1. E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America www.eu-eela.org Interoperability between EELA and OurGrid Alexandre Duarte CERN IT-GD EELA Project Associate

2. E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America IST-2006-026409 Santiago, 1st EELA Conference, 4-5.09.2006 2 Outline Overview of OurGrid Interoperability –What OurGrid can offer to EELA? –What EELA can offer to OurGrid? Status report Next steps

3. E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America IST-2006-026409 Santiago, 1st EELA Conference, 4-5.09.2006 3 OurGrid Is a free-to-join peer-to-peer grid –Each site represents a peer in the system –There is no paperwork to join it –Targeted to small labs and research groups Is in production since December 2004 –Approximately 300 machines spread around 20 sites Is open source (GPL) and is available at www.ourgrid.org www.ourgrid.org Was developed at Universidade Federal de Campina Grande (Brazil) in colaboration with HP Brazil R&D

4. E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America IST-2006-026409 Santiago, 1st EELA Conference, 4-5.09.2006 4 OurGrid Architecture Sandboxing Site Manager Grid-wide Resource Sharing Site Manager Grid-wide Resource Sharing User Interface Application Scheduling User Interface Application Scheduling

5. E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America IST-2006-026409 Santiago, 1st EELA Conference, 4-5.09.2006 5 What OurGrid can offer to EELA? Support for Opportunistic Computing –Use shared resources when they are available –Enable sites with shared resources to join EELA  Demanded by some EELA partners Visibility among OurGrid partners New applications –Climate forecast and management of water resources  SegHidro (http://seghidro.lsd.ufcg.edu.br)http://seghidro.lsd.ufcg.edu.br –Inteligent control of oil pumping systems  SmartPumping (http://sp.lsd.ufcg.edu.br/)http://sp.lsd.ufcg.edu.br/

6. E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America IST-2006-026409 Santiago, 1st EELA Conference, 4-5.09.2006 6 What EELA can offer to OurGrid? Visibility among EELA partners A good oportunity for an international collaboration

7. E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America IST-2006-026409 Santiago, 1st EELA Conference, 4-5.09.2006 7 Status Report 1st Interoperability Meeting –31/08 and 01/09 Already have architectural proposals to enable: –Using OurGrid-managed resources to execute jobs submitted to EELA  Create a blah plugin to use MyGrid as a batch system  Similar to what was pointed by Markus ( Condor + gLite/lcg-CE ) –Using EELA resources to execute jobs submitted to OurGrid  Restricted to users already authorized to use EELA resources  Automatically port all OurGrid applications to EELA

8. E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America IST-2006-026409 Santiago, 1st EELA Conference, 4-5.09.2006 8 Next Steps EELA –Implementation of a proof of concept prototype to execute gLite jobs using OurGrid-managed resources  4 months (one person, 20% dedication) OurGrid –Elaboration and submission of a funding proposal to contract human resources to implement the solution  Deadline: 18 September

9. E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America www.eu-eela.org Thank you! Questions?