1. Status and requirements of PLANCK
NA4/SA1 meeting

2. Brief intro on application
Planck: ESA satellite mission (2007);
LevelS: mission simulation s/w
foreach instrument {
foreach frequency {
foreach cosmology { ….
Some Montecarlo jobs;
Links with VObs.

3. Plank simulation is a set of 70 instances of the Pipeline.
The LevelS
Pipeline:
Chained but not parallel;
Stages are C/C++/Fortran….
Shell/perl scripts;
Cmb maps
foregrounds
Scanning
F90!
Noise
Cmb maps
analysis
Plank simulation is a set of 70
instances of the Pipeline.

4. Some benchmarks + HFI (50 channels) LFI 30 GHz (4) LFI 44 GHz (6)
(12)
389 min
620 min
830 min
34 GB
45 GB
75 GB
TOTAL (for LFI)
255h
1.3 TB
+ HFI (50 channels)

5. Questions: Is it parallel? NO it runs concurrently.
Do you need MPI/parallel? Yes. In later phase 16/32 CPUs in the site.
What is the BW? > Gigabit!
How long does it run? From 6h up to 24h

6. Status of the Application
VO Setup:
Management;
Technical Management;
VO manager;
Site managers;
RLS;
Planck users cert;
Planck sites setup;
EGEE site support.
Application Setup:
Basic Gridification;
First tests;
IT;
People (MPA!!);
Refined gridification;
Data&metadata;
Tests:
Runs;
Data;

7. Technical organization
VO manager/(RA ?) GT
R.A.: Italy
OATs OAPd
IASF Uni Mi
UniRM2 SISSA
GT, C. Vuerli S. Pastore
C. Burigana D. Maino
G. DeGasperis C. Baccigalupi
R.A.: Spain
IFC
E. Martinez Gonzalez
R.A.: France
IAP
IN2PL/LAL
PCC/CdE
S. Du J. Delabruille
R.A.: UK
Inst. Astro
Edinburgh
T. Mann
R.A.: Germany
MPA
M. Reineke T. Esslin T. Banday
R.A.: The Netherlands
ESA/ESTEC
K. Bennet

8. VO status & needs Knowledge: Slow startup… Technical setup;
Two sites: OATS+IFC;
Two members.
Problem of European users to join the VO…
Knowledge:
Heterogeneous!
Contacts with EGEE sites;
MPA looks for EGEE in Munich;
Training:
User tutorial;
Site manager tutorial;
Data and replica!!!
DBMS and Metadata!

9. VO evolution User join the VO 15-30 members; UI in each site;
Quantum-grid in each site;
Regional Area
Current status
Future status (~ end of summar)
R.A.: Italy
15 CPUS GB
CPUS 1 TB (total)
R.A.: Spain
30 CPUS GB
more
R.A.: France
none
6 CPUS GB (total)
R.A.: UK
2 CPUS GB (total)
R.A.: Germany
R.A.: The Netherlands

10. Application status Basic gridification: Basic tests:
Customized scripts;
WN env;
Data handling.
Basic tests: IT
LFI (22 channels)
> 12 time faster!!!
but ~5% failures

11. Lesson learned Massive data production on WN ( > 40 GB):
Big disks;
Complex site topology (parallel/distributed FS);
Compressing/RM-CR/removing file program;
FITSIO with fgal/gsiftp support;
Data handling:
Complex data structure;
1 GB RAM.
10-15 terabytes
˜ CD-ROM
1 Eiffel Tower unit

12. Application needs Massive storage of ~ > 5 TB
Data storing/replica (automatic!)
Tier or not Tier?
User common data front-end:
web portal or data browser;
DSE support (metadata) for Grid/non-Grid data:
G-DSE;
External DB;
More then 200 CPUS.

13. Application deployment: status & strategy
Software deployment:
Dynamic;
Licences: SW
Compilers.
MPI support intrasite: 16/32 CPUs;
Specific io libs;
Grid-UI
Submission tools
TEST (summer 2005)
Data browsing
Network & storage tests (end 2005).

14. Grid added values (…not just CPUS) Data sharing!
distributed data for distributed users;
Replica and security;
Common interface to SW and data;
Collaborative work for simulations and reduction:
less time, less space, less frustration….

15. What we have… what we need
VO and RLS RB
Basic Grid-FS browsing tools: grid-ls, grid-cp etc.
Beowulf/parallel sys as one WN.
DB connection + WS.
Easiest WN env setup (we are Astrophysics…)
Documentation!!!!
We are young and we need time to grow…
Discuss later our needs for EGEE-2 ?