1. S. Haug on behalf of SwiNG EB, Bern 2009-11-261 Swiss Grid Day 2009 Status Report from the Executive Board Sigve Haug, LHEP University of Bern executive-board@swing-grid.ch http://www.swing-grid.ch

2. 2009-11-262 Swiss Grid Day 2009 in Bern ANNEX 1.Address and Names 2.Organizational Chart 3.Assembly 4.Scientific Advisory Council 5.Working Groups 6.Executive Board (EB) Please find the statues and Strategy documents under www.swing-grid.ch. ROUGH OUTLINE 1.Landscape 2.Resources and some Swiss grids 3.Resulting SwiNG activities. 4.Organisational movements 2009 5.Summary

3. 2009-11-263 Swiss Grid Day 2009 in Bern HPC Resources in SwiNG Member Institutions are Connected

4. 2009-11-264 Swiss Grid Day 2009 in Bern Some Clusters in SwiNG Member Institutions (MI) 2009 This is basic infrastructure for Swiss science which will only grow. Some of these clusters are interconnected with grid middleware. Some of these clusters are connected to international grids. Some of these clusters may want to interconnect to a (national) grid in the future. The MI handle the resulting needs with SwiNG. Numbers taken from web sites. May be wrong !

5. 2009-11-265 Swiss Grid Day 2009 in Bern SwiNG WG : The Swiss Multi-Science Computing Grid cms.smscg.ch, giis.smscg.ch AAA/SWITCH project with 9 participating institutions. Especially the LHC ATLAS experiment and and EPFL project RSA768 have been using remote resources via this grid infrastructure. NATIONAL : A future grid portal with uniform access to most Swiss HPC resources ?

6. 2009-11-266 Swiss Grid Day 2009 in Bern Also desktop clusters can be integrated into a national grid infrastructure : SwiNG WG : Campus Grid The Campus Grid WG serves as an open discussion, coordination, exchange, and standardization forum for ongoing and future projects to build campus- wide grids in Switzerland. Contact: Pascal Jermini (NEW IN 2009) http://greedy.epfl.ch

7. 2009-11-267 Swiss Grid Day 2009 in Bern SwiNG WG : The Swiss ATLAS Grid – www.nordugrid.org/monitor/org Did 50k wall time days in 2008. November 2009 it has already doubled. Swiss infrastructure relies on international middleware. Need to ensure sustained products. See potential membership in NorduGrid.

8. 2009-11-268 Swiss Grid Day 2009 in Bern Not yet a SwiNG WG: WLCG (http://www.cern.ch/lcg) Some Swiss clusters are EGEE sites : CSCS T2, PSI CMS T3, LHCb in Zuerich and Lausanne) Take a look at the monitor.

9. 2009-11-269 Swiss Grid Day 2009 in Bern The Swiss Multi-Science Computing Grid cms.smscg.ch, giis.smscg.ch www.nordugrid.org/monitor INTERNATIONAL : Swiss clusters are embedded in international grids, need for international coordination. See EGI !

10. 2009-11-2610 Swiss Grid Day 2009 in Bern Some central SwiNG activities in 2009 Annual report 2008 (www.swing-grid.ch - Documents – Publications - Reports). A couple of press releases.www.swing-grid.ch Boots at EGEE09, SPS09, GPC09, SPEEDUP09 Talks at GPC09 and AGS09 Delegated the CH-NGI role towards EGI, i.e. the InSPIRE project, until 2010 to SWITCH-UZH-ETHZ In the process to become a NorduGrid member Assembly and SAC meetings Last but not least: The SGS09

11. 2009-11-2611 Swiss Grid Day 2009 in Bern SwiNG WG : Education and Training The Swiss Grid School 2009 was arranged in conjunction with GPC09. 20 Participants. Several from abroad. Tutorials on ARC, gLite, Condor (campus grid) Next year : SGS’10 in Lugano. June 22 – 23.

12. 2009-11-2612 Swiss Grid Day 2009 in Bern 1.2 Organigram – Movements in 2009 25 member groups. One new : UniGE enviroSPACE (N. Ray) 6 19 New SAC chair since the 2009 SAC meeting in June : S. Gadomski EGI NorduGrid Neighbour NGIs SARIT SPEEDUP HPC-CH Funding Agencies +++

13. 2009-11-2613 Swiss Grid Day 2009 in Bern SUMMARY The SwiNG Member institutions have growing computing needs. Reflected in a O(10^5) core infrastructure. Many of these resources are interconnected to a interinstitutional and international grids. As a result new needs for communication, collaboration, operation and funding rise. SwiNG is here to serve these needs. New of the year is the delegation of the NGI-CH to the JRU SWITCH-UZH-ETHZ(CHIPP). Also the SwiNG membership in NorduGrid process. SwiNG will need sustained manpower. A model must be in operation in 2012. This process is being started.

14. 2009-11-2614 Swiss Grid Day 2009 in Bern First LHC collisions seen in the ATLAS control room: Looks like football, but it means some grid work up front.

15. 2009-11-2615 Swiss Grid Day 2009 in Bern Experiment Resource Requirements INTERNATIONAL : Swiss clusters are embedded in international grids.

16. 2009-11-2616 Swiss Grid Day 2009 in Bern SwiNG WG : Grid Workflow The Grid Workflow WG serves as forum for collaboration in the area of grid workflow management research to exploit synergies between existing research groups in the area, and establishes, sustains, and grows the Swiss user community of grid workflows technologies. Products : JOpera submissions to the SMSCG infrastructure. Contact: Cesare Pautasso, USI

17. 2009-11-2617 Swiss Grid Day 2009 in Bern Annex Slides The Swiss National Grid Association 2009

18. 2009-11-2618 Swiss Grid Day 2009 in Bern 1.1 Address and Names Swiss National Grid Association (SwiNG) Postfach 1958 CH-8021 Zurich Switzerland www.swing-grid.ch info@swing-grid,ch (Executive Board) Handelsregistereintrag : 2007-05-29, Verein, CH-270.6.000.592-0 President and Assembly chair : Dean Flanders Scientific Advisory Council chair : Szymon Gadomski Executive Board chair 2009 : Sigve Haug Treasurer : Christoph Witzig Lawyer : Carmen de La Cruz (Egli Partners) Auditor : ROD Treuhand

19. 2009-11-2619 Swiss Grid Day 2009 in Bern 1.2 Organigram

20. 2009-11-2620 Swiss Grid Day 2009 in Bern 1.3 Member Institutions and Assembly Members 1BFHGregor Nyffeler 2CSCSReplacement in progress 3EPFLFrancois Avellan 4ETH Research InstitutionsStephan Egli 5ETHZChristoph Grab 6FHNWNiklaus Lang 7FMIDean Flanders 8HES-SOLouis Belle 9HSLURené Hüsler 10SIBRon Appel 11SUPSIGiambattista Ravano 12SWITCHThomas Brunner 13UniBasHeiko Schuldt 14UniBEAndres Aeschlimann 15UniGEBastien Chopard 16UNILHamid Hussain-Khan 17UniNEPhilippe Renard 18USICesare Pautasso 19UZHKim Baldridge / Alexander Godknecht

21. 2009-11-2621 Swiss Grid Day 2009 in Bern 1.4 Member Groups and Representatives in Scientific Advisory Council 1CSCS?21UZH CSBP. Alfarano 2EPFL DIT M. Thiemard 22UZH ITA. Godknecht 3EPFL LACAL D. Osvik 23UZH OCIK. Baldridge 4ETHZ CISD ? 24FHNW – i4DsM. Soldati 5ETHZ CMS C. Grab 25UniGE – enviroSPACEN. Ray (New 2009) 6ETHZ and UZH FGCZ R. Schlapbach 7HES-SO EIG N. Abdennadher 8HES-SO GUC P. Kuonen 9PSI CMS D. Feichtinger 10SIB PIG F. Lisacek 11SIB VITAL IT H. Stockinger 12SWITCH GRID TEAM C. Witzig 13UniL IT ? 14UniBas BioZentrum T. Schwede 15UniBas DBIS C. Langguth 16UniBe Computer Services Dep A. Aeschlimann 17UniBe LHEP S. Haug 18UniGE MedGift H. Mueller 19UniGe DPNC S. Gadomski 20USI Software Composition C. Pautasso NEW SAC CHAIR 2009

22. 2009-11-2622 Swiss Grid Day 2009 in Bern 1.5 Working Groups Active 2009 — Swiss Multi-Science Computing Grid (SMSCG), N. Williams, P. Flury. — The Swiss ATLAS Grid, S. Gadomski — Campus Grid, P. Jermini. — Education and Training, N. Abdennadher. — Grid Workflow, C. Pautasso — Proteomics, A. Quandt In Progress — Industrial, N. Abdennadher. — There are many other grid activities in CH which may want to hook up. Past — Letter (initiated the organizational structure) — Seed (first infrastructure prototype – see publication) — Infrastructure & Basic Grid Services (transformed into SMSCG)

23. 2009-11-2623 Swiss Grid Day 2009 in Bern 1.6 Executive Board (EB) 2009 In Bern 2008-11-17 seven board members were elected by the Assembly. — Nabil Abdennadher — Dean Flanders (president of SwiNG). — Sigve Haug (chosen to be EB chair by EB) o Peter Kunszt (Left on 2009-02-04. Duties transferred to Kuonen) Many thanks to Peter! — Pierre Kuonen — Heinz Stockinger — Christoph Witzig (treasurer) Executive Board 2008 — Nabil Abdennadher, Dean Flanders (president of SwiNG), Peter Kunszt, Heinz Stockinger, Wibke Sudholt (chair), Christoph Witzig (treasurer) Executive Board 2010 — To be elected by Assembly today.