EGEE-II INFSO-RI Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE and gLite are registered trademarks Infrastructure overview Arnold Meijster & Fokke Dijkstra, RC/RuG Grid Tutorial, Groningen, 18&19 September 2006

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI Grid Tutorial - Groningen September Overview National and international grid infrastructures EGEE NL Grid VL-e Deisa BIG grid (future)

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI Grid Tutorial - Groningen September EGEE EU project for worldwide Grid Operational infrastructure –Support for sites and users –Monitoring Multiple VOs –Many scientific communities VOs start locally and can grow worldwide gLite middleware EGEE organised in multiple regions

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI Grid Tutorial - Groningen September EGEE

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI Grid Tutorial - Groningen September EGEE (europe) 177 sites CPUs 44 PB Storage

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI Grid Tutorial - Groningen September EGEE live!

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI Grid Tutorial - Groningen September Quality Assurance Site Functional tests –Operated several times a day –Status page: (need certificate in browser)

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI Grid Tutorial - Groningen September Support Regional support model –Multiple regions in Europe For support in Northern Region (NL,BE,SE,DK,NO,FI) mail to:

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI Grid Tutorial - Groningen September LHC tiering model Large Hadron Collider starts in 2007 Petabytes of data! Huge computational demand Tiering model for distribution of data –CERN Tier0 –Several Tier1 sites, including Nikhef/SARA –Many Tier2 sites Computation near data

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI Grid Tutorial - Groningen September Tier model

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI Grid Tutorial - Groningen September NL-Grid National infrastructure Clusters at Nikhef,Sara and RuG Currently about 400 cpus Lisa cluster Sara (1500 cpus) also available Special bioinformatics clusters to be installed at several sites DAS-3 research clusters

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI Grid Tutorial - Groningen September NL-Grid storage Storage coupled to clusters at Nikhef and SARA –Several Terabytes Tape storage at SARA coupled to grid –Disk pool in front –Tape storage coupled via SAN –Multiple petabytes and growing! In near future all storage will support the Storage Resource Management (SRM) interface San Diego Storage Resource Broker (SRB) also available at Sara

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI Grid Tutorial - Groningen September VL-e Mission: To boost e-Science by creating an e-Science environment and carrying out research on methodologies.

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI Grid Tutorial - Groningen September Deisa European super-computing grid Shared global file system Job migration Co-scheduling

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI Grid Tutorial - Groningen September Big Grid Improving the national grid infrastructure Large grant ~30 million euro Goals of: –27,600 kSI2k in 2009 (~35,000 high end PC’s) –14.1 Petabytes of storage in 2009 Support many scientific disciplines: –Astronomy, Biological & medical sciences, High energy physics, Linguistics, Climate research

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI Grid Tutorial - Groningen September Conclusions Many projects! What should I do?? Go to your nearest expert site and ask for help What are your demands? –Computing –Storage –Other, e.g. real-time access Collaborate! –National –With other people all over the world –Start a VO