Natural Resources Canada Ressources naturelles Canada Canadian Forest Service Service canadien des forêts Natural Research Council Canada Conseil national de recherches Canada CANARIE Network Enabled Platform (NEP) Project SAFORAH Deliverables Review Q3 Project Collaboration NRCan Pacific Forestry Centre (D. Goodenough, H. Chen, A. Guan, B. Moa) University of Victoria (R. Sobie, P. Armstrong, A. Agarwal, I. Gable, R. Desmarais) NRC Ottawa (R. Impey, W. Podaima, A. Charbonneau)

Natural Resources Canada Ressources naturelles Canada Canadian Forest Service Service canadien des forêts Natural Research Council Canada Conseil national de recherches Canada

Natural Resources Canada Ressources naturelles Canada Canadian Forest Service Service canadien des forêts Natural Research Council Canada Conseil national de recherches Canada Activity 1: Beta-1 Prototype Evaluation n Test end-to-end functionality n End-user testing n Prepare Beta-1 Prototype Evaluation document

Natural Resources Canada Ressources naturelles Canada Canadian Forest Service Service canadien des forêts Natural Research Council Canada Conseil national de recherches Canada Activity 2: System Design Document n Revise System Design Document V1 n Prepare System Design Document V2 This document has been revised to include sections about new development, including job and resource monitoring, new EO applications, and round robin metascheduling

Natural Resources Canada Ressources naturelles Canada Canadian Forest Service Service canadien des forêts Natural Research Council Canada Conseil national de recherches Canada Activity 3: Beta-2 prototype n Identify production clusters Mercury at UVic and Venus at NRC Sussex n Deploy GT4 middleware on production clusters globus4.rcf.uvic.ca and silicon.sao.nrc.ca n Identify additional EO applications Carbon mapping n Consult with cluster managers Done as a part of deploying GT4

Natural Resources Canada Ressources naturelles Canada Canadian Forest Service Service canadien des forêts Natural Research Council Canada Conseil national de recherches Canada Activity 3: Beta-2 prototype n Deploy MS and RS on production-grade hardware Done earlier in the project, described in Infrastructure Document n Develop job and resource monitoring system Resource monitoring done with Nagios Prototype job monitoring done, final in Q4 n Implement round-robin metascheduling algorithm Finished in Q3, location-based in Q4

Natural Resources Canada Ressources naturelles Canada Canadian Forest Service Service canadien des forêts Natural Research Council Canada Conseil national de recherches Canada Activity 4: Meetings and Reporting n Group Meeting n Quarterly report for CANARIE Impending

Natural Resources Canada Ressources naturelles Canada Canadian Forest Service Service canadien des forêts Natural Research Council Canada Conseil national de recherches Canada Globus’s Future n SAFORAH-CGS is built on GT 4.0 n GT 4.2 was not widely adopted, as it is incompatible with 4.0 n GT 5 is (mostly) GRAM-2 and pre-ws GRAM4 compatible n Crux will replace the Globus container a set of plugins for Apache CXF web services framework n We can continue to use Integration Service with GT4 container n If production resources use GT5, we can use Condor 7.4 or later with Gavia, which supports GT5