Summary from WP 1 Parallel Section Massimo Sgaravatto INFN Padova

WP1 PM9 release WP1 very focused on the WP1 PM9 release Functionalities foreseen for the WP1 PM9 release already presented to the applications in a bilateral WP1 – WP8TWG meeting (~ 1 month ago) and here in Oxford Discussions on status of implementation of the various WP1 PM9 components (and also a fruitful WP1 implementers “hands on” meeting) User Interface (UI) Resource Broker (RB) Job Submission Service (JSS) Information Index (II) Logging and Bookkeeping Services (L&B)

WP1 PM9 components User Interface Command-line for job management operations (job submission, job removal, job status monitoring, etc…) Job Description Language (JDL) used when the job is submitted, to specify its characteristics and requirements Condor ClassAds based Resource Broker (RB) Responsible to choose the “best” CE’s where to submit jobs Matchmaking between requirements specified in the JDL expression and available resources (published in the MDS + Replica Catalog) As “optimization” for the PM9 release jobs will be submitted “close” to data No data transfers will be triggered

WP1 PM9 components Job Submission Service Wrapper of Condor-G for the PM9 release On top of Globus GRAM (to implement a reliable job submission service) Information Index Used by the RB as first filter in the resource discovery process GIIS with some customisations at PM9

WP1 PM9 components Bookkeeping Short term (volatile) data about currently active jobs Job definition Job status and related info Logging Long term (persistent) info about jobs and workload management system Used for debugging and post-mortem analysis of job runs

WP1 test environment WP1 test environment for early integration tests CNAF (RB + JSS + L&B Server + II) Prague-CESNET (PBS + Condor, MDS 2.1 alpha) Milano (PBS, MDS 2.1 alpha) Padova (LSF + Condor, MDS 2.1 alpha) Imperial College (UI)

Relations with the other WP’s Relations with the other WP’s identified, already presented to the other WP’s, and discussed in some bilateral meetings before Oxford and here Some more discussions will be needed in the next future to better define some details MDS schema and information providers WP1 submitted its inputs on the MDS schema specification for the PM9 release Agreed with WP4 and WP5 (responsible to implement the correspondent information providers) Finalize the information transfer infrastructure to enable applications to access the SE contents via local filesystem calls at PM9 …

Other items Grid Accounting Economy-based model Paper with first ideas and proposals will be circulated soon (after more discussion within WP1) First internal review of D1.2 (architecture document) Hopefully submitted to reviewers by July 18 th