1. EGEE is a project funded by the European Union under contract IST-2003-508833 NA activities Roberto Barbera Technical Board INFN Grid, Bologna, 01-02.07.2004 www.eu-egee.org

2. Technical Board INFN Grid, Bologna, 01-02.07.2004 - 2 Outline NA4:  News about GILDA  DNA4.1  New Generic Applications after first EGAAP meeting  Requirements  Open Meeting NA3: tutorials and events NA2: preparation of events

3. Technical Board INFN Grid, Bologna, 01-02.07.2004 - 3 NA4: News about GILDA New sites in the GILDA Testbed  Telecom Italia Lab  GL2006 More sites to come shortly  Sheffield University (UK)  University of Vienna (Austria)  FZK (Germany)  GCC (France)  ESA (International)  University of Merida (Venezuela)  University of Perugia (Italy)  ITC Trento (Italy) New scientific and “commercial” applications  GRACE  Drug Discovery  hadronTherapy (see Emidio’s talk)  Video-on-demand (see Giuseppe La Rocca’s talk)

4. Technical Board INFN Grid, Bologna, 01-02.07.2004 - 4 NA4: DNA4.1 Last version of the draft available on NA4 EDMS at the URL: https://edms.cern.ch/document/475319/8 Very pragmatic approach entirely based on GENIUS, its current implementation Full review of current applications interfaced to GENIUS Integration with gLite outlined Will go for internal review by the end of this week

5. Technical Board INFN Grid, Bologna, 01-02.07.2004 - 5 NA4: New Generic Applications First EGAAP meeting held at CERN on June, 14. Agenda, presentations, documents and minutes available at the URL: http://agenda.cern.ch/fullAgenda.php?ida=a042351 First Generic Applications selected:  Earth Science: Earth Observations (IPSL coord.)  Earth Science: Geophysics (GCC coord.)  Computational Chemistry (Univ. Perugia coord.)  Astro-particle physics: MAGIC Experiment (FZK cood.) EGAAP recommendations should be endorsed by PEB at the next meeting Workplan templates in preparation with clear indication of goals and commitments (in terms of person-power and resources) Official announcement at the Catania Open Meeting

6. Technical Board INFN Grid, Bologna, 01-02.07.2004 - 6 NA4: Requirements Last version of NA4 requirements available on the web at the URL: http://egee-na4.ct.infn.it/requirements/http://egee-na4.ct.infn.it/requirements/ DB-based tool set-up to allow time evolution of (new) requirements Tool adopted by EGEE PTF

7. Technical Board INFN Grid, Bologna, 01-02.07.2004 - 7 Improvement on metadata handling (RMC, Spitfire) Improvement on security (restricted access, groups and roles within a VO) Improvement on scalability (e.g. number of files, file sizes). Improvement of the performance of most of the functionalities. Support for parallel programs (e.g. MPI, PVM) (see Giuseppe Andronico’s talk) NA4: Requirements from Earth Observations’ Apps.

8. Technical Board INFN Grid, Bologna, 01-02.07.2004 - 8 MPI with Mirinet, SCI or other fast network and Fortran 90: The simulation proposed requires the possibility to submit a script and not only the executable. Modelling and imaging are also intrinsically parallel applications using large memory, medium to large exchanges between computing nodes with MPI, local scratch disc space and are heavy cpu intensive. Another requirement, not encountered in DataGrid, is the consistency between the compiler and libraries available on the UI and the ones needed by the cluster at the working node where the job is executed. Definition of the role and permission for each partner of a VO to access metadata and data Operational databases: update, mirroring, integrity, secure access and metadata handling. Secure access to external database such as the GPS and seismological databases NA4: Requirements from Geophysics Apps.

9. Technical Board INFN Grid, Bologna, 01-02.07.2004 - 9 external document NA4: Detailed requirements from Earth Science Apps.

10. Technical Board INFN Grid, Bologna, 01-02.07.2004 - 10 NA4: Astro-particle Physics Requirements (MAGIC Telescope) The security of all distributed system is an important topic. But the astroparticle physics community is purely scientific and therefore the security problems will not be as great as in field like medicine, pharmacy or genomic applications. This offers the use of already existing security mechanisms like the Globus Security infrastructure, etc. without any longer time lag due to not available stricter Security and Privacy mechanisms.

11. Technical Board INFN Grid, Bologna, 01-02.07.2004 - 11 NA4: Open Meeting NA4 Open Meeting will be held in Catania on July, 14 (tutorial), 15 and 16 (sessions) Event home page: http://egee-na4.ct.infn.it/na4_open_meeting Program almost finalized and available on the web at the URL: http://agenda.cern.ch/fullAgenda.php?ida=a041952 50 participants already registered (30+ for the tutorial on the first day) INFN participation so far surprisingly low

12. Technical Board INFN Grid, Bologna, 01-02.07.2004 - 12 NA3: tutorials and events Grid video tutorials done or under realization and publicly available from the GILDA home page (see Valeria’s talk) Past/present events:  GILDA/GENIUS tutorial, Catania, 24-25.05.2004  GRACE official EU Review, Bruxelles, 10.06.2004  Russian Grid, Dubna, 29.06-02.07.2004 Future events:  FZK, Karlsruhe, 06.07.2004  NeSC, Edinburgh, 06.07.2004  NA4 Open Meeting, Catania, 14.07.2004  Grid School, Vico Equense, 19-20.07.2004  FZK, Karlsruhe, 09.2004 (dates not yet fixed)  Grid School, Merida, 22-26.11.2004  SEE-Grid, Istanbul, 09-10.12.2004

13. Technical Board INFN Grid, Bologna, 01-02.07.2004 - 13 NA2: preparation of events IST 2004 in Den Haag, 15-17.11.2004 (http://www.senter.nl/asp/page.asp?id=i000000&alias=ist20 04&visitlanguage=uk) “Settimana della cultura” in Genoa, November 2004 (GENIUS+GPCALMA) Organization of another major event in Italy for application developers by the end of the year (according to the TA and NA3 WBS) ?