1. www.gisela-grid.eu Grid Initiatives for e-Science virtual communities in Europe and Latin America The VRC-driven GISELA Science Gateway Diego Scardaci (INFN Catania) GISELA WP3 Manager EGI Community Forum Munich, 29.03.2012

2. www.gisela-grid.eu 2 WP3 Status Outline Introduction The VRC-Driven Science Gateway: –Authentication and Authorization –Job Management –Applications Conclusions EGI Community Forum - Munich – 29/03/2012

3. www.gisela-grid.eu 3 Science Gateway Service Centric Model of CLARA EGI Community Forum - Munich – 29/03/2012

4. www.gisela-grid.eu The VRC-driven GISELA Science Gateway (http://gisela-gw.ct.infn.it) The GISELA SG is a Web site that allows users to fully exploit the e-Infrastructure both computing (jobs) and storage (data) services through a normal web browser. 4 EGI Community Forum - Munich – 29/03/2012

5. www.gisela-grid.eu The VRC-driven GISELA Science Gateway: Main Functionalities Authentication based on Identity Federations Authorization managed via LDAP DB Multi-middleware: JSAGA API are used to submit jobs and move data Compliant with the EGI VO Portal Policy and EGI Grid Security Traceability and Logging Policy VRCs Oriented. One specialized section for each VRC supported: –Cultural Heritage –Industry –Life Sciences –Mathematics Virtual Meetings Area Success Stories 5 EGI Community Forum - Munich – 29/03/2012

6. www.gisela-grid.eu 6....... Science Gateway Science Gateway App. 1 App. 2 App. N Embedded Applications Administrator Power User Basic User Users from different organisations having different roles and privileges Access: Science Gateway reference model Standard-based middleware-independent Grid Engine Standard-based middleware-independent Grid Engine EGI Community Forum - Munich – 29/03/2012

7. www.gisela-grid.eu 7 A&A Schema AuthorisationAuthorisation Science Gateway GrIDP (WAYF) (catch-all) GrIDP (WAYF) (catch-all) IDPCT IDP_y IDP_x LDAP CAS......... 1. Access a Service 2. Login Authentication (catch-all) EGI Community Forum - Munich – 29/03/2012

8. www.gisela-grid.eu LogoNameCountryStatusN. Users GrIDP«catch-all»Integrated N.A. IDEM-GARRItalyIntegrated 2.700.000 RCTSaaiPortugalIntegratedN.A. SIRSpainIntegrated 1.250.000 CAFeBrazilIntegrated N.A. Authentication based on username/password pair provided by an Identity Provider, hiding digital certificates. An Identity Federation is currently existing in 4 countries involved in GISELA (see https://refeds.org/resources_list.html): https://refeds.org/resources_list.html The VRC-driven GISELA Science Gateway: Easy Authentication and Authorization 8 EGI Community Forum - Munich – 29/03/2012 We will promote and encourage the creation of Identity Federations in other Latin American countries, in collaboration with ELCIRA, CLARA and NRENS, and their eventual participation in eduGAIN.

9. www.gisela-grid.eu 9 eduGAIN (www.edugain.org) All the Science Gateways developed at Catania are Service Providers of the eduGAIN inter-federation! EGI Community Forum - Munich – 29/03/2012

10. www.gisela-grid.eu The VRC-driven GISELA Science Gateway: The Grid Engine based on SAGA SAGA (Simple API for Grid Applications) is an API that provides the basic functionality required to build distributed applications, tools and frameworks SAGA is an Open Grid Forum standard http://www.gridforum.org/documents/GFD.90.pdf The purpose of the SAGA standard is two-fold: –Provide a standardized, common interface across various grid middleware (independent of the underlying infrastructure) –Provide a simple API that can be used with much less effort compared to the interfaces of existing grid middlewares Several implementations are available: –We adopted JSAGA the Java implementation developed at CCIN2P3 (http://grid.in2p3.fr/jsaga/) 10 EGI Community Forum - Munich – 29/03/2012

11. www.gisela-grid.eu 11 Grid Engine Users Tracking DB Science GW Interface SAGA/JSAGA API Job Engine Data Engine Users Track & Monit. VRC SGW 1 VRC SGW 2 VRC SGW 3 Grid MWs Liferay Portlets eToken Server existing By end of April 2012 The VRC-driven GISELA Science Gateway: The Grid Engine based on SAGA existing EGI Community Forum - Munich – 29/03/2012

12. www.gisela-grid.eu EGI Community Forum - Munich – 29/03/2012 The VRC-driven GISELA Science Gateway: A new concept of Application Database 12 Links to applications run pages A new concept of Application registry allowing users to directly submit selected high impact applications on the GISELA e-infrastructure in an easy way

13. www.gisela-grid.eu 13 The VRC-driven GISELA Science Gateway: The Life Sciences Gateway EGI Community Forum - Munich – 29/03/2012

14. www.gisela-grid.eu 14 The Life Sciences Gateway: Phylogenetics (MrBayes) 14 Input Parameters EGI Community Forum - Munich – 29/03/2012

15. www.gisela-grid.eu 15 The Life Sciences Gateway: GATE 15 EGI Community Forum - Munich – 29/03/2012

16. www.gisela-grid.eu EGI Community Forum - Munich – 29/03/2012 16 The Cultural Heritage Gateway: ASTRA

17. www.gisela-grid.eu 17 The VRC-driven GISELA Science Gateway: The Industry Gateway EGI Community Forum - Munich – 29/03/2012

18. www.gisela-grid.eu 18 The Industry Gateway : Industry@Grid EGI Community Forum - Munich – 29/03/2012

19. www.gisela-grid.eu 19 The VRC-driven GISELA Science Gateway: Success Stories EGI Community Forum - Munich – 29/03/2012

20. www.gisela-grid.eu We are working to create a Latin-American Task Force able to integrate new applications on the GISELA SG in a short time; CLARA and NRENs identified a group of Java developers to compose this Task Force; We organized a series of virtual meetings to teach how to integrate scientific applications on the GISELA SG; We are invited guys of the Latin-American Task Force to come in Europe to learn more about the Science Gateway Model (in collaboration with the EPIKH project). The Latin-American Task Force 20 EGI Community Forum - Munich – 29/03/2012

21. www.gisela-grid.eu 21 The VRC-driven GISELA SG: Conclusions EGI Community Forum - Munich – 29/03/2012 98 users registered (in less than 4 months) Users can submit jobs through a normal web browser Authentication based on Identity Federations: CAFe (Brazil), IDEM (Italy), RCTSaai (Portugal), SIR (Spain), and eduGAIN (international) currently integrated The SG is independent of the underlying middleware (SAGA OGF Standard adopted) 4 VRC-specific SGs currently available: Cultural Heritage, Industry, Life Sciences, and Mathematics 7 Applications currently integrated About a dozen applications going to be integrated soon