1. BalticGrid-II Project BalticGrid-II 2nd AHM, May 12 th 2009, Riga1 SA3 Application Integration and Support Hardi Teder EENet

2. Outline BalticGrid-II and SA3 SA3 tasks and progress  Users support  Application integration  Helper tools Conclusions

3. BalticGrid-II 2nd AHM, May 12th 2009, Riga BalticGrid-II and SA3 SA3 Application integration and support  special attention for support of users and services - a new activity  Involves all 13 partners  Effort for SA3 is 91 project months SA3 objectives  Grid-specific support for the scientists  Integration of scientific applications needed by users  Provide to users grid tools like batch job managers, GUIs, VO management software and the likes.

4. BalticGrid-II 2nd AHM, May 12th 2009, Riga Grid users support Support for scientists on using the Grid  Ticketing System  Face-to-Face meetings  Forum  Frequently Asked Questions  User Guides and Manuals  Direct communication channels Users’ Forum portal initiated and published support.balticgrid.org Support policy in collaboration with SA1

5. BalticGrid-II 2nd AHM, May 12th 2009, Riga Grid users support DSA1.3 “support specialist employment and training” on PM12 Trainings  SA3 specialist have passed “Advanced gLite training” (GridKA school, EGEE Training for Trainers, PRACE winter school)  Application Porting workshop on Thursday  Baltic Grid Summer School Baltic Gird Users Brochure  Distributed on EGEE Users Forum

6. BalticGrid-II 2nd AHM, May 12th 2009, Riga Application integration Work with pilot applications:  NWChem – BNTU, nanodesign  Annotation, encoding Corpus of Academic Lithuanian – VU, linguistics  Protein pairs calculations – IMCSUL  Moses – EENET, linguistics Composing list of the Applications with NA3  New user groups need different software

7. BalticGrid-II 2nd AHM, May 12th 2009, Riga Application integration Next Applications support groups are already working on several scientific applications:  ElectroCap  NAMD  ABINIT  Computational Fluid Dynamics  Mechatronics (Vibroengineering)  OCTAVE  MATLAB  ANSYS  Softimage XSI  MPI  etc

8. BalticGrid-II 2nd AHM, May 12th 2009, Riga Application integration DSA3.2 "1st report on Gridification of applications" on PM13 DSA3.3 "Best practices in Grid-enabling applications for EGEE-like infrastructure" on PM15 Next bunch of applications will be chosen during the meeting and application support specialist continue the work. Milestone: 10 applications in five different scientific areas should be grid-enabled on PM24.

9. BalticGrid-II 2nd AHM, May 12th 2009, Riga General helper tools Task 3 – Useful tools for grid users:  Central gLIte UI service for BalticGrid users: – http://ui.balticgrid.org http://ui.balticgrid.org  BalticGrid central Migrating Desktop and GridCommander installed.  Deploy tools developed by JRA  Collaboration with EGEE RESPECT program – The RESPECT program (Recommended External Software for EGEE CommuniTies) aims to publicize grid software and services that work well in concert with the EGEE gLite softwareRESPECT program – Work in progress with Ganga and GridWay

10. BalticGrid-II 2nd AHM, May 12th 2009, Riga Conclusions Activity “organization” started:  Support specialist have passed the trainings  Supporting users  Porting applications  Contributing for Users’ Forum  3 pilot applications on grid and more… Plans for next 12 months:  Continue the users’ support and producing user guides  Special attention for application integration on BalticGrid infrastructure

11. BalticGrid-II 2nd AHM, May 12th 2009, Riga Thank you Q&A hardi.teder@eenet.ee