1. Stephen Childs Trinity College Dublin
Grid-Ireland
Stephen Childs
Trinity College Dublin

2. Grid-Ireland overview
The national computational Grid for Ireland
Provides a single Grid layer to support Irish researchers
Grid infrastructure managed from Operations Centre at TCD
Clusters at sites locally managed (TCD ports Grid middleware)
Funded by Enterprise Ireland, SFI, EU, HEA
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3. Grid-Ireland infrastructure
18 institutions host Grid gateways (12 deployed in 2005)
Operations Centre and central services at TCD
Clusters connected: TCD and DIAS; soon: UCD (200 CPUs), Armagh, NUIG, UCC, …
Connectivity over HEANet and ITNet
gLite 3.0.2
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4. Virtual organisations
Grid-enabled analysis of natural phenomena: DIAS, TCD, UCC, NUIG, Armagh, Met Eireann
Resources: 200 CPUs at UCD (soon), 16 CPUs at DIAS, 16 CPUs at TCD (shared)
A new non-von-Neumann execution architecture for the grid: UCC, TCD, NUIG.
Resources: 16 CPUs at TCD (shared)
Data mining of a strategic resource for Ireland: the National Seabed Survey. NUIG, UCD, UCC, GSI, Marine Institute.
GeneGrid
For Irish bio-informaticians
TestGrid
Used by Grid administrators to monitor and test the Grid-Ireland infrastructure
Resources: 1 VM at each gateway
SoloVO
A catch-all VO for unaffiliated users
Resources: 16 CPUs at TCD (soon)
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5. TCD Operations Centre Management of Grid infrastructure
Testing, porting and customisation of middleware
Deployment to remote sites
Remote management of servers
Monitoring of Grid services
Dissemination and training
Grid user courses (three so far)
Website and wiki
Links to European Grid community
Part of Regional OC for EGEE
Partner in int.eu.grid
Staffing
4.5 FTE (at most!)
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6. Grid-Ireland issues Connecting resources Getting users on board!
Clusters with Grid as secondary access method
CE and head-node in different admin. domains
Getting users on board!
MPI support crucial
Have trained scientists: need follow-up?
Distributed management
Quattor, transactional deployment, large testbed
Hardware issues
Site contacts
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