Grid Initiatives for e-Science virtual communities in Europe and Latin America GISELA: - A Resource Infrastructure Provider - An opportunity for VRCs Philippe Gavillet (Deputy Project Coordinator) EGI User Forum, 11 th -14 th April 2011 Vilnius (Lithuania)

EGI User Forum (11-14 April Vilnius / Lithuania) 2 Outline GISELA as Resource Infrastructure Provider: –General  is much experienced in Grid computing  has a powerful Infrastructure  complies with EGI policies & recommendations –Specificities  Both Service (gLite) and Opportunistic Computing (OurGrid) supported GISELA: an opportunity for VRCs –Platform for all kinds of Applications –Offers a series of new, well-supported Services (e.g. DIRAC) –VRC Training & Support –Collaborates with EGI and Regional Initiatives GISELA interests –Welcome international VRCs –Interest in VRCs collaborating with LA –Create emulation process in LA GISELA concerns –Efficient communication scheme between VRCs and GISELA –Efficient collaboration with EGI on VRC support

EGI User Forum (11-14 April Vilnius / Lithuania) 3 GISELA as Resource Infrastructure Provider

EGI User Forum (11-14 April Vilnius / Lithuania) 4 Long record in e-Science support Fruit of 5-6 year experience of successful e-Science EU-LA Collaboration, through EU funded projects (EELA, EELA-2, GISELA) Present in almost all LA countries Most encompassing e-Infrastructure for scientific collaborations between Latin America and Europe Sound long-term sustainability approach rooted on CLARA, NRENs, LA NGIs

EGI User Forum (11-14 April Vilnius / Lithuania) 5 Powerful e-Infrastructure in Latin America Summary of committed Computing and Storage Resources (DoW) CountryCPUsTBsRCsCountryCPUsTBsRCs Argentina13005Mexico19828 Brazil Peru11087 Colombia20026Panama10012 Cuba5001Portugal10003 Ecuador10015Spain France4001Uruguay Italy100301Venezuela12063 CPUsTBsRCs Total

EGI User Forum (11-14 April Vilnius / Lithuania) 6 EGI compliant Infrastructure EGI - GISELA Resource Infrastructure Provider MoU signed EGI compliance is based on the adoption of common services and practices –The Operational Level Agreement (OLA) ( –Monitoring System (Nagios) –Ticket System (GGUS) –Accounting System (APEL) –Middleware (gLite) –Resource database (GOCDB) –Operations Dashboard

EGI User Forum (11-14 April Vilnius / Lithuania) 7 Specificity: gLite OurGrid interoperability Latin American context: –Large Universities (UFRJ, USP,…) in International collaborations thus complying with the corresponding computing model and middlewares (gLite, OSG,..) –Several small Universities naturally adopting the Desktop-based opportunistic Grid approach and using the OurGrid middleware

EGI User Forum (11-14 April Vilnius / Lithuania) 8 GISELA: an opportunity for VRCs

EGI User Forum (11-14 April Vilnius / Lithuania) 9 Platform for all kinds of Applications / VRCs VRC initial situation: –EELA-2 ended up supporting 61 Applications from 78 Institutions Emerging VRCs –Legacy: EELA-2 User Communities, typically 1-2 Institution group(s), largely located in Latin America, alone or collaborating with a few Institutions. –A few large VRCs from Life Sciences (e.g. WeNMR, Biomed), Earth Sciences (WRF4G, Seismic simulations) and HEP (Auger, LHC expts) –More than 200 scientific contacts in LA e.g. CLARA surveyed communities –Promising connection with Mexican Industry –Others VRCs as from this meeting

EGI User Forum (11-14 April Vilnius / Lithuania) 10 Comprehensive framework for VRC support LA Site running HEP, Life Sciences and Industry VRCs

EGI User Forum (11-14 April Vilnius / Lithuania) 11 Rich portfolio of new, well supported Services Broad range of services, covering both Application and Infrastructure support Examples of services for which support is available are: –Application-related Services  Job, Catalogue, File and Data Management Digital archives, Secure storage, WatchDog, lcg-rec toolkit –Infrastructure-related Services  Support for opportunistic resources (OurGrid middleware)  Support for infrastructure bridging (OurGrid and gLite)  Support for Storage Accounting (SAGE) –Data processing and distributed user analysis services  DIRAC: workload and data management system

EGI User Forum (11-14 April Vilnius / Lithuania) 12 DIRAC as a complete VRC solution DIRAC is a complete VRC Grid solution Already used by several large VRCs: –HEP (LHCb, Belle, ILC, Magic) –BIOMED(VIP) Development coordinated by CPPM (Marseille), a GISELA Partner Fully supported within WP6

EGI User Forum (11-14 April Vilnius / Lithuania) 13 Comprehensive VRC Training & Support (1) Tailorable to VRCs needs

EGI User Forum (11-14 April Vilnius / Lithuania) 14 Adaptable to VRCs Comprehensive VRC Training & Support (2)

EGI User Forum (11-14 April Vilnius / Lithuania) 15 Collaboration with EGI & Regional projects EGEE, EGI –EGEE: Long, outstanding interaction (MoU) in collaboration with other related projects (EUMedGrid, EU-IndiaGrid, EUAsiaGrid, SEE-Grid-2, BalticGrid, BELIEF,..) –EGI: Natural follow up of the EGEE cooperation  Infrastructure Providers MoU, signed with EGI-eu  Project MoU (Dissemination, Training, Support tools & Services), signed with EGI-InSPIRE EGI-related projects / Regional Initiatives –DEGISCO (UFCG-Brazil also partner)  Volunteer computing support (gLite OurGrid bridge) –CHAIN (CLARA, INFN, CIEMAT also partners) (MoU under preparation)  Focus on VRC support –EPIKH (Brazil: CEFET/RJ, UFRJ, Chile: UTFSM, Mexico: UNAM)  Joint sponsoring /organisation of Tutorials & Workshops (MoU signed) –EU-IndiaGrid2 (MoU signed)

EGI User Forum (11-14 April Vilnius / Lithuania) 16 GISELA specific interests

EGI User Forum (11-14 April Vilnius / Lithuania) 17 GISELA interests Welcome international VRCs –A few large VRCs already on board such as from Life Sciences (e.g. WeNMR, Biomed), Earth Sciences (WRF4G, Seismic simulations) and HEP (Auger, LHC experiments) –Other production from (Academia Sinica), Astrophysics team (UFRJ-BR), Solid state physics team (UFRJ-BR) –DoW: “GISELA is open to collaboration with institutions / projects, public or private, whose activities are compatible with its Objectives  Collaborate means using the GISELA infrastructure, submitting applications and benefiting from technical support  Terms of the collaboration to be discussed” Interest in VRCs collaborating with Latin America –GISELA is naturally (but not exclusively) looking for existing or foreseen collaborations with Latin America Create emulation process in Latin America –Not enough intensive productions from LA VRCs –Wish to stimulate LA Institutions to move on from small tests to evaluate the Grid technology to mass production as exemplified by the large VRCs. –Hope to stimulate new collaborations.

EGI User Forum (11-14 April Vilnius / Lithuania) 18 GISELA concerns

EGI User Forum (11-14 April Vilnius / Lithuania) 19 GISELA VRC: Simple, albeit efficient communication scheme –At an early stage have a concise Technical document defining the characteristics of VO, Applications, WE, SE, batch queues, support aspects,… –One point-to-point interface covering all matters (VO-related, training,...) –Definition of a simple follow-up scheme, monitoring of activities based on standard tools (e.g. NAGIOS screen…) GISELA concerns (1)

EGI User Forum (11-14 April Vilnius / Lithuania) 20 GISELA concerns (2) GISELA – EGI: Efficient cooperation via the User Community Support Team (UCST) and the User Communities Board (UCB): –EGI-InSPIRE – GISELA Project MoU as instrument for VRC coordination:  “GISELA to provide EGI-InSPIRE for regular communication about active or potential VRCs  GISELA User Communities are able to search and discover related communities in Europe through the EGI User Community services  GISELA User Communities become connected to the EGI user communities working in the same discipline (the connection points will include UCB at the user level)  Connect the GISELA research groups with their local Resource Infrastructure Providers” –From Monday 11 th April Session: “User Support Services: Applications and Communities”  VO Services through VO Service Team  EGI Application data base with the possibility to include GISELA Applications.  NGI-based User Support (UCST) evolving towards VO-based support

EGI User Forum (11-14 April Vilnius / Lithuania) 21 Common (RIPs – VRCs – EGI) dissemination / outreach activities –Common participation in UCST, UCB –GISELA – e-ScienceTalk MoU (signed) as instrument of coordinated dissemination  Use channels as the GridCafé, GridCast, iSGTW and GridGuide –Cross participation in Forum, Conferences,… GISELA concerns (3)

EGI User Forum (11-14 April Vilnius / Lithuania) 22 Conclusions GISELA: is much experienced in Grid computing (EELA, EELA-2) has a powerful Infrastructure complies with EGI policies & recommendations provides a comprehensive DCI environment collaborates with EGI related Initiatives e.g. VRC support provides a platform for all kinds of Applications offers a series of new, well-supported Services (e.g. DIRAC) supports opportunistic computing (OurGrid) ensures standard and customised VRC Training & Support D.Carvalho (WP3): VRC Support B.Marechal: The Boss R.Diacovo (WP4): Infrastructure Support F.Brasileiro (WP6): New Services A.Tsaregorodtsev (WP6): DIRAC Ph.Gavillet (WP1): Deputy Boss Hence, don’t hesitate anymore to become a GISELA User