Swedish participation in DataGrid and NorduGrid Paula Eerola SWEGRID meeting,

Paula Eerola SWEGRID meeting, Sweden in the DataGrid  Swedish participation in the EU DataGrid project is enabled through VR and CERN - the partners in the DataGrid project.  The NorduGrid testbed acts as a link between the activities, providing an appropriate infrastructure.

Paula Eerola SWEGRID meeting, WP2 Data Management  PDC (KTH, Stockholm): Grid Data Management Work Package (WP2). Working on issues like secure infrastructure and access. Contact: Per Öster

Paula Eerola SWEGRID meeting, WP6 Testbed  Lund University (and in future Stockholm and Uppsala): through the NorduGrid project, participate in the Testbed and Demonstrators Work Package (WP6). Activity involves configuring computing farms to be the part of the DataGrid testbed. Contact: Oxana Smirnova

Paula Eerola SWEGRID meeting, WP8 HEP Applications  Universities of Lund, Stockholm and Uppsala: involved in the HEP Applications Work Package (WP8), through participation in the ATLAS experiment. Contacts: Oxana Smirnova, Tord Ekelöf, Sten Hellman

Paula Eerola SWEGRID meeting, WP10 Biology Applications  Uppsala University, Karolinska Institute (Stockholm): working for the Biology Applications Work Package (WP10). KI is involved in genomics, esp. data mining in distributed databases. In Uppsala, Linnaeus Centre for Bioinformatics is involved in genome sequencing, requiring also distributed databases. Contacts: Siv Andersson (UU), Gunnar Norstedt (KI)

Paula Eerola SWEGRID meeting, Status of the DataGrid  The project was launched in January 2001, with the first workshop being held in March (Amsterdam, together with the Global Grid Forum). The second workshop will be in July (Oxford, UK)  The first milestone, so-called Project Month 6 (PM6) is reached, with the following progress achieved:

Paula Eerola SWEGRID meeting, DataGrid: today  Testbed0 participants and sites are defined (12 participants, ca. 50 sites, including NorduGrid)  Short-term use-cases to be executed at the Testbed. Use-cases defined by the LHC experiments and other participants  Code-writing started at the corresponding WP's (scheduling, data management etc)  Architecture Task Force report is in progress, user requirements are collected, and deliverables for the Project Month 9 (PM9) are being defined

Paula Eerola SWEGRID meeting, DataGrid: tomorrow  The major milestone of PM9 is expected to have some of the necessary toolkits, services and other software delivered (beta- versions) for testing  Most of the software packages will be released not earlier than PM12 (glitches in the original planning)

Paula Eerola SWEGRID meeting, Status of the NorduGrid  The NorduGrid project has a purpose to create a Nordic branch of the DataGrid, and proceeds in a close contact with the latter  The project is financed via the Nordunet2 programme, and started in January 2001  NorduGrid testbed is a part of the DataGrid Testbed Workpackage (WP6)

Paula Eerola SWEGRID meeting, NorduGrid: sites & people  Three dedicated postdoc positions are set up:  Lund: Balázs Kónya (support for Lund and Copenhagen clusters), started on May 1  Uppsala: Mattias Ellert (Uppsala- Stockholm-Helsinki), started on June 1  Oslo: Aleksandr Konstantinov (Oslo- Bergen), to start on June 15

Paula Eerola SWEGRID meeting, NorduGrid: resources  Farms in Lund and Copenhagen are configured (Globus, OpenPBS batch scheduler); simple tests done; farms are ready to execute realistic tasks  Uppsala, KoSuFy in Lund: have Globus enabled at stand-alone PC’s, connectivity tested  Nordic Certification Authority (CA) is set up at the NBI (Copenhagen), being also a part of the DataGrid CA's

Paula Eerola SWEGRID meeting, NorduGrid: next steps  KoSuFy (Lund) may join NorduGrid: 80- CPU farm, to be one of the biggest single farms in DataGrid  HEP applications: to go from local batch submission to Globus; installation of the ATLAS toolkit for the short-term use- case  Include biology applications (genomics in UU and KI), - contacts are being established