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Title: Fabrizio Gagliardi EU DataGrid Project Leader EGEE Project Coordinator f'gagliardicern'ch


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Fabrizio GagliardiEU DataGrid Project
LeaderEGEE Project Coordinatorf.gagliardi_at_cern.c
h
NORDUnet 2003 - Reykjavík, Iceland 24/27 August
2003
From Grid Prototypes to Grid Infrastructures
EGEE is proposed as a project funded by the
European Union under contract IST-2003-508833
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Introduction
  • International computing networks are major
    enablers of new computing models
  • GRID computing is one of them, probably the most
    promising
  • Effective implementation of a truly distributed
    computing model across different non uniform
    computing administrative domains
  • Many prototype projects based on RN Geant and
    similar international initiatives

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Some DataGrid Projects

Through collaborative Grid projects, there is
the potential for a truely global scientific
applications grid
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EDG GEANT
  • Connections of the different nodes of the EDG
    testbed are made possible by the EU-funded GEANT
    project
  • connecting more than 30 countries across
    Europe
  • speeds of up to 10 Gbit/s
  • high data throughput
  • Quality of Service
  • EDG and GEANT the first major production
    quality tests of the network
  • speed
  • reliability
  • monitoring capabilities

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Applications
  • Genomic Exploration
  • Earth Observation
  • High Energy Physics

more and more scientists begin to use the Grid
computing model and existing Grid testbeds,
relying on Grid technology to solve huge data
challenges
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LHC Resources Requirements
Storage Raw recording rate 0.1 1 GByte/sec
Accumulating data at 5-8 PetaBytes/year
10 PetaBytes of disk
Processing 100,000 of todays fastest PCs
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DataGrid prototypes DataGrid (I)
  • 9.8 M Euros EU funding over 3 years (twice as
    much from partners)
  • 90 for middleware and applications (High Energy
    Physics, Earth Observation, Genomic Exploration)
  • Total of 21 partners, over 150 programmers from
    research and academic institutes as well as
    industrial companies
  • Three year phased developments demos
    (2001-2003)
  • Several improved versions of middleware software
    (final release end 2003)
  • Several components of software integrated in the
    large Particle Physics Production LHC Computing
    Project (LCG)
  • Software used by partner projects DataTAG,
    CROSSGRID, GRACE

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DataGrid prototypes DataGrid (II)
  • DataGrid testbed more than 1000 CPUs at more
    than 15 sites (up to 40)
  • Connections made possible by the EU-funded GEANT
    project
  • connecting more than 30 countries across Europe
  • speeds of up to 10 Gbit/s
  • high data throughput
  • quality of Service

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The next step go production
  • Similarly to research networks few years ago,
    after many prototype projects we need to go
    production
  • Major issues Security, (im)maturity of M/Ware
    toolkits, difficult user interface for average
    use, cost and complexity of operations, etc

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EGEE visionEnabling Grids for E-science in
Europe
  • Goal
  • Create a wide European Grid production quality
    infrastructure on top of present and future EU RN
    infrastructure
  • Build on
  • EU and EU member states major investments in Grid
    Technology
  • International connections (US and AP)
  • Several pioneering prototype results
  • Larg Grid development team (gt60 people in EDG)
  • Requires major EU funding effort
  • Approach
  • Leverage current and planned national and
    regional Grid programmes
  • Work closely with relevant industrial Grid
    developers, NRENs and US-AP projects

Applications
 
EGEE
Geant network
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Why EGEE? Impact on Society
  • Access to a production quality grid will change
    the way science and business is done in Europe

An international network of scientist will be
able to model a new flood of the Danube in real
time, using meteorological and geological data
from several centers across Europe
A team of engineering students will be able to
run the latest 3D rendering programs from their
laptops using the Grid
A geneticist at a conference, inspired by a talk
she hears, will be able to launch a complex
biomolecular simulation from her mobile phone
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Why EGEE? Political context
  • Current Grid RD projects run out within few
    months
  • The EGEE partners have already made major
    progress in aligning national and regional Grid
    RD efforts, in preparation for EGEE
  • EGEE will preserve the current strong momentum of
    the European Grid community, and the enthusiasm
    of the hundreds of young European researchers
    already involved in EU Grid projects (gt150 in EDG
    only)

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Why EGEE? Historical analogy
  • Prior to the EU Geant programme, there was in
    Europe a multitude of exploratory projects in
    networking technology. Geant was truly production
    oriented, and brought European telecom operators
    actively into the picture
  • In a similar way, EGEE can ensure preservation of
    current investments in European Grid RD,
    extending the present infrastructure and
    focussing all activities towards establishing a
    production quality Grid

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EGEE Partner Federations
  • Integrate regional Grid efforts
  • Represent leading grid activities in Europe

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EGEE Activity Areas
  • Services
  • Deliver production level grid services
    (manageable, robust, resilient to failure)
  • Ensure security and scalability
  • Middleware
  • Professional Grid middleware re-engineering
    activity in support of the production services
  • Networking
  • Proactively market Grid services to new research
    communities in academia and industry
  • Provide necessary education

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EGEE Operations Structure
Operations Center
Infrastructure
Regional Support Center (Support for
Applications Local Resources)
Resource Center (Processors, disks)
Grid server Nodes
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EGEE Service Activity
  • Create, operate, support and manage a production
    quality infrastructure
  • Structure
  • EGEE Operations Management at CERN
  • EGEE Core Infrastructure Centres in the UK,
    France, Italy and CERN (leveraging HEP LCG at the
    start), responsible for managing the overall Grid
    infrastructure
  • Regional Operations Centres, responsible for
    coordinating regional resources, regional
    deployment and support of services in all other
    countries
  • Offered services
  • Middleware deployment and installation
  • Software and documentation repository
  • Grid monitoring and problem tracking
  • Bug reporting and knowledge database
  • VO services
  • Grid management services

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EGEE Networking Activity
  • Dissemination and outreach
  • User training and induction
  • Application identification and support
  • Two pilot application centers (for high energy
    physics and biomedical grids)
  • One more generic component dealing with longer
    term recruitment and support of other communities
  • Policy and International cooperation

rely on a supporting network in the partner
regions
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EGEE Middleware Activity
  • Hardening and re-engineering of existing
    middleware functionality, leveraging the
    experience of partners
  • Activity concentrated in few major centers
  • Key services Resource Access
  • Data Management
  • Information Collection and Accounting
  • Resource Brokering (Italy)
  • Quality Assurance
  • Grid Security
  • Middleware Integration
  • Middleware Testing

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EGEE Industry
  • Industrial participation encouraged both as
    potential end-users and IT technology and service
    suppliers
  • Normally through national and regional Grid EGEE
    federations
  • EGEE will maintain an Industry Forum to keep
    selected Industrial and Commercial interested
    parties in close contact
  • Services developed in first EGEE 2 years phase
    (2004-5) might be tendered to Industry in second
    phase (2006-7)

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EGEE Timeline
  • May 2003 proposal submitted
  • July 2003 proposal accepted
  • September 2003 start negotiation
  • April 2004 start project

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Conclusions
  • The EU DataGrid project has successfully
    fulfilled its role of EU Grid flagship project in
    collaboration with several other EU and
    international projects
  • Essential to keep the momentum and the current
    lead in production Grids in Europe
  • Important to build an international cooperation
    between European and US/AP Grid infrastructure
    projects
  • The scientific user communities are already
    international (HEP is an excellent example) and
    so the computing resources and most of the
    experimental instruments
  • EGEE proposes the right framework and plans to
    accomplish the above objectives leveraging
    present and future international research networks

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More information
  • More information on the EU DataGrid project on
  • www.edg.org
  • More information on EGEE on
  • www.cern.ch/egee
  • Or mail me at fabrizio.gagliardi_at_cern.ch
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