Grid Initiatives for e-Science virtual communities in Europe and Latin America WP5 - Network Resource Provision STATUS REPORT Gilberto Diaz (WP5 Manager) ULA (Venezuela) First-year Project Review Brussels,
GISELA - First year Project Review - Brussels - 15/09/ Outline Objectives Achievements Plans for the 2 nd year Conclusions
GISELA - First year Project Review - Brussels - 15/09/ WP5 Objectives Build a Network Service Centre (NSC) –Overall network coordination –Network engineering and operation Automation of the services of the NSC (portal for network status monitoring) Management of the relationships between GISELA, CLARA, GÉANT and NRENs in Latin America and Europe
GISELA - First year Project Review - Brussels - 15/09/ Achievements (1/4) Meetings –CLARATec - Meeting of the Technical Coordinators of the NRENs of the CLARA community: 23 rd - 24 th June 2011, Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Outcome: GISELA / WP5 – GT-Mediciones agreement on monitoring system support Virtual Meetings –4 meetings GISELA – DANTE Outcome: Specification of the Network monitoring system –3 meetings GISELA – CLARA Outcome: Adoption of CLARA's Ticket System
GISELA - First year Project Review - Brussels - 15/09/ Achievements (2/4) Specification of the Network Support Centre –Ticket System: Through CLARA's Ticket System the following aspects are managed: Reporting network problems Submitting network provisioning requests Following up all the tickets
GISELA - First year Project Review - Brussels - 15/09/ Deployment of a perfSONAR based multi domain network monitoring service ( –3 Measurement Points on GISELA –The base for network monitoring Colombia - UIS Panama - UTP Venezuela - ULA Achievements (3/4)
GISELA - First year Project Review - Brussels - 15/09/ A perfSONAR usage example (LA – EU network throughput measurement) Achievements (4/4)
GISELA - First year Project Review - Brussels - 15/09/ Metrics fulfillment The late starting of effective measurements at M07 had the following consequences
GISELA - First year Project Review - Brussels - 15/09/ Plans for the 2 nd year Effectively handle VRC network requests by means of the Ticket System Incorporate the system administrators of the RCs into the Ticket System of CLARA Continue the deployment of the monitoring environment on the GISELA infrastructure Develop a web application to store/retrieve statistics of the network performance Complete the operations manual for the monitoring platform In collaboration with WP3, WP6 and the VRCs, work out the network requirements of their applications
GISELA - First year Project Review - Brussels - 15/09/ Conclusions In spite of the slow start, WP5 has been able to perform its activities during the first project year Significant steps taken towards the NSC establishment Deployment of perfSONAR monitoring platform Long term sustainability of perfSONAR guaranteed by an agreement with GT-Mediciones group