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Update on EELA-2 Activities Yassine LASSOUED y.lassoued@ucc.ie. Layout. EELA-2 Grid Tutorial and Workshop First Grid School Outcomes Geoscientific Data and Grid. Layout EELA-2 Tutorial School Outcomes Geo Data & Grid. EELA-2.
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Update on EELA-2 Activities Yassine LASSOUED y.lassoued@ucc.ie GeoDI Progress Meeting 1
Layout • EELA-2 • Grid Tutorial and Workshop • First Grid School • Outcomes • Geoscientific Data and Grid • Layout • EELA-2 • Tutorial • School • Outcomes • Geo Data & Grid GeoDI Progress Meeting 1
EELA-2 • EELA-2 is the second phase of the EU-funded EELA project • EELA = E-Science Grid for Europe and Latin America • Overall Objective • “Build, on the current EELA e-Infrastructure, a high capacity, production quality, scalable Grid Facility providing round-the-clock, worldwide access to distributed computing, storage and network resources for a wide spectrum of applications from European and Latin American scientific communities” • Layout • EELA-2 • Tutorial • School • Outcomes • Geo Data & Grid GeoDI Progress Meeting 1
EELA-2 • CMRC’s Role • Participate in NA3: Application Support • Investigate the use of Grid technology for: • Ocean Wave prediction Model • Distributed management of large geoscientific data • Participate in project events (meetings, workshops, tutorials, etc.) • Liaise with TCD and Grid Ireland • Liaise with Irish institutions and companies • Layout • EELA-2 • Tutorial • School • Outcomes • Geo Data & Grid GeoDI Progress Meeting 1
Grid Tutorial and Workshop • Location: Trinity College Dublin • Date: September 2008 • Duration: 1 week • Objective: • familiarisation with Grid technology • Discuss the potential for using Grid technology for applications • Content: • gLite middleware • AMGA database management system • Etc. • Layout • EELA-2 • Tutorial • School • Outcomes • Geo Data & Grid GeoDI Progress Meeting 1
Grid School • Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil • Date: November 2008 • Duration: 2 weeks • Objective: • Implement and test an application on the Grid • Application implemented by CMRC: • WAM • Layout • EELA-2 • Tutorial • School • Outcomes • Geo Data & Grid GeoDI Progress Meeting 1
Outcomes • Good understanding of Grid technology • Access to Grid Ireland and to the EELA grid • Understanding of how Grid technology can add value to geoscientific datasets • Layout • EELA-2 • Tutorial • School • Outcomes • Geo Data & Grid GeoDI Progress Meeting 1
Geoscientific Data and Grid • Connect geoscientific data repository to the Grid (Grid Ireland) • Allow scientists to access data and perform complex analyses on the Grid without having to download the data from the repository and upload it to the Grid • Distributed management of large volumes of data • Layout • EELA-2 • Tutorial • School • Outcomes • Geo Data & Grid GeoDI Progress Meeting 1