1. UK Testbed Status Testbed 0 GridPP project Experiments’ tests started
Still running…!
Increasing number of sites
New tools being distributed + tested
GridPP project
The HEP Grid project in the UK
New funding for people, hardware
Highly WP6 (+8) focused
Experiments’ tests started
Testbed 1
Starting to make plans for participation.
Dave Newbold, University of Bristol 2/7/2001

2. Testbed 0 Status Security
Several University ‘quantum’ sites up and stable for some time now
More will join as people become available
RAL CSF farm integrated
New RAL testbed facility (pT1, ~10’s nodes, ~TB’s disk) for TB1
Several University sites will link in ‘real’ resources (pT2, pT3) for TB1
Regular (~monthly) meetings in the UK; well-attended.
Security
UK CA based at RAL
Lifetime extended until later in the year; new certs issued
New RPM distributed with UK + EUDG CA details
Dave Newbold, University of Bristol 2/7/2001

3. Testbed 0 (cont) Information service Distribution Other tools
Hosted at QMW, run by UK WP3 experts
Conforms to latest TB0 topology; new RPMs reflect this
Distribution
RPMs of GLOBUS + varia + UK-specific tools/config
Progress on ‘unified’ distribution…?
Other tools
gridmapdir patches; on-the-fly unix account leasing
make-ca-signing-policy script; modular handling of CA certs
‘Grid ping’;running in the UK at several sites
Produce TB-wide ‘activity map’?
Dave Newbold, University of Bristol 2/7/2001

4. GridPP Project The ‘flagship’ UK HEP Grid project For more details:
EU DataGrid participation
Non-LHC experiments Grid work
Links with US, etc, Grid projects
Links with computer science, etc, in the UK
Links with other Grid projects in the UK
For more details:
Project leader: Steve Lloyd (QMW)
Funding
3-year project, ~ 50MCHF budget (split between UK, CERN)
First year funding now allocated!
Dave Newbold, University of Bristol 2/7/2001

5. GridPP Project Project focus: Practical results (now):
Build around EU DataGrid contribution
Include non-LHC activities
Concentrate on applications and testbed work
Include prototyping of LHC regional centres (T1 from GridPP budget)
Practical results (now):
New WP6 posts at Manchester, RAL, Bristol (0.5 fte), ICSTM (0.5 fte)
Some posts have good people waiting to fill them
Augments existing WP6 effort
Hopefully in time for TB1 integration
T1 / BaBar Tier-A centre prototyping will start soon
Dave Newbold, University of Bristol 2/7/2001

6. Experiments’ Tests CMS: LHCb: BaBar:
Currently in large-scale MC production
No major problems found with ‘everyday’ use of GDMP tool
Need to move to using UK / CERN CA’s (not Globus)
Need to continue with tests of GRAM use
LHCb:
Doing large-scale MC production
Testing use of Globus GRAM on RAL CSF (+ other sites?)
BaBar:
Globus tools being installed on new BaBar distributed facilities in the UK.
Will provide a very serious (!) test of Grid scalability
GridPP experiments’ meeting on 10/7/2001
Dave Newbold, University of Bristol 2/7/2001

7. Next Steps TB0: Experiments tests TB1:
New release of RPMs before GGF (25/7?)
Encourage more sites to hook into TB0
Start attaining local expertise
Continue to grow support network, and hold regular UK meetings
Experiments tests
Will continue, depending on global collaboration decisions
Expand scope + link into EU/US partner efforts
Start thinking about real prototype regional centres
TB1:
Define contribution
Get new people started + contributing
Dave Newbold, University of Bristol 2/7/2001