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This talk covers various issues related to the EGEE Organisation, including upcoming conferences, future plans, objectives of JRA1, and the organization's structure. It also highlights the main participants and their roles within the project.
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EGEEOrganisation This talk will cover a number of issues. The structure may be hard to discern Steve Fisher / RAL 4-5/3/2004 <s.m.fisher@rl.ac.uk>
Credits • My slides have been stolen from many sources including: • Fabrizio Gagliardi • Frederick Hemmer EGEE Organisation
F. Gagliardi A. Blatecky E. Jessen T. Priol D. Snelling B. Jones F. Hemmer ? G. Wormser F. Harris F. Hedman ? I. Bird C. Vistoli M. Aktinson J. Dyer G. Zaquine A. Aimar F.Bonnassieux J. Orellana Who’s who EGEE Organisation
Project Conferences • Twice a year for the duration of the project • Try to follow the EU presidential countries • April ‘04 UCC Ireland (preceded by an Irish ministerial event on the EU research infrastructures in Dublin which EGEE will support within the NA5 activity) • Nov ‘04 NIKHEF (3rd week proposed) • Mar/Apr Greece (skip the Luxemburg presidency because we have no EGEE partners there) • Nov ‘05 Scotland, no firm details yet EGEE Organisation
Future • EGEE seen by the EU as the most important Grid infrastructure activity. • Essential to be ready and "hit the ground running" on April 1st 2004 - Fab • Second phase of the project to be proposed to the EU in 2005 EGEE Organisation
JRA1: Objectives • Provide robust, supportable middleware components • Select, re-engineer, integrate identified Grid Services • Evolve towards Services Oriented Architecture • Adopt emerging OGSI WS-RF standards • Multiple platforms • Selection of Middleware based on requirements of • The applications (Bio & HEP) • In particular requirements are expected from LCG’s ARDA & HepCALII • The Operations • E.g. deployment, updates, packaging, etc.. • Support and evolve the middleware components • Evolve towards OGSI, or WS-RF or … • Define a re-engineering process • Address multiplatform, multiple implementations and interoperability issues • Define defect handling processes and responsibilities EGEE Organisation
JRA1: Organization EGEE Organisation
LCG and R-GMA • LCG are now saying publicly that they want R-GMA for: • Accounting • Network monitoring • Job monitoring (CMS) • We have a draft plan being worked on with Ian and Zdenek • Dates in range Feb-Mar • Delays in completing the plan • Where is source • How do RPMs get built etc… EGEE Organisation
EGEE • All middleware is one WP (JRA1, under Frederic Hemmer) • Made up of 3 “coding” clusters • Data Management • Info and Monitoring • Workload management • Security decoupled again • Old EDG application testbed will start with LCG-2 • With R-GMA • MDS free zone • LCG will run with LCG-2 for all of 2004 EGEE Organisation
JRA1: Milestones and Deliverables for the first year EGEE Organisation
JRA1: Responsibilities EGEE Organisation
What we have to do • We are supposed to have: • Cluster manager • Architect • Sysadmin • QA and Doc • 1 Unit tester • 3 Developers • We are also supposed to contribute to security (JRA3) • Three new people being recruited • 2 Developers • Both job offers accepted • 1 Integrator/sysadmin • Job offer accepted EGEE Organisation
Roles • Will not have 1:1 correspondence between roles in proposal and people • All roles will need at least 2 people • Probably need to move people around a bit • To provide coverage during illness and holiday • 2 heads are better than 1 • To encourage team thinking EGEE Organisation
Cross JRA1 groups • Groups • EMT • meeting every few weeks • ATeam • Small ARDA team is making a start – but made up of the old WP managers! • QA • Nothing happened yet • Security • Nothing happened yet • No ITeam (yet) EGEE Organisation
How does ARDA project fit in • Some points from the ARDA web site – dated 19th Feb EGEE Organisation
Main participants: • The basic middleware development team. • Joint European-US team, managed as part of the EGEE project, but including participation of the VDT leadership. • At least one team in each experiment • undertakes to take part in adapting/developing the analysis system of their experiment to use the basic middleware... • Providers of common HEP tools • such as POOL, SEAL, ROOT, GANGA and PROOF... • Users within experiments • exploit the evolving distributed analysis systems and provide immediate feedback to the developers. • Service providers from regional centres • deploying early versions of middleware and analysis systems. • Teams from other sciences is welcomed • such as those participating in EGEE,. EGEE Organisation
Structure • The ARDA Technical Forum, chaired by the ARDA Project Leader, will bring together all of the participants. • As far as possible the common decisions needed to enable the participants to work together (specifications, targets, priorities, timescales, ..) will be made by consensus in the forum. • The project has the status of an LCG project “area”, with the project leader an ex officio member of the PEB. EGEE Organisation
People • The ARDA Project Leader is Massimo Lamanna. • Each experiment has appointed one person to coordinate their activity in the project: • ATLAS: David Adams, • CMS: Lucia Silvestris, • LHCb: Ulrik Egede. • ALICE to be nominated shortly. • The leader of the EGEE Middleware team is Frédéric Hemmer. • The Project Leader has been asked now to launch the project, and prepare an initial plan of action. EGEE Organisation
“New ARDA document” • Taking longer than expected • Preparing APIs for each service to give to GAG • Using C or Java (not yet decided) rather than WSDL to explain things • Because of concerns that this prototype spec may be hard to change, a lot of effort is going into getting it right • Therefore nothing to show yet • Will be ready before GGF10! EGEE Organisation
Tools and Procedures • CVS • There will be a new CVS set up • probably just one • at CERN • ssh access • NOT on AFS • Project “Portal” • EGEE will use Savannah (http://savannah.cern.ch/) for: • Bug tracking • Communication • News • etc… • It is very configurable with new modules being developed • SCM draft from Alberto Di Meglio EGEE Organisation
JRA1 – SA1 interactions • LCG = SA1 ??? • So far 1 meeting • Zdenek Sekera, Frederic Hemmer, Erwin Laure, Peter Kunszt, Ian Bird, Maite Barroso, Marco Serra, Alberto di Meglio, Markus Shulz, Leanne Guy • Some EDG issues: • Certification also included integration activities. We want to clearly separate both • Clean border between JRA1 and SA1: • tar file and makefile. • SA1 do not want packages in any format. EGEE Organisation