INFSO-RI Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE and the National Grid Service Mike Mineter

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI EGEE and the National Grid Service EGEE Induction, 8 December 2004, NeSC 2 Acknowledgements This talk was prepared by Mike Mineter of NeSC and includes slides from talks delivered by: –Neil Geddes, GOSC Face-to-Face, NeSC, November 2004 –Andy Richards, GOSC Face-to-Face, NeSC, November 2004 –Tony Hey, AHM 2004, Nottingham,

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI EGEE and the National Grid Service EGEE Induction, 8 December 2004, NeSC 3 Goals of this module To outline the National Grid Service To summarise its relationship with EGEE

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI EGEE and the National Grid Service EGEE Induction, 8 December 2004, NeSC 4 Contents Snapshots of the UK e-infrastructure The UK e-Science programme The National Grid Service The NGS and EGEE

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI EGEE and the National Grid Service EGEE Induction, 8 December 2004, NeSC 5 Snapshots of UK e-infrastructure The JISC view Digital curation Networks –Weve been (mainly) ignoring networks today! –A sign of their success!! Grids

6 The JISC Communities Portals Applications Content Meta Data & Delivery tools Finding /Access tools E-learning Digital librariesE-research Internet AAA Services

7 Digital Curation Centre Actions needed to maintain and utilise digital data and research results over entire life- cycle –For current and future generations of users Digital Preservation –Long-run technological/legal accessibility and usability Data curation in science –Maintenance of body of trusted data to represent current state of knowledge in area of research Research in tools and technologies –Integration, annotation, provenance, metadata, security…..

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI EGEE and the National Grid Service EGEE Induction, 8 December 2004, NeSC 8 Communicating across 3 dimensions: Space and organisational boundaries: Grids Time : curation Domains of knowledge: semantics (With thanks to Peter Burnhill, EDINA)

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI EGEE and the National Grid Service EGEE Induction, 8 December 2004, NeSC 9 Snapshots of UK e-infrastructure The JISC view Digital curation Networks –Weve been (mainly) ignoring networks today! –A sign of success!! Grids

10 GEANT UKLight London StarLight Chicago NetherLight Amsterdam CERN CzechLight UK Researchers Extended JANET Development Network Local Research Equipment International Point-of-Access CA*net Abilene JISC £6.5M for UKLight Lambda Network 10Gb/s 2.5Gb/s Existing connections Proposed connections

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI EGEE and the National Grid Service EGEE Induction, 8 December 2004, NeSC 11 Snapshots of UK e-infrastructure The JISC view Digital curation Networks –Weve been (mainly) ignoring networks today! –A sign of success!! Grids

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI EGEE and the National Grid Service EGEE Induction, 8 December 2004, NeSC 12 The UK e-Science programme Goal Where we are today Web services and Grids

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI EGEE and the National Grid Service EGEE Induction, 8 December 2004, NeSC 13 The UK e-Science programme We are attempting to build an infrastructure comprised of a set of middleware services capable of supporting the dynamic 'virtual organisations' required by scientists, engineers and industry. As a shorthand for this core middleware infrastructure I often use the controversial term Grid Professor Tony Hey, September 2004 £250M UK e-Science Initiative

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI EGEE and the National Grid Service EGEE Induction, 8 December 2004, NeSC 14 UK Core e-Science programme - Situation Today * Leeds Manchester * * Oxford RAL * Level-2 Grid National Grid Service * DL

Tony Hey, AHM Web Services and Grids Computing models developed for sequential machines led to the distributed object model of distributed computing represented by Java and CORBA Experience has shown that the distributed object model ties distributed entities together too tightly Resulted in fragile distributed software systems when going from LANs to WANs Replace distributed objects by services connected by one-way messages and not by request-response messages IT industry has united around Web Services

Tony Hey, AHM The Web Services Magic Bullet Web services Company A (J2EE) Company B (ONE) Company C (.Net)

Tony Hey, AHM WS-I+ profile Web Service Grids: An Evolutionary Approach WS-I Standards that have broad industry support and multiple interoperable implementations Specifications that are emerging from standardisation process and are recognised as being useful Specifications that have/will enter a standardisation process but are not stable and are still experimental

Tony Hey, AHM WS-I+ Grid Interoperability Profile WS-I identifies XSD, WSDL, SOAP, UDDI WS-I+ adds minimum additional capabilities to WS- I to allow development of Grid Services –BPEL and extensions for scientific workflows –WS-Addressing for virtualization of messaging –WS-ReliableMessaging/Reliability to provide basis for fault tolerant and efficient Grid services Expect progress in –WS-ResourceFramework – submitted to OASIS –Notification – dialogue between IT companies –Security – need to understand better relationship of Web Services and Grid approaches –Portlets – generic toolkit for portal construction

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI EGEE and the National Grid Service EGEE Induction, 8 December 2004, NeSC 19 The NGS and GOSC The NGS is the core UK grid, intended for the production use of computational and data grid resources. NGS is the core service resulting from the UK's e-Science programme. NGS is supported by JISC, and is run by the Grid Operations Centre (GOC). The UK Grid Operations Support Centre is a distributed "virtual centre" providing deployment and operations support for the UK e-Science programme. The core of the GOSC is built around operation of the National Grid Service (NGS). The GOSC will support UK services for user authentication, user authorization and project organization, credential management, resource discovery, access portal and more, to be driven by the user requirements.

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI EGEE and the National Grid Service EGEE Induction, 8 December 2004, NeSC 20 UK e-Infrastructure LHC ISIS TS2 HPCx + HECtoR Regional and Campus grids Users get common access, tools, information, Nationally supported services, through NGS Integrated internationally VRE, VLE, IE

U of A HPCxHPCx UofD GOSC NGS Core Nodes: Host core services, coordinate integration, deployment and support +free to access resources for all VOs. Monitored interfaces + services NGS Sites: Integrated with NGS, some services/resources available for all VOs Monitored interfaces + services NGS Connected Sites: Integrated with NGS, support for some VOs Monitored interfaces (+security etc.) RAL Oxford Leeds Man. CSARCSAR U of B U of C Commercial Provider PSRE

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI EGEE and the National Grid Service EGEE Induction, 8 December 2004, NeSC 22 NGS Hardware Compute Cluster 64 dual CPU Intel 3.06 GHz (1MB cache) nodes Data Cluster 20 dual CPU Intel 3.06 GHz nodes 18TB Fibre SAN ( Infortrend F16F 4.1TB Fibre Arrays (UltraStar 146Z10 disks) Oracle 9i RAC Oracle Application server

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI EGEE and the National Grid Service EGEE Induction, 8 December 2004, NeSC 23 Core NGS –VDT (Globus 2) Middleware –OGSA-DAI implementation (pre-production) –Data Services – Oracle, SRB –Various Applications… GOSC – GSC Supported services for the NGS –MyProxy Service – myproxy.grid-support.ac.uk –BDII / MDS Information Service (Production and Development) –VOM (LCG-VO) Service –Monitoring tools GOSC (GSC, NGS) Developing expertise with EGEE software / middleware – resource broker – and testing gLite NGS Middleware

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI EGEE and the National Grid Service EGEE Induction, 8 December 2004, NeSC 24 Tomorrow Web Services based National Grid Infrastructure

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI EGEE and the National Grid Service EGEE Induction, 8 December 2004, NeSC 25 Summary e-infrastructure is being developed and used to support knowledge creation (research), curation, and dissemination In the UK, the National Grid Service provides the middleware services that uses the network infrastructure and enables application services (computation, data, collaboration,…) NGS will interoperate with EGEE Grid Operations Support Centre is the initial source for further information