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Irish ROC - Report

Irish ROC - Report. John Walsh <john.walsh at cs.tcd.ie> Stephen Childs <stephen.childs at cs.tcd.ie> Eamonn Kenny <eamonn.kenny at cs.tcd.ie> Kathryn Cassidy <kathryn.cassidy at cs.tcd.ie> Brian Coghlan <coghlan at cs.tcd.ie>. TCD (partner 15): Overview.

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Irish ROC - Report

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  1. Irish ROC - Report John Walsh <john.walsh at cs.tcd.ie> Stephen Childs <stephen.childs at cs.tcd.ie> Eamonn Kenny <eamonn.kenny at cs.tcd.ie> Kathryn Cassidy <kathryn.cassidy at cs.tcd.ie> Brian Coghlan <coghlan at cs.tcd.ie>

  2. TCD (partner 15): Overview • TCD hosts Grid-Ireland OpsCentre (Irish ROC) • TCD also runs a grid site (csTCDie) • Grid-Ireland OpsCentre Management • Brian Coghlan • John Walsh • Stephen Childs • Other OpsCentre Staff [ not in PPT] • Eamonn Kenny • Kathryn Cassidy • David O’Callaghan  • Geoff Quigley  • John Ryan  • Stuart Kenny  • Website:http://www.grid.ie/ • Successes •  30 TCD papers thus far since 2006 •  OpsCentre developing adaptive e-Learning (XeL) •  Integrated architecture, centrally managed virtualised CE/SE/UI, transactional rollout •  Fully virtualised certification, experimental, porting & eLearning Testbeds •  Grid-Ireland monitoring (Irish SFTs/I4C/GIDS/trust-eval) plus central Irish AccessGrid service •  OpsCentre supports grid MPI (Chair TCG WG, app support, courses, workshop with int.eu.grid, etc) •  White Paper and subsequent proposal for a sustainable Irish eInfrastructure (e-INIS) •  Grid-Ireland has been confirmed as the defacto Irish NGI •  K.Cassidy is Secretary OGF Ed.Training WG, ICEAGE member & ISGCC07 programme committee •  JRA1: Stuart Kenny is writing the R-GMA Authorisation code  additional regional effort UKI ROC, CERN - Thursday 26 April 2007 Partner Review, CERN

  3. OpsCentre Irish ROC Management Local Support for Ireland Middleware certification Grid-Ireland central services  EGEE plus additional services Deploy/Manage 18 grid gateways  Irish Service Monitoring (I4C)  Accounting: EGEE and Irish  Authentication: policy + Irish CA Authorisation: policy + Irish VOs  Security: monitoring, vulnerability All Grid-Ireland operations  TCD csTCDie site: 64 CPUs strongly supports BIOMED VO DIAS cpDIASie site: 32 CPUs UCD mpUCDie site: 256 CPUs OpsCentre had to develop remotePBS jobmanager no non-national VO enabled yet ICHEC giHECie site: 952 CPUs head-node-only model requires OpsCentre to develop proxy software WNs not able to talk to RB/LFC yet UCC,NUIG,DCU,NUIM,UL,RCSI,QUB, ARM,DIT,AIT,WIT,ITC,ITTA,ITTR no shared resources (yet) nonetheless, all ready for WNs 96 384 11,500 TCD (partner 15): Overview  additional regional effort UKI ROC, CERN - Thursday 26 April 2007 Partner Review, CERN

  4.                     = being done TCD (partner 15): Activity • Activity UKI ROC, CERN - Thursday 26 April 2007 Partner Review, CERN

  5. TCD (partner 15): Activity • Activity • TSA1.1.1:ROC Management • Grid-Ireland Production Service, 4 Irish sites EGEE-registered. 18 Irish sites Total • Excellent TCD/RAL working relationship • TSA1.2.1: Coordination and support for m/w deployment • Grid-Ireland coordination task simplified to LRMS & WN by integrated deployment architecture •  centrally managed with CE/SE/UI/MON virtualised •  transactional rollout of RPMs & profiles from central repository to site Quattor instances •  support to deploy on heterogeneous site WNs •  deployment of remotePBS and customised site information providers • TSA1.2.2: Regional certification of middleware releases • OpsCentre does regional certification of software releases •  Certification Testbed (SA1/SA3) - virtualised replica of Grid-Ireland •  OpsCentre manages Porting Testbed (SA3) •  OpsCentre manages Experimental TestGrid (research) •  OpsCentre manages eLgrid (eLearning) infrastructure • TSA1.3.1: 1st line support for ops problems in region • grid-ireland-help@cs.tcd.ie RT system •  Appropriate Grid-Ireland tickets go through RAL’s footprints to GGUS •  Bugs go to Savannah • TSA1.3.2: Oversight and management of ops problems • Grid-Ireland Grid Manager (John Walsh) and Deputy Grid Manager (Stephen Childs) • TSA1.3.3: Run essential regional grid services • OpsCentre provides EGEE services plus Grid-Ireland central services (RB/BDII/etc)  additional regional effort UKI ROC, CERN - Thursday 26 April 2007 Partner Review, CERN

  6. TCD (partner 15): Activity • TSA1.3.4: Weekly operator on duty support •  OpsCentre op-on-duty rota • TSA1.3.5: Grid services for infrastructure or VOs •  Grid-Ireland monitoring (Irish SFTs/I4C/GIDS) plus central Irish AccessGrid services • TSA1.4.1: Grid incident response coord in region • OpsCentre (TCD’s John Walsh, David O’Callaghan, Stuart Kenny) • grid-ireland-mgr@cs.tcd.ie and grid-ireland-site-managers@cs.tcd.ie • TSA1.4.2: Security vulnerability and risk analysis • Security vulnerability (TCD’s John Walsh, SA1/SA3) •  Grid-wide Intrusion Detection System (GIDS) developed by TCD •  Prototype trust evaluation service developed by TCD • TSA1.4.3: CA management • Grid-Ireland CA (TCD) plus RAs (UCD, NUIG) • TSA1.5.2: helpdesk for ROC • Via grid-ireland-help@cs.tcd.ie RT system • TSA1.5.3: VO support, integration support • EGEE VOs supported: alice,atlas,cms,lhcb,fusion(int.eu.grid),biomed,egode,planck,dteam,ops • Grid-Ireland VOs supported: cosmo,eirevo,gene,webcom,solovo,gitest • Central VO Admin support: grid-ireland-voadmin@cs.tcd.ie •  OpsCentre must develop s/w to suit non-EGEE site model for VOs like LHCb •  OpsCentre specifically supports MPI users • TSA1.5.4: User training in region • Hands-on Irish courses, e.g. Grid MPI Course (with NeSC) •  OpsCentre developing adaptive e-Learning (XeL)  additional regional effort UKI ROC, CERN - Thursday 26 April 2007 Partner Review, CERN

  7. TCD (partner 15): Activity • TSA1.5.5: Site admin training in region • Specific Irish Grid admin and VO admin courses • TSA1.6.2: Accounting coordination in region • Irish accounting records published to Grid-Ireland R-GMA • Irish records for EGEE-registered sites republished to EGEE R-GMA • Irish national VO records very infrequently republished • TSA1.7.1: National and regional grid projects • Existing Irish WebCom-G, CosmoGrid, MarineGrid projects •  In Jul-06, a White Paper proposed a sustainable Irish eInfrastructure, e-INIS •  A proposal was submitted in Mar-07 for funding e-INIS •  A proposed e-PSI Physical Sciences Initiative coupled to e-INIS • TSA1.7.2: International grid projects •  TCD’s Stephen Childs is Chair TCG Working Group on MPI • Ran the joint EGEE/int.eu.grid MPI Workshop in Dec-06 •  TCD has been instrumental in establishing strong working relations between EGEE and int.eu.grid to enhance MPI submission • MPI is very important to Irish computational scientists •  Grid-Ireland has been confirmed as the defacto Irish NGI •  TCD’s Brian Coghlan represents Ireland regarding EGI • TSA1.8.1: ROC management of resources/SLAs • Slow evolution, will be a focus of e-INIS organisation • TSA1.9.1: ROC representation in coordination • All Irish coordination issues involve OpsCentre • Task simplified by integrated deployment architecture  additional regional effort UKI ROC, CERN - Thursday 26 April 2007 Partner Review, CERN

  8. TCD (partner 15): Activity • TSA1.A.3: EGEE conferences (preparation & attendance) • TCD delegates at all EGEE conferences, and have made presentations as well • TSA1.A.5: Participation to Standardisation bodies (GGF) •  Kathryn Cassidy is Secretary of OGF Ed.Training WG • TSA1.A.7: Dissemination •  30 TCD papers thus far since 2006 •  See also: http://people.tcd.ie/coghlan#CV_PUBS_D_PREF • TSA1.A.8: EGEE training (as a trainee) •  Kathryn Cassidy attended EGEE Summer School • TSA1.A.9: EGEE training (as a trainer) •  Kathryn Cassidy is informal NA3 member • And is ICEAGE member and on ISGCC07 programme committee • TSA1.A.10: Partner related tasks (administration, …) • TCD does cost claims, ICC, PPT, etc. • Non-SA1 activities •  Stephen Childs is an active member of LCG Quattor Working Group • Ran the Quattor Workshop in Mar-07 • GridPP Deployment Board: John Walsh • EUGridPMA: Brian Coghlan & David O’Callaghan •  JRA1: Stuart Kenny is writing the R-GMA Authorisation code • SA3: Eamonn Kenny – coordinator for porting, heterogeneity, works intensively with ETICS • SA3: John Walsh - vulnerability, certification (R-GMA)  additional regional effort UKI ROC, CERN - Thursday 26 April 2007 Partner Review, CERN

  9. TCD (partner 15): Activity • Grid-Ireland has also developed useful additional middleware • Service monitoring • I4C service monitoring, see: http://i4c.sourceforge.net/ • GIDS grid-wide intrusion detection system, see: https://www.cs.tcd.ie/coghlan/pubs/egc05-snort-santag.pdf •  Prototype trust evaluation service • Jobmanagers • RemotePBS jobmanager that allows loosely connected batch systems to be connected to the EGEE & Grid-Ireland infrastructures (these batch systems are typically in separate administrative domains) • GIP dynamic scheduler plugin for Condor LRMS • Virtual Machine support • pypxeboot PXE boot loader for Xen • GridBuilder, see: http://gridbuilder.sourceforge.net/ • Grid Filesystem • gridFS, see: https://www.cs.tcd.ie/coghlan/pubs/FGCS-gridfs-article.pdf • Notable Successes • Grid-Ireland deploys 5 complete Grids using Quattor • Production, certification, porting, experimental and eLearning •  All five Grids are heavily reliant on Virtual Machines • Irish ROC Future • Will increase number of sites and number sharing resources • Will be a partner in EGEE-III and the Irish NGI member of EGI • Will move towards sustainability  additional regional effort UKI ROC, CERN - Thursday 26 April 2007 Partner Review, CERN

  10. Grid-Ireland Accounting UKI ROC, CERN - Thursday 26 April 2007 Partner Review, CERN

  11. Grid-Ireland Accounting UKI ROC, CERN - Thursday 26 April 2007 Partner Review, CERN

  12. Grid-Ireland Accounting UKI ROC, CERN - Thursday 26 April 2007 Partner Review, CERN

  13. Grid-Ireland Accounting UKI ROC, CERN - Thursday 26 April 2007 Partner Review, CERN

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