FESR Consorzio COMETA - Progetto PI2S2 GRID Success Stories in Sicily (The TriGrid VL and PI2S2 Projects) Roberto Barbera University of Catania and INFN EGEE User Forum Manchester,

Manchester, EGEE User Forum, Outline Introduction and General Objectives The TriGrid VL Project The PI2S2 Project Summary and Conclusions

Manchester, EGEE User Forum, The Sicilian Grid Projects

Manchester, EGEE User Forum, ~ € in 3 years! ~400 FTE’s ! (2/3 new hired staff) CPUs 300+ TBytes The Sicilian Grid in one slide

Manchester, EGEE User Forum, 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

Manchester, EGEE User Forum, lcg-scr: Encryption and Storage 1)Create random “Key” and “IV” 2)Encrypt “File” using the Key (AES 256 bit) 3)Store “Key”, “IV” and UI Keystore SE

Manchester, EGEE User Forum, lcg-scp: Retrieval and Decryption 1)Retrieve “Key”, “IV” and 2)Decrypt “File” using Key UI Keystore SE

Manchester, EGEE User Forum, The GILDA t-Infrastructure (1/2) ( TriGrid has 5 sites in GILDA !

Manchester, EGEE User Forum, The Questionnaire for New Applications ( 38 questionnaires received in 6 weeks !

Manchester, EGEE User Forum, (Some of) The Applications of TriGrid VL Astrophysics –Virtual Observatory –Visualizzazione 3D Visualization –The GAIA Mission Biomedicine –Analysis and classification of medical images (mammograms, etc.) High Energy Physics –Data analysis of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Experiments –Theoretical Physics Engineering Cultural heritage Analysis and monitoring of environmental risks Technologies of production

Manchester, EGEE User Forum, CATANA beam line in reality CATANA beam line simulated by hadronTherapy hadronTherapy in GENIUS TriGrid VL and the care of eye tumors

Manchester, EGEE User Forum, The COMETA Consortium (

Manchester, EGEE User Forum, The PI2S2 Project’s budget Total budget: € 11,338,250 (€ 8,503,687 from EC and € 2,834,563 from Consorzio COMETA)

Manchester, EGEE User Forum, The Hiring Process Since June 2006, 86 profiles (64 in 2006 and 22 in 2007) have been identified and timely published on the web (at the URL: In total, 173 CV’s have been received so far (139 in 2006 and 34 in 2007).

Manchester, EGEE User Forum, Hired People Statistics Graduates Undergraduates Age profile Distribution per partner

Manchester, EGEE User Forum, Relationships with Private Companies Official agreement signed with ORACLE for the S- Sicilia Project aiming at set-up a Competence Centre in Sicily for accounting on the grid in collaboration with the Consorzio COMETA and a University of Messina spin-off SME. Agreement finalized with MICROSOFT: –for the porting of gLite on Windows including the integration of MS CCS 2003 as LRMS [DONE]; –for the adoption of Conference-XP as a platform to be used for/during grid training. Other agreements are foreseen in the next future with Ferrari, FIAT, and Technipetrol.

Manchester, EGEE User Forum, Low level infrastructure for Prod. Service (racks, UPS, cooling, power cabling, etc.) 6 sites in the PI2S2 e-Infrastructure: 1.INFN-CT (Catania) 2.INAF-OACT (Catania) 3.UNIME/INGV (Messina) 4.UNICT-DIIT (Catania) 5.UNICT-DMI (Catania) 6.UNIPA/INAF-OAPA (Palermo) All Sites installed!

Manchester, EGEE User Forum, Lay-out of large sites Padova, V Workshop INFN Grid, Site 1 Site 3 Site 6 (expansion w.r.t. TriGrid)

Manchester, EGEE User Forum, Computing, Networking, and Storage 8 IBM BladeCenter H enclosures 84 IBM LS21 “blades” 336 cores AMD Opteron 2218 rev. F 772 GB of RAM (2 GB/core) 0.55 MSpecInt MSpecFP2000 More than 6 kSpec(Int/FP)Rate ~ 48.8 mW/SpecInt2000 at full load ! G-Ethernet service network CISCO Topspin Infiniband-4X additional low-latency network for HPC applications LSF 6.1 HPC included ! 4 IBM DS4200 Storage Systems (sites 1, 2, 3, and 6) FC-2-SATA technology GB disks 68 TB of storage (raw) in total Expandability up to 0.45 PB GPFS distributed/parallel file sytem included ! New tender for ~1500 cores and ~130 TB expected to start by the end of May

Manchester, EGEE User Forum, The COMETA AUP ( Usage policies in PI2S2

Manchester, EGEE User Forum, Presently on gLite –Grid users use the gLite middleware from Linux-based User Interfaces via 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)

Manchester, EGEE User Forum, Porting of gLite on Windows platform (2/2) new users can use the grid ! Windows applications can run on the grid ! First prototype of a GUI for Windows available. Windows sites already available both on GILDA and TriGrid. Soon on PI2S2 for tests.

Manchester, EGEE User Forum, A gLite site running Windows !

Manchester, EGEE User Forum, Other middleware developments Development of methods for grid advance reservation/allocation and access to data and computing resources. Storage Accounting in a grid environment (First prototype already deployed on GILDA). Creation of a grid-security-enabled license server (based on FlexLM) for commercial software. Integration of gLite WMS with MPICH-2 (DONE!).

Manchester, EGEE User Forum, Future dissemination & training events (2/2) The First International Grid School for Industrial Applications

Manchester, EGEE User Forum, The PI2S2 Application Questionnaire ( questionnaires filled so far

Manchester, EGEE User Forum, Summary and Conclusions TriGrid VL and PI2S2 are the first grid projects in Italy at a true regional level. After almost one year from the beginning the e- Infrastructure of TriGrid is now a reality and the big portfolio of application is going to be deployed on it. The PI2S2 Infrastructure will also be available in the next few weeks. We are open to collaborate with EGEE, especially with the members of the Industry Forum.

Manchester, EGEE User Forum, Any Questions ? Thank you very much for your kind attention!