BalticGrid-II Project BG-II kickoff meeting, May 2008, Vilnius1 SA1 Mario Kadastik Operations Director / SA1 activity leader

BG-II kickoff meeting, May 2008, Vilnius2 Outline Introduction Tasks in SA1 Usage targets Regional extension Interoperability Towards NGI-s Conclusions Q & A

Previously … 3BG-II kickoff meeting, May 2008, Vilnius

Introduction SA1, the biggest activity in BalticGrid-II  150 PM-s total (36% of total)  euro (34% of total)  All partners active in this activity The task of SA1 is to provide a good infrastructure for all researchers in the Baltic region, Belarus and beyond Without SA1 there is no Grid. SA1 is responsible to provide the technical infrastructure, the services and the support for them 4BG-II kickoff meeting, May 2008, Vilnius

Tasks in SA1 Central services  The primary aim of this task is to maintain central services for the Grid middleware  This includes the CA and RA network, the central resource brokers, file catalogs etc  It also contains the implementation and support of the tools developed in BalticGrid JRA1 activity Maintenance and user support  This task includes a ticketing system as well as support personnel for site and users support (in cooperation with SA3) 5BG-II kickoff meeting, May 2008, Vilnius

Tasks in SA1 (cont) Testbed operations  To provide preliminary testing of any new software updates and hence reduce the amount of unplanned downtime at sites  It is also used for tutorial purposes Interoperability with other middlewares  BalticGrid project concentrated on gLite only  In addition ARC and Unicoremiddlewares are present in the region  In BalticGrid-II we try to unify these different communities by providing common support and possibly common tools 6BG-II kickoff meeting, May 2008, Vilnius

Usage targets SA1 will provide the infrastructure on which to do science, the two main usage targets to measure the success of this are:  25% of increase of CPU hour usage per six months – Total four periods, every time the target is for users to compute a quarter more – No fixed amount for the first period  10% of increase per year in valid user certificates – Valid certificates should show number of real active users in the Grid NB! SA1 will not provide the computations themselves, this is up to the scientists 7BG-II kickoff meeting, May 2008, Vilnius

Regional extension In BalticGrid we had 6 countries  Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Sweden and Switzerland (CERN) In BalticGrid-II we have extended the region with two new partners from Belarus Current situation in Belarus is similar to the Baltic States in the beginning of the BalticGrid project The aim of SA1 is to help Belarussian partners in all technical aspects of setting up the Grid 8BG-II kickoff meeting, May 2008, Vilnius

Interoperability Currently there are three main Grid middleware flavors in the region: ARC, gLite and Unicore At this point none of them work together, which means, that there are always unusable resources once you have selected one of them The objective of SA1 in BalticGrid-II is to try to unify these communities as much as possible  Starting with operational support for all middleware users  Hopefully during the lifetime of the project, a technical unification will also happen 9BG-II kickoff meeting, May 2008, Vilnius

Towards NGI-s Currently of the four countries of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Belarus only Lithuania has a well established National Grid Initiative The aim is that after the end of BalticGrid-II project all of the above mentioned countries have a well established infrastructure which can continue on its own With regard to central services, we are already in a good shape, but there is plenty of work to be done 10BG-II kickoff meeting, May 2008, Vilnius

Conclusions SA1 is vital to project success Main priority is to provide a production quality infrastructure to scientists We have a lot of new ground to cover (Belarus and other middlewares) We need to be ready by the end of BalticGrid-II to continue as NGI-s as there is likely not going to be an extension project 11BG-II kickoff meeting, May 2008, Vilnius