IST E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America The GILDA t-Infrastructure and the GENIUS portal Domenico Vicinanza, CERN EELA Tutorial, Santiago, September 2006
IST E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Location, Meeting, dd.mm.yyyy 2 Motivation The GILDA t-Infrastructure –Services –Tools –Applications How to join GILDA The GENIUS web portal Summary and conclusions Outline
IST E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Location, Meeting, dd.mm.yyyy 3 Why t-infrastructure? –e-Infrastructure for production –training infrastructure (t-Infrastructure) for training Need guaranteed response for tutorials; limit the vulnerability of production systems –use training grid –have training CA –able to change middleware to prepare participants for future releases on production system Also: –need safe resources for installation training –easy entry point for new communities The t-Infrastructure
IST E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Location, Meeting, dd.mm.yyyy 4 The GILDA project (
IST E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Location, Meeting, dd.mm.yyyy 5 20 sites in 3 continents ! The GILDA Test-bed (
IST E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Location, Meeting, dd.mm.yyyy 6 All gLite services on GILDA
IST E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Location, Meeting, dd.mm.yyyy 7 The GILDA Sponsors (
IST E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Location, Meeting, dd.mm.yyyy 8 The GILDA Certification Authority (
IST E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Location, Meeting, dd.mm.yyyy 9 The GILDA Certification Authority
IST E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Location, Meeting, dd.mm.yyyy 10 The GILDA VOMS ( )
IST E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Location, Meeting, dd.mm.yyyy 11 The GILDA Monitoring System (
IST E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Location, Meeting, dd.mm.yyyy 12 The gLite Tutor (
IST E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Location, Meeting, dd.mm.yyyy 13 At the beginning of 2002 the Italian INFN GRID Project started the GENIUS Portal Project in conjunction with the Italian web technology company NICE srl The present implementation of the GENIUS grid portal described here is carried out on the top of the gLite middleware services The Genius portal project
IST E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Location, Meeting, dd.mm.yyyy 14 It can be accessed from everywhere and by “everything” (desktop, laptop, PDA, cell phone). The same user interface to several back-ends. All available grid services incorporated in a logic way, just “one mouse click away”. Layout easily understandable and user friendly. GENIUS GRID portal features 1/2
IST E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Location, Meeting, dd.mm.yyyy 15 Secure at all levels: –1) secure for web transactions –2) secure for user credentials –3) secure for user authentication –4) secure at VO level. GENIUS GRID portal features 2/2
IST E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Location, Meeting, dd.mm.yyyy 16 Applications on GENIUS
IST E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Location, Meeting, dd.mm.yyyy 17 Home Page Services Remote file browsing Remote file inspection GENIUS on PDA
IST E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Location, Meeting, dd.mm.yyyy 18 GENIUS for cell phone
IST E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Location, Meeting, dd.mm.yyyy 19 OS & Net services Basic Services High level GRID middleware HEPBiomed Other apps Other apps Applications’ specific layer Other apps GLOBU S toolkit EDG/LCG architecture GENIUS web portal GENIUS ® (Grid Enabled web eNvironment for site Independent User job Submission) INFN/NICE srl collaboration The GENIUS Model
IST E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Location, Meeting, dd.mm.yyyy 20 Apache EnginFrame GENIUS https+java/xml WEB Browser UI Loc al WS the Grid M/W+GSI 3-tier model GENIUS: The 3 Tiers model
IST E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Location, Meeting, dd.mm.yyyy 21 UI Loc al WS MyProx y Server GENIU S Server (UI) grid-proxy-init myproxy-init any grid service myproxy-get-delegation output the Grid execution WEB Browser Grid authentication
IST E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Location, Meeting, dd.mm.yyyy 22 File Services Job Submission Services Monitoring Data Services Services
IST E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Location, Meeting, dd.mm.yyyy 23 File Services: View/Edit
IST E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Location, Meeting, dd.mm.yyyy 24 File Services: View/Edit
IST E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Location, Meeting, dd.mm.yyyy 25 Job Subm: JDL file selection
IST E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Location, Meeting, dd.mm.yyyy 26 Logging information by clicking on the Globus JobID Inspecting the Job Queue
IST E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Location, Meeting, dd.mm.yyyy 27 Job completed successfully
IST E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Location, Meeting, dd.mm.yyyy 28 Retrieving Job results
IST E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Location, Meeting, dd.mm.yyyy 29 VO Services: Hadron Therapy
IST E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Location, Meeting, dd.mm.yyyy 30 VO Services: Protein rendering
IST E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Location, Meeting, dd.mm.yyyy 31 3D rendering with POVRay
IST E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Location, Meeting, dd.mm.yyyy 32 Interactive Services: VNC terminal
IST E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Location, Meeting, dd.mm.yyyy 33 DAG management: TRIANA project
IST E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Location, Meeting, dd.mm.yyyy 34 The GILDA Accounting System (based on DGAS)
IST E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Location, Meeting, dd.mm.yyyy 35 How to join GILDA: the Gilda Homepage
IST E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Location, Meeting, dd.mm.yyyy 36 How to join GILDA: instructions
IST E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Location, Meeting, dd.mm.yyyy 37 GILDA CA certificate download
IST E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Location, Meeting, dd.mm.yyyy 38 How to get a personal GILDA certificate (1/5)
IST E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Location, Meeting, dd.mm.yyyy 39 How to get a personal GILDA certificate (2/5)
IST E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Location, Meeting, dd.mm.yyyy 40 How to get a personal GILDA certificate (3/5)
IST E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Location, Meeting, dd.mm.yyyy 41 Dear User, you can download your GILDA Personal Certificate going, *with the same browser you used to submit the request*, to the URL: Your certificate is valid for $CERTIFICATE_DAYS_VALUE days. After that you can go to: and register to the GILDA VOMS (usually, registration takes a working day). Then, you can go to the GILDA Grid Demonstrator at the URL: or, if you are participating to a tutorial or an induction course, to the GILDA Grid Tutor at the URL: (for LCG) or (for gLite) Remember that: 1) whenever you are prompted for the Operating System, use the username and the password you have chosen when you requested the GILDA Personal Certificate as username and as password; 2) whenever you are prompted for the GRID username and password and the passphrase of your GILDA Personal Certificate as password. Best Regards … Just click the link to get the certificate. From: GILDA-CA To: Subject: GILDA Personal Certificate for You will get an to the address given in previous web form How to get a personal GILDA certificate (4/5)
IST E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Location, Meeting, dd.mm.yyyy 42 You will be informed that a new certificate is available in your browser certificate list. Very important: you HAVE TO use the same browser in all the previous steps It’s suggested now to export the certificate and store it in a safe place. The certificate exporting procedure and the extension of the file is browser dependend (*.p12 for Mozilla/Netscape/FireFox and *.pfx for Internet Explorer). Exported certificates need to be converted in PEM format (*.pem). This is the certificate format used by the gLite security services. How to get a personal GILDA certificate (5/5)
IST E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Location, Meeting, dd.mm.yyyy 43 Dear User, you can download your GILDA Personal Certificate going, *with the same browser you used to submit the request*, to the URL: Your certificate is valid for 365 days. After that you can go to: and register to the GILDA VO (usually, registration takes a working day). Then, you can go to the GILDA Grid Demonstrator at the URL: or, if you are participating to a tutorial or an induction course, to the GILDA Grid Tutor at the URL: or Remember that: 1) whenever you are prompted for the Operating System, use the username and the password you have chosen when you requested the GILDA Personal Certificate as username and as password; 2) whenever you are prompted for the GRID username and password and the passphrase of your GILDA Personal Certificate as password. Best Regards The GILDA CA Manager … In the same we showed before you can seen one more link: Just follow the link to be registered to the GILDA VO. VOMS Registration (1/5)
IST E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Location, Meeting, dd.mm.yyyy 44 This page will be only accessible if you have imported successfully the received certificate VOMS registration (2/5)
IST E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Location, Meeting, dd.mm.yyyy 45 Confirm your VO registration request following the above link VOMS Registration (3/5)
IST E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Location, Meeting, dd.mm.yyyy 46 Finally you will get a confirmation Now you are a member of the GILDA VO!!! VOMS Registration (4/5)
IST E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Location, Meeting, dd.mm.yyyy 47 1) Log via SSH in glite-tutor.ct.infn.it (or grid-tutor.ct.infn.it) –But you have to provide us the IP address of the machine you want to login from. 2) Install the GILDA VM UI Combined on your laptop/desktop –You can download the GILDA VM UI Combined from: How to start using the GILDA testbed
IST E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Location, Meeting, dd.mm.yyyy 48 The GILDA Video Tutorials (
IST E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Location, Meeting, dd.mm.yyyy sites in 3 continents > 4200 certificates issued, 15% renewed at least once > 120 tutorials and demos performed in 15 months > 1,500,000 hits (> 60,000 visits) on (of) the web site from 10’s of different countries > 1.5 TB of videos and UI’s downloaded from the web site GILDA summary numbers
IST E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Location, Meeting, dd.mm.yyyy 50 8 Virtual Organizations supported: –Biomedicine (Biomed) –Earth Science Academy (ESR) –Earth Science Industry (CGG) –Astroparticle Physics (MAGIC) –Computational Chemistry (GEMS) –Grid Search Engines (GRACE) –Astrophysics (PLANCK) –Computation Archaeology (ARCHAEOGRID) Development of complete interfaces with GENIUS for 3 Biomed Applications: GATE, hadronTherapy, and Friction/Arlecore Development of complete interfaces with GENIUS for 4 Generic Applications: EGEODE (CGG), MAGIC, GEMS, and CODESA-3D (ESR) (successfull demos of EGEODE and GEMS at EGEE review) Development of complete interfaces with GENIUS for 16 demonstrative applications available on the GILDA Grid Demonstrator ( Development of complete interface with CLI for NEMO EGEE Applications and GILDA
IST E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Location, Meeting, dd.mm.yyyy 51 GILDA is a virtual laboratory for dissemination of grid computing: –It is a “de facto” standard t-Infrastructure adopted both by EGEE and many EU-FP6 projects (EELA, EUCHINAGRID, EUMEDGRID, ICEAGE, etc.) –It is a complete suite of grid elements (test-bed, CA, VO, monitoring system, web portal, user interfaces, support system) and applications fully dedicated to dissemination purposes and pre-porting of new applications to EGEE Infrastructure –GILDA runs latest production version of the gLite middleware to make the transition from the t-Infrastructure to the e-Infrastructure easy and transparent Summary and Conclusions
IST E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Location, Meeting, dd.mm.yyyy 52 GILDA home page – GILDA Certification Authority – GILDA Virtual Organization – Certificate Management Guide – Certificate Management Video – References
IST E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Location, Meeting, dd.mm.yyyy 53 Questions