centre (GGUS) –In FZK: provide single point of contact (service desk), portal

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI GGF 16 - February NA4-Applications >20 supported applications from 7 domains –High Energy Physics –Biomedicine –Earth Sciences –Computational Chemistry –Astronomy –Geo-Physics –Financial Simulation Another 8 applications from 4 domains are in evaluation stage

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI GGF 16 - February NA5- Policy and International Cooperation

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI GGF 16 - February Grid Interoperability We currently see different flavors of Grids deployed worldwide –Because of application needs, legacy constraints, funding, etc. –Diversity is positive! – Competition to find the best solutions Many applications need to operate on more than one Grid infrastructure –Pragmatic approach to interoperability is key –Applications need interoperable Grid infrastructures now –A production infrastructure cannot be an early adopter of quickly changing standards EGEE is active contributor to interoperability and standardization efforts –Works with OSG, NAREGI, ARC, and the multi-grids interoperability effort –Provides valuable input on practical experiences to standardization process –Contributes to over 15 GGF WG/RG –Currently supplies two GGF area directors

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI GGF 16 - February Grid Interoperation Leaders from TeraGrid, OSG, EGEE, APAC, NAREGI, DEISA, Pragma, UK NGS, KISTI will lead an interoperation initiative in Six international teams met for the first time at GGF-16 in February 2006 –Application Use Cases  (Bair/TeraGrid, Alessandrini/DEISA) –Authentication/Identity Mgmt  (Skow/TeraGrid) –Job Description Language  Newhouse/UK-NGS –Data Location/Movement  Pordes/OSG –Information Schemas  Matsuoka/NAREGI –Testbeds  Arzberger/Pragma Leaders from nine Grid initiatives met at SC05 to plan an application-driven “Interop Challenge” in 2006.

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI GGF 16 - February Future EGEE-II supposed to start on April 1 st –Smooth transition from current phase –Additional support for more application domains –Increased number of partners, also from US and AP –Unified EGEE middleware distribution gLite 3.0 Continue and reinforce interoperability work Standardization in GGF, other bodies, and industry important for long term sustainability of Grid Need for commonly accepted standards Towards a long-term sustainable Grid infrastructure

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI GGF 16 - February Upcoming EGEE Events Regional EGEE sustainability workshops –Towards a more permanent FP7 scheme EGEE-EGEE-II transition meeting, CERN, April, 2006 – EGEE Final Review, CERN, May, 2006 & EGEE-II kick-off meeting, CERN, May, 2006 EGEE-II conference, Geneva, September, 2006 –Include sessions with related projects –Theme will be long term sustainability