E-science grid facility for Europe and Latin America The GILDA t-Infrastructure Riccardo Bruno INFN, Sez. CT Joint EELA-2/EGEE-III Tutorial for Trainers, Catania (Italy) 30/06/2008 – 04/07/2008

Catania (Italy), Joint EELA/EGEEIII Tutorial for Trainers, – G rid I NFN L aboratory for D issemination A ctivities Demonstrate/disseminate grid computing,(but not only) Adopted by several Grid projects worldwide It runs the latest production (stable) version of gLite grid middleware in order to make the transition to the new middleware smoother and easier It is free Getting started

Catania (Italy), Joint EELA/EGEEIII Tutorial for Trainers, – The GILDA Sponsors (

Catania (Italy), Joint EELA/EGEEIII Tutorial for Trainers, – Why t-Infrastructure? Avoid disruption of production systems of Grid projects Prepare participants for future middleware releases Easy entry point for new users/communities Provide guaranteed response for tutorials

Catania (Italy), Joint EELA/EGEEIII Tutorial for Trainers, – The GILDA Project – web page

Catania (Italy), Joint EELA/EGEEIII Tutorial for Trainers, – GILDA Test-bed ~ 20 sites in 4 continents

Catania (Italy), Joint EELA/EGEEIII Tutorial for Trainers, – List of gLite services

Catania (Italy), Joint EELA/EGEEIII Tutorial for Trainers, – Public GRID Demonstrator

Catania (Italy), Joint EELA/EGEEIII Tutorial for Trainers, – Before trying GILDA… First Steps: Ask for a GILDA personal certificate 2.Load the certificate in your browser 3.Accept Use Policy 4.Subscribe to the GILDA Virtual Organisation

Catania (Italy), Joint EELA/EGEEIII Tutorial for Trainers, – The GILDA Certification Authority (

Catania (Italy), Joint EELA/EGEEIII Tutorial for Trainers, – The GILDA VOMS (

Catania (Italy), Joint EELA/EGEEIII Tutorial for Trainers, – The GILDA User Interface Plug&Play

Catania (Italy), Joint EELA/EGEEIII Tutorial for Trainers, – GILDA Virtual Services and training materials Wiki pages also available More than 2 TB of training material already downloaded!

Catania (Italy), Joint EELA/EGEEIII Tutorial for Trainers, – The GILDA Support System

Catania (Italy), Joint EELA/EGEEIII Tutorial for Trainers, – Ticket Creation (1/2)

Catania (Italy), Joint EELA/EGEEIII Tutorial for Trainers, – Ticket Creation (2/2)

Catania (Italy), Joint EELA/EGEEIII Tutorial for Trainers, – Some of the Applications ported on GILDA 8 Virtual Organizations supported: –Biomedicine (Biomed) –Earth Science Academy (ESR) –Earth Science Industry (CGG) –Astroparticle Physics (MAGIC) –Computational Chemistry (GEMS) –Grid Search Engines (GRACE) –Astrophysics (PLANCK) –Computation Archaeology (ARCHAEOGRID) Development of complete interfaces with GENIUS for Biomed Applications: GATE, hadronTherapy etc. Development of complete interfaces with GENIUS for Generic Applications: EGEODE (CGG), MAGIC, GEMS, and CODESA-3D (ESR) (successfull demos of EGEODE and GEMS at EGEE review) Development of complete interface with CLI for NEMO

Catania (Italy), Joint EELA/EGEEIII Tutorial for Trainers, – Applications: RASTER-3D Set of tools for generating high quality raster images of molecules

Catania (Italy), Joint EELA/EGEEIII Tutorial for Trainers, – Applications: Volcano Sonification (Picture: M. Monzier IRD/IG-EPN)(Picture: g1.globo.com) Etna, ItalyTungurahua, Ecuador “Sonified” data from geophysical data collected by digital seismographs placed on volcanoes.

Catania (Italy), Joint EELA/EGEEIII Tutorial for Trainers, – Applications: Volcano Sonification Seismograms Melodisation

Catania (Italy), Joint EELA/EGEEIII Tutorial for Trainers, – Applications: hadronTherapy Employed for the treatment of some kind of ocular tumours Used to calibrate the proton beamline in reality

Catania (Italy), Joint EELA/EGEEIII Tutorial for Trainers, – Applications: DEMTOOLs Satellite image rendering program Input: ASCII file in DEM format (Digital Elevation Model) Output: VRML file

Catania (Italy), Joint EELA/EGEEIII Tutorial for Trainers, – Stats Used in more than 180 tutorials 7693 certificates issued > 3 TB of videos and Virtual Grid services downloaded Web portal: hits in 2007

Catania (Italy), Joint EELA/EGEEIII Tutorial for Trainers, – Stats

Catania (Italy), Joint EELA/EGEEIII Tutorial for Trainers, – Non EU countries benefited by GILDA courses Basic / user tutorial Advanced / sysadmin

Catania (Italy), Joint EELA/EGEEIII Tutorial for Trainers, – Non EU countries benefited by GILDA courses Basic / user tutorial Advanced / sysadmin 2 4

Catania (Italy), Joint EELA/EGEEIII Tutorial for Trainers, – Summary and conclusions GILDA is a virtual laboratory for dissemination of grid computing: –It is a “de facto” standard t-Infrastructure adopted both by EGEE and many EU-FP6/7 projects (EELA, EELA-2, EUINDIAGRID, ICEAGE, etc.) –It is a complete suite of grid elements (test-bed, CA, VO, monitoring system, web portal, user interfaces, support system) and applications fully dedicated to dissemination purposes and pre-porting of new applications to EGEE Infrastructure –GILDA runs latest production version of the gLite middleware to make the transition from the t-Infrastructure to the e-Infrastructure easy and transparent

Catania (Italy), Joint EELA/EGEEIII Tutorial for Trainers, – Links GILDA home page – GILDA Certification Authority – GILDA Virtual Organization – GILDA Support System – GILDA Form for Bookings – GILDA Repository of Training Material – GILDA Virtual Services –

Catania (Italy), Joint EELA/EGEEIII Tutorial for Trainers, – Questions…