Neil Geddes CCLRC Head of e-Science Director of the UK Grid Operations Support Centre

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Neil Geddes CCLRC Head of e-ScienceDirector
of the UK Grid Operations Support Centre
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NGS Today
Interfaces
OGSILite WSRFLite
Projects e-Minerals e-Materials Orbital Dynamics
of Galaxies Bioinformatics (using BLAST) GEODISE
project UKQCD Singlet meson project Census data
analysis MIAKT project e-HTPX project. RealityGri
d (chemistry) Users Leeds Oxford UCL Cardiff Sou
thampton Imperial Liverpool Sheffield Cambridge Ed
inburgh QUB BBSRC CCLRC.
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Oxford and Leeds (White Rose Grid)
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Manchester and CCLRC-RAL
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• Also includes

http//www.csar.cfs.ac.uk/ 256 Itanium2
processor SGI Altix 512 processor Origin3800
http//www.hpcx.ac.uk/ Full installation 1600
IBM p690 Regatta processors currently 1236
processors
EMBL Nucleotide Sequences
NCBI, BLAST, EMBOSS, FASTA, Gaussian

• Thus, the NGS provides access to over 2000
  processors, over 36TB of "data-grid"
• capacity, common scientific applications and
  extensive data archives.
• Other resource providers anticipated to join in
  the future

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Production Status

• TODAY
• 4 new core nodes operational
• 136 Users registered (36 since 1 September 04)
• Grid enabled Globus v2 (VDT distribution v1.2)
  at present
• BDII information service (GLUE MDS Schemas)
• Data Services Oracle, SRB and OGSA-DAI
• Growing base of user applications
• MyProxy and CA services provided by GOSC
• VO Management Software LCG-VO
• User support Helpdesk
• Next
• Other Middleware gLite/OMII etc
• NGS Portal
• Resource Broker
• SRB production service

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Training

• December 8-10
• Train the trainers
• NGS, e-Science Centres
• Quarterly New Users at NeSC
• EGEE NGS mods
• Computing Services workshop June
• GOSC/NGS sysadmin training
• First face to face meeting
• Need New Sites training

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Other Developments

• NGS newsletter
• OMII helpdesk
• Resource Broker (LCG) available for early
  adopters
• TeraGrid
• UK certificates accepted on TeraGrid
• Looking at INCA with Jenny Schopf
• Part of accounting devt. with e-Markets
• Meeting with OSG iGOC
• HPCX, CSAR, CCPs
• Collect user exemplars
• Agreed acknowledgement

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Tomorrow
Web Services based National Grid Infrastructure
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GOSC
U of A
H P C x
C S A R
U of B
U of C
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UK e-Infrastructure
Users get common access, tools, information,
Nationally supported services, through NGS
Regional and Campus grids
Integrated internationally
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Timeline
NGS WS Service
NGS Expansion (Bristol, Cardiff)
NGS Production Service
NGS WS Service 2
OGSA-DAI
NGS Expansion
WS2 plan
WS plan
OMII release
gLite release 1
EGEE gLite alpha release
EGEE gLite release OMII Release