EGEE is proposed as a project funded by the

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EGEE Service Activity 1 (SA1)
EGEE is proposed as a project funded by
the European Union under contract IST-2003-508833
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SA1 Objectives

• Core Infrastructure services
• Operate essential grid services
• Grid monitoring and control
• Proactively monitor the operational state and
  performance,
• Initiate corrective action
• Middleware deployment and resource induction
• Validate and deploy middleware releases
• Set up operational procedures for new resources
• Resource provider and user support
• Coordinate the resolution of problems from both
  Resource Centres and users
• Filter and aggregate problems, providing or
  obtaining solutions
• Grid management
• Coordinate Regional Operations Centres (ROC) and
  Core Infrastructure Centres (CIC)
• Manage the relationships with resource providers
  via service-level agreements.
• International collaboration
• Drive collaboration with peer organisations in
  the U.S. and in Asia-Pacific
• Ensure interoperability of grid infrastructures
  and services for cross-domain VOs
• Participate in liaison and standards bodies in
  wider grid community

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SA1 Partners

• CERN (OMC, CIC)
• UKIreland (CIC,ROC)
• France (CIC, ROC)
• Italy (CIC, ROC)
• GermanySwitzerland (ROC)
• Northern Europe (ROC)
• South West Europe (ROC)
• South East Europe (ROC)
• Central Europe (ROC)
• Russia (CIC M12, ROC)

• 48 Partners involved in SA1
• ROCs in several regions are distributed across
  many sites

• ROCs must take responsibility
• Chapter in execution plan
• Organisation within region
• Reporting to overall SA1

OAG Operations Advisory Group OMC Operations
Management Centre CIC Core Infrastructure
Centres ROC Regional Operations Centres
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Steps to project start-up

• Hiring
• Refine roles and interactions between CIC, ROC,
  NOC and other operational organisations
• Clarify interactions with JRA1
• Clarify security issues
• Clarify relationship to international grid
  projects for VOs that are larger than EGEE (LCG,
  other HEP,)
• Understand national infrastructure integration
  issues
• What requirements will this place on operations,
  mw, processes, security, etc.
• Set up basic policy frameworks
• How VOs access resources, limitations, rules, etc
  sufficient that infrastructure can be exploited
  from project start
• Identify sites willing to run development service
  (based on EDG tb sites?)
• Set up OMC team
• Organise membership of QA, Security,
  Requirements, etc. groups
• Define transition process from LCG operations to
  EGEE operations

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OAG Objectives

• Advise the operations management on opertional
  policy issues
• Negotiate the agreements among the Resource
  Centres (security policies, access policies,
  acceptance of CAs etc.)

OMC Objectives

• Manage the operations of the entire EGEE grid
  from a single centralised location (CERN)

CIC Objectives

• Provide the basic service infrastructure of the
  Grid
• Operate the key services which connect users with
  resources
• Support the Regional Operation Centers

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ROC Objectives and Activities

• Customize and certificate the middleware releases
• Provide the middleware release and up-to-date
  documentation to a set of Resource Centers (RC)
• Maintain the Grid Resource Centers aligned with
  the release
• Validate the set of grid services and components
  to form a functioning Grid to serve user
  communities
• Validate installation/upgrade procedures and
  documentation
• Develop/Run test suites for components and Grid
  services to certify a site installation
• Develop Expertise in the usage and
  troubleshooting of problems experienced by
  resource centers and users

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ROC Objectives and Activities (cont.)

• Provide support to resource centers and users,
  interact with Application/VO specific support
• Refer and escalate middleware problems to
  developers
• Collaborate with CIC to have monitoring systems
  and performance evaluator running
• Define the tools to measure the service level
  provided by resource centers
• Management of access policies and sharing of the
  resources
• Provide 24x7 support service

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Certification - Release documentation and
distribution

• Certification of the release
• the Certification Activity is a collaborative
  activity between the ROCs Release team,
• contact with the Middleware developers
• ROCs customize the release for their region
• add specific region VOs
• provide configuration and automatic installation
  tools
• A CVS packages repository will be used
• Cern central packages repository
• ROC specific repository if needed
• Certification testbed to verify installation
  procedures and certificate the RCs joining the
  grid

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ROC Management Team

• Has the responsibility to coordinate the upgrade
  or new installation with the Resource Centers
• Mantains a repository of Resource Centers
  configurations
• Collaborates with Resource Centers to
  install/upgrade middleware release
• Certificates the resources (in collaboration
  with RC managers) and grid services
• Development of certification suites
• Registration of the resources in the Grid
  Information Service
• Provides support for the deployment of the
  release in collaboration with the Sites (Resource
  Centers) and the Release Group

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ROC Support

• User and Service Support
• VO Services
• Grid Services
• Resource Centers and local resources managers
• ROC Groups (Release Group and Management team)
• Development of specific procedures to recover or
  proactively avoid congestion or faulty situation
  in grid services or sites
• Knowledge Base
• Escalation to middleware developers (need to
  define who is allowed to submit bugs)
• Need for coordination of support procedures and
  ticket-database exchange procedures to provide
  interoperability between ROCs support systems
  and give users transparent problem resolution

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Grid groups within the support system
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ROC Monitoring (in
collaboration with CIC)

• Monitoring of
• computing and storage resources at Resources
  Centers
• grid services (Resource Brokers, RLS, GIS etc)
• VO usage/availability of resources
• Jobs at VO level
• Monitoring tools already exist (GridICE) need
  for improvements

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Personale
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Personale (cont.)
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Personale (cont.)
TOTALE
20 fund 8.5 unf Contributo
EU 8.5 FTE per INFN
(? 20 pers. fund 8.5
unfund) 2 FTE per ENEA Unics Unile Unina (?
forniranno 1 FTE ciascuno al ROC)
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Richieste di inventariabile

• Per il  Certification Testbed
• 5 nodi di calcolo (10Keuro)  e 1 TB (3KEuro) per
  ognuno dei Tier2
• CNAF. 
• Uno o più siti (da definire) parteciperanno al
  Certification Testbed di
• EGEE, gli altri al Certification Testbed
  italiano.
• Macchine per servizi
• 8 macchine (10 KEuro) per i servizi grid in due
  sedi (servizio principale al
• CNAF e mirror a Padova/LNL) per un totale di 16
  macchine

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Richieste di inventariabile (cont.)

• Complessivamente le richieste di inventariabile
  ammontano a
• CNAF 30 keuro
• MI 13
• PD/LNL 29
• ROMA1 13
• TO 13
• --------------------------------------
• TOTALE 98 keuro

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Richieste per missioni

• Nessuna variazione rispetto alla
  richiesta del settembre 2003
• Verifica ed eventuale aggiustamento a
  settembre