1. BalticGrid-II Project EGEE’09, Barcelona1 GRID infrastructure for astrophysical applications in Lithuania Gražina Tautvaišienė and Šarūnas Mikolaitis Institute of Theoterical Physics and Astronomy of Vilnius University taut@itpa.lt

2. EGEE’09, Barcelona2 BalticGrid-II in one slide Continues the BalticGrid project (2005-2008, well evaluated by EU) Partners: 10 Leading institutions in six countries in the Baltic Region and CERN 10 Leading institutions in six countries in the Baltic Region and CERNBudget: 3.0 M€ over 24 months 3.0 M€ over 24 monthsCoordinator: KTH PDC, Stockholm KTH PDC, Stockholm Start: 1 st of May, 2008 Collaborating project for EGEE Supporting NGIs and their collaboration

3. EGEE’09, Barcelona3 BalticGrid and EGI Establish the BalticGrid-II Grid infrastructure as a part of a European Grid ecosystem, with support from the EGEE and EGI

4. EGEE’09, Barcelona4 BalticGrid Infrastructure in Numbers 29 sites (more than 15 certified) ~ 7000 CPU cores ~110000 GB storage 4 local active Virtual Organisations (balticgrid, litgrid, gamess, biit) 2 EGEE VOs (cms, lhcb) Sites are running gLite

5. EGEE’09, Barcelona5 Network Status All sites are connected using NRENs and GÉANT2 backbone Baltic states link to Scandinavia and Poland through 10 Gbs connections 1Gbps links are established to all sites www.geant2.net

6. EGEE’09, Barcelona6 Ltihuanian NGI

7. EGEE’09, Barcelona7 National GRID Initiative LitGrid infrastructure is deeply related to the grid infrastructures of Baltic States (BalticGrid project) and of EGEE (European Grid for Enabling the E-science) - on the level of middleware and some applications The project BalticGrid-II will involve scientists of Lithuania even more deeply into European Research Area to encourage Lithuanian scientists to use grid technologies and to participate in their development Investment program financed by the Ministry of Science and Education of LR

8. EGEE’09, Barcelona8 LitGrid unites 13 academic partners – universities, research institutes, colleges:  partners have provided for common infrastructure more than 400 CPUs  more than 6 TB of storage Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy, ITPA  largest Lithuanian research institute in astronomy and fundamental physics. A host of the first computer. Partners

9. EGEE’09, Barcelona9 LitGrid clusters and network 1Gbps 10Gbps

10. EGEE’09, Barcelona10  Collaboration with CMS (CERN)  Astrophysics  Baltic Sea modeling  Lithuanian Academic Text Corpora,  Nanoparticle design  ITER – International Thermo Nuclear Reactor  Collaboration (EURATOM)  Nanotechnologies  Mechatronics Research projects on LitGrid and Baltic Grid

11. EGEE’09, Barcelona11 SIG: Stellar Spectra Computing The synthetic spectra modeling

12. EGEE’09, Barcelona12 Within the framework of the BalticGrid project the Stellar Spectroscopy group of the Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy of Vilnius university has upgraded and gridified a program package for the synthetic spectra modeling and is using it for: Chemical analysis of Galactic Red clump stars Chemical analysis of open clusters in the Galactic disk Investigation of chemical evolution of the Galactic thick disk Chemical analysis of stars in neighboring galaxies Analysis of chromospherically active stars

13. EGEE’09, Barcelona13 SYNTSPEC: Migrating Desctop interface

14. EGEE’09, Barcelona14 SYNTSPEC: GRIDCOM INTERFACE

15. EGEE’09, Barcelona15 SYNTSPEC System independed (Linux, Unix, BSD, MAC, Windows ) Friendly for Virtual Observatory

16. EGEE’09, Barcelona16 The GAIA space observatory will produce a huge amount of data, so we need to be prepared to analyze them. SIG: Stellar Spectra Computing

17. EGEE’09, Barcelona17 More information www.balticgrid.orgwww.balticgrid.org – general www.balticgrid.org infosite.balticgrid.orginfosite.balticgrid.org – resources available infosite.balticgrid.org ca.balticgrid.orgca.balticgrid.org – Baltic Grid CA, could be shared with other grids ca.balticgrid.org support.balticgrid.orgsupport.balticgrid.org – Baltic Grid support support.balticgrid.org www.litgrid.ltwww.litgrid.lt – LitGrid general www.litgrid.lt taut@itpa.lttaut@itpa.lt  Grazina Tautvaisiene taut@itpa.lt