EGEE is a project funded by the European Union under contract IST NA4/NA2 activities Roberto Barbera TB INFN Grid,

TB INFN Grid, Contents Status of NA4 Status of GENIUS The GILDA dissemination tool Next future activities

TB INFN Grid, NA4 Generic Applications goals Activity NA4 focuses on the identification and support of early-user and established applications for use on the EGEE infrastructure. It has the following objectives:  To identify through the dissemination partners and a well defined integration process a portfolio of early user applications from a broad range of application sectors from academia, industry and commerce.  To support development and production use of all of these applications on the EGEE infrastructure and thereby establish a strong user base on which to build a broad EGEE user community.  To initially focus on two well-defined application areas – Particle Physics and Life sciences. The expected outcome of the activity will be the establishment of a broad portfolio of applications across a wide range of sectors suited to execution on the EGEE infrastructure meeting the needs of a broad collection of user groups from many sectors across Europe as illustrated in Figure (note the timeline for the introduction of each application domain is purely illustrative).

TB INFN Grid, NA4 Work Breakdown Structure

TB INFN Grid, The Gen. App. Selection process: the EGAAP (1/2) 1) The EGEE Generic Applications Advisory Panel (EGAAP) Is in charge of facilitating the deployment of potential new applications on the EGEE infrastructure. It will advise the Application team in EGEE on the allocation of their resources to that effect. It will collect the necessary information about the application candidates, identify the needs to achieve this goal and make recommendations to that effect to: - the NA4 management for allocation of the NA4 resources to the applications which need them - the EGEE Project Execution Board where the technical consequences of this new deployment will be examined. In the case where the application impact is deemed very important for EGEE, the EGEE Project Management Board will be noticed. 2) Criteria used for recommendations The EGEE Generic Applications Advisory Panel will use the following criteria to make its recommendations: scientific interest of the proposed work, with particular emphasis on the grid added-value, added value for EGEE to have such an application running on its infrastructure coordination of the corresponding community, grid-awareness of this community minimum requirement that a small team followed the EGEE training, dedication of the community to this application, agreement to the various EGEE policies and especially the security and resources allocation policies. 3) EGAAP will hear regularly reports from the deployed applications on the EGEE infrastructure

TB INFN Grid, The Gen. App. Selection process: the EGAAP (2/2) 4) In the case of industrial applications, the EGEE Generic Applications Advisory Panel can require input from the EGEE Industry Forum 5) Membership The selection panel is formed of 8 nominated members in addition to ex-officio members. 2 members designated by the NA4 team leader from within the EGEE project and 5 members designated by the NA4 team leader from a list of nominees outside the EGEE project suggested by members of the EGEE Project Management Board. The chair is chosen among these 8 members by the NA4 team leader, in consultation with the EGEE management. The membership term is one year, renewable once. The ex-officio members are: NA4 team leader NA4 generic applications coordinator NA4 Industry Forum coordinator EGEE technical director EGEE project manager 6) The EGAAP will meet at least twice a year.

TB INFN Grid, The Generic Application questionnaire (contribution to MNA4.1) Questionnaire to get information and first requirements from new communities interested in using the EGEE Infrastructure ( questionnaire.doc) questionnaire.doc Feed-backs received so far (  Astrophysics (EVO and Planck satellite)  Earth Observation (ozone maps, seismology, climate)  Digital Libraries (DILIGENT Project)  Grid Search Engines (GRACE Project)  Industrial applications (SIMDAT Project) Interest also from Computational Chemistry (Italy and Czech Republic), Civil Engineering (Spain), and Geophysics (Switzerland and France) communities

TB INFN Grid, GENIUS graphic workflow editor (integration with TRIANA from GridLab)

TB INFN Grid, GENIUS Applications: GATE (1/3)

TB INFN Grid, GENIUS Applications: GATE (2/3)

TB INFN Grid, GENIUS Applications: GATE (3/3)

TB INFN Grid, GENIUS Applications: GPCALMA

TB INFN Grid, The GILDA home page

TB INFN Grid, The GILDA Testbed

TB INFN Grid, The GILDA Certification Authority (1/3)

TB INFN Grid, The GILDA Certification Authority (2/3)

TB INFN Grid, The GILDA Certification Authority (3/3)

TB INFN Grid, The GILDA Virtual Organization

TB INFN Grid, The GILDA monitoring system (1/2)

TB INFN Grid, The GILDA monitoring system (2/2)

TB INFN Grid, The GILDA Applications: HEP (1/3)

TB INFN Grid, The GILDA Applications: EO (2/3)

TB INFN Grid, The GILDA Applications: ENG (3/3)

TB INFN Grid, GILDA usage statistics

TB INFN Grid, The GILDA Tutorials (1/2) Edinburgh, 7 April 2004 Tunis, April 2004 Edinburgh, April 2004 CERN, May 2004 Catania, May 2004 Amsterdam, June 2004 Catania, July 2004

TB INFN Grid, The GILDA Tutorials (work in collaboration with NA3) First pre-tutorial in Edinburgh on April, 7, 2004 ( ) First induction course in Edinburgh on April, 26-28, 2004 Next induction course at CERN on May, 17-19, 2004

TB INFN Grid, Conclusions and outlook for GILDA GILDA is a complete suite of grid elements (test-bed, CA, VO, monitoring system, web portal) and applications fully dedicated to dissemination purposes. GILDA runs and will run the last production (stable) version of the grid middleware (currently Grid.it based on LCG 2.0.0). GILDA is the dissemination tool which will be used by NA3 during induction courses and tutorials (first in Edinburgh next week!). Next future (3-4 weeks):  adding new sites: NeSC, InterQuanta (private company in Spain), FZK, Bratislava, any other interested;  finalize and advertise the “24x7” public “grid demonstrator”: a customized version of the full GENIUS web portal from where all users belonging to the GILDA VO can submit a pre-defined set of applications to the GILDA Testbed;  publish all the documentation on the GILDA web site (including videos).

TB INFN Grid, Final conclusions and outlook NA4 Generic Applications is a key activity in the process of getting new scientific and industrial communities interested and committed to use the continental grid infrastructure built by the EGEE Project. GENIUS is a well established tool which will be fundamental in the process of interfacing new applications with the EGEE middleware hiding its complex internals to non-experts users from new communities. GILDA is a complete suite of grid elements (RB, CE, SE, BDII, MDS, RLS, CA, VO, monitoring system, web portal) and applications fully dedicated to dissemination purposes. This could also represent the ideal grid testbed where to start the porting of new generic applications. GILDA is the dissemination tool which will be used by NA3 during courses and tutorials (first in Edinburgh next week!) so the important aspect of induction of the grid paradigm to new communities is also covered. It is now important to have the first meeting of the EGAAP board and define the first Generic Applications to be interfaced.

TB INFN Grid, Next future activities GENIUS+GILDA tutorial at Catania on May, INFN-NA4 people strongly suggested to participate Catania NA4 Open Meeting at Catania on July, (tutorial on the first day) NA2 activities: preparation of IST2004, preparation of the Genova exhibition.