1. Grid Projects in Sicily
Roberto Barbera
Università di Catania and INFN
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2. Outline Objectives of the Grid Projects in Sicily TriGrid VL PI2S2
The Project
The Partners
The Activities (and their current status)
PI2S2
Relationship between TriGrid and PI2S2
Summary and conclusions
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3. Objectives of the Grid Projects in Sicily
Create a “collaboratory” in Sicily, both for scientific and industrial applications, built on top of a grid infrastructure
Connect the Sicilian e-Infrastructure to those already existing in Italy, in Europe, and in the rest of the world improving the scientific collaboration and increasing the “competitiveness” of e-Science and e-Industry “made in Sicily”
Disseminate the “grid paradigm” through the organization of dedicated events and training courses
Trigger/foster the creation of spin-offs in the ICT area in order to reduce the “brain drain” of brilliant young people to other parts of Italy and beyond
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4. The TriGrid VL Project at a glance
Full name: Trinacria Grid Virtual Laboratory
Code name: TriGrid (pronounce it tree-grid)
Financed by Department of Industry of Regione Siciliana within the call 3.15 of the POR (Programma Operativo Regionale)
Start date: 8 November 2005
Duration: 2 years
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5. TriGrid Project’s Budget
Total budget: € 3,770,200 (€ 2,993,100 from the Regione Siciliana and € 777,100 from partners)
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6. The TriGrid Partners
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7. The TriGrid Activities (Work Packages)
List of TriGrid VL Activities
WP1
Design, set-up, and management of the
grid infrastructure
WP2
Collection of requirements, tests of grid
middleware and access to resources and to data
(Middleware developments)
WP3
Dissemination and Training
WP4
Applications’ porting and users’ support
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8. The TriGrid Grid Infrastructure (http://gridice. ct. trigrid
INFNCT
INAF-OACT
DIFTER-UNIPA
ING-UNIME
CECUM
SEASOFT
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9. Photo Gallery CECUM Messina INFN Catania
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10. Computing and Storage Resources
288 cores AMD Opteron 280
400 GB of memory
LSF 6.1 HPC everywhere
Infiniband-1X at INAF-OACT
and CECUM
gLite v3.0 middleware everywhere !
57 TB of raw disk storage FC-2-SATA
Distributed/parallel GPFS filesystem
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11. Automatic Site Functional Tests (GStat) (http://goc. grid. sinica. edu
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12. The TriGrid Real Time Monitor (1/2)
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13. The TriGrid Real Time Monitor (2/2)
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14. Job Statistics 170000+ jobs in less 6 months !
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15. Current Activities in WP2
Development of methods for grid advance reservation/allocation and access to data and computing resources
Job description semantics and translation to/from different languages (JDL ↔ JSDL)
Storage Accounting in a grid environment
GFAL Java APIs
Web interfaces to grid metadata catalogues (Java and PHP)
Secure data storage in a grid environment
Porting of grid middleware (gLite) on Windows
Submission portal “à la SUN Grid” based on GENIUS
Creation of a grid-security-enabled license server for commercial software
Integration of LCG and gLite WMS with MPICH-2
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16. Porting of gLite on Windows
First prototype of a GUI
for Windows available.
new users can use the grid !
Windows applications can run on the grid !
First Windows site available
on GILDA. Soon on TriGrid.
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17. The Project Web Portal (http://www.trigrid.it)
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18. TriGrid Training Statistics
More than 220 participants · days delivered so far !
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19. Use of ConferenceXP for Grid Training
Specific venues and virtual rooms
for TriGrid VL available at Catania
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20. The TriGrid AUP
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21. The TriGrid Virtual Organization (https://voms. ct. infn
69 Users already registered in the TriGrid Virtual Organization !
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22. The TriGrid User’s Support System (http://support.trigrid.it)
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23. 38 questionnaires received in 6 weeks !
The Questionnaire for New Applications (
38 questionnaires received in 6 weeks !
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24. (Some of) The Applications of TriGrid VL
Astrophysics
Virtual Observatory
3D Visualization
The GAIA Mission
Biomedicine
Analysis and classification of medical images (mammograms, etc.)
Montecarlo applications in radiotherapy
High Energy Physics
Data analysis of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Experiments
Theoretical Physics
Engineering
Cultural heritage
Analysis and monitoring of environmental risks
Technologies of production
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25. ALICE @ TriGrid Statistics of the last few days
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26. The PI2S2 Project (http://www.pi2s2.it)
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27. The COMETA Consortium (http://www.consorzio-cometa.it)
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28. ~300 FTEs (2/3 new hired people)
The PI2S2 e-Infrastructure
1500+ CPUs
250+ TB of storage
~11,5 M€ (01/01/ /12/2008)
~300 FTEs (2/3 new hired people)
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29. PI2S2 Project’s Budget
Total budget: € 11,338,250 (€ 8,503,687 from MIUR and € 2,834,563 from Consorzio COME-TA)
Padova, V Workshop INFN Grid,
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30. The PI2S2 Activities Work Packages
WP1
Design and creation of a GRID infrastructure
WP2
Middleware integration with design and development of test procedures
WP3
Hardware and software platforms for dissemination and training
WP4
Development and integration of applications in the GRID
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31. First tender for infrastructure completed!
(Delivery expected in March 2007)
INFN-CT
(expansion w.r.t. TriGrid)
UNI-ME
UNI-PA
Padova, V Workshop INFN Grid,
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32. Computing, Networking, and Storage (1/2)
8 IBM BladeCenter H enclosures
84 IBM LS21 “blades”
336 cores AMD Opteron 2218 rev. F
772 GB of RAM (2 GB/core)
0.55 MSpecInt2000
0.66 MSpecFP2000
More than 6 kSpec(Int/FP)Rate
~ 48.8 mW/SpecInt2000 at full load !
G-Ethernet service network
CISCO Topspin Infiniband-4X additional low-latency network for HPC applications
LSF 6.1 HPC included !
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33. Computing, Networking, and Storage (3/3)
4 IBM DS4200 Storage Systems (sites 1, 2, 3, and 6)
FC-2-SATA technology
GB disks
68 TB of storage (raw) in total
Expandability up to 0.45 PB
GPFS distributed/parallel file sytem included !
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34. The INFN CA and the COMETA RA’s
Authentication in PI2S2
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35. The COMETA AUP (http://www.consorzio-cometa.it/pi2s2/tc/regole.php)
Usage policies in PI2S2
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36. 64 users already registered !
The “cometa” Virtual Organization (
Authorization in PI2S2
64 users already registered !
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37. The PI2S2 User Interface on VM (http://www.pi2s2.it/tc/download.php)
Already usable on the TriGrid VL e-Infrastructure
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38. 33 questionnaires filled so far
The PI2S2 Application Questionnaire (
33 questionnaires filled so far
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39. Statistics of Application Questionnaires
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40. Industrial Applications
Applications already proposed
Industrial Applications
IR&T engineering
Cultural heritage
Numidia srl
Fluid dynamic simulation in car engines
Chemical, thermo dynamic, electromagnetic simulations
SCIRE – FIAT auto
Simulation of aerodynamics problems
Fluid dynamics optimization
Italcompany e Microsol
Using the Fluent software tool in the grid
Seasoft
Document management and workflow
Inquadro srl
Software performance analysis
Grid for multimedia streaming
Hitec2000 srl
Simulation of critical working conditions
Act.
Areas of interest
4.5
Engineering
4.6
Physics and astrophysics
4.7
Earth science
4.8
Bio-Informatics
4.9
Chemistry
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41. Relationships with Private Companies
Official agreement signed with ORACLE for the S-Sicilia Project aiming at set-up a Competence Centre in Sicily for accounting on the grid in collaboration with the Consorzio COMETA and a University of Messina spin-off SME.
Agreement finalized with MICROSOFT:
for the porting of gLite on Windows including the integration of MS CCS 2003 as LRMS;
for the adoption of Conference-XP as a platform to be used for/during grid training.
Other agreements are foreseen in the next future with Ferrari, FIAT, and Technipetrol.
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42. Relationships between Projects
A Memorandum of Understanding has been finalized between TriGrid VL and PI2S2. Under discussion a MoU with CYBERSAR.
COMETA, INAF and ALICE are “guest” Virtual Organizations authorized on the TriGrid VL e-Infrastructure
This means that PI2S2 applications can run on the TriGrid infrastructure NOW !
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43. Summary and Conclusions
TriGrid VL is a very good example of grid project at a truly “regional” level.
After one year from the beginning (and one year before the end) the e-Infrastructure of TriGrid is a reality and the big portfolio of applicationw is now going to be deployed on it.
PI2S2 is on track and first jobs are expected to run on the infrastructure within spring 2007 although a lot of activity is already possible on the TriGrid production service.
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44. Any Questions ?
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