1. UK Grid Operations Support Centre All slides stolen by P.Clarke from a talk given by: Dr Neil Geddes CCLRC Head of e-Science Director of the UK Grid Operations Support Centre

2. UK Core e-Science programme - Situation Today * Leeds Manchester * * Oxford RAL * Level-2 Grid National Grid Service * DL

3. U of A HPCxHPCx UofD GOSC RAL Oxford Leeds Man. NGS Core Nodes: Host core services, coordinate integration, deployment and support +free to access resources for all VOs. Monitored interfaces + services The UK’s National Grid Service CSARCSAR U of B U of C 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.) Commercial Provider PSRE

4. ETF Audit Board Management Board Steering Committee Director GOSC Operations Board Operations Manager/ Technical Director Development Manager TRAINING Operations Board Security NGS/Core Networking GOC GSC Steering Committee Funding bodies + stake-holders (JISC, RC’s, users, res. providers) Director, UK e-Science programme (Chair) JISC RCUK UCISA. UK e-Science TAB rep.? UK eSSC rep? Resource Providers (Management Board) Rep Director, GOSC. User Group Chair Audit Board Independent body Agreed with SC Reviews progress and performance against agreed criteria (bi)Annual Management Board Sets and Coordinates Policy Decides on services etc. Director, GOSC (Chair) GOSC Technical Director ETF Chair GridPP Project Leader OMII Director NeSC Director EGEE UK+I Federation Leader e-Science User Board Chair. UKERNA Resource Providers ( Initiallly 1 per GOSC Institution - CCLRC, Leeds, Oxford, Manchester, Edinburgh-. Eventually expect to move to a “Regional” e.g. MAN representation model.? ) Operations Board Organises day-to-day running NGS coordinator Site reps Security/CERT rep GSC GOC Networking rep. USERS

5. GOSC Roles  UK Grid Services  Core UK Grid services: Simple Registry, data transfer, Job Submission, security, Data Access  Key services (to be supported for all Grids): Authorisation, Notification, Workflow, Monitoring and Accounting, Grid Management Services, VO support  Services to be coordinated with others (eg OMII, NeSC, LCG): Integration testing, compatibility & Validation Tests, User Management, training  Coordinate deployment and Operations  Decide what and when  Monitoring of interfaces and SLD’s  Helpdesk

6. The OMII, ETF & NGS in context OMII ETF NGS ‘Gold’ Services Other Software Services Prototypes & Specifications Software with proven capability & realistic deployment experience Feedback & future requirements EGEE NMI +???

7. Core services to facilitate collaborative (grid) computing – run by GOSC Authentication (PKI X509) Job submission/batch service Resource brokering Authorisation Virtual Organisation management Certificate management Information service Data access/integration services (SRB/OGSA-DAI/DQPS) National Registry (of registry’s) Data replication Data caching Grid monitoring Accounting UK e-Science Cert. gsi-ssh, globus-job-submit, condorG EDG-RB VIM/VOMS (+work Manchester/EGEE) VOMS (+Grid3/EGEE/Manchester) myProxy(++) BDII/Glue ? ETF ? ? EGEE ? EGEE/LCG + ETF (+TeraGrid) ? EGEE/LCG/ETF ?

8. GOSC 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