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Neil Geddes CCLRC Head of e-Science Director of the UK Grid Operations Support Centre. NGS “Today”. Interfaces. OGSI::Lite WSRF::Lite. Projects e-Minerals e-Materials Orbital Dynamics of Galaxies Bioinformatics (using BLAST) GEODISE project UKQCD Singlet meson project
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Neil Geddes CCLRC Head of e-ScienceDirector of the UK Grid Operations Support Centre
NGS “Today” Interfaces OGSI::Lite WSRF::Lite • 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. • RealityGrid (chemistry) • Users • Leeds • Oxford • UCL • Cardiff • Southampton • Imperial • Liverpool • Sheffield • Cambridge • Edinburgh • QUB • BBSRC • CCLRC.
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 …
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 Production Status
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
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 dev’t. with e-Markets • Meeting with OSG iGOC • HPCX, CSAR, CCPs • Collect user exemplars • Agreed acknowledgement
“Tomorrow” Web Services based National Grid Infrastructure
Commercial Provider UofD PSRE Leeds Man. RAL Oxford NGS Core Nodes: Host core services, coordinate integration, deployment and support +free to access resources for all VOs. Monitored interfaces + services NGS Sites: Integrated with NGS, some services/resources available for all VOs Monitored interfaces + services NGS Connected Sites: Integrated with NGS, support for some VO’s Monitored interfaces (+security etc.) GOSC U of C U of A H P C x U of B C S A R
VRE, VLE, IE HPCx + HECtoR LHC ISIS TS2 UK e-Infrastructure Users get common access, tools, information, Nationally supported services, through NGS Regional and Campus grids Integrated internationally
Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 2006 2004 2005 Timeline NGS WS Service NGS Expansion (Bristol, Cardiff…) NGS Production Service NGS WS Service 2 OGSA-DAI NGS Expansion WS2plan WS plan OMII release gLite release 1 EGEE gLite alpha release EGEE gLite release OMII Release