1. NA3, NA4, and GILDA Roberto Barbera Univ
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2. GILDA/NA3 Summary “numbers”
About 20 sites in 3 continents
certificates issued ! (15-20% renewed at least once)
850+ users registered in the GILDA VOMS
So far used in more than 265 induction courses, training events, and official university curricula
200+ jobs/day on the average
~ 2 million hits on the website from different countries
4.5+ TB of training material downloaded from the web site
last 12 months
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3. Basic, Medium, and Advanced.
The GILDA Training Material (
90+ topics (user induction, grid services installation and management, application development) with plenty of exercises. Three levels of difficulty:
Basic, Medium, and Advanced.
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4. Demonstrative Applications
Training on application development: the GILDA Forge (
Exercises
Demonstrative Applications
teaching/learning by
examples
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5. GILDA Application support cycle in NA4
Evaluation
Design of (GENIUS)
Grid interface
Functionality
Audit and Support
Showcase in workshops,
schools,
and tutorials
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6. The EUMEDGRID Grid School (http://www.eumedgrid.org/egsap-1)
First EUMEDGRID Grid School (Cairo, Egypt, April 2007)
10 applications selected, all “gridified”, several with GENIUS interface
(biology, engineering, mathematics, physics, cognitive sciences , etc.)
80 nodes, 4 grid sites, 6 Mb/s connection installed in a hotel
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7. The 2nd EELA Grid School (EGRIS-2)
2nd EELA Grid School (Mérida, Venezuela, 30th Jul-10th Aug 2007)
12 days, 11 students
27 nodes, 6 sites + 2 Mbits/s connection
5 applications gridified (Enviromental and Earth Sciences, Food Engineering, Data mining)‏
Java Distributed Computing System (UCI- CUBA)‏
AERMOD (CUBAENERGIA - CUBA)‏
Aiuri (Project COPPE/UFRJ - BRAZIL)‏
Food Engineering Application on Meat Freezing (UNAM - MEXICO)‏
Proyecto de implementación del Modelo Hidrológico (UTPL - ECUADOR)‏
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8. The Consorzio COMETA Grid School (http://www. consorzio-cometa
First International Grid School for Industrial Application (Aci Trezza, Catania, 30 Jun - 07 Jul 2007)
7 applications selected (2 from coming from the industrial worlds) and successfully ported to the Grid.
Just an example:
OpenFoam, The Open Source Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Toolbox, is now able to run on the COMETA infrastructure
Some of them requiring MPI2CH (a patch for the gLite WMS was developed to enable that feature) and 64bit platform (WN installed with 64bit SO and libraries)
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9. The EUChinaGRID School
School for Application Integration on Grid (Beijing, China, 25 Oct – 03 Nov 2007)
4 applications ported and ready to run on the EUChina Grid Infrastructure:
Grid-based Statistical Analysis of Fe Abundances Gradients in the Galaxy
Three biological applications used within the Chinese Human Cancer Project (BLAST, Blat, SIM4)
ZEN - Cosmological parameter constraints with the combination of different probes - aims to solve the dark energy enigma
A Drug Discovery application
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10. The INFN Grid Schools (https://agenda. infn. it/conferenceDisplay. py
Two Grid Schools held in Martina Franca (Taranto, Italy) from 5th to 23rd of November 2007
1 week Grid Site Administrator Training Course (to prepare the “Grid-in-a-Room” infrastructure to be used in the following weeks)
2 weeks Application Integration Training School
7 applications belonging to different fields such as hadron therapy, data-mining, neural networks, environment and civil protection, hydrology, optimization COMPLETELY “gridified” already during the school
By the end of the school, some applications were also running on INFN production Grid using the resources of several virtual organizations (GRIDIT, THEOPHYS, PAMELA, BIO)
Full report available at:
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11. NA4 Summary Support for LHC Experiments
Support for more than 30 different applications belonging to several scientific domains (only in 2007)
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12. INFN involvement in EGEE-III (NA3 and NA4 only)
NA3 (Training, 144 PM in total):
TNA3.1: Course content creation, scheduling, organisation, and delivery (60 PM);
TNA3.2.b Training-Infrastructure provision (72 PM);
TNA3.3: Activity management and partner coordination (12 PM);
NA4 (Applications Support, 137 PM in total):
TNA4.1.2: Application Porting Support (36 PM);
TNA4.1.3: Direct User Support (34 PM);
TNA4.2.1 High Energy Physics Cluster (36 PM);
TNA4.3.2 Regional Coordination (31 PM)
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13. Additional requests for 2008
See the Excel file sent
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14. Any Questions ? Thank you very much for your kind attention!
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