1. The EGO Computing Department
Antonella Bozzi, Head of EGO Computing Department
Frascati, November 28th 2011

2. What is EGO? Consortium founded in December 2000
Members : INFN (50%) + CNRS (50%) NIKHEF (associate)
Mandate :
“ensures the end of the construction of the antenna VIRGO, its operation, maintenance and the upgrade of the antenna as well as its exploitation; …
promotes an open co-operation in R&D; …
promotes the co-operation in the field of the experimental and theoretical gravitational waves research in Europe;
promotes contacts among scientists and engineers, the dissemination of information and the provision of advanced training for young researchers.”

3. EGO Management structure

4. Proposal for the Budget 2012 Expenditures
Description
Budget 2009
Budget 2010
Budget 2011
Budget 2012
proposal
Direction / Administration
Site & Infrastructure
Operation
Computing
R&D
Fellowships
VIRGO Upgrades
Advanced Virgo 5,
Total
Total ordinary expenses
STAC 8 November 2011

5. Computing Department Budget 2011

6. Computing Department 927k€ - 389k€ = 538k€
Personnel Budget 389k€
5 staff members
1 external for Help Desk
927k€ - 389k€ = 538k€

7. MoU with Computing Center
EGO-COU
MoU with Computing Center
Art.1
Computing for VIRGO will be done at different locations. The Cascina site is in charge of on line and in time analysis of data. The off-line activity will be performed mainly in the national computing centers (actually the CC-IN2P3/CNRS in Lyon and the Tier1 center of CNAF/INFN in Bologna) and in the laboratories of the VIRGO collaboration.
The off-line activity concerns
-Data simulation
-Noise source characterization of the interferometer
-Data reprocessing for h reconstruction, transient event search as bursts and
coalescing binary signals,
-Data analysis for continuous signal search
-Data analysis for G.W. stochastic background
-Data analysis of network constituted by the various gravitational wave detectors in
the world (NDAS)

8. MoU with Computing Center
EGO-COU
MoU with Computing Center
Art.2
The computing needs for the off-line activities are defined according to the quoted relevant documents . The procedures agreed by the Parties for this engagement are as follows:
Requests by the VIRGO collaboration will be defined by a VIRGO Computing Committee (now JECC), which will report to the EGO Council and monitor their utilization.
EGO after receiving the requests from the JECC, will decide yearly on the resources needed for off-line activities.
The Parties will make their best effort to provide yearly these resources.
In particular:
EGO will provide the suitable infrastructures and adequate computing resources and storage for on line and in time analysis, as it is defined in the VIRGO computing plan (VIR-PLA-DIR – , November 2001) and in the VIRGO Computing Needs for (VIR-LIS-XXX, October ) and future updating.
The national centers (presently the CC/IN2P3 in Lyon and CNAF/INFN in Bologna) will provide computing resources to the VIRGO collaboration on a marginal cost basis.
INFN and IN2P3/CNRS will make their best effort to provide the computing resources needed locally at the VIRGO Laboratories.
EGO will include the computing costs in its yearly budget. The offline computing costs will normally be shared equally between the two national centers.
Any extra computing resources that national centers could provide beyond the agreed annual request will be granted free of charge, on a best effort basis.

9. Consumable Internet Link
Canone Connessione Rete Garr
Canone fibra ottica spenta Interoute (~25km)
Canone fibra ottica Man pisana (~9km)

10. Consumable Off-line Computing
JECC Meeting November, 17° 2011 outcomes
“Based on Virgo requests and assuming a substitution of about 50TB in each center for 2012, and adding 120TB tapes for Cnaf, a minimum of 43k€ has to be foreseen in the EGO budget for 2012. 
Finally it is observed that the agreement between EGO and CC’s was valid until end 2009 and due to the fact that Virgo runs each year, it was tacitly renewed for ”

11. ConsumableVarious
538 k€ -115 k€ -125 k€ -25 k€ =273 k€

12. Network
Cabling over the site has been extended with tunnels and new buildings construction. Today we have:
~180km of total length + ~30km 6fibers cable
754 IP numbers assigned
130 switches
Wi-Fi
12 Access Point, 250 dynamic IP numbers
Mail and Internet Services
Mail server and mailing lists for EGO and Virgo
DNS domains virgo.infn.it and ego-gw.it, ego-gw.eu
Remote Access to the EGO Network
WEB Services

13. Network Layout

15. Network Budget 2011
273k€-50k€ =223k€

17. On-line buffer

18. Storage available in Cascina
~220TB
~70TB ~20k€

19. Computing Core FileServer: (2008) On-line Computing Farm: (2004-2006)
Reduntant twin IBM system with 4TB of fiberchannel disks
On-line Computing Farm: ( )
300Gflops on 96 nodes. 316core 4-8GB Ram
General Computing Farm: (2001)
11servers 37core
On-line processing: (2007)
20 servers 90core
Interferometer Control
About 100 CPUs running Real Time OS like RTLinux or LynxOS

20. Virgo Computing Budget
223k€ - 108k€ = 115k€

21. Maintenace & Investment sw Licenceces
EGO Budget...115k€ for.....
Maintenace & Investment sw Licenceces
115k€ - 54k€ = 61k€

22. The Global Security System
Video Control
16 cameras with motion detection capabilities
700 sensors: intrusion, fire, high temperature …
Alone Worker Protection System
Badge System ~550 badges
GSM / SMS Automatic phone call and alert messaging
61k€ - 15k€ = 36k€

23. Global Security System

24. Telecommunication Services
Telephone: 5 switchboard, 600 numbers
Conference and Meeting Support
5 meeting rooms (200 seats)
Conference Room Bookings
Audio/Video Conferencing
Support for several different standards for remote conferencing simultaneoulsy available in each room
Detector cameras and video recording capability managed directly by VIRGO operators.
36k€ = 36k€

25. Office Computing Budget To Be managed internally@EGO
36k€ - 58k€ = -22k€
The amount of not foreseen VIRGO request for
To Be managed