NA3, NA4, and GILDA Roberto Barbera Univ NA3, NA4, and GILDA Roberto Barbera Univ. of Catania and INFN Incontro con i Referee di INFN Grid Bologna, 21.04.2008

GILDA/NA3 Summary “numbers” About 20 sites in 3 continents 11270+ certificates issued ! (15-20% renewed at least once) 850+ users registered in the GILDA VOMS So far used in more than 265 induction courses, training events, and official university curricula 200+ jobs/day on the average ~ 2 million hits on the website from 100+ different countries 4.5+ TB of training material downloaded from the web site last 12 months Incontro con i Referee di INFN Grid, Bologna, 21.04.2008 2

Basic, Medium, and Advanced. The GILDA Training Material (https://grid.ct.infn.it/twiki/bin/view/GILDA/WebHome) 90+ topics (user induction, grid services installation and management, application development) with plenty of exercises. Three levels of difficulty: Basic, Medium, and Advanced. Incontro con i Referee di INFN Grid, Bologna, 21.04.2008

Demonstrative Applications Training on application development: the GILDA Forge (https://gilda-forge.ct.infn.it) Exercises Demonstrative Applications teaching/learning by examples Incontro con i Referee di INFN Grid, Bologna, 21.04.2008

GILDA Application support cycle in NA4 Evaluation Design of (GENIUS) Grid interface Functionality Audit and Support Showcase in workshops, schools, and tutorials Incontro con i Referee di INFN Grid, Bologna, 21.04.2008

The EUMEDGRID Grid School (http://www.eumedgrid.org/egsap-1) First EUMEDGRID Grid School (Cairo, Egypt, 17-28 April 2007) 10 applications selected, all “gridified”, several with GENIUS interface (biology, engineering, mathematics, physics, cognitive sciences , etc.) 80 nodes, 4 grid sites, 6 Mb/s connection installed in a hotel Incontro con i Referee di INFN Grid, Bologna, 21.04.2008

The 2nd EELA Grid School (EGRIS-2) http://www.cecalc.ula.ve/EGRIS-2/ 2nd EELA Grid School (Mérida, Venezuela, 30th Jul-10th Aug 2007) 12 days, 11 students 27 nodes, 6 sites + 2 Mbits/s connection 5 applications gridified (Enviromental and Earth Sciences, Food Engineering, Data mining)‏ Java Distributed Computing System (UCI- CUBA)‏ AERMOD (CUBAENERGIA - CUBA)‏ Aiuri (Project COPPE/UFRJ - BRAZIL)‏ Food Engineering Application on Meat Freezing (UNAM - MEXICO)‏ Proyecto de implementación del Modelo Hidrológico (UTPL - ECUADOR)‏ Incontro con i Referee di INFN Grid, Bologna, 21.04.2008 7

The Consorzio COMETA Grid School (http://www. consorzio-cometa First International Grid School for Industrial Application (Aci Trezza, Catania, 30 Jun - 07 Jul 2007) 7 applications selected (2 from coming from the industrial worlds) and successfully ported to the Grid. Just an example: OpenFoam, The Open Source Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Toolbox, is now able to run on the COMETA infrastructure Some of them requiring MPI2CH (a patch for the gLite WMS was developed to enable that feature) and 64bit platform (WN installed with 64bit SO and libraries) Incontro con i Referee di INFN Grid, Bologna, 21.04.2008 8

The EUChinaGRID School School for Application Integration on Grid (Beijing, China, 25 Oct – 03 Nov 2007) 4 applications ported and ready to run on the EUChina Grid Infrastructure: Grid-based Statistical Analysis of Fe Abundances Gradients in the Galaxy Three biological applications used within the Chinese Human Cancer Project (BLAST, Blat, SIM4) ZEN - Cosmological parameter constraints with the combination of different probes - aims to solve the dark energy enigma A Drug Discovery application Incontro con i Referee di INFN Grid, Bologna, 21.04.2008 9

The INFN Grid Schools (https://agenda. infn. it/conferenceDisplay. py Two Grid Schools held in Martina Franca (Taranto, Italy) from 5th to 23rd of November 2007 1 week Grid Site Administrator Training Course (to prepare the “Grid-in-a-Room” infrastructure to be used in the following weeks) 2 weeks Application Integration Training School 7 applications belonging to different fields such as hadron therapy, data-mining, neural networks, environment and civil protection, hydrology, optimization COMPLETELY “gridified” already during the school By the end of the school, some applications were also running on INFN production Grid using the resources of several virtual organizations (GRIDIT, THEOPHYS, PAMELA, BIO) Full report available at: https://agenda.infn.it/materialDisplay.py?materialId=1&confId=85 Incontro con i Referee di INFN Grid, Bologna, 21.04.2008 10

NA4 Summary Support for LHC Experiments Support for more than 30 different applications belonging to several scientific domains (only in 2007) Incontro con i Referee di INFN Grid, Bologna, 21.04.2008

INFN involvement in EGEE-III (NA3 and NA4 only) NA3 (Training, 144 PM in total): TNA3.1: Course content creation, scheduling, organisation, and delivery (60 PM); TNA3.2.b Training-Infrastructure provision (72 PM); TNA3.3: Activity management and partner coordination (12 PM); NA4 (Applications Support, 137 PM in total): TNA4.1.2: Application Porting Support (36 PM); TNA4.1.3: Direct User Support (34 PM); TNA4.2.1 High Energy Physics Cluster (36 PM); TNA4.3.2 Regional Coordination (31 PM) Incontro con i Referee di INFN Grid, Bologna, 21.04.2008

Additional requests for 2008 See the Excel file sent Incontro con i Referee di INFN Grid, Bologna, 21.04.2008

Any Questions ? Thank you very much for your kind attention! Incontro con i Referee di INFN Grid, Bologna, 21.04.2008