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Dova, M.T ., Grunfeld, C., Monticelli, F., Tripiana, M., Veiga, A.

Progress of GRID technology in Argentina: Lessons learned from EELA. Dova, M.T ., Grunfeld, C., Monticelli, F., Tripiana, M., Veiga, A. IFLP (CONICET-UNLP) and Departamento de Física, FCE Ambrosi, V., Barbieri, A., Diaz, J., Luengo, M., Macia, N., Molinari, L., Venosa, P., Zabaljauregui, M.

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Dova, M.T ., Grunfeld, C., Monticelli, F., Tripiana, M., Veiga, A.

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  1. Progress of GRID technology in Argentina: Lessons learned from EELA Dova, M.T., Grunfeld, C., Monticelli, F., Tripiana, M., Veiga, A. IFLP (CONICET-UNLP) and Departamento de Física, FCE Ambrosi, V., Barbieri, A., Diaz, J., Luengo, M., Macia, N., Molinari, L., Venosa, P., Zabaljauregui, M. CESPI-LINTI and Fac. Informatica UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA EELA Workshop, La Plata, 29/03-30/03, 2007 • M.T.Dova et al, UNLP – 3rd EELA Conference, Catania, 3-5 December, 2007

  2. The Past The greatest impediment to progress is not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge. • GRID in Argentina before EELA: blah, blah… We started from scratch with EELA! • M.T.Dova et al, UNLP – 3rd EELA Conference, Catania, 3-5 December, 2007

  3. Outline • Lessons from WP2 • UNLP node in the EELA infraestructure • Argentinian CA • Future Plans • Lessons from WP3 (HEP) • ATLAS application in EELA • Future Plans • Lessons from WP4 • Experience from EELA tutorials • Other dissemination activities • Future Plans • Prospects of GRID in Argentina • M.T.Dova et al, UNLP – 3rd EELA Conference, Catania, 3-5 December, 2007

  4. Lessons from WP2 (I) The EELA Infrastructure Very modest resources, but the first ones in Argentina in a grid infrastructure. • M.T.Dova et al, UNLP – 3rd EELA Conference, Catania, 3-5 December, 2007

  5. Resource Centre • Housing • CeSPI Data Centre for UNLP global services • High availability, high security • Redundant electrical power feed and cooling, racks and raised floor • Gigabit LAN • 20 Mbps link to Internet • 2 Mbps to Clara through a symmetric link to InnovaRed with BGP routing protocol. • Resource Centre • EELA Computing Element • 6 EELA dual-core Worker Nodes • EELA 500 GB Storage Element • EELA User Interface • Middleware: gLite 3.0.2 • Manager: Andres Barbieri (CESPI) The process for integration of these resources in the EELA infrastructure was not too simple due to incompatibility between the hardware and the supported software. • M.T.Dova et al, UNLP – 3rd EELA Conference, Catania, 3-5 December, 2007

  6. Snapshoot • M.T.Dova et al, UNLP – 3rd EELA Conference, Catania, 3-5 December, 2007

  7. Future plans EELA infrastructure • SHORT TERM : • Increase computing power and storage resources. • Seed for a more ambitious project: to become an ATLAS Tier-3 facility, an important resource for physicists to analyse ATLAS data. • LONG TERM • Integration at Department levels, then at a provincial (Bs.As.) level, and hopefully at a national level. Tier 3 UNLP Tier 2 Tier 2 Tier 1 Tier0 CERN • M.T.Dova et al, UNLP – 3rd EELA Conference, Catania, 3-5 December, 2007

  8. Lessons from WP2 (II) Authentication and Authorization APGridPMA TAGPMA Legal framework - IGTF International Grid Trust Federation Implementation, operation and support of the Certification Authorities (CA) • M.T.Dova et al, UNLP – 3rd EELA Conference, Catania, 3-5 December, 2007

  9. UNLP PKIGrid https://www.pkigrid.unlp.edu.ar • M.T.Dova et al, UNLP – 3rd EELA Conference, Catania, 3-5 December, 2007

  10. UNLP PKIGrid Infrastructure The deployment of the PKI has required: • One portable PC to act as the CA offline • One sure place in order to protect the CA offline • One dedicated server to support the public site of the CA (holding the Certificates & the CRLs). Supports the functional aspects of the main RA. • One PC for the RA operators • Several Aladdin e-tokens to provide the secure management of operators certificates • A deployment environment (two separate servers are used for implementing & testing the info & services provided by the PKI) Security components: • One firewall extended to provide a separate DMZ for the PKI service. Default policy is DROP and denials are reported. • Distributed sensor infrastructure to report events in a central security console to detect security incidents. • NTP synchronization with a local time source (GPS stratum 0) • Physical Security: RA and Public Site resides in a Server Rack. The access to the rack is controlled. Biometric access. • M.T.Dova et al, UNLP – 3rd EELA Conference, Catania, 3-5 December, 2007

  11. PKI Implementation tasks • Operative Systems Secure Installation • OpenCA installation • OpenCA GUI adaptation • Checking of the implementation for the fulfillment of the CP/CPS • Certificates profiles • Configuration of secure operators access (use of certificates stored in tokens, control of roles) • Token drivers (32K & 64K) -- testing • CA/RA Operator´s training • PKI CP/CPS compliance testing • Digital signature tools testing • M.T.Dova et al, UNLP – 3rd EELA Conference, Catania, 3-5 December, 2007

  12. UNLP PKIGrid Web site https://www.pkigrid.unlp.edu.ar • Bilingual site (English & Spanish) • Site deployment with AJAX • The site contains: • UNLP PKIGrid CP/CPS • Procedures and documentation • A customized view of OpenCA public interface

  13. Future plans • Continued collaboration with ONTI (Oficina Nacional de Tecnologías de Información de la Subsecretaría de la Gestión Pública de la Nación)e-government • Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) at UNLP in the next months. • M.T.Dova et al, UNLP – 3rd EELA Conference, Catania, 3-5 December, 2007

  14. HEP : Argentina in ATLAS • LHC will collide beams of protons at an energy of 14 TeV. • Four detectors (ATLAS, CMS, LHCb, ALICE) constructed and operated by international collaborations of thousands of scientists. • To store and analyse • the huge amount of • data, GRID is crucial. • Argentina (UNLP and UBA) in ATLAS since 2006 . • M.T.Dova et al, UNLP – 3rd EELA Conference, Catania, 3-5 December, 2007

  15. Argentina in AUGER PIERRE AUGER OBSERVATORY N S • HYBRID INSTRUMENT: • SURFACE DETECTORS • FLUORESCENCE DETECTORS • GRID initiatives at Czech Republic • and Germany. • See presentation at this conference • UNLP in AUGER since 1996 • M.T.Dova et al, UNLP – 3rd EELA Conference, Catania, 3-5 December, 2007

  16. Lessons from WP3 ATLAS applications • Currently the ATLAS collaboration is intensively testing its computing model using three types of applications: • - Monte Carlo simulations, which run on all types of Tiers. • - Distribution between Tiers of the Monte Carlo data and of cosmic data. • - Analysis of the data produced either in MC or cosmic runs. • ATLAS applications are specific and use components and services developed either by ATLAS or by the Grid projects to which ATLAS relies on. • These applications run in the ATLAS-Athena framework. • All levels of processing of ATLAS data, from HLT to event simulation, reconstruction and analysis, take place within the Athena framework. • M.T.Dova et al, UNLP – 3rd EELA Conference, Catania, 3-5 December, 2007

  17. Lessons from WP3 ATLAS applications • 2006-2007: Training of Argentinean physicists and computing scientists at ATLASOffline-computing and High-Level Trigger groups. • October 2007: ATLAS EELA-MOU approved and signed. • November 2007: ATLAS applications installed @ the UNLP RC (with great help from Alessandro De Salvo, Pedro and Diego!) • November 2007: Athena test jobs successfully run. • November 21, 2007: First reconstruction job • submitted and running!! • M.T.Dova et al, UNLP – 3rd EELA Conference, Catania, 3-5 December, 2007

  18. The Future • Monte Carlo jobs submission on the EELA e-Grid • infrastructure from the ATLAS production system. • Distributed Analysis jobs submission on the EELA • e-Grid infrastructure from the ARDA-Ganga system • and Management of the data using the ATLAS • Distributed Data Management system. (See more in • D. Barberis talk.) • Continue plans for deployment, development and • training milestones through EELA2 • Gridification of AIRES MC for simulations of ultra-high • cosmic rays. • M.T.Dova et al, UNLP – 3rd EELA Conference, Catania, 3-5 December, 2007

  19. Lessons from WP4: Tutorials First Step: to learn, practice and experiment using GILDA, the INFN real grid computing infrastructure completely devoted to dissemination activities. Second Step: Training of tutors (tutorials for users and administrators) Third Step: Organization of tutorials in Argentina and participation of tutors in events in the region (LA) • M.T.Dova et al, UNLP – 3rd EELA Conference, Catania, 3-5 December, 2007

  20. Lessons from WP4: Tutorials ONTI (Government) Ministerio de Salud (Ministry of Health) Repsol-YPF (Oil Company) • Plus: • Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IBBM) • - Univ. de Buenos Aires • - Univ. del Sur (Bahia Blanca) Tutorials in Argentina: 1. for UNLP members (6/06) 2. to contact new communities (12/06) • M.T.Dova et al, UNLP – 3rd EELA Conference, Catania, 3-5 December, 2007

  21. Lessons from WP4:Workshops Prof. A. Plastino (Director of IFLP) Prof. G. Azpiazu (Rector UNLP) Prof. C. Rapela (Director of CONICET) VERY important to show the governments that we are part of a high-level project! • M.T.Dova et al, UNLP – 3rd EELA Conference, Catania, 3-5 December, 2007

  22. More dissemination: Web page http://www.eela.unlp.edu.ar/ • http://www.eela.unlp.edu.ar/ • M.T.Dova et al, UNLP – 3rd EELA Conference, Catania, 3-5 December, 2007

  23. More dissemination: Brochure • M.T.Dova et al, UNLP – 3rd EELA Conference, Catania, 3-5 December, 2007

  24. Future plans • Tutorials for users (mid 2008) • Tutorials for administrators (mid 2008) • ATLAS computing tutorial/workshop in Buenos Aires March 10-14 2008. • GRID Workshop for biomedical applications (HELEN-SECyT) March 14-16 2008. • M.T.Dova et al, UNLP – 3rd EELA Conference, Catania, 3-5 December, 2007

  25. Prospects of GRID in Argentina • The Joint Research Unit already created with support from SECyT (Secretariat of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation) • M.T.Dova et al, UNLP – 3rd EELA Conference, Catania, 3-5 December, 2007

  26. Argentinean e-Science Collaboration Network • Goals: • Support the development of support infrastructures for distributed computing aimed at sharing resources for the resolution of complex problems with demanding computing requirements • Facilitate the use of GRID Technology: e-Science, e-Education and e-Government • Ensure the development of competence and capacity for the evolution of GRID computing in Argentina and the national initiative (together with InnovaRed). • Dissemination of GRID technology to the industry, government and general public • Integrate Argentina in major International Grid computing infrastructures • M.T.Dova et al, UNLP – 3rd EELA Conference, Catania, 3-5 December, 2007

  27. Argentina in others LA grid initiatives • M.T.Dova et al, UNLP – 3rd EELA Conference, Catania, 3-5 December, 2007

  28. Summary and Conclusions EELA has provided the framework for e-Science in Argentina • Argentinean professionals trained in GRID technology • Participation and organization of Tutorials for administrators and users (National and International) • Creation of the Certification Authority Centre for e-Science in Argentina (http://www.pkiunlp.edu.ar) • Small node in EELA infrastructure, will evolve in a Tier 3. • ATLAS applications in EELA • e-Science in Argentina runs in the right direction and with the right slope. • EELA has been crucial to get us here! • Good prospects for Grid initiatives in Argentina • M.T.Dova et al, UNLP – 3rd EELA Conference, Catania, 3-5 December, 2007

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