LIP QR2 report

1. Gonçalo Borges on behalf of LIP LIP QR2 report

2. LIP QR2 Report General Information Beneficiary number:# 30 Beneficiary name: Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas Beneficiary short name: LIP Country: Portugal Lead beneficiary (JRU): Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas ROC: South West Europe (SWE) Period: QR2 (August-October 2008)

3. LIP QR2 Report Progress Report (1/3) • TSA1.1: Grid Management • Coordination/Interoperability with national and regional projects • Ongoing deployment of the IBERGRID infrastructure between Portugal and Spain, the Portuguese national grid infrastructure, and EGI-DS. • Infrastructure architecture assessment for interoperability between EGEE, the Portuguese NGI, and other infrastructures. • Work with the Portuguese NGI to prepare the deployment and integration of a new national grid datacenter • Contribution to the SWE ROC and coordination of the EGEE infrastructure in Portugal. • Operation of the Portuguese Grid Certification Authority and its coordination with EGEE.  

4. LIP QR2 Report Progress Report (2/3) • TSA1.2: Grid operations and support • First line support for problems in the region. • Operation of core services for the SWE region. • Restructuring of the PPS service moving towards a VM based service. • Support for new resources deployment at the PT LCG Tier-2 • Upgrade of the computing/storage capacity in Lisbon, Coimbra and LNEC. • Support for the Lustre and StoRM deployment in the PT Tier-2. • Commissioning of new hardware at LIP • To host the PPS and grid core services • Blade center with iSCSI storage • Prepare restructuring of the core services • Assessment of virtualization techniques and iSCSI for supporting SWE core services in Portugal. • Prepare the migration of the services to the new Portuguese NGI facilities at LNEC. • Improvement of the monitoring capabilities.

5. LIP QR2 Report Progress Report (3/3) • TSA1.3: Support to VOs, Users, Applications • TPM in August. • Trouble tickets routing for the SWE federation. • Regional COD setup including training. • Support for Portuguese users and sites. • TSA1.4: Grid security • Coordination of security in Portugal. • Support for the security incident at UMinho-CP. • Interoperability effort to include CERT-PT in the SWE security management. • Relations and coordination with EUgridPMA.   • Organize EUgridPMA meeting in Lisbon.

6. LIP QR2 Report Considerations (1/2) • What are the deviations? • Availability of the production and PPS services has been affected by the restructuring of the LIP-Lisbon and LIP-Coimbra resource centres. • No effort was committed to… • Training activities. • Regional COD task. • What is the main success in the reporting period? • Successful support for the migration of the Portuguese Tier-2 storage systems to StoRM. • Successful support for the Portuguese Tier-2 upgrades. • Negotiations with Spain towards a regional federation for EGI and discussion of initial plans for migration of the EGEE SWE federation towards this model. • The virtual environment to host the PPS and the core services is operational and looks promising

7. LIP QR2 Report Considerations (2/2) • What is the main issue in the reporting period? • Interoperability with other infrastructures in the context of the planning for the Portuguese NGI, IBERGRID and EGI. • Hiring: how many SA1 PMs are still not assigned (e.g. because of hiring problems)? • Not applicable. • Which services are made available to EGEE… • Two Resource Centres in operation in EGEE production infrastructure (LIP-Lisbon and LIP-Coimbra). • Core resources (RB, WMS, Top-BDII, LFC, PX) in production for the SWE region. • Deployment of core resources (RB, WMS, Top-BDII, LFC, PX) and resource centre resources for the EGEE pre-production infrastructure.

8. LIP QR2 Report Cross Activities contributions • Milestones & deliverables: Not applicable. • Review and moderation for others milestones and deliverables. • Review of the MSA3.4.1 deliverable: “Definition and documentation of the revised software life-cycle”. • A list of the participation of the partner in any of the main groups, task force, bodies • PPS; TPM; ROC; PMB and CB • Training: Not applicable. • Publications: Not applicable. • Standardisation bodies: • EUGRIDPMA; TAGPMA. • Anything else which is relevant. • Participation in the EGEE’08 conference. • Participation in the SWE ROC face-to- face meeting in Sevilla. • Participation in the Spanish e-Science network workshop in Sevilla. • Participation in the Cracow Grid Workshop (oral presentation) • Participation in the ADVCOMP 2008 conference in Valencia (oral presentation)

9. LIP QR2 Report Comments • Additional comments from Lead beneficiary (JRU): • Initiatives to increase any type of centralization in the project should be avoided (centralized installation of middleware). • Additional comments from ROC: • The middleware architecture of EGEE should move towards an interoperable decentralized infrastructure towards the future NGI/EGI model enabling interoperability between national/regional autonomous infrastructures • for example the information system model is yet centralized raising a lot of issues for infrastructures trying to interoperate between themselves.