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GISELA in the IBERGRID context: - A Resource Infrastructure Provider Partner An opportunity for VRCs Bernard Marechal (Project Coordinator) 5 th Iberian Grid Infrastructure Conference, 8 th -10 th June 2011 Santander (Spain). Outline. GISELA as Resource Infrastructure Provider: General
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GISELA in the IBERGRID context: • - A Resource Infrastructure Provider Partner • An opportunity for VRCs • Bernard Marechal (Project Coordinator) • 5th Iberian Grid Infrastructure Conference, 8th-10th June 2011 • Santander (Spain)
Outline • GISELA as Resource Infrastructure Provider: • General • is much experienced in Grid computing • has a powerful Infrastructure • complies with EGI policies & recommendations • Specificities • Both Service (gLite) and Opportunistic Computing (OurGrid) supported • GISELA: an option for VRCs • Platform for all kinds of Applications • Offers a series of new, well-supported Services (e.g. DIRAC) • VRC Training & Support • Collaborates with EGI and Regional Initiatives • GISELA interests in the IBERGRID context • Welcomes international VRCs • Creates emulation process in LA • Interest in Iberian VRCs collaborating with Latin America IBERGRID 2011 - 8/10 June - Santander (Spain) 2
Remembering the past 6 Iberian Institutions in EELA • Portugal: • Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas (LIP) • Spain: • CIEMAT • Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) • Universidad Politecnica de Valencia (UPV) • Universidad de Cantabria (UC) • Red Académica y de Investigación Española (REDIRIS) • 10 Iberian Institutions in EELA-2 • Portugal: • Universidade do Porto (UPORTO) • Universidade de Aveiro (UAV) • Universidade do Minho (UMINHO) • Spain: • CETA-CIEMAT • Centro de Supercomputación de Galicia (CESGA) • MAAT GKnowledge (MAAT) • Universidad de Cantabria (UC) • Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) • Universidad de Extremadura (UEX) • Grupo de Reds y Computación de Altas Prestaciones (GRyCAP - UPV) IBERGRID 2011 - 8/10 June - Santander (Spain)
GISELA Countries & Partners 15 Countries (11 in Latin America) 19 Partners (14 in Latin America) 12 Third Parties (11 in Latin America) • UPORTO Third Party • Uminho • UNIANDES Third Parties • UIS • PUJ • UNAM Third Parties • CICESE • ITV • ITESM • IPN-CIC • UAEM • UNISON The GISELA spirit is not anymore to consider Institutions, but rather representatives of JRU / NGI, with the advantage to “accept” de facto all JRU / NGI members. • REUNA Third Parties • UFRO • UTFSM • UFRJ Third Party • CEFET-RJ IBERGRID 2011 - 8/10 June - Santander (Spain) 4
GISELA as Resource Infrastructure Provider IBERGRID 2011 - 8/10 June - Santander (Spain) 5
Long record in e-Science support • Fruit of 5-6 year experience of successful e-Science EU-LA Collaboration, through EU funded projects (EELA, EELA-2, GISELA) • Has long outstanding collaboration with Spain (CIEMAT- Coordinating Institution) and Portugal • Present in almost all LA countries • Most encompassing e-Infrastructure for scientific collaborations between Latin America and Europe • Sound long-term sustainability approach rooted on CLARA, NRENs, LA NGIs IBERGRID 2011 - 8/10 June - Santander (Spain) 6
GISELA e-Infrastructure (1) Committed CPU & Storage resources (from the GISELA DoW) IBERGRID 2011 - 8/10 June - Santander (Spain)
GISELA e-Infrastructure (2) • GISELA gLite sites integrated in the infrastructure • CEFET-RJ, CIEMAT-TIC, EELA-UNLP, ICN-UNAM, INFN-CATANIA, UFRJ-IF, ULA-MERIDA, UMinho-CP, Uniandes and UPorto • About 1000 cores (VO “prod.vo.eu-eela.eu”) • Non-GISELA sites contributing to the VO “prod.vo.eu-eela.eu” • CERN-PROD, csTCDie, EELA-UTFSM, IEETAand UNICAN • OurGrid sites - about 400 cores (all in Brazil): • LCC2, GMF,DCA, AESA, LCC1, LSD IBERGRID 2011 - 8/10 June - Santander (Spain)
GISELA e-Infrastructure (3) • UFRJ is the most active site (gLite only) • specInt2000 IBERGRID 2011 - 8/10 June - Santander (Spain)
GISELA e-Infrastructure (4) • Accumulated load per VO (gLite only) IBERGRID 2011 - 8/10 June - Santander (Spain)
EGI compliant Infrastructure • EGI - GISELA Resource Infrastructure Provider MoU signed • EGI compliance is based on the adoption of common services and practices • The Operational Level Agreement (OLA) (http://documents.gisela-grid.eu/record/87?ln=en) • Monitoring System (Nagios) • Ticket System (GGUS) • Accounting System (APEL) • Middleware (gLite) • Resource database (GOCDB) • Operations Dashboard IBERGRID 2011 - 8/10 June - Santander (Spain) 11
Platform for any Application / VRC • VRC initial situation: • EELA-2 ended up supporting 70Applications from 78 Institutions • Emerging VRCs • Legacy: EELA-2 User Communities, typically 1-2 Institution group(s), largely located in Latin America, alone or collaborating with a few Institutions. • A few large VRCs from Life Sciences (e.g. WeNMR, Biomed), Earth Sciences (WRF4G, Seismic simulations) and HEP (Auger, LHC experiments at CERN) • More than 200 scientific contacts in LA, e.g. CLARA surveyed communities IBERGRID 2011 - 8/10 June - Santander (Spain) 12
Comprehensive framework for VRC support IBERGRID 2011 - 8/10 June - Santander (Spain) 13
Rich portfolio of new, well supported Services • Broad range of services, covering both Application and Infrastructure support • Examples of services for which support is available: • Application-related Services • Job, Catalogue, File and Data Management • Digital archives, Secure storage, WatchDog, lcg-rec toolkit • Infrastructure-related Services • Support for opportunistic resources (OurGrid middleware) • Support for infrastructure bridging (OurGrid and gLite) • Support for Storage Accounting (SAGE) • Data processing and distributed user analysis services • DIRAC: workload and data management system (cf DIRAC meeting in Barcelona) IBERGRID 2011 - 8/10 June - Santander (Spain) 14
Comprehensive VRC Training & Support (1) Tailorable to VRCs needs IBERGRID 2011 - 8/10 June - Santander (Spain) 15
Comprehensive VRC Training & Support (2) Adaptable to VRCs IBERGRID 2011 - 8/10 June - Santander (Spain) 16
Collaboration with EGI & Regional projects • EGEE, EGI • EGEE: Long, outstanding interaction (MoU) in collaboration with other related projects (EUMedGrid, EU-IndiaGrid, EUAsiaGrid, SEE-Grid-2, BalticGrid, BELIEF,..) • EGI: Natural follow up of the EGEE cooperation • Infrastructure Providers MoU, signed with EGI.eu • Project MoU(Dissemination, Training, Support tools & Services), signed with EGI-InSPIRE • EGI-related projects / Regional Initiatives • DEGISCO: Volunteer computing support (gLite <-> OurGrid bridge) • EU: UNIZAR-IBERCIVIS, ATOS ORIGIN, CNRS,… • LA: UFCG-Brazil • CHAIN: Focus on VRC support (MoU under preparation) • EU: INFN, CIEMAT • LA: CLARA • EPIKHJoint sponsoring /organisation of Tutorials & Workshops (MoU signed) • EU: INFN, CIEMAT, CNRS,.. • LA: Brazil: CEFET/RJ, UFRJ, Chile: UTFSM, Mexico: UNAM) IBERGRID 2011 - 8/10 June - Santander (Spain) 17
GISELA specific interests in the IBERGRID context IBERGRID 2011 - 8/10 June - Santander (Spain) 18
GISELA interests • Welcome international VRCs • A few largeVRCs already on board such as from Life Sciences (e.g. WeNMR, Biomed), Earth Sciences (WRF4G, Seismic simulations) and HEP (Auger, LHC experiments) • Create emulation process in Latin America • Not enough intensive productions from LA VRCs • Wish to stimulate LA Institutions to move on from small tests to evaluate the Grid technology to mass production as exemplified by the large VRCs. • Hope to stimulate new collaborations • Interest in “Iberian” VRCs collaborating with Latin America • GISELA is (was) naturally looking for existing or foreseen collaborations between SPAIN & Portugal and Latin America IBERGRID 2011 - 8/10 June - Santander (Spain) 19
CAM (CommunityAtmospheric Model) • Domain: Earth Sciences / Climate forecast • Collaboration: UNICAN (Spain), UCH+CMM (Chile), SENAHMI (Peru) • From EELA: “…Therefore, there is a real need for a seamless global+regional climate application in grid environment allowing users to access and submit runs or experiments using a friendly tool (e.g. a portal).” • Current status, perspectives? IBERGRID 2011 - 8/10 June - Santander (Spain)
WRF4G (WeatherResearch and ForecastingforGrid) • Domain: Earth Sciences / Climate simulation • Collaboration: UNICAN (Spain) • From EELA-2: “One of the advantages of having ported the WRF to the Grid is the large community of end users around this model world wide. Especially the Latin America has a well established community around the WRF model. If we combine this community with the benefits of the Grid, the WRF4G will allow to create a new virtual community around this application supported by the Grid technology provided by the EELA-2 project.” • Current status, perspectives? IBERGRID 2011 - 8/10 June - Santander (Spain)
BLAST (BasicLocalAlignmentSearchTool) • Domain: Life Science / Bio-informatics • Collaboration: UPV (Spain) • From EELA-2: “…processing these databases with BLAST demands computational resources that exceed the capabilities of most research groups. Nevertheless, these massive experiments can be performed by means of e Science infrastructures (such as EGEE, EELA and some NGIs) following ‘High-Throughput’ approaches” • Current status, perspectives? IBERGRID 2011 - 8/10 June - Santander (Spain)
GAMOS (Geant-based Architecture for Medicine-OrientedSimulations) GAMOS: Framework for the simulation of medical applications, in (PET/SPECT) and radiotherapy • Domain: Life Sciences / Medical Physics • Collaboration: CIEMAT (Spain), UTFSM (Chile), UNIANDES (Colombia) • From EELA-2: “the gridified version GAMOS has been successfully deployed and tested on a first group of selected EELA-2 resources. The suitability of this application for Grid environments has been demonstrated performing a real simulation based in calibrating a commercial accelerator, which is in use in multiple hospitals for radiotherapy.” • Current status, perspectives? IBERGRID 2011 - 8/10 June - Santander (Spain)
CROSS FIRE CROSS FIRE: An integrated system aimed at the simulation of fire growth over complex topology • Domain: Civil Protection • Collaboration: UMINHO (Portugal) • From EGRIS1: “Collaborative Resources Online to Support Simulations on Forest Fires: a Grid Platform to Integrate Geo-referenced Web Services for Real-Time Management” • Current status, perspectives? IBERGRID 2011 - 8/10 June - Santander (Spain)
Conclusions (1) • GISELA still young (9 months old) but … • Some concerns (from a managerial point of view): • Slow implementation of the CLARA business plan for long-term sustainability • Handover to CLARA and NRENS of the GISELA activities • (Not enough) use of the GISELA e-Infrastructure • Third parties not yet fully on board • Slow and painful NGIs implementation in LA: • Different levels of development in LA countries' grid infrastructures/services • Local political issues • Non-uniform enthusiasm (but appreciable efforts in Colombia and Mexico) IBERGRID 2011 - 8/10 June - Santander (Spain)
Conclusions (2) • However… • 6 important MoUs already signed and 2 in progress (WP1) • Excellent dissemination and Outreach activities (WP2) • VRCs supported and training available (WP3) • Infrastructure operating satisfactorily (WP4) • Late, but currently satisfactory, ramping up of the Network Resource Provision (WP5) • Infrastructure and Applications-oriented Services for User Communities (WP6)rather productive (DIRAC) • Finally … How could we strengthen the Portugal / Spain – LA collaborations? IBERGRID 2011 - 8/10 June - Santander (Spain)