EGEE is a project funded by the European Union under contract IST Presentation of NA4 Generic Applications Roberto Barbera NA4 Generic Applications Coordinator 1 st EGEE Project Conference,

1 st EGEE Project Conference, Contents The goals of NA4 Generic Applications The NA4 Generic application tools: GENIUS and GILDA The procedure to select new Generic Applications The Generic Application Questionnaire Conclusions and outlook

1 st EGEE Project Conference, NA4 Generic Applications goals Activity NA4 focuses on the identification and support of early-user and established applications for use on the EGEE infrastructure. It has the following objectives:  To identify through the dissemination partners and a well defined integration process a portfolio of early user applications from a broad range of application sectors from academia, industry and commerce.  To support development and production use of all of these applications on the EGEE infrastructure and thereby establish a strong user base on which to build a broad EGEE user community.  To initially focus on two well-defined application areas – Particle Physics and Life sciences. The expected outcome of the activity will be the establishment of a broad portfolio of applications across a wide range of sectors suited to execution on the EGEE infrastructure meeting the needs of a broad collection of user groups from many sectors across Europe as illustrated in Figure (note the timeline for the introduction of each application domain is purely illustrative).

1 st EGEE Project Conference, NA4 Work Breakdown Structure

1 st EGEE Project Conference, Gen. App. estimated effort Activity NA4 Total effort (FTE) during 2 years Total effort (PM) during 2 years 1 st year effort (PM) 2 nd year effort (PM) Activity CESNET Generic MTA Generic DKRZ22412 Generic FhG22412 Generic INFN89648 Generic FOM44824 Generic TOTALS Generic Hiring process almost completed at all partners

1 st EGEE Project Conference, The transparent grid access local disk StorageElement StorageElementStorageElement ReplicaCatalogue UI dis k ResourceBroker ComputeElementComputeElement VOcolleague VOcolleague

1 st EGEE Project Conference, GENIUS grid settings

1 st EGEE Project Conference, GENIUS VO selection

1 st EGEE Project Conference, GENIUS graphic job editor (work in collaboration with DATAMAT)

1 st EGEE Project Conference, GENIUS graphic workflow editor (DNA4.1) (integration with TRIANA from GridLab)

1 st EGEE Project Conference, GENIUS RLS browsing

1 st EGEE Project Conference, GENIUS data replication

1 st EGEE Project Conference, GENIUS interactive services

1 st EGEE Project Conference, GENIUS for PDA GridICE integration RC browsing Job monitoring Job submission

1 st EGEE Project Conference, GENIUS for cell phone

1 st EGEE Project Conference, New GENIUS Applications: GATE (1/3)

1 st EGEE Project Conference, New GENIUS Applications: GATE (2/3)

1 st EGEE Project Conference, New GENIUS Applications: GATE (3/3)

1 st EGEE Project Conference, The GILDA home page (

1 st EGEE Project Conference, The GILDA Testbed

1 st EGEE Project Conference, The GILDA Certification Authority

1 st EGEE Project Conference, The GILDA Virtual Organization

1 st EGEE Project Conference, The GILDA monitoring system (3/3)

1 st EGEE Project Conference, The GILDA Applications: HEP (1/3)

1 st EGEE Project Conference, The GILDA Applications: EO (2/3)

1 st EGEE Project Conference, The GILDA Applications: ENG (3/3)

1 st EGEE Project Conference, The GILDA Tutorials (work in collaboration with NA3) First pre-tutorial in Edinburgh on April, 7, 2004 ( ) First induction course in Edinburgh on April, 26-28, 2004 ( )

1 st EGEE Project Conference, The Generic Application questionnaire (contribution to MNA4.1) Questionnaire to get information and first requirements from new communities interested in using the EGEE Infrastructure ( questionnaire.doc) questionnaire.doc Feed-backs received so far (  Astrophysics (EVO and Planck satellite)  Earth Observation (ozone maps, seismology, climate)  Digital Libraries (DILIGENT Project)  Grid Search Engines (GRACE Project)  Industrial applications (SIMDAT Project) Interest also from Computational Chemistry (Italy and Czech Republic), Civil Engineering (Spain), and Geophysics (Switzerland and France) communities

1 st EGEE Project Conference, Conclusions and outlook NA4 Generic Applications is a key activity in the process of getting new scientific and industrial communities interested and committed to use the continental grid infrastructure built by the EGEE Project. GENIUS is a well established tool which will be fundamental in the process of interfacing new applications with the EGEE middleware hiding its complex internals to non-experts users from new communities. GILDA is a complete suite of grid elements (test-bed, CA, VO, monitoring system, web portal) and applications fully dedicated to dissemination purposes. This could also represent the ideal grid testbed where to start the porting of new generic applications. GILDA is the dissemination tool which will be used by NA3 during courses and tutorials (first in Edinburgh next week!) so the important aspect of induction of the grid paradigm to new communities is also covered. It is now important to have the first meeting of the EGAAP board and define the first Generic Applications to be interfaced. It is also important to establish from the first days a good collaborative team-spirit among all people committed to NA4 Generic Applications, independently of their physical locations.

1 st EGEE Project Conference, Identify the new VO managers Identify the hosts of the new VO servers Identify asap version 0 of the EGEE Infrastructure where to deploy the m/w and the applications Create and deploy the needed configuration files (pool accounts, CE/SE specific, …) Start asap the gathering of requirements from application communities Define an agreed procedure to deploy commercial software on the EGEE Infrastructure Some technical issues