EGEE is proposed as a project funded by the European Union under contract IST EU eInfrastructure project initiatives FP6-EGEE Fabrizio Gagliardi EGEE Director Dublin, Ireland, 15 April, 2004

Dublin, April 15, EGEE: the partners An EU Integrated Infrastructure Initiative (I 3 ) project formed by 70 leading institutions in 27 countries (from EU and elsewhere), federated in regional Grids

Dublin, April 15, EGEE: the activities JRA1: Middleware Engineering and Integration JRA2: Quality Assurance JRA3: Security JRA4: Network Services Development SA1: Grid Operations, Support and Management SA2: Network Resource Provision NA1: Management NA2: Dissemination and Outreach NA3: User Training and Education NA4: Application Identification and Support NA5: Policy and International Cooperation 24% Joint Research28% Networking 48% Services 32 M Euros EU funding ( ), O(100 M) total budget. Emphasis in EGEE is on operating a production grid and supporting the end- users.

Dublin, April 15, EGEE: the applications EGEE Scope : ALL-Inclusive for academic applications (open to industrial and socio- economic world as well) The major success criterion of EGEE: how many satisfied users from how many different domains ? 5000 users (3000 after year 2) from at least 5 disciplines Two pilot applications selected to guide the implementation and certify the performance and functionality of the evolving infrastructure: Physics & Bioinformatics Grid infrastructures need a fully committed community to develop and validate basic services Application domains and timelines are for illustration only

Dublin, April 15, EGEE and LCG EGEE builds on the work of LCG to establish a grid operations service LCG (LHC Computing Grid): large international collaboration of institutes involved in the CERN particle physics experimental programme for next CERN accelerator LHC Mission: Prepare and deploy the computing environment that will be used by the experiments to analyse the LHC data Strategy: Integrate thousands of computers at dozens of participating institutes worldwide into a global computing resource Rely on software being developed in advanced grid technology projects, both in Europe and in the USA

Dublin, April 15, Grid operations Create, operate, support and manage a production quality infrastructure Offered services: Middleware deployment and installation Software and documentation repository Grid monitoring and problem tracking Bug reporting and knowledge database VO services Grid management services

Dublin, April 15, Resource Allocation Policy The EGEE infrastructure is intended to support and provide resources to many virtual organisations Initially HEP (4 LHC experiments) + Biomedical + training Each RC supports many VOs and several application domains (as in project such as LCG, EDG and CrossGrid) Initially must balance resources contributed by the application domains and those that they consume Maybe specifically funded for one application In 1 st 6 months sufficient resources are committed to cover requirements Allocation across multiple sites will be made at the VO level EGEE will establish inter-VO allocation guidelines  E.g. High Energy Physics experiments have agreed to make no restrictions on resource usage by physicists from different institutions Resource centres may have specific allocation policies E.g. due to funding agency attribution by science or by project Expect a level of peer review within application domains to inform the allocation process eIRG could play an important role in promoting international policy guidelines and standards

Dublin, April 15, Resource allocation Policy (II) New VOs and Resource centres will be required to satisfy minimum requirements Commit to bring a level of additional resources consistent with their requirements The project must demonstrate that on balance this level of commitment is less than that required for the user community to perform the same work outside the grid The difference will come from the access to idle resources of other VOs and resource centres This is the essence of a grid infrastructure All compute resources made available to EGEE will be connected to the grid infrastructure Significant potential for sites to have additional resources A small number of nodes at each site will be dedicated to operating the grid infrastructure services Requirement on new middleware to provide mechanisms to implement/enforce quotas, etc Identification of new VO/RC via application group (NA4) In accordance with policies designed and proposed by the eIRG (NA5)

Dublin, April 15, Security: areas to be addressed Basic Security Policy and Incident Response CA Trust VO Definition, Rights Delegation, and Scalability Web services security and site service access Control and auditing Site Usage Control and Budgeting Secure Credential Storage Biomedical applications have important security requirements (e.g. confidentiality) that need to be addressed. Requirements gathering is on-going via the applications group (NA4)

Dublin, April 15, EGEE Middleware Activity Hardening and re-engineering of existing middleware functionality, leveraging the experience of partners Activity concentrated in few major centers and organized in “Software clusters” Key services: Data Management (CERN) Information Collection (UK) Resource Brokering, Accounting (Italy-Czech Republic) Quality Assurance (France) Grid Security (Northern Europe) Middleware Integration (CERN) Middleware Testing (CERN)

Dublin, April 15, EGEE Implementation From day 1 (1 st April 2004) Production grid service based on the LCG infrastructure running LCG-2 grid mware In parallel develop a “next generation” grid facility Produce a new set of grid services according to evolving standards (web services) Run a development service providing early access for evaluation purposes Will replace LCG-2 on production facility in 2005 Globus 2 basedWeb services based EGEE-2EGEE-1LCG-2LCG-1 EDGVDT... LCG EGEE...AliEn

Dublin, April 15, EGEE Networking Activity Dissemination and outreach Lead by TERENA User training and induction Lead by University of Edinburgh (NeSC) Application identification and support Two pilot application centers (for high energy physics and biomedical grids) One more generic component dealing with longer term recruitment and support of other communities Policy and International cooperation Support EU Grid policy forum Coordinate relations with other projects (EU and beyond) map points indicate federations and are not geographically precise

Dublin, April 15, What EGEE offers user groups Access to large-scale infrastructure Thousands of processors and petabyte-range of online data storage Production ready grid middleware More than 3 years of large-scale testing/deployment experience Grid expertise Small team of technically competent people ready to help applications get up and running Training

Dublin, April 15, Training The success of EGEE is measured by the impact it has on collaborative European science The goal is to support communities of users Therefore induction and training have a high priority from the outset Initial Training Opportunities Training courses (based on previous EU DataGrid tutorials) will be available from July 2004 International Grid school near Naples, Italy July 2004:

Dublin, April 15, Where do we stand today? EU contract signed by CERN (with accession forms from 69 partners, in 3 original copies!!!) The EGEE federation structure works Project officially started on April 1 st (as originally planned!) Activity already ramping up since last Summer (as committed by the partners in the project proposal) First kick-off conference in Cork next week (as originally planned) Followed by a joint conference with DEISA in the Netherlands November 2004 (good coordination and synergy with the other complementary EU major infrastructure project)

Dublin, April 15, To know more on EGEE: Public lecture tonight & Come to the first EGEE conference in Cork (18-22 April) also EU EGEE – Further Information