1. Neil Geddes CCLRC Head of e-Science Director of the UK Grid Operations Support Centre

2. NGS “Today” Projects e-Minerals e-Materials Orbital Dynamics of Galaxies Bioinformatics (using BLAST) GEODISE project UKQCD Singlet meson project Census data analysis MIAKT project e-HTPX project. RealityGrid (chemistry) Users Leeds Oxford UCL Cardiff Southampton Imperial Liverpool Sheffield Cambridge Edinburgh QUB BBSRC CCLRC. Interfaces OGSI::LiteWSRF::Lite

3. Oxford and Leeds (White Rose Grid)

4. Manchester and CCLRC-RAL

5. Also includes: http://www.csar.cfs.ac.uk/ 256 Itanium2 processor SGI Altix 512 processor Origin3800 Thus, the NGS provides access to over 2000 processors, over 36TB of "data-grid" capacity, common scientific applications and extensive data archives. Other resource providers anticipated to join in the future … http://www.hpcx.ac.uk/ Full installation = 1600 IBM p690+ Regatta processors currently 1236 processors EMBL Nucleotide Sequences NCBI, BLAST, EMBOSS, FASTA, Gaussian

7. Production Status TODAY 4 new core nodes operational 136 Users registered (36 since 1 September ’04) Grid enabled – Globus v2 (VDT distribution v1.2) at present BDII information service (GLUE + MDS Schemas) Data Services – Oracle, SRB and OGSA-DAI Growing base of user applications MyProxy and CA services provided by GOSC VO Management Software – LCG-VO User support: Helpdesk Next… Other Middleware [gLite/OMII etc…] NGS Portal Resource Broker SRB production service

9. Training December 8-10 Train the trainers NGS, e-Science Centres Quarterly “New Users” at NeSC EGEE + NGS mods Computing Services workshop ~ June GOSC/NGS sysadmin training First “face to face” meeting Need “New Sites” training

10. Other Developments NGS newsletter OMII helpdesk Resource Broker (LCG) available for early adopters TeraGrid UK certificates accepted on TeraGrid Looking at INCA with Jenny Schopf Part of accounting dev’t. with e-Markets Meeting with OSG iGOC HPCX, CSAR, CCPs Collect user exemplars Agreed acknowledgement

11. “Tomorrow” Web Services based National Grid Infrastructure

12. U of A HPCxHPCx UofD GOSC NGS Core Nodes: Host core services, coordinate integration, deployment and support +free to access resources for all VOs. Monitored interfaces + services NGS Sites: Integrated with NGS, some services/resources available for all VOs Monitored interfaces + services NGS Connected Sites: Integrated with NGS, support for some VO’s Monitored interfaces (+security etc.) RAL Oxford Leeds Man. CSARCSAR U of B U of C Commercial Provider PSRE

13. UK e-Infrastructure LHC ISIS TS2 HPCx + HECtoR Regional and Campus grids Users get common access, tools, information, Nationally supported services, through NGS Integrated internationally VRE, VLE, IE

14. Timeline Q2Q4Q2Q3Q1Q4Q3Q2Q1Q3 2004 2006 2005 EGEE gLite alpha release gLite release 1 OMII release NGS Expansion (Bristol, Cardiff…) OGSA-DAI WS plan NGS Production Service NGS WS Service EGEE gLite release OMII Release NGS Expansion WS2 plan NGS WS Service 2