E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA GILDA t-Infrastructure Claudio Cherubino INFN - Catania Tutorial on grid, visualization and high performance calculation Mexico City, October,2007

E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA Tutorial on grid, visualization and high performance calculation Grid INFN Laboratory for Dissemination Activities Demonstrate/disseminate grid computing Adopted by several Grid projects worldwide It runs the latest production (stable) version of LCG grid middleware but it is also adopting gLite in order to make the transition to the new middleware smoother and easier It is free Getting started

E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA The GILDA Project – web portal

E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA Why t-Infrastructure? Avoid disruption of production systems of Grid projects Prepare participants for future middleware releases Easy entry point for new users/communities Provide guaranteed response for tutorials

E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA Tutorial on grid, visualization and high performance calculation GILDA Test-bed ~ 20 sites in 4 continents

E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA Tutorial on grid, visualization and high performance calculation All gLite services on GILDA M I D D L E W A R E V E R S I O N : g L i t e

E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA Tutorial on grid, visualization and high performance calculation The GILDA Sponsors (

E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA Tutorial on grid, visualization and high performance calculation Training Strategy (1)

E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA Before trying GILDA… First Steps: Ask for a GILDA personal certificate 2.Load the certificate in your browser 3.Accept Use Policy 4.Subscribe to the GILDA Virtual Organisation

E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA Tutorial on grid, visualization and high performance calculation The GILDA Certification Authority (

E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA Tutorial on grid, visualization and high performance calculation Training Strategy (2)

E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA Tutorial on grid, visualization and high performance calculation The GILDA VOMS (

E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA Tutorial on grid, visualization and high performance calculation Training Strategy (3) Site Managers Beginners Application Developers

E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA Tutorial on grid, visualization and high performance calculation Tutorial: Beginners B e g i n n e r s USER INTERFACE PLUG AND PLAY USER INTERFACE VIRTUAL MACHINE USER INTERFACE REAL (gLite-tutor) GENIUS WEB PORTAL [glite-tutor] /home/giorgio > voms-proxy-init --voms gilda Cannot find file or dir: /home/giorgio/.glite/vomses Your identity: /C=IT/O=GILDA/OU=Personal Certificate/L=INFN/CN=Emidio Enter GRID pass phrase: Your proxy is valid until Mon Jan 30 23:35: Creating temporary proxy Done Contacting voms.ct.infn.it:15001 [/C=IT/O=GILDA/OU=Host/L=INFN "gilda" Creating proxy Done Your proxy is valid until Mon Jan 30 23:35:

E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA Tutorial on grid, visualization and high performance calculation Tutorial: Site Managers S i t e M a n a g e r s HOST CERTS GILDA TESTBED ( SERVICES AND SITES ) GILDA VIRTUAL SERVICES MACHINES GILDA MONITORING SYSTEMS HOST CERTS HOST CERTS

E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA Tutorial on grid, visualization and high performance calculation Tutorial: Application Developers A p p l i c a t i o n D e v e l o p e r s GILDA DEMONSTRATOR GILDA USE CASES HOW TO USE CLI/API/WEB SERVICES in gLite GILDA TEAM SUPPORT FOR APPLICATION INTEGRATION (GENIUS ALSO) Demonstrative Applications

E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA Tutorial on grid, visualization and high performance calculation Some of the Applications ported on GILDA 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 ( demo.ct.infn.it) Development of complete interface with CLI for NEMO

E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA Tutorial on grid, visualization and high performance calculation The GILDA Training Material (

E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA Tutorial on grid, visualization and high performance calculation The GILDA Support System

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E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA Tutorial on grid, visualization and high performance calculation Standard tutorial layout Local site User Interface Resource Broker BDII Students’ Room ssh Worker nodes CE LFC SE VOMS GILDA t-Infrastructure User Desktop Virtual UI Virtual UI Virtual UI

E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA Tutorial on grid, visualization and high performance calculation Applications: RASTER-3D Set of tools for generating high quality raster images of molecules

E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA Tutorial on grid, visualization and high performance calculation Applications: Volcano Sonification (Picture: M. Monzier IRD/IG-EPN)(Picture: g1.globo.com) Etna, ItalyTungurahua, Ecuador “Sonified” data from geophysical data collected by digital seismographs placed on volcanoes.

E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA Tutorial on grid, visualization and high performance calculation Applications: Volcano Sonification Seismograms Melodisation

E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA Tutorial on grid, visualization and high performance calculation Applications: hadronTherapy Employed for the treatment of some kind of ocular tumours Used to calibrate the proton beamline in reality

E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA Tutorial on grid, visualization and high performance calculation Applications: DEMTOOLs Satellite image rendering program Input: ASCII file in DEM format (Digital Elevation Model) Output: VRML file

E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA Tutorial on grid, visualization and high performance calculation Stats Used in more than 180 tutorials 7693 certificates issued > 3 TB of videos and Virtual Grid services downloaded Web portal: hits in 2006

E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA Tutorial on grid, visualization and high performance calculation Stats

E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA Tutorial on grid, visualization and high performance calculation Non EU countries benefited by GILDA courses Basic / user tutorial Advanced / sysadmin Application Porting

E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA Tutorial on grid, visualization and high performance calculation Non EU countries benefited by GILDA courses Basic / user tutorial Advanced / sysadmin Application Porting

E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA Tutorial on grid, visualization and high performance calculation The Future of Grids Increasing the number of infrastructure users by increasing awareness –Dissemination and outreach –Training and education –Grids offer new opportunities for collaborative work Increasing the number of applications by improving application support and middleware functionality –Increase stability, scalability, and usability  Major efforts needed particularly on VO management, security infrastructure, data management, and job management –High level grid middleware extensions Increasing the grid infrastructure –Increase manageability of Grid services –Reducing the cost of operation –Ensuring interoperability between infrastructures Protecting user investments –Better involvement of industry –Move towards a sustainable grid infrastructure

E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA Tutorial on grid, visualization and high performance calculation Summary and conclusions 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, EUINDIAGRID, 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

E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA Tutorial on grid, visualization and high performance calculation Links GILDA home page – GILDA Certification Authority – GILDA Virtual Organization – GILDA Support System – GILDA Form for Bookings – GILDA Repository of Training Material – GILDA Virtual Services –

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