1. www.gisela-grid.eu Grid Initiatives for e-Science virtual communities in Europe and Latin America WP3 - User Communities Support STATUS REPORT Guillermo Díaz (CIEMAT) on behalf of WP3 Manager, Leandro Ciuffo (RNP) First-year Project Review Brussels, 15.09.2011

2. www.gisela-grid.eu GISELA - First year Project Review - Brussels - 15/09/2011 2 WP3 Status Outline ACHIEVEMENTS OPEN ISSUES PLANS FOR NEXT REPORTING PERIOD CONCLUSIONS

3. www.gisela-grid.eu WP3 – User Communities Support ACHIEVEMENTS as compared to WP3 objectives GISELA - First year Project Review - Brussels - 15/09/2011 3

4. www.gisela-grid.eu WP3 Achievements on supported VRCs Life Sciences –WeNMR collaboration (EGI TF10) Access to WeNMR application portal Opens some LA sites to enmr.eu VO –HealthGrid agreement (EGI UF11) Support of biomed VO in LA Exchange of software and experiences Users could be anywhere in LA or EU Earth Sciences –Special interest detected in WRF model –Leveraging WRF4G from EELA-2 to new groups in Brazil and Cuba Simulations in Amazon region Pollution affecting air quality in atmosphere –World-wide interest (EGI TF11) High Energy Physics (HEP) –4 experiments @LHC accelerator –Pierre Auger Observatory GISELA - First year Project Review - Brussels - 15/09/2011 4

5. www.gisela-grid.eu WP3 Achievements on supported VRCs Overall list of apps & VOs supported per VRC: Evolution of supported groups in LA… GISELA - First year Project Review - Brussels - 15/09/2011 5 Local support at the RC level (new comers) Central support at LGI / GSC level (VOs)

6. www.gisela-grid.eu WP3 Applications Portfolio GISELA - First year Project Review - Brussels - 15/09/2011 6 70 legacy grid applications inherited from EELA & EELA-2 34 of them are in a production stage –Not all of them running on regular basis, but… –Can be provided at anytime upon users request in LA MoU signed with EGI-InSPIRE (M08) enables… –VRC members in Europe exploit GISELA resources –VRC members in LA exploit EGI resources (most usual) –EGI/GISELA to coordinate VRC support in every EGI forum –Publishing GISELA applications in http://appdb.egi.eu/http://appdb.egi.eu/

7. www.gisela-grid.eu WP3 Infrastructure usage statistics GISELA - First year Project Review - Brussels - 15/09/2011 7 Accumulated CPU-hours, grouped by VOs: Identified main consumers: –LHC experiments (HEP) –Training events –New comers with new applications Use of computing resources varies with time… –Some sites are not capable of supporting HEP VO(s) –Smaller applications generate burst-demand of resources

8. www.gisela-grid.eu WP3 Achievements on Users support GISELA - First year Project Review - Brussels - 15/09/2011 8 3 major training events –Jointly organized with EPIKH and CHAIN –Venues: Mexico City Valparaiso, Chile Sonora, Mexico 40 self-training documents available –Tagged and categorized –Multiple user profiles 8 articles related to WP3 activity –SpringerLink (2) –Journal of Grid Computing (1) –Proceedings of the HPC LA Symposium (1) –IBERGRID2011 (1) –iSGTW (3)

9. www.gisela-grid.eu WP3 – User Communities Support OPEN ISSUES and deviations from the work plan GISELA - First year Project Review - Brussels - 15/09/2011 9

10. www.gisela-grid.eu GISELA - First year Project Review - Brussels - 15/09/2011 10 WP3 Open Issues Slow start of CLARA TT on WP3 matters –CLARA TT WP3 person nominated in Q3 –CLARA TT is not yet fully engaged within WP3 activities CLARA & NRENs are prospecting communities… –Difficulties to make them understand GISELA grid as a tool for e-Science Usage of e-Infrastructures not yet at the expected level –Complete saturation of infrastructure on regular basis is a tough goal –Demand of resources coming in burst from smaller groups in LA –Some LA sites cannot comply specific requirements (disk size, network bandwidth, MPI environment, 64-bit calculations, etc.)

11. www.gisela-grid.eu WP3 – User Communities Support PLANS for the next reporting period GISELA - First year Project Review - Brussels - 15/09/2011 11

12. www.gisela-grid.eu GISELA - First year Project Review - Brussels - 15/09/2011 12 WP3 Plans for 2 nd Year At least two more major training events –Possibly in cooperation with EPIKH, CHAIN and/or DEGISCO projects Foster higher exploitation of e-Infrastructures –Leveraging WRF4G (Brazil, Cuba, but world-wide also) –High demand of resources is expected from the biomed VO –Enabling more RCs to support HEP VO(s), in cooperation with WP4 –Reaching new CLARA communities (social, cultural) Approach to industry-related communities –Providing a Scientific Gateway (web portal), in cooperation with WP6 –Stimulating usage of grid resources New WP3 VRC-driven website –Replacing contents currently available at http://applications.gisela-grid.euhttp://applications.gisela-grid.eu Handover of user communities support activities to CLARA TT

13. www.gisela-grid.eu WP3 – User Communities Support CONCLUSIONS after the 1 st year activity GISELA - First year Project Review - Brussels - 15/09/2011 13

14. www.gisela-grid.eu GISELA - First year Project Review - Brussels - 15/09/2011 14 WP3 Conclusions WP3 is in good shape accomplishing its 1 st year quality metrics –Despite difficulties reported during the Crash Program Much help came, and is expected to come, from: –Signed MoUs with EGI.eu, EGI-InSPIRE and EPIKH –Close cooperation with CHAIN project Plans are proposed for 2 nd year seeking… –Success of WP3 activities –Contribution to long-term sustainability of e-Infrastructures in LA Involvement of CLARA TT is required to take the baton