FESR Consorzio COMETA - Progetto PI2S2 The COMETA consortium and its activities for Grid adoption by Industry in the context of the PI2S2 Project Roberto Barbera University of Catania and INFN Business Track at EGEE’07 Budapest,

Budapest, Business Track at EGEE’07, Outline Introduction The PI2S2 Project… … and its activities related to Industry Summary and Conclusions

Budapest, Business Track at EGEE’07, The Pillars of the Italian e-Infrastructure The Network The Grid FESR

Budapest, Business Track at EGEE’07, Objectives of an e-Infrastructure in Sicily Create a Virtual Laboratory in Sicily, both for scientific and industrial applications, built on top of a grid infrastructure Connect the Sicilian e-Infrastructure to those already existing in Italy, in Europe, and in the rest of the world improving the scientific collaboration and increasing the “competitiveness” of e-Science and e-Industry “made in Sicily” Disseminate the “grid paradigm” through the organization of dedicated events and training courses Trigger/foster the creation of spin-offs in the ICT area in order to reduce the “brain drain” of brilliant young people to other parts of Italy and beyond

Budapest, Business Track at EGEE’07, ~ € in 3 years! ~300 FTE’s ! (2/3 new hired staff) CPUs 4+ TFlops 250+ TBytes The Sicilian Grid in one slide

Budapest, Business Track at EGEE’07, The Sicilian Grid Projects

Budapest, Business Track at EGEE’07, The PI2S2 Project’s budget Total budget: € 11,338,250 (€ 8,503,687 from EC and € 2,834,563 from Consorzio COMETA)

Budapest, Business Track at EGEE’07, The COMETA Consortium (

Budapest, Business Track at EGEE’07, Project Workplan Work Packages WP1Design and creation of a GRID infrastructure WP2 Middleware integration with design and development of test procedures WP3 Hardware and software platforms for dissemination and training WP4 Development and integration of applications in the GRID

Budapest, Business Track at EGEE’07, The PI2S2 Production Service (1/3) Catania

Budapest, Business Track at EGEE’07, The PI2S2 Production Service (2/3) 1. ~300 cores AMD Opteron GB of memory per core 3. LSF 6.2 as LRMS everywhere 4. Infiniband-4X at all sites 1. ~60 TB of raw disk storage 2.Distributed/parallel GPFS filesystem gLite v3.0 middleware everywhere ! New delivery of ~1600 cores and ~140 TB of storage expected by the end of October

Budapest, Business Track at EGEE’07, The PI2S2 Production Service (3/3) 350 jobs/day – 10 CPU years in 1 month

Budapest, Business Track at EGEE’07, Relationships with Private Companies Official agreement signed with ORACLE for the S- Sicilia Project aiming at setting-up a Competence Centre in Sicily for QoS accounting on a grid environment in collaboration with the Consorzio COMETA and a University of Messina spin-off SME (see ORACLE presentation in the plenary session of yesterday). Agreement finalized with MICROSOFT for the adoption of Conference-XP as a platform to be used for/during grid training events. Other agreements under formalization with Ferrari, FIAT, and Technipetrol.

Budapest, Business Track at EGEE’07, The S-Sicilia Project

Budapest, Business Track at EGEE’07, Presently on gLite –Users use the gLite middleware services from Linux-based User Interfaces via a CLI –(almost) All gLite resources are Linux-based This implies –Grid users need to be trained –Only Linux-based applications can be deployed onto the Grid Porting of gLite to Windows –User Interface –Computing Element (farm of WNs) new users can use the grid ! windows applications can run on the grid ! Porting of gLite on Windows platform (1/2)

Budapest, Business Track at EGEE’07, Porting of gLite on Windows platform (2/2) new users can use the grid ! Windows applications can run on the grid ! Stable prototype of a GUI for Windows available. Windows sites already available.

Budapest, Business Track at EGEE’07, Grid2Win User Interface Local file system explorer Grid file system explorer

Budapest, Business Track at EGEE’07, A gLite site running Windows !

Budapest, Business Track at EGEE’07, SE Key Repository SE USER VIRTUAL ORGANIZATION Key File Encryption /Decryption Encrypted File The Problem of Insider Abuse and the Secure Storage SECURE ENVIRONMENT

Budapest, Business Track at EGEE’07, Encryption and Storage (lcg-scr) 1)Create random “Key” and “IV” 2)Encrypt “File” using the Key (AES 256 bit) 3)Store “Key”, “IV” and UI Keystore SE

Budapest, Business Track at EGEE’07, Retrieval and Decryption (lcg-scp) 1)Retrieve “Key”, “IV” and 2)Decrypt “File” using Key UI Keystore SE

Budapest, Business Track at EGEE’07, Secure Storage vs. EDS (Hydra)

Budapest, Business Track at EGEE’07, The GENIUS Grid Portal NICE is one of the companies officially collaborating with the Consorzio COMETA

Budapest, Business Track at EGEE’07, The GENIUS Job Wizard (“à la Sun Grid”) First prototype ready by Q1/2008

Budapest, Business Track at EGEE’07, Other middleware developments Development of methods for grid advance reservation/allocation and access to data and computing resources. Storage Accounting in a grid environment. Creation of a grid-security-enabled license server (based on FlexLM) for commercial software. Seamless integration of gLite WMS with MPICH-2 (with and without native Infiniband support).

Budapest, Business Track at EGEE’07, Co-organized by Consorzio COMETA and EGEE 2 full days; more than 80 participants Participation of many Companies. Among them: –APC –DATAMAT –FERRARI –FIAT –HP –IBM –MICROSOFT –ORACLE –RITTAL Concrete interest of Industry to “try” grid infrastructures for on-demand computing The Grid Industry Day (

Budapest, Business Track at EGEE’07, Other Dissemination&Training events The First International Grid School for Industrial Applications

Budapest, Business Track at EGEE’07, The PI2S2 Application Questionnaire ( Industrial Partners willing to submit use cases are welcome!

Budapest, Business Track at EGEE’07, Summary and Conclusions Sicilian grid projects are the first ones in Italy at a true regional level. The PI2S2 Infrastructure is available for users (it will reach its nominal size by the end of year) and many services/developments target Industry involvment and uptake. We are open to collaborate with Industrial Partners and I hope that this Conference will be very useful in this respect.

Budapest, Business Track at EGEE’07, Any Questions ? Thank you very much for your kind attention!