1. GENIUS and EnginFrame: GRID Portal across Research and Industry
Beppe Ugolotti
NICE srl
Registered office and headquarters Camerano Casasco (AT)
Training and convention facilities Castello di Cortanze (AT)

2. Why NICE & INFN? NICE goals: Deploy GRID Portal solutions to industry
R&D acknowledges the importance of standards
Industry requires “stable” products and support
INFN goals:
GRID research for HEP applications
R&D is focusing the whole GRID challenge
Collaboration with NICE to drive Portal innovation

3. Why NICE & INFN? (2) NICE role: Contribute the foundation technologies
Evolve the foundation to help INFN challenges
Consolidate exploitable results
INFN role:
Extend NICE off-the-shelf GRID portal
Focus on leading edge challenges
Aggressive and innovative GRID test-bed

4. A web portal: why and how ?
It can be accessed from everywhere and by “everything” (desktop, laptop, PDA, WAP phone).
It can keep the same user interface to several back-ends (grid “dialects”  command-line UI’s).
It must be “secure” at all levels:
1) secure for web transactions,
2) secure for user authentication,
3) trustworthy at VO level.
All available grid services must be incorporated in a logic way, just “one mouse click away”.
Its layout must be easily understandable and user friendly.

5. 7 years experience on Grid
Who is NICE?
Mechanical Ferrari, Audi, FIAT Auto, FIAT Avio, CRF, Iveco, ELASIS, Marelli, UTS, Teksid, Brembo, Lear
Energy ABB, Ansaldo, Nuovo Pignone, ENEL,
EniChem, Enterprise Oil, Agip
BioTech Pharmacia, (ENEA)
Aerospace Alenia, CIRA, Galileo Avionica, IDS
Electronics STMicroelectronics, Accent, Alcatel, Ericsson, Siemens
Telecom Telecom Italia, Italtel, CSELT/TI-Lab, Pirelli
Research ENEA, ICTP, INFN, CASPUR, CILEA, CNR, CRS4, Astronomical Obs.
Education Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Polit. Of Milan, Universities
7 years experience on Grid

6. OGSA Client Grid Portal Grid NICE Deliverables Web Browser
Enterprise Portal
Access
App. & Data Integr.
EnginFrame
NICE Deliverables
Citrix MetaFrame
Citrix ICA Client
GUI applications
PCC Intelligence
Analysis
InfoMiner
License Mgmt
LicenseBroker
LicenseMiner*
Workload Mgmt
LSF/Globus
S+C FlowGuide
OGSA
S+C VENUS
System Admin
Avaki DataGrid / AFS
Data Management
UNIX, Linux
UNIX, Linux, W2K
Any OS
Operating System
Hardware
PC, WS, Laptop, ...
Server, Web Farm
Server, WS, Rack, ...

7. EnginFrame in brief Standards based GRID portal
Java, Tomcat, XML/XSL GridML
Solves back-end integration problems
Visual rendering for most Grid objects
jobs, job arrays, hosts, etc.
Multiple Grid technologies support
Globus, LSF, SGE, LoadLeveler*, PBS*, even OS!
Authentication delegation (GSI,NIS,NT,Krb5, ...)
Data management, UL/DL + remote file browsing
Integration with interactive apps, B.I. tools, etc.
End-user oriented focus!
Commercial application integrations

8. EnginFrame workflow Clients Web Server X / ICA connections Application
Servers
Interactive
applications
EnginFrame
Agents
Clients
Web Server
Browsing request
Service request
EnginFrame Server
Standard
Web
Browser
HTML
Rendering
XML Output
Grid / Compute Farm

9. Black-box Grid solutions
Industrial Grid Portals
Black-box Grid solutions

10. Case study: ROA in IT Scenario: Problem:
automotive companies try to fill the gap with competitors
CAE becomes strategic investment
Problem:
expensive IT resources (HW, SW, storage)
low ROA, unpredictable ROI
complexity for managers
complexity for users

11. Solution: EnginFrame

12. Grid Business Intelligence

13. EnginFrame benefits IT assets and project methodology consolidation
Enhanced collaboration with remote sites and partners
Intellectual Property protection
Automatic and transparent enforcement of company policies
Wealth of properly focused information for management
Ease deployment of new software and methodologies
Rapid migration to the Computing Portal paradigm from a typical engineering environment
Enhance resource Manageability for System and Application managers
Enable smooth NT-UNIX-appliance integration
Complexity reduction for Grid environments
EnginFrame was built to enable an easy and painless migration to the Computing Portal paradigm from a command based world, trying to re-use most of the existing methodologies with a tailored Web-like look&feel.
As Search Engines do not give any clue of the huge database and compute engines they are based on, so EnginFrame hides the complexity of Technical Computing environments behind the scenes.
As new software or methodologies are implemented, the Portal can be extended in minutes to include them without the users even noticing the difference, or maybe part of the Portal can be used as a test-bed by some users, without interfering with established methodologies. In the same way, new policies can be introduces just by changing how services are provided and/or presented, and users will use them exactly as they are supposed to do.
EnginFrame addresses the Unix/NT integration by making extensive use of the available Internet standards (HTML, HTTP, Java, XML, etc.), and takes care that different browsers will be supported properly.

14. Case study: Consolidation
Company in the Defense sector
Different companies have merged into one
Sites and customers spread over WAN
Projects need common coordination and collaboration
No common design methodology
Duplicated licenses across different sites
Insufficient local resources
Limited communication

15. Centralized eDesign Services
Solution: EnginFrame
Centralized eDesign Services

16. EnginFrame benefits IT assets and project methodology consolidation
Enhanced collaboration with remote sites and partners
Intellectual Property protection
Automatic and transparent enforcement of company policies
Wealth of properly focused information for management
Ease deployment of new software and methodologies
Rapid migration to the Computing Portal paradigm from a typical engineering environment
Enhance resource Manageability for System and Application managers
Enable smooth NT-UNIX-appliance integration
Complexity reduction for Grid environments
EnginFrame was built to enable an easy and painless migration to the Computing Portal paradigm from a command based world, trying to re-use most of the existing methodologies with a tailored Web-like look&feel.
As Search Engines do not give any clue of the huge database and compute engines they are based on, so EnginFrame hides the complexity of Technical Computing environments behind the scenes.
As new software or methodologies are implemented, the Portal can be extended in minutes to include them without the users even noticing the difference, or maybe part of the Portal can be used as a test-bed by some users, without interfering with established methodologies. In the same way, new policies can be introduces just by changing how services are provided and/or presented, and users will use them exactly as they are supposed to do.
EnginFrame addresses the Unix/NT integration by making extensive use of the available Internet standards (HTML, HTTP, Java, XML, etc.), and takes care that different browsers will be supported properly.

17. Case Study: Intellectual Property
+ FirmWare
Chipset IP +
Scenario:
Accent is designing a chipset for Siemens
Siemens needs to test the firmware & software for this chipset
Problem:
Intellectual Property cannot be disclosed

18. Black-box for Firmware simulation
Solution: EnginFrame
Black-box for Firmware simulation

19. EnginFrame benefits IT assets and project methodology consolidation
Enhanced collaboration with remote sites and partners
Intellectual Property protection
Automatic and transparent enforcement of company policies
Wealth of properly focused information for management
Ease deployment of new software and methodologies
Rapid migration to the Computing Portal paradigm from a typical engineering environment
Enhance resource Manageability for System and Application managers
Enable smooth NT-UNIX-appliance integration
Complexity reduction for Grid environments
EnginFrame was built to enable an easy and painless migration to the Computing Portal paradigm from a command based world, trying to re-use most of the existing methodologies with a tailored Web-like look&feel.
As Search Engines do not give any clue of the huge database and compute engines they are based on, so EnginFrame hides the complexity of Technical Computing environments behind the scenes.
As new software or methodologies are implemented, the Portal can be extended in minutes to include them without the users even noticing the difference, or maybe part of the Portal can be used as a test-bed by some users, without interfering with established methodologies. In the same way, new policies can be introduces just by changing how services are provided and/or presented, and users will use them exactly as they are supposed to do.
EnginFrame addresses the Unix/NT integration by making extensive use of the available Internet standards (HTML, HTTP, Java, XML, etc.), and takes care that different browsers will be supported properly.

20. Case Study: Data Exchange
Collaboration problem in the supply chain
Many suppliers with different supported 3D models
Complex operations to convert files
Management not comfortable with uncontrolled data exchange
User friendliness

21. Solution: EnginFrame DataGate

22. EnginFrame benefits IT assets and project methodology consolidation
Enhanced collaboration with remote sites and partners
Intellectual Property protection
Automatic and transparent enforcement of company policies
Wealth of properly focused information for management
Ease deployment of new software and methodologies
Rapid migration to the Computing Portal paradigm from a typical engineering environment
Enhance resource Manageability for System and Application managers
Enable smooth NT-UNIX-appliance integration
Complexity reduction for Grid environments
EnginFrame was built to enable an easy and painless migration to the Computing Portal paradigm from a command based world, trying to re-use most of the existing methodologies with a tailored Web-like look&feel.
As Search Engines do not give any clue of the huge database and compute engines they are based on, so EnginFrame hides the complexity of Technical Computing environments behind the scenes.
As new software or methodologies are implemented, the Portal can be extended in minutes to include them without the users even noticing the difference, or maybe part of the Portal can be used as a test-bed by some users, without interfering with established methodologies. In the same way, new policies can be introduces just by changing how services are provided and/or presented, and users will use them exactly as they are supposed to do.
EnginFrame addresses the Unix/NT integration by making extensive use of the available Internet standards (HTML, HTTP, Java, XML, etc.), and takes care that different browsers will be supported properly.

23. DataGRID architecture
GENIUS® (Grid Enabled web eNvironment for site Independent User job Submission) [ INFN/NICE collaboration
GENIUS web portal
OS & Net services
Basic Services
High level GRID middleware
ALICE
ATLAS
CMS
LHCb
Applications’
specific layer
Other apps
GLOBUS toolkit
DataGRID architecture

24. GENIUS show: the main page

25. New MyProxy authentication !
GENIUS show: the authentication
New MyProxy authentication !

26. GENIUS show: file services

27. GENIUS show: job submission

28. GENIUS show: job queue

29. GENIUS show: job data
Roberto Barbera

30. GENIUS show: interactive analysis

31. GENIUS show: Web JDL Editor

32. GENIUS show: Replica Catalog support

33. GENIUS: where
During 2002 GENIUS has been demonstrated in many occasions by various peoples:
4th DataGrid Conference, Paris (R. Barbera)
INFN Workshop on Physics and Industry, Erice (R. Barbera and M. Reale)
Asian Pacific Grid Conference, Taipei (M. Reale)
Launch Workshop of the EU GÈANT Project, Brussels (R. Barbera and M. Reale)
CCGrid2002, Berlin (M. Draoli)
5th HLRS Metacomputing Workshop and 1st Public DAMIEN Workshop, Stutgart (R. Barbera)
TERENA 2002, Limerick (R. Barbera and the CNR WP11 Team)
Ba-Bar Grid meeting, Ferrara (R. Barbera)
ACAT 2002 Conference, Moscow (R. Barbera)
5th DataGrid Conference, Budapest (R. Barbera)
iGrid2002, Amsterdam (R. Barbera)
CERN School 2002, Vico Equense (M. Reale)
IST2002, Copenhagen (The WorldGrid Team)
ER2002, Brussels (R. Barbera and the CNR WP11 Team)
SC2002, Baltimore (The WorldGrid Team)
Nuclear Instruments and Methods A
Future Generation Computing Systems
During the presentation I’ll describe the following items.
2003

34. End of presentation Thank you
During the presentation I’ll describe the following items.
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