1. GRID activities INFN/CNAF
Cristina Aiftimiei /SDDS
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2. OpenStack Summit – Tokyo 2015
Outline
INFN – National Institute for Nuclear Physics, Italy
Projects
NGI_IT
Operations Coordination
GRID Central Services
GRID Middleware development & support
OpenStack Summit – Tokyo 2015

3. INFN = Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (National Institute for Nuclear Physics)
Italian research agency dedicated to the study of the fundamental constituents of matter and the laws that govern them, under the supervision of the Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (MIUR).
It conducts theoretical and experimental research in the fields of subnuclear, nuclear and astroparticle physics, in close collaboration with Italian universities.
Strong experience and know-how also in cutting-edge technology and instruments. Among them, long-standing experience on HPC, distributed storage and computing (Grids and Clouds)
Strong focus also on technology transfer programs.
Transfer of technologies and know-how to Italian and European companies, developed within INFN scientific programs.

4. INFN sites
About 30 among full INFN branches and collaboration groups hosted in university departments
4 national laboratories: Catania, Frascati, Gran Sasso, Legnaro
3 national centers:
CNAF, National Center for Research and Development in Informatics and Telematics, Bologna
GSSI, Gran Sasso Science Institute, L’Aquila
TIFPA, Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics and Applications, a Trento

5. INFN - lines of research & projects
Projects addressing “next generation computing infrastructure”
DataGrid (2001 – 2004)
Research and Technological Development for an International Data Grid
EC: 9.6 M€ - INFN 9.69%
DataTaG ( ):
Research & technological development for a Data TransAtlantic Grid
EC: 4.1 M€ - INFN 15.29%
EGEE I, II, III (2004 – 2010)
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
EC: 100,8M€ - INFN 11%
EMI (2010 – 2013)
Europeean Middleware Initiative
EC: 12 M€ - INFN 16%
EGI-Inspire (2010 – 2014)
Integrated Sustainable Pan-European Infrastructure for Researchers in Europe
EC: 25 M€ - INFN 6,9%

6. INFN - lines of research & projects
Projects addressing “next generation computing infrastructure”
DataGrid (2001 – 2004)
Research and Technological Development for an International Data Grid
EC: 9.6 M€ - INFN 9.69%
DataTaG ( ):
Research & technological development for a Data TransAtlantic Grid
EC: 4.1 M€ - INFN 15.29%
EGEE I, II, III (2004 – 2010)
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
EC: 100,8M€ - INFN 11%
EMI (2010 – 2013)
Europeean Middleware Initiative
EC: 12 M€ - INFN 16%
EGI-Inspire (2010 – 2014)
Integrated Sustainable Pan-European Infrastructure for Researchers in Europe
EC: 25 M€ - INFN 6,9%
Grid Computing - enabling resource sharing and coordinated problem solving in dynamic, multi-institutional virtual organization

7. INFN - lines of research & projects
NEW projects addressing “next generation computing infrastructure”
National Projects
PRISMA (2012 – 2015)
PiattafoRme cloud Interoperabili per SMArt-government
MIUR/EC 27.4/20.3 M€ - INFN 8,14%
OCP (2014 – 2016)
OpenCityPlatform - Smart Cities and Communities and Social Innovation
MIUR 11.9 M€ - INFN 13,2%
International Projects
EGI – Engage (2015 – 2017)
Engaging the Research Community towards an Open Science Commons
`EC: 8 M€ - INFN 7,5%
INDIGO – DataCloud (2015 – 2017)
INtegrating Distributed data Infrastructures for Global ExplOitation
EC: 11 M€ - INFN ~18,7%

8. INFN - lines of research & projects
NEW projects addressing “next generation computing infrastructure”
National Projects
PRISMA (2012 – 2015)
PiattafoRme cloud Interoperabili per SMArt-government
MIUR/EC 27.4/20.3 M€ - INFN 8,14%
OCP (2014 – 2016)
OpenCityPlatform - Smart Cities and Communities and Social Innovation
MIUR 11.9 M€
International Projects
EGI – Engage (2015 – 2017)
Engaging the Research Community towards an Open Science Commons
`EC: 8 M€ - INFN 7,5%
INDIGO – DataCloud (2015 – 2017)
INtegrating Distributed data Infrastructures for Global ExplOitation
EC: 11 M€ - INFN ~18,7%
Cloud Computing - enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand […] access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources […] that can be rapidly provisioned and released […]

9. OpenStack Summit – Tokyo 2015
Outline
INFN – National Institute for Nuclear Physics, Italy
Projects
NGI_IT
Operations Coordination
GRID Central Services
GRID Middleware development & support
OpenStack Summit – Tokyo 2015

10. NGI_IT Grid > Coordination of the Italian NGI
The Grid Operation Service supports a large variety of scientific disciplines organized in 30+ VOs, including the WLCG ones
Operation of central services
INFN-distributed cluster of WMS/LB, top-BDII, VOMS
A national NAGIOS-SAM instance
Local and central highly-available LFC instances
Squid and CVMFS services
A general-purpose Grid Web portal
Additional tasks
Coordination of the Italian Resource Center managers
Coordination of the Grid User Support
Involvement in the EGI.eu Operations team, with roles of supervision of the status of the overall infrastructure and of contributing to the software provisioning process
The supervision of the activity of the IGI Computer Security Incident Response Team

11. NGI_IT - Sites Sites: Certified: 43 Candidate:1 Closed: 48
Included 4 EGI FedCloud+1 “Central Services”
Candidate:1
Closed: 48

12. NGI_IT - Services Services: 427 (268 WLCG): CREAM CE: 72 (53)
APEL: 40 (24); glite-APEL – 27 (20)
site-BDII: 23 (11)
SRM: 45 (24)
VO-box: 5
Central Services:
Top-BDII: 11 (2)
WMS: 16
ARGUS: 11 (9)
VOMS: 10 (1)
MyProxy: 2
centralLFC: 2

13. NGI_IT - Operations

14. NGI_IT - Operations WMS VOMS BDII-top (virtual) LFC (virtual)
4 (+ CT, FE) serving 38 VO (4 LHC)
3 (virtual) used by Nagios-monitoring
1 (virtual) for site certification
VOMS
3 (virtual), replicated - PD, UNINA
BDII-top (virtual)
4 production in DNS load-balancing,
1 for site certification
LFC (virtual)
( VO)
2 MyProxy
1 Nagios (virtual) serving whole NGI_IT – in decommissionig
3 CVMFS (virtual) for virgo, padme, gridit
2 SQUID server
xGUS – NGI_IT ticketing system

15. GRID Middleware development & support
Software Products >
StoRM
Storage Manager Service (SRM) for generic disk-based storage systems with a POSIX API
SRM solution of choice for the Tier-1, which is based on GPFS. The integration with the tape system (based on TSM) is through GEMSS
Major activities
WebDAV support much more reliable and being improved
Additional refactoring and simplification of the code base to further reduce the maintenance.
VOMS
Attribute authority which serves as a central repository for authorization information associated to a member of a VO
The administration Web interface to VOMS now connects directly to the CERN database containing user affiliation to experiments
Argus
Authorization Service that renders consistent authorization decisions for distributed services
Based on the XACML standard

16. GRID Middleware development & support
Grid & Cloud Portal -
Grid Job submission via Web
Simple Job Submission via DIRAC
Workflow management and submission via WS-Pgrade
Grid & Cloud data management via Web
Move data from local PC to Grid.
Move, Rename, Replica, Delete, Set ACL for the Grid data.
Move data from Grid to local PC or Remote (SFTP, FTP, WEBDav).
Move data from Grid to Cloud and viceversa
Making easier the request and management of X.509 certificate and the request for a VO membership
Provisioning of a Cloud enviroment via Web
Instantiate and manage a Virtual Machine.
Manage Public and Private SSH keys.
Browse Metadata Catalog.
Connect to a Virtual Machine.
Resource Providers available:

17. Supported VOs ~30 (% of 3,452,876,596 Normalised CPU time (HEPSPEC06) usage 2015-2016)
alice (24%), atlas (26%), cms (21%), lhcb (12%) –> total = 83%
virgo (5%), belle (4%), biomed (2,41%), compchem (2%), pamela (1%), calet.org (1%)