Andrew McNab - Manchester HEP - 5 July 2001 WP6/Testbed Status Status by partner –CNRS, Czech R., INFN, NIKHEF, NorduGrid, LIP, Russia, UK Security Integration –preparation + process

Andrew McNab - Manchester HEP - 5 July 2001 CNRS/IN2P3 Have participated in large scale test for ALICE, writing to HPSS and SQL catalog. Local BQS batch system now has Globus gateway: 200+ Linux nodes, 130+ Solaris / HP- UX / AIX Storage element is 35TB disk + HPSS managing 50TB tape with 1 TB cache Have transferred data into CERN’s Castor using bbFTP

Andrew McNab - Manchester HEP - 5 July 2001 CNRS WP10 Have used TB0 for initial experiments with “gridifying” biology applications Used BLAST which searches for similar genome sequences => GridBLAST Successfully ran distributed comparisons, partitioned between Marseille and Clermont on top of Globus

Andrew McNab - Manchester HEP - 5 July 2001 Czech Republic Collaboration between CESNET and Institute of Physics One testbed site Currently 64 node farm accessible via grid tools Enlargement with more nodes and 10TB planned

Andrew McNab - Manchester HEP - 5 July 2001 INFN Grid software running at 15 sites: ~50 dedicated nodes for Testbed ATLAS, CMS and ALICE have ~100 nodes in farms at 8 sites, which have also participated in tests More dedicated farms (5x2xPIII at 5 sites) are funded

Andrew McNab - Manchester HEP - 5 July 2001 INFN For testbeds have produced/set up: –installation kit –CA + LDAP directory of users for authorisation –National MDS hierarchy –Formal procedure for obtaining testbed “time” –Web accessible database of available nodes and their characteristics, with management tools

Andrew McNab - Manchester HEP - 5 July 2001 NIKHEF DutchGrid a collaboration between HEP, Earth observation and Computer Science 12 locations participating + CA in place D0 farms operational at NIKHEF (50x2 nodes) and Nijmegen (5x2) LHCb and ALICE farms in preparation at NIKHEF, Free University Amsterdam and Utrecht

Andrew McNab - Manchester HEP - 5 July 2001 Nordic Countries NorduGrid –Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden Common CA in place Common information namespace Small test clusters operational

Andrew McNab - Manchester HEP - 5 July 2001 LIP (Portugal) Have built and evaluated low cost local fabric using commodity components Currently 19 nodes with several hardware configurations A CA has been established National and local GIIS servers and an MDS hierarchy have been set up

Andrew McNab - Manchester HEP - 5 July 2001 Russia SINP MSU, RCC MSU, ITEP, JINR, KIAM, IHEP all participating in Testbed Sites have 2, 100 or 1000 Mb/s connections within Russia, and ~100 nodes in total Russian CA in place RCC MSU, ITEP, JINR, KIAM, IHEP have all setup Globus and received certificates

Andrew McNab - Manchester HEP - 5 July 2001 United Kingdom GridPP project now has 1st year funding (total ~50M CHF) - includes LHC and CDF/D0/Babar components Testbed 0 has 9 sites participating and listed in national MDS Dedicated Testbed facility at RAL (10’s of nodes); and prototyping of Tier 1 / A centre for LHC and Babar will start soon. CA operational Testbed 0 sites mostly using GridPP RPM distribution, now with other EDG CA’s included

Andrew McNab - Manchester HEP - 5 July 2001 United Kingdom CMS: –Currently in large-scale MC production –No major problems found with ‘everyday’ use of GDMP tool –Continuing with tests of GRAM use LHCb: –Doing large-scale MC production –Testing use of Globus GRAM on RAL CSF (+ other sites) BaBar: –Globus tools being installed on new BaBar distributed facilities in the UK. –Will provide a serious test of Grid systems in production on same timescale as start of TB1 –Have offered their resources for large scale TB0/TB1 tests

Andrew McNab - Manchester HEP - 5 July 2001 Security Authentification –Partners CA’s up and running (8 listed with WP6) –CA policy documents being finalised for TB1 Authorisation –New authorisation group starting –LDAP system from INFN for listing users by group –Patch to Globus from UK to allow dynamic accounts –Both ready, and can be used on TB1 timescale

Andrew McNab - Manchester HEP - 5 July 2001 Preparation for Integration Integration Process document has been drafted, including specific dates / milestones Contacts with WP’s underway or starting, to explain constraints and obtain lists of requirements and dependencies Globus2 alpha being evaluated and preliminary packaging has been made Infrastructure of web site, bug tracking, CVS repository / mirror being set up

Andrew McNab - Manchester HEP - 5 July 2001 Integration Process 2-3 weeks in a room at CERN (or Lyon) during September, with a set of WP1-6 experts physically present Once a beta grid is running between machines in that room, invite applications to begin testing Grid is expanded to remote sites using expertise of integration team - who then support further expansion to neighbouring sites

Andrew McNab - Manchester HEP - 5 July 2001 Summary Testbed 0 is already providing enough CPU / disk resources to do meaningful tests of a grid Many larger farms coming on stream on timescale of TB1 start up Authentification infrastructure well under control Practical authorisation system being put in place Necessary groundwork for integration being done A workable plan for the integration process has been made