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An AAA/SWITCH Project. SMSCG – 1 year mark. SwiNG Scientific Advisory Council Meeting University of Bern, June 26, 2009 Nadya Williams (UZH) nadya@oci.uzh.ch Placi Flury (SWITCH) flury@switch.ch. At a glance. Start in 2008 Grid Partners Key properties
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An AAA/SWITCH Project SMSCG – 1 year mark SwiNG Scientific Advisory Council Meeting University of Bern, June 26, 2009 Nadya Williams (UZH) nadya@oci.uzh.ch Placi Flury (SWITCH) flury@switch.ch
At a glance • Start in 2008 • Grid Partners • Key properties • Multi-disciplinary and user driven • Middleware • Support for Users and Applications • Integrated User Management • Security and Policies • Foster Cooperation • Sustainability
An AAA/SWITCH Project Start in 2008 • SMSCG- Swiss Multi-Science Computing Grid • is a project proposed to the AAA/SWITCH program • is a Working Group of SwiNG • Primary goal: • provide computing resources to solve scientific computational problems • Requirements • Increase the scope from a few partners to a national effort • Enable diverse applications on the Grid • Provide users with Grid and application access • Minimize operational and management issues (sites, users) • Early collaboration with other projects • Increase the scope from a few partners to a national effort • Enable diverse applications on the Grid • Provide users with Grid and application access • Minimize operational and management issues (sites, users) • Early collaboration with other projects • WP4 Monitoring • Monitoring system implemented (v1) • Have test and development installation procedures • Ongoing development of Grid and ARC specific plug-ins • WP5 Security and Policies • Security Policy documents created (AUP + GUP) May: Vital-IT, SWITCH, UniBE (LHEP, ID), UZH (OCI, ID, BioChem) January: UniGe (PIG), UZI October: HES-SO August: CSCS, WSL
Key Properties IT Providers and scientists from different academic institutions Project seeks active cooperation with CERT teams Assistance for porting and running applications Define long-term support for users and apps Policies for resources providers and user communities Use national AAI infrastructure Use SWITCH SLCS