1. Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe Technik und Umwelt Regional Data and Computing Centre Germany (RDCCG) RDCCG – Regional Computing and Data Center Germany software server interactive login ALICE FZKbackboneFZKbackbone. 8x software server interactive login ATLAS FZK tape archive software server interactive login other science software server interactive login TEST; R&D compute nodes CPU intensive compute nodes I/O intensive compute nodes communication intensive ?? compute nodes TESTING; R&D GRIDbackboneGRIDbackbone Data tape archive PBytes Data server 1 Data server 2 Data server n...... Data server R&D Data Import Data Export Tier-0/1/2 licence service software installation service certification authority system monitoring & management 1.1 1.2 1.3.1 1.3.2 1.3.9 1.3.10 batch and background; invisible for users private network ?? WAN 1.4.1 1.4.2 1.4.3 1.4.4 1.5.1 1.6 1.7.1 1.7.2 1.8 1.9 1.12 1.10 network address translation 1.11 firewall 1.13 Grid services 1.14 infrastructure 2.1 user support 2.2 training and education 2.3 documentation 2.4 R & D 2.5 management 2.6 SANfabricSANfabric ALICE ATLAS.... Data Pool Volume Management 1.7 23-nov-2001 Grid-Computing Infrastructure & Services (GIS, H.Marten)

2. Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe Technik und Umwelt Regional Data and Computing Centre Germany (RDCCG) RDCCG Evolution (available capacity) 30% rolling upgrade each year after 2007 month/year LHC+nLHC 11/20014/20024/20034/2004200520072007+ CPU /kSI95191946134896+276 Disk /TByte7451132034371421+450 Tape /TByte71112113458063737+2818 FTE Evolution 2002 - 2005 Support: 5 - 30 Development: 8 - 10 New office building to accommodate 130 FTE in 2005 Networking Evolution 2002 - 2005 1) RDCCG to CERN/FermiLab/SLAC (Permanent point to point): 1 GBit/s – 10 GBit/s => 2 GBit/s could be arranged on a very short timescale 2) RDCCG to general Internet: 34 MBit/s – 100 MBit/s => Current situation, generally less affordable than 1)

3. Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe Technik und Umwelt Regional Data and Computing Centre Germany (RDCCG) Installation and Update of OS The idea is to set up a dedicated installation server for each rack of CPUs Currently evaluating the Rocks-Toolkit Monitoring No use of dedicated monitoring hardware and/or management bus Tivoli management suite in broad use for already existing operations -> Further study and deployment of tools necessary Management Tools

4. Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe Technik und Umwelt Regional Data and Computing Centre Germany (RDCCG) Certification Authority Hardware for CA available Delivery of certificates tested CP and CPS draft document available FZK-Grid CA, Certificate Policy and Certification Practice Statement Organization of German virtual organizations FZK-Grid CA known to Globus and accepted by DataGrid Policy for acceptance of foreign certificates needs to be discussed Authorization and Registration Procedure One account manager for each experiment WWW form to be filled out, signed by experiment account manager and send to FZK by FAX One experiment specific account per user One system administrator account per experiment No super user privileges, sorry

5. Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe Technik und Umwelt Regional Data and Computing Centre Germany (RDCCG) GSI Darmstadt Tier-2 will perform e.g. interactive analysis on subsamples (PROOF) Offer support for countries w/o dedicated Tier-1 e.g. Russia (MSU), … Tier-2 business needs to be further discussed and developed within Germany Tier-2 Centers LHC Data Challenges Commitment to fully take part in all data challenges MoU to integrate non-LHC hardware upon actual need currently exercised with ALICE: use BaBar farm for MC challenge -> Synergetic effect until 2004

6. Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe Technik und Umwelt Regional Data and Computing Centre Germany (RDCCG) Department for Grid-Computing and e-Science (GES, M.Kunze): Middleware and Application Development Special interest in ROOT core development and support Meta-Data catalogue Definition and implementation of interfaces to Globus and.NET Evolution of object service Transaction based processing Interactive analysis (PROOF) Special interest in database technology Data mining techniques (Agents and Neural Networks) Deployment of intelligent server side procedures Deployment of XML and SOAP interface technology Involvement into BaBar MC production and distributed analysis (GanaTools) LHC test beds (currently ALICE, ATLAS coming up) CrossGrid National Grid projects (e.g. DAS-Grid w/ ZIB, UniDo, PC 2, FZ Jülich)

7. Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe Technik und Umwelt Regional Data and Computing Centre Germany (RDCCG) Running SAN for Grid Compute Nodes: I/O clients for nfs, cifs, root, scp, gass, ftp, s-ftp, http, https,... I/O server for nfs, cifs, root, scp, gass, ftp, s-ftp, http, https,... SAN SANergy, qfs, gfs,... Grid backbone 128 GBit/s disk subsystems tape robotics MDC High Throughput Cluster: Direct SAN access (>300 MB/s) Good for interactive Data-Mining: 1 TB in a few minutes