1. www.see-grid.eu SEE-GRID-2 The SEE-GRID-2 initiative is co-funded by the European Commission under the FP6 Research Infrastructures contract no. 031775 SEE-GRID-2 Infrastructure and Operations Overview Antun Balaz WP3 Leader Institute of Physics, Belgrade antun@phy.bg.ac.yu Policy workshop on research infrastructures and eScience, Sarajevo, 21 November 2007

2. Policy workshop on research infrastructures and eScience, Sarajevo, 21 November 2007 2 Grid Operations Objectives Develop the next-generation SEE-GRID infrastructure  Next generation of EGEE middleware (gLite) and services Support in deployment and operations of the Resource Centres  Monitoring, helpdesk, overall upgrade of infrastructure Network resource provision and assurance  in close cooperation with the SEEREN2 project  Bandwidth-on-Demand requirements CA and RA guidelines and deployment  catch-all Certification Authority (CA)  per-country CA deployment and operations User portal deployment and operations  P-GRADE

3. Policy workshop on research infrastructures and eScience, Sarajevo, 21 November 2007 3 Main Achievements Infrastructure maintained and expanded Core services deployed redundantly and maintained with no interruptions in operation Operations maintained and improved:  BBmSAM deployed and integrated with HGSM  Other operational tools developed, deployed and integrated  SLA conformance; availabilities  Grid-Operator-On-Duty shifts  Accounting portal Development areas identified and significant progress achieved: HGSM, BBmSAM, WiatG, Application-level accounting, YAIM customizations (glite-yaim-seegrid), JAVA Data Management API, software repository (SVN + apt-get/yum), firewall configuration suite, RB/WMS monitoring tool

4. Policy workshop on research infrastructures and eScience, Sarajevo, 21 November 2007 4 Network Status Majority of SEE-GRID countries covered by GEANT2 and SEEREN2; problems still with the connectivity of  Albania  Moldova Liaison with SEEREN2 for effective network and services provision Two applications with BoD requirements have been identified:  EMMIL (developed by International Business School, Hungary)  VIVE (developed by the University of Belgrade, Serbia) SALUTE application actively uses FTS Several applications use site-level MPI

5. Policy workshop on research infrastructures and eScience, Sarajevo, 21 November 2007 5 SEE-GRID Infrastructure (1)

6. Policy workshop on research infrastructures and eScience, Sarajevo, 21 November 2007 6 SEE-GRID Infrastructure (2) SEE-GRID infrastructure contains currently the following resources:  34 sites in SEE-GRID production  6 sites in certification phase (2 AL + 1 HR + 2 RO + 1 MD)  Over 1150 CPUs available  Storage: 42 TB + 27 TB in preparation All sites on gLite-3, with 12 sites on gLite-3.1 and the rest on gLite-3.0 glite-WMSLB actively used (its 3.1 version) Guides provided for deployment of gLite-3.1 WNs on SL4.5, for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures Other 64bit guides in preparation (SE_dpm will be first)

7. Policy workshop on research infrastructures and eScience, Sarajevo, 21 November 2007 7 SEE-GRID Infrastructure (3) SEE-GRID total and free CPUs from November 2006 (from GStat)

8. Policy workshop on research infrastructures and eScience, Sarajevo, 21 November 2007 8 SEE-GRID Infrastructure (4) SEE-GRID Core services  Catch-all Certification Authority  enables regional sites to obtain user and host certificates  Virtual Organisation Management Service (VOMS),  authorization system for the SEE-GRID Virtual Organisation (VO),  supporting groups and roles  deployed two instances (master and slave) for failover  Workload management service (lcg-RB and glite-WMSLB)  deployed several instances for failover  Information Services (BDII)  deployed several instances for failover  MyProxy is operational  supports certificate renewal  FTS deployed  used in production

9. Policy workshop on research infrastructures and eScience, Sarajevo, 21 November 2007 9 SEE-GRID Operations (1)

10. Policy workshop on research infrastructures and eScience, Sarajevo, 21 November 2007 10 SEE-GRID Operations (2) Distributed Operations Pilot SLA established Monitoring and Accounting Tools Helpdesk tickets procedures  Generic support group for users  TPM-like (monitoring open tickets created by users, trying to solve the simple ones, route the tickets, etc.).  Country level user support groups  Step towards stand-alone operations  Grid-Operator-On-Duty shifts improving site availabilities SEEGRID Wiki with detailed information for site admins:  http://wiki.egee-see.org/index.php/SEE-GRID_Wiki VOMS Role=ops used for SAM jobs submission

11. Policy workshop on research infrastructures and eScience, Sarajevo, 21 November 2007 11 Operational & monitoring tools (1) HGSM HELP-DESK BDII R-GMA SAM GSTAT (Taiwan) GSTAT (Taiwan) VOMS RTM (UK) RTM (UK) Google maps Google maps BBmSAM GridICE MonALISA NAGIOS WiatG Accounting

12. Policy workshop on research infrastructures and eScience, Sarajevo, 21 November 2007 12 Operational & monitoring tools (2) Operational & monitoring tools deployment status  Hierarchical Grid Site Management (HGSM) – Turkey  Service Availability Monitoring (SAM) (+ porting to MySQL) – Bosnia and Herzegovina with CERN support  Helpdesk - Romania  BBmSAM - Bosnia and Herzegovina  GridICE – FYR of Macedonia  SEE-GRID GoogleEarth – Turkey + Gidon Moont (ic.ac.uk)  SEE-GRID GoogleMaps - Turkey  Global Grid Information Monitoring System (GStat) – Min-Hong Tsai (ASGC, Taiwan)  Relational Grid Monitoring Architecture (R-GMA) – Bulgaria  Nagios - Bulgaria  Real Time Monitor (RTM) – Gidon Moont (ic.ac.uk) and Turkey (HGSM)  MONitoring Agents using a Large Integrated Services Architecture (MonALISA) – Romania  What is at the Grid (WiatG) – CERN with support from Serbia  Accounting Portal – IPP  Pakiti - AUTH

13. Policy workshop on research infrastructures and eScience, Sarajevo, 21 November 2007 13 BBmSAM portal  Created for SLA monitoring  Generating site availability statistics according to several criteria  Overview (HTML, XLS) and full dump (CSV) of data possible  Extended into full SAM portal  Availability for last 24h period for all sites/services  Latest results per service  History for nodes/services WiatG  Web application for visualization of BDII information  http://bdii.phy.bg.ac.yu/WiatG/pl/WiatG.pl  Used as an operational tool for site monitoring  Current version seeks for: CE, gCE, RB, gRB, SE, LFC, FTS and GridICE  Documentation available:  http://wiki.egee-see.org/index.php/WiatG BBmSAM & WiatG

14. Policy workshop on research infrastructures and eScience, Sarajevo, 21 November 2007 14 Accounting Portal (1) Provides full accounting data  Per site/institution  Per country  Per VO Provides full statistics for usage  Per institution  Per application (in progress) Provides job statistics (success rates etc.) Accounting portal is based on SEE-GRID R-GMA data Publishing of site accounting data to R-GMA done by the deployed Java publisher, developed by IPP SEE-GRID-2 PSC05 meeting, Thessalonica, Greece - September 11-12, 2007

15. Policy workshop on research infrastructures and eScience, Sarajevo, 21 November 2007 15 Accounting Portal (2)  Accounting views for SEEGRID – per country/institution user accounting https://gserv1.ipp.acad.bg:8443/Accounting-2

16. Policy workshop on research infrastructures and eScience, Sarajevo, 21 November 2007 16 SEE-GRID Accounting Data Over 160 CPU-years provided to SEE-GRID user communities

17. Policy workshop on research infrastructures and eScience, Sarajevo, 21 November 2007 17 HGSM database SEE-GRID GOCDB  Introduced as a lightweight version of GOCDB  Allows us to easily change its format when necessary and to adapt it to regional needs  Allows us to provide custom exports on demand, depending on operational tools/application developers Contains statical information about all sites Developed and maintained by TUBITAK-ULAKBIM, Turkey  https://hgsm.grid.org.tr/ Used by EUMedGRID, other regional projects expressed interest

18. Policy workshop on research infrastructures and eScience, Sarajevo, 21 November 2007 18 HGSM Development Roadmap document Implemented improvements:  Universal Exports System  Exports site XML data  Site Information XML Import System (SIXIS)  Importer parses site information, nodes, contacts, downtimes and administrators  sBDII Pull-Insert System  Data available in the information system can be inserted into HGSM In progress:  Field Verification and Convenience Add-Ons  Revision of Fields in HGSM Web Interface  Site Snapshots and Exports HGSM Developments

19. Policy workshop on research infrastructures and eScience, Sarajevo, 21 November 2007 19 SEE-GRID-2 SLA Hardware and connectivity criteria  Min. amount of resources for sites to participate in the infrastructure  Network to fulfill operations test requirements Level of support  Site and security administrators availability and response time Level of expertise  Site and security administrators declaration of expertise VO support  Site to provide support to SEEGRID VO and its OPS role Conformance to Operational Metrics  Site availability  Downtimes SEE-GRID-2 SLA communicated to EGEE

20. Policy workshop on research infrastructures and eScience, Sarajevo, 21 November 2007 20 Conformance to SEE-GRID-2 SLA Improvements seen after four quarters of pilot SLA enforcement

21. Policy workshop on research infrastructures and eScience, Sarajevo, 21 November 2007 21 Contribution Areas HGSM Application-level accounting tool YAIM customizations (glite-yaim-seegrid) SAM porting to MySQL (BBmSAM) WiatG New tool “What should be at the Grid” (WsbatG)  Based on the site configuration exported from HGSM, should provide the expected status of BDII JAVA Data Management API Firewall configuration development Contributions to standards (e.g. Glue Schema)  Mainly providing feedbacks  Coordination with other projects missing

22. Policy workshop on research infrastructures and eScience, Sarajevo, 21 November 2007 22 CA Status CAs accredited in the region in 2007  Bulgaria (BG.ACAD CA), Accredited on March 5, 2007  Serbia (AEGIS CA), Accredited on June 1, 2007  Romania (ROSA CA), Accredited on August 1, 2007 Earlier accredited CAs  Greece (HellasGrid CA)  Croatia (SRCE CA)  Turkey (TRGRID CA) Grid CA candidates  Montenegro CA (MREN CA)  CP/CPS reviewed by GridAUTH (via see-ca-incubation mailing list) on July 10, 2007  F.Y.R.O.M. CA (MARGI CA)  Accreditation request on May 4, 2007  First CP/CPS not yet available

23. Policy workshop on research infrastructures and eScience, Sarajevo, 21 November 2007 23 CA Map Catch All CA New CA Candidate CA Training CA RA Established CA

24. Policy workshop on research infrastructures and eScience, Sarajevo, 21 November 2007 24 Conclusions Regional Grid infrastructure matures in operations and provides reliable distributed computing and storage resources to RTD communities Usage continuously grows, user communities widen User-level services developed and improved Support available on the regional and national level NGI model should provide long-term sustainability in terms of human resources, Grid operations, infrastructure maintenance and upgrades