The UK NGI Claire Devereux NGI Manager

Overview What is it? Who does it include? How does it work? Why do we need it? How is it evolving and what does it hope to achieve?

What? National Grid Initiatives manage the computing resources they provide to the European Grid Infrastructure (EGI) single point of contact for governance, research communities and resource centres EGI main stakeholders

Who?

How? Internal governance NGI Management Board NGI Operations at GridPP Ops meeting External representation Representation in EGI: - NES(NGS)/GridPP/JISC

Why? Requirement for EGI Project-neutral forum for discussion Enables collaboration Vision: UK e-infrastructure landscape should provide easy access for researchers Flavours to suit different community needs but with common standards underlying & common tools for production and usage

UK e-Infrastructure Ongoing £200M per year investment Additional capitol investment £145M Reinventing the wheel syndrome... UK has produced tools and services for e-Science that should be reused. NGI umbrella should give communities confidence in their longevity and sustainability

Service Hierarchy Lang Corpa EBI DB ARGUS AHE Facility Institutional Portal Community Specific Compute 3 rd party/Comm ercial Data Portals/Sc ience Gateways Cloud WMS Community Shared Central Authn Authz Accnt Monitor Discovery Helpdesk Security Training Core

Service Hierarchy Lang Corpa EBI DB ARGUS AHE Facility Institutional Portal Community Specific Compute 3 rd party/Comm ercial Data Portals/Sc ience Gateways Cloud WMS Community Shared Central Authn Authz Accnt Monitor Discovery Helpdesk Security Training Core NGI

Service Hierarchy Lang Corpa EBI DB ARGUS AHE Facility Institutional Portal Community Specific Compute 3 rd party/Comm ercial Data Portals/Sc ience Gateways Cloud WMS Community Shared Central Authn Authz Accnt Monitor Discovery Helpdesk Security Training Core NGI

AuthN, AuthZ UK e-Science Certification Authority SARoNGS – Grid – HPC VOMS

Accounting & Policing APEL – Single accounting repository for LHC & EGI – Passes summaries to portal for data visualisation – Flexible, compute and cloud clients developed, planning for data and services User Accounting System – Simple interface for managing users in projects, VOs, institutions – Manage resource allocations – Passes data into APEL

Monitoring and Service Discovery Monitoring –A Nagios based monitoring system for grid services –Designed for a multi-level monitoring system Sites, ROCs, Projects Service Discovery – BDII/GOCDB – People – Services – resources

Helpdesk and Security UK NGI helpdesk – GGUS and Footprints Can offer helpdesk with different levels of user facing support International security co-ordination Need to liaise with institutional security officers and project security officers Must be at a national level

Training Marketplace

Summary Variety of options within the core services Flexible portfolio Should incorporate new services as they develop Should be open to community and commercial solutions NGI should evolve and grow with new communities and projects – NEI?

UK hosting EGI Community Forum Manchester, 8 to 12 April 2013

Questions?