Baltic Grid SIXTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES COMMUNICATION NETWORK DEVELOPMENT INTEGRATED INFRASTRUCTURE INITIATIVE

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Baltic GridSIXTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMMERESEARCH
INFRASTRUCTURESCOMMUNICATION NETWORK
DEVELOPMENTINTEGRATED INFRASTRUCTURE INITIATIVE

• Per Öster
• KTH PDC
• per_at_pdc.kth.se
• http//www.balticgrid.org/

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BalticGrid in One Slide

• Partners
• 10 Leading institutions in six countries in the
  Baltic Region and Switzerland (CERN)
• Budget
• 3.0 M
• Coordinator
• KTH PDC, Stockholm
• Compute Resources
• 17 resource centres
• Duration
• 30 Months
• Started 1 November 2005

SA - Specific Service Activities NA - Networking
Activities JRA - Joint Research Activities
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BalticGrid Objectives

• Sustainable integration of the research and
  educational computing and communication
  infrastructure in the Baltic States into the
  European Grid infrastructure.
• Enable the formation of effective research
  collaborations in the Baltic States, within
  Europe and beyond.
• Enabling an efficient sharing of unique
  instruments and data, as for instance
  environmental data related to the Baltic Sea.

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BalticGrid Approach

• Maximize use of human resources for Grid
  development and deployment by implementing the
  Baltic Grid as an extension of EGEE
• Grid Operations coordinated with the EGEE North
  European Regional Operating Centre
• Assure manageable co-existence with other
  European Grids
• DEISA, CrossGrid, NorduGrid
• Engage the Baltic States in Grid related policy
  and standards activities

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BalticGrid Partners

• Estonia
• Tallinn, Tartu
• Lithuania
• Vilnius
• Latvia
• Riga
• Poland
• Kraków, Poznan
• Switzerland
• Geneva
• Sweden
• Stockholm

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BalticGrid Partners

• Estonian Educational and Research Network, EENet
• The Network operator for the Estonian research
  and educational institutions. Working
  infrastructure for IPv6, maintainer of Estonian
  CA and BalticGrid CA (EUGridPMA)
• Keemilise ja Bioloogilse Füüsika Instituut, NICPB
• Estonia's largest independent research institute
  in the areas of high-energy physics, chemical
  physics and biophysics with more than 100
  researchers. Internationally recognized NMR
  effort. First Estonian internet connection. First
  Estonian grid enabled system.
• Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science,
  IMCS UL
• Latvian leading research institute of mathematics
  and computer science. Hosts LATNET, the Latvian
  academic network operator, and is the GEANT
  partner in Latvia. Partner in BALTNET and host of
  the first BALTNET conference 1993.
• Riga Technical University, RTU
• Technical university strong in materials science,
  architecture, E-learning. Latvian representative
  e-IRG.
• Vilnius University, VU
• Leading university in Lithuania with 30 000
  students. Strong areas are mathematics, physics
  and chemistry. Partner of LITNET

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BalticGrid Partners (cont)

• Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy,
  ITPA
• Lithuanian independent research institute in
  observatory astronomy and fundamental physics.
• Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, PSNC
• Leading Polish HPCN centre. Responsible for the
  Polish academic and educational network PIONIER -
  early 10G backbone. Partner in several Grid
  projects like CROSSGRID, GridLab and European
  Grid Support Centre. Member of the Globus
  Alliance
• Instytut Fizyki Jadrowej, im. Henryka
  Niewodniczanskiego, Polskiej Akademii Nauk, IFJ
  PAN
• Research institute with 200 researchers in the
  areas of high-energy and subatomic physics and
  their application. Partner in Grid projects like
  CROSSGRID and EGEE. Close cooperation with the
  HPC centre CYFRONET
• Parallelldatorcentrum at Kungl Tekniska
  Högskolan, KTH PDC
• Leading Swedish technical university. Nine years
  of experience in Grid technologies. EGEE Northern
  Europe Regional operating centre. Leads the EGEE
  Security JRA. GGF security area director.
  Founding member of the Globus Alliance. Partner
  in SWEGRID. Founder of the European Grid Support
  Centre
• CERN
• Leading European Centre in High-Energy Physics
  and Grid technologies. Leader of EGEE.

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Seven ActivitiesIntegrated Infrastructure
Initiative (I3)

• Networking Activities
• NA1 Management of the I3
• NA2 Education, Training, Dissemination and
  Outreach
• NA3 Application Identification and Support
• NA4 Policy and Standards Development
• Specific Service Activities
• SA1 Baltic Grid Operation
• SA2 Network Resource Provisioning
• Joint Research Activity
• JRA1 Account Service Level Agreements, Markets
  and Dynamic Account Management

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NA1 Management of the I3

• Executive Board
• One member per partner.
• Project Director
• Overall responsibility for implementation of
  project plans
• Project Management Board
• Activity Leaders and Managers
• Assure overall project coordination
• External Advisory Committee
• Operations Director (SA1)
• Security Head (SA1)
• Networks Manager (SA2)

Activity Leader Per Öster (KTH) Budget 208k
(7) Effort 22 person months (4)
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NA1 Management of the I3
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NA2 Education, Training, Dissemination and
Outreach

• By education and training increase the skills
  among users and resource centres staff
• By dissemination and outreach spread the benefits
  of Grid technologies to a broad community of
  potential users and other interested parties

Activity Leader Zofia Mosurska (IFJ PAN) Budget
347k (12) Effort 60 person months (11)
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NA3 Application Identification and Support

• Identify application areas and communities that
  can benefit from the BG infrastructure
• Identify and meet the specific needs of these
  groups
• Requires almost all activities involvement
• Support and develop the capabilities of the
  established user communities

Activity Leader Algimantas Juozapavicius (VU)
Budget 489k (16) Effort 100 person months
(18)
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NA3 Application Identification and Support (cont)

• Pilot Applications
• High-Energy Physics
• Materials Science
• Bioinformatics
• Special Interests Groups
• Gather research groups with similar or related
  RD interest such as
• Modelling of the Baltic Sea eco system
• Linguistic research
• Application Support
• Formation of a Application Expert Group

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NA4 Policy and Standards Development

• Engage the BalticGrid partners in international
  standards and policy shaping activities
• GGF, EU GridPMA, e-IRG,
• Specific areas
• Infrastructure
• Security
• Research applications
• Grid operations

Activity Leader Olle Mulmo (KTH) Budget 113k
(4) Effort 20 person months (4)
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SA1 Grid Operations

• Set up and mange BalticGrid core infrastructure
• BalticGrid Certification and Registration
  Authorities
• VO Management
• Information Services
• Testing and Monitoring Services
• Installations and Operations Support
• Logging and accounting services
• Security infrastructure implementation and
  enforcement

Activity Leader Lauri Anton (EEnet) Budget
1266k (42) Effort 248 person months (44)
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SA2 Network Resource Provisioning

• Assure and monitor proper network provisioning
  and associated services
• Analyse BG network requirements
• Develop Service Level Specifications and
  Agreements
• Monitoring of the Grid with regard to SLA
  compliance

Activity Leader Guntis Barzdins (IMCS UL)
Budget 368k (12) Effort 72 person months (13)
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National Networks Latvia
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National Networks Lithuania
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National Networks Estonia
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JRA1 SLAs, Markets and Dynamic Account Management

• Investigate and prototype standard conforming and
  secure mechanisms for SLAs in BG
• Design, development and integration of user
  account management with Grid accounting systems
  (SGAS)
• Research, prototype and support deployment of
  SLAs in BalticGrid

Activity Leader Thomas Sandholm (KTH) Budget
230k (7) Effort 38 person months (7)
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Timeline

• 30 Months
• Start November 2005
• End April 2008
• In phase with EGEE-II
• 43 Deliverables
• 42 Milestones

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Timeline
Second Review
First review
Kick-off
EAC
EAC
EAC
1st AHM
2nd AHM
3rd AHM
Summer School
Summer School
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Timeline Operations
64 Certified sites
Core Grid Services
32 Certified sites
4 SIGs per Country
2 SIGs per Country
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Use Targets
Target Project month 12 Project Month 24 Project Month 30
Number of Users 40 100 150
Number of Disciplines 3 10 15
Number of Application Codes 3 6 20
Number of International Collaborations 10 20 40
Number of Compute hours per Year 1 x 106 2 x 106 4 x 106
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Use Targets Scaling
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Relationship to EGEE and other Grid Projects

• Collaborating or Related Grid Projects
• EGEE
• Infrastructure, Operations
• ICEAGE
• Education and Training
• BELIEF
• Dissemination and Outreach
• eIRGSP
• Policy and Standards Development

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Relationship to EGEE and other Grid Projects

• Middleware
• gLite
• Infrastructure
• EGEE
• Applications
• Application Pilots
• Regional Special Interest Groups
• ETDO
• Own activities as well as joint activities with
  EGEE(-II) and ICEAGE
• Policy Issues
• NA4 Policy and Standards Development
• eIRG
• GGF
• EUGridPMA

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NA5 and EGEE related projects

• NA5 Policy and International Cooperation
• Policy-related activities
• Mostly focusing on backing the eInfrastructure
  Reflection Group (www.e-irg.org) supporting the
  creation of a framework for the easy and
  cost-effective shared use of electronic resources
  in Europe
• Pursued mainly through a series of policy related
  White Papers and Roadmap documents, along with
  related Workshops
• International Cooperation activities
• With other projects including concertation
  activities (i.e. interacting with a cluster of
  related projects forum of exchanging ideas)
• With other geographical regions (North America,
  Asia Pacific, Russia, South America)
• With standardisation bodies (GGF et al)

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Related Projects
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BalticGrid and EGEE

• BalticGrid integration with EGEE
• EGEE four pillars of operation
• Grid Operations Database GOCDB
• Monitoring tool set SFT2
• Problem tracking tool GGUS
• Integration of operations CIC portal
• gLite

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A Selection of Monitoring tools
1. GIIS Monitor
2. GIIS Monitor graphs
3. Sites Functional Tests
4. GOC Data Base
5. Scheduled Downtimes
6. Live Job Monitor
7. GridIce VO view
8. GridIce fabric view
9. Certificate Lifetime Monitor
Note Those thumbnails are links and are
clickable.
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gLite Releases and Planning
gLite 1.1.2 Special Release for SC File Transfer
Service
gLite 1.4.1 Service Release
gLite 1.1.1 Special Release for SC File Transfer
Service
gLite 1.3 File Placement Service FTS
multi-VO Refactored RGMA CE
gLite 1.4 VOMS for Oracle SRMcp for
FTS WMproxy LBproxy DGAS
gLite 1.0 Condor-C CE gLite I/O R-GMA WMS LB VOMS
Single Catalog
gLite 1.2 File Transfer Agents Secure Condor-C
gLite 1.1 File Transfer Service Metadata catalog
Functionality
gLite 1.5 Release Date
QF1.3.0_22_2005
QF1.3.0_20_2005
QF1.3.0_21_2005
QF1.3.0_19_2005
QF1.1.2_11_2005
QF1.3.0_18_2005
QF1.1.0_09_2005
gLite 1.5 Functionality Freeze
QF1.1.0_10_2005
QF1.0.12_04_2005
QF1.3.0_17_2005
QF1.1.0_07_2005
QF1.1.0_08_2005
QF1.0.12_02_2005
QF1.1.2_16_2005
QF1.0.12_03_2005
QF1.1.0_05_2005
QF1.1.2_13_2005
QF1.1.0_06_2005
QF1.2.0_14_2005
QF1.2.0_15_2005
QF1.0.12_01_2005
QF1.3.0_24_2005
QF1.1.2_12_2005
QF1.3.0_23_2005
April 2005
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