1. EGEE-II INFSO-RI-031688 Enabling Grids for E-sciencE www.eu-egee.org EGEE and gLite are registered trademarks Infrastructure overview Arnold Meijster & Fokke Dijkstra, RC/RuG Grid Tutorial, Groningen, 18&19 September 2006

2. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI-031688 Grid Tutorial - Groningen September 2006 2 Overview National and international grid infrastructures EGEE NL Grid VL-e Deisa BIG grid (future)

3. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI-031688 Grid Tutorial - Groningen September 2006 3 EGEE EU project for worldwide Grid Operational infrastructure –Support for sites and users –Monitoring Multiple VOs –Many scientific communities VOs start locally and can grow worldwide gLite middleware EGEE organised in multiple regions

4. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI-031688 Grid Tutorial - Groningen September 2006 4 EGEE

5. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI-031688 Grid Tutorial - Groningen September 2006 5 EGEE (europe) 177 sites 27759 CPUs 44 PB Storage

6. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI-031688 Grid Tutorial - Groningen September 2006 6 EGEE live! http://gridportal.hep.ph.ic.ac.uk/rtm/applet.html

7. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI-031688 Grid Tutorial - Groningen September 2006 7 Quality Assurance Site Functional tests –Operated several times a day –Status page: https://lcg-sft.cern.ch/sft/lastreport.cgi (need certificate in browser)https://lcg-sft.cern.ch/sft/lastreport.cgi

8. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI-031688 Grid Tutorial - Groningen September 2006 8 Support Regional support model –Multiple regions in Europe For support in Northern Region (NL,BE,SE,DK,NO,FI) mail to: support@egee-ne.org

9. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI-031688 Grid Tutorial - Groningen September 2006 9 LHC tiering model Large Hadron Collider starts in 2007 Petabytes of data! Huge computational demand Tiering model for distribution of data –CERN Tier0 –Several Tier1 sites, including Nikhef/SARA –Many Tier2 sites Computation near data

10. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI-031688 Grid Tutorial - Groningen September 2006 10 Tier model

11. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI-031688 Grid Tutorial - Groningen September 2006 11 NL-Grid National infrastructure Clusters at Nikhef,Sara and RuG Currently about 400 cpus Lisa cluster Sara (1500 cpus) also available Special bioinformatics clusters to be installed at several sites DAS-3 research clusters

12. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI-031688 Grid Tutorial - Groningen September 2006 12 NL-Grid storage Storage coupled to clusters at Nikhef and SARA –Several Terabytes Tape storage at SARA coupled to grid –Disk pool in front –Tape storage coupled via SAN –Multiple petabytes and growing! In near future all storage will support the Storage Resource Management (SRM) interface San Diego Storage Resource Broker (SRB) also available at Sara

13. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI-031688 Grid Tutorial - Groningen September 2006 13 VL-e Mission: To boost e-Science by creating an e-Science environment and carrying out research on methodologies.

14. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI-031688 Grid Tutorial - Groningen September 2006 14 Deisa European super-computing grid Shared global file system Job migration Co-scheduling

15. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI-031688 Grid Tutorial - Groningen September 2006 15 Big Grid Improving the national grid infrastructure Large grant ~30 million euro Goals of: –27,600 kSI2k in 2009 (~35,000 high end PC’s) –14.1 Petabytes of storage in 2009 Support many scientific disciplines: –Astronomy, Biological & medical sciences, High energy physics, Linguistics, Climate research

16. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI-031688 Grid Tutorial - Groningen September 2006 16 Conclusions Many projects! What should I do?? Go to your nearest expert site and ask for help What are your demands? –Computing –Storage –Other, e.g. real-time access Collaborate! –National –With other people all over the world –Start a VO