1. INFSO-RI-508833 Enabling Grids for E-sciencE www.eu-egee.org EGEE general project update Fotis Karayannis EGEE South East Europe Project Management Board representative GRNET Slides are based on EGEE GGF16 presentation, presented by Erwin Laure

2. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI-508833 GGF 16 - February 2006 2 The EGEE project Objectives –Large-scale, production-quality infrastructure for e-Science  leveraging national and regional grid activities worldwide  consistent, robust and secure –improving and maintaining the middleware –attracting new resources and users from industry as well as science EGEE –1st April 2004 – 31 March 2006 –71 leading institutions in 27 countries, federated in regional Grids EGEE-II –Proposed start 1 April 2006 (for 2 years) –Expanded consortium  > 90 partners in 32 countries (also non-European partners)  At final stages of negotiations

3. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI-508833 GGF 16 - February 2006 3 SA1- EGEE Infrastructure Scale > 170 sites in 39 countries > 17 000 CPUs > 5 PB storage > 10 000 concurrent jobs per day > 60 Virtual Organisations

4. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI-508833 GGF 16 - February 2006 4 10,000 jobs /day From Accounting data:  ~3 million jobs in 2005 so far  Sustained daily rates (per month Jan – Nov 2005): [2185, 2796, 7617, 10312, 11151, 9247, 9218, 11445, 10079, 11124, 9491]  ~8.2 M kSI2K.cpu.hours  >1000 cpu years  Real usage is higher as accounting data was not published from all sites until recently

5. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI-508833 GGF 16 - February 2006 5 Hierarchical Operations Structure Operations Management Centre (OMC): –At CERN – coordination etc Core Infrastructure Centres (CIC) –Manage daily grid operations – oversight, troubleshooting  “Operator on Duty” –Run infrastructure services –Provide 2 nd level support to ROCs –UK/I, Fr, It, CERN, Russia, Taipei Regional Operations Centres (ROC) –Front-line support for user and operations issues –Provide local knowledge and adaptations –One in each region – many distributed User Support Centre (GGUS) –In FZK: provide single point of contact (service desk), portal

6. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI-508833 GGF 16 - February 2006 6 NA4-Applications >20 supported applications from 7 domains –High Energy Physics –Biomedicine –Earth Sciences –Computational Chemistry –Astronomy –Geo-Physics –Financial Simulation Another 8 applications from 4 domains are in evaluation stage

7. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI-508833 GGF 16 - February 2006 7 NA5- Policy and International Cooperation

8. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI-508833 GGF 16 - February 2006 8 Grid Interoperability We currently see different flavors of Grids deployed worldwide –Because of application needs, legacy constraints, funding, etc. –Diversity is positive! – Competition to find the best solutions Many applications need to operate on more than one Grid infrastructure –Pragmatic approach to interoperability is key –Applications need interoperable Grid infrastructures now –A production infrastructure cannot be an early adopter of quickly changing standards EGEE is active contributor to interoperability and standardization efforts –Works with OSG, NAREGI, ARC, and the multi-grids interoperability effort –Provides valuable input on practical experiences to standardization process –Contributes to over 15 GGF WG/RG –Currently supplies two GGF area directors

9. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI-508833 GGF 16 - February 2006 9 Grid Interoperation Leaders from TeraGrid, OSG, EGEE, APAC, NAREGI, DEISA, Pragma, UK NGS, KISTI will lead an interoperation initiative in 2006. Six international teams met for the first time at GGF-16 in February 2006 –Application Use Cases  (Bair/TeraGrid, Alessandrini/DEISA) –Authentication/Identity Mgmt  (Skow/TeraGrid) –Job Description Language  Newhouse/UK-NGS –Data Location/Movement  Pordes/OSG –Information Schemas  Matsuoka/NAREGI –Testbeds  Arzberger/Pragma Leaders from nine Grid initiatives met at SC05 to plan an application-driven “Interop Challenge” in 2006.

10. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI-508833 GGF 16 - February 2006 10 Future EGEE-II supposed to start on April 1 st –Smooth transition from current phase –Additional support for more application domains –Increased number of partners, also from US and AP –Unified EGEE middleware distribution gLite 3.0 Continue and reinforce interoperability work Standardization in GGF, other bodies, and industry important for long term sustainability of Grid Need for commonly accepted standards Towards a long-term sustainable Grid infrastructure

11. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI-508833 GGF 16 - February 2006 11 Upcoming EGEE Events Regional EGEE sustainability workshops –Towards a more permanent FP7 scheme EGEE-EGEE-II transition meeting, CERN, 12-13 April, 2006 –http://agenda.cern.ch/fullAgenda.php?ida=a061190http://agenda.cern.ch/fullAgenda.php?ida=a061190 EGEE Final Review, CERN, 23-24 May, 2006 & EGEE-II kick-off meeting, CERN, 25-26 May, 2006 EGEE-II conference, Geneva, 25-29 September, 2006 –Include sessions with related projects –Theme will be long term sustainability