Neil Geddes GridPP-10, June 2004 UK e-Science Grid Dr Neil Geddes CCLRC Head of e-Science Director of the UK Grid Operations Support Centre

Neil Geddes GridPP-10, June 2004 Situation Today * Leeds Manchester * * Oxford RAL * Level-2 Grid National Grid Service * DL

Neil Geddes GridPP-10, June 2004 In the Future NGSNGS UK Grid Operations Support Centre

Neil Geddes GridPP-10, June 2004 UK Campus and other Grids GOSC Core of GOSC built around experience in deploying and running National Grid Service (NGS) –Support service Important to coordinate and integrate this with deployment and operations work in EGEE, LCG and similar projects. –EGEE – low level services, CA, GOC, CERT... Dedicated deployment and operations management will be a key component OMII ETF NGS Other software sources Software with proven capability & realistic deployment experience ‘Gold’ services Prototypes & specifications Feedback & future requirements EGEE… Deployment/testing/advice Operations

Neil Geddes GridPP-10, June 2004 GOSC Roles  Core UK Grid services: Simple Registry, data transfer, Job Submission, security, Data Access  Key services (to be supported for all Grids): Authorisation, Notification, Workflow, Monitoring and Accounting, Grid Management Services, VO support  Services to be coordinated with others (eg OMII, NeSC, LCG): Integration testing, compatibility & Validation Tests, User Management, training Timeline: May/June Develop a roadmap for the development of the grid operations centre over the next two years June Develop the GOSC proposal for next two years. –including deployment and support plans, interfaces to related projects and integration of non core resources into NGS, and criteria for service evaluation. September Formal start of GOSC October NGS “production service” Compatibility with EGEE

Oxford and Leeds (White Rose Grid) MPI, co-scheduling …

Manchester and CCLRC-RAL

Also includes: Itanium2 processor SGI Altix 512 processor Origin3800 Thus, the NGS provides access to over 2000 processors, over 36TB of "data-grid" capacity, common scientific applications and extensive data archives. Other resource providers anticipated to join in the future … Full installation = 1600 IBM p690+ Regatta processors currently 1236 processors EMBL Nucleotide Sequences NCBI, BLAST, EMBOSS, FASTA, Gaussian

NGS Status 28 May 2004 All 4 cluster nodes operational –Announcement made on 5th April, to user communities in UK “Pre-production” ETF, NeSC, HPCx, and also via JISC web site –Common grid-mapfile for user management. –VOM server installation abandoned. VOMS is now under review & installation by Grid Support Centre. –Information service operating using BDII infrastructure. –GridIce installation to give front end interface to BDII data. –GRidMon work to allow NGS monitoring, almost complete. –Federated Ganglia operational to allow centralised monitoring of resources and load across the four JISC/CCLRC sites.

What is Available? Ab Initio Molecular Orbital Theory The DL_POLY Molecular Simulation Package Fasta eMaterials

Users and Projects Users –63 Users registered (excluding sysadmins etc…) Leeds, Oxford, UCL, Cardiff, Southampton, Imperial, Liverpool, Sheffield, Cambridge, Edinburgh, QUB, BBSRC and CCLRC. Projects –e-Minerals –e-Materials –Orbital Dynamics of Satellite Galaxies (Oxford), –Bioinformatics (using BLAST), (John Owen BBSRC) –GEODISE project (Southampton) –Singlet meson project within the UKQCD collaboration (QCDGrid Liverpool + Edinburgh), –Census data analysis for geographical information systems (Sheffield) –MIAKT project (image registration for medical image anaylsis – Imperial) –e-HTPX project. –RealityGrid – Computational chemistry

More than just computation and data resources… In future will include services to facilitate collaborative (grid) computing Authentication (PKI X509) Job submission/batch service Resource brokering Authorisation Virtual Organisation management Certificate management Information service Data access/integration services (SRB/OGSA-DAI/DQPS) National Registry (of registry’s) Data replication Data caching Grid monitoring Accounting

Neil Geddes GridPP-10, June 2004 NGS Resources Free at the point of use (for UK e-Science) Site contributions defined by Service Level Description 4+2 core sites now –Cardiff and Bristol any day now Anyone can join –Agree to the Base SLD VDT (RB/VOM) … EGEE –Level of support/resource up to providers –Access conditions up to providers Needs VO management and monitoring/accounting –Common core services

Neil Geddes GridPP-10, June 2004 Concluding Remarks UK e-Science grid in pre-production mode Goal is to provide national services –Not just access to storage + CPU –Likely to be a component of UK computing provision Compatibility with EGEE,TeraGrid etc. important

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