Status Report from the Executive Board

1. Status Report from theExecutive Board Sigve Haug, LHEP University of Bern executive-board@swing-grid.ch http://www.swing-grid.ch

2. ANNEX Address and Names Organizational Chart Assembly Scientific Advisory Council Working Groups Executive Board (EB) Please find the statues and Strategy documents under www.swing-grid.ch. ROUGH OUTLINE Landscape Resources and some Swiss grids Resulting SwiNG activities. Organisational movements 2009 Summary

3. HPC Resources in SwiNG Member Institutions are Connected

4. This is basic infrastructure for Swiss science which will only grow. Some of these clusters are interconnected with grid middleware. Some of these clusters are connected to international grids. Some of these clusters may want to interconnect to a (national) grid in the future. The MI handle the resulting needs with SwiNG. Some Clusters in SwiNG Member Institutions (MI) 2009 Numbers taken from web sites. May be wrong !

5. AAA/SWITCH project with 9 participating institutions. Especially the LHC ATLAS experiment and and EPFL project RSA768 have been using remote resources via this grid infrastructure. SwiNG WG : The Swiss Multi-Science Computing Grid cms.smscg.ch, giis.smscg.ch NATIONAL : A future grid portal with uniform access to most Swiss HPC resources ?

6. Also desktop clusters can be integrated into a national grid infrastructure : SwiNG WG : Campus Grid The Campus Grid WG serves as an open discussion, coordination, exchange, and standardization forum for ongoing and future projects to build campus-wide grids in Switzerland. Contact: Pascal Jermini (NEW IN 2009) http://greedy.epfl.ch

7. Did 50k wall time days in 2008. November 2009 it has already doubled. SwiNG WG : The Swiss ATLAS Grid – www.nordugrid.org/monitor/org Swiss infrastructure relies on international middleware. Need to ensure sustained products. See potential membership in NorduGrid.

8. Not yet a SwiNG WG: WLCG (http://www.cern.ch/lcg) Some Swiss clusters are EGEE sites : CSCS T2, PSI CMS T3, LHCb in Zuerich and Lausanne) Take a look at the monitor.

9. www.nordugrid.org/monitor The Swiss Multi-Science Computing Grid cms.smscg.ch, giis.smscg.ch INTERNATIONAL : Swiss clusters are embedded in international grids, need for international coordination. See EGI !

10. Annual report 2008 (www.swing-grid.ch - Documents – Publications - Reports). A couple of press releases. Boots at EGEE09, SPS09, GPC09, SPEEDUP09 Talks at GPC09 and AGS09 Delegated the CH-NGI role towards EGI, i.e. the InSPIRE project, until 2010 to SWITCH-UZH-ETHZ In the process to become a NorduGrid member Assembly and SAC meetings Last but not least: The SGS09 Some central SwiNG activities in 2009

11. The Swiss Grid School 2009 was arranged in conjunction with GPC09. 20 Participants. Several from abroad. Tutorials on ARC, gLite, Condor (campus grid) SwiNG WG : Education and Training Next year : SGS’10 in Lugano. June 22 – 23.

12. 1.2 Organigram – Movements in 2009 EGI NorduGrid Neighbour NGIs SARIT SPEEDUP HPC-CH Funding Agencies +++ 19 New SAC chair since the 2009 SAC meeting in June : S. Gadomski 6 25 member groups. One new : UniGE enviroSPACE (N. Ray)

13. The SwiNG Member institutions have growing computing needs. Reflected in a O(10^5) core infrastructure. Many of these resources are interconnected to a interinstitutional and international grids. As a result new needs for communication, collaboration, operation and funding rise. SwiNG is here to serve these needs. New of the year is the delegation of the NGI-CH to the JRU SWITCH-UZH-ETHZ(CHIPP). Also the SwiNG membership in NorduGrid process. SwiNG will need sustained manpower. A model must be in operation in 2012. This process is being started. SUMMARY

14. Looks like football, but it means some grid work up front . First LHC collisions seen in the ATLAS control room:

15. Experiment Resource Requirements INTERNATIONAL : Swiss clusters are embedded in international grids.

16. SwiNG WG : Grid Workflow The Grid Workflow WG serves as forum for collaboration in the area of grid workflow management research to exploit synergies between existing research groups in the area, and establishes, sustains, and grows the Swiss user community of grid workflows technologies. Products : JOpera submissions to the SMSCG infrastructure. Contact: Cesare Pautasso, USI

17. Annex SlidesThe Swiss National Grid Association2009

18. 1.1 Address and Names • Swiss National Grid Association (SwiNG) • Postfach 1958 • CH-8021 Zurich • Switzerland • www.swing-grid.ch • info@swing-grid,ch (Executive Board) • Handelsregistereintrag : 2007-05-29, Verein, CH-270.6.000.592-0 • President and Assembly chair : Dean Flanders • Scientific Advisory Council chair : Szymon Gadomski • Executive Board chair 2009 : Sigve Haug • Treasurer : Christoph Witzig • Lawyer : Carmen de La Cruz (Egli Partners) • Auditor : ROD Treuhand

19. 1.2 Organigram

20. 1.3 Member Institutions and Assembly Members

21. 1.4 Member Groups and Representatives in Scientific Advisory Council NEW SAC CHAIR 2009

22. 1.5 Working Groups Active 2009 Swiss Multi-Science Computing Grid (SMSCG), N. Williams, P. Flury. The Swiss ATLAS Grid, S. Gadomski Campus Grid, P. Jermini. Education and Training, N. Abdennadher. Grid Workflow, C. Pautasso Proteomics, A. Quandt In Progress Industrial, N. Abdennadher. There are many other grid activities in CH which may want to hook up. Past Letter (initiated the organizational structure) Seed (first infrastructure prototype – see publication) Infrastructure & Basic Grid Services (transformed into SMSCG)

23. 1.6 Executive Board (EB) 2009 In Bern 2008-11-17 seven board members were elected by the Assembly. Nabil Abdennadher Dean Flanders (president of SwiNG). Sigve Haug (chosen to be EB chair by EB) Peter Kunszt (Left on 2009-02-04. Duties transferred to Kuonen) Many thanks to Peter! Pierre Kuonen Heinz Stockinger Christoph Witzig (treasurer) Executive Board 2008 Nabil Abdennadher, Dean Flanders (president of SwiNG), Peter Kunszt, Heinz Stockinger, Wibke Sudholt (chair) , Christoph Witzig (treasurer) Executive Board 2010 To be elected by Assembly today.