1. CERN openlab for DataGrid applications Programme of Work Overview F.Fluckiger Technical programme S.Jarp

2. What is it? A framework for sponsorship
IT “R&D” in collaboration with Industry
Sponsor commitments
(Partner status)
CHF2.5M over 3 years
Contributions may be a mix of
In kind (HW, SW, training, …)
In cash (in general for fellows)
openlab
framework
Sponsor commitments
(Contributor status)
CHF0.25M over 1 year

3. What are we doing? Evaluate and Integrate cutting edge solutions
Focus: LCG needs in the medium/longer term
Current Project: opencluster
IA-64 Compute farm (Intel + HP)
10 GbE Networking (Enterasys + Intel)
Storage (IBM)
10g database (Oracle)
openlab
framework
opencluster project

4. Organization Transversal structure IT Groups Experiments, PH
PH / SFT
Sponsors
Sponsor DI
WvR FF FG MH DB JS EG MG ED
Fell
ADC BP SJ AH AU RT
Stud
Fell CS
JMJ MC

5. Personnel Resources in 2004
Role
Status
Person
Group
% 04
FTE
Administration
1 staff
Jackie Franco DI
50%
0.5
TCO
Sverre Jarp
ADC
75%
0.75
opencluster
2 fellows (from HP grant)
Andreas Hirstius Andreas Untekircher
100% 2
1 tech. student
Glenn Hisdal (6 months)
10g Database
2 fellows (from Oracle grant)
Eva Dafonte Perez Katarzyna Pokorska DB
tbd
1 fellow (from M.Currie grant)
xxx (Sept 04)
33%
0.3
Management
François Fluckiger
6. 55
From other IT Units
10 GbE
CS (Jean-Michel Jouanigot, Marc Collignon)
Storage Tank
ADC (Rainer Toebbicke, others)
10g Database
DB (Maria Girone, others)
Communication
DI / S&C (François Grey, Matti Heikkurinen)
Management
DI (Wolfgang von Rüden)

6. 2004 Programme Organization Sponsors Strengthen collaboration with
Work with new Strategy & Communications unit
Sponsors
Implement Contributor Status (probably with Infiniband manufacturer)
Strengthen collaboration with
LCG (Grid SW, HP participation in LCG)
EGEE (SW, Industry forum)
IT groups
PH/SFT team (ROOT, PROOF, GEANT4…)
LHC collaborations (Data Challenges, CMS, Alice)

7. 2004 Programme Interactions with sponsors
Thematic Wokshops (Probably on Security and High Speed Networking)
Board of Sponsor annual meeting
Involvement in EGEE Industry Forum
New projects, activities (e.g. security)?
Will depend on outcome of this meeting, sponsor interest
Challenges
Be useful
Choice of technology: strike right balance between conservatism and risks
Deliver findings
Meet sponsor expectations
Maintain technical consistency; build something coherent

8. Annexes Additional information, not for show
Is openlab something new?
Elements of Timeline
Technical highlights
Annex

9. Is openlab something new?
Is it really different from
past (DD/CN/IT) joint projects?
today’s field test with industry?
Not totally, but definite differences
A common "agreement" framework
A common technical objective
Building something out of individual contributions
Collaborative work between sponsor engineers
Annex

10. Timeline (elements of)
Enterasys, Intel join 02
Enterasys switches delivered
HP joins
HP test dual processors systems delivered
Intel increase their contribution to 348 processors
Annex 03
32 HP Production dual processors systems delivered
Fellows from HP grant join
IBM joins
IBM Storage Tank system delivered
Oracle joins 04
Fellows from Oracle grant join 05

11. Annex 2004 Programme Technical (highlights|) see SJ's presentation
Gridification Complete LCG2 porting/testing
Join test Grid
Software RedHat 3
Hardware Additional HP computers
Networking 10GbE transition to new generation
Infiniband
LAN / WAN 10Gbps tests
Storage Converge on StorageTank
Database 10g
Annex