1. Evaluation of the Globus Toolkit: Status Roberto Cucchi – INFN Cnaf Antonia Ghiselli – INFN Cnaf Giuseppe Lo Biondo – INFN Milano Francesco Prelz – INFN Milano Franco Semeria – INFN Bologna Massimo Sgaravatto – INFN Padova Cristina Vistoli – INFN Cnaf Giulia Vita Finzi – INFN Cnaf for the INFN GRID technical group

2. Goals 5 sites Testbed (Bologna, CNAF, LNL, Padova, Roma1) Use case: HLT CMS studies MC Prod.  Complete HLT chain Services Resource management fork()  Interface to different local resource managers (Condor, LSF) Resources chosen by hand  Broker to implement a Global resource manager Data Mover to stage executable and input files to retrieve output files

3. Status (24 Jan.) Globus installed on 5 Linux PCs in 3 sites (Bologna, Cnaf, Padova) GSI Seems working MDS Lots of problems accessing the American server !!! Problems with automatic population and update of information Long response time Time out Not possible to test other services (i.e. GRAM)

4. Status (1 Mar.) Italian MDS Server at CNAF On-going tests: no problems so far 4 PCs already registered (Cnaf, Mi, Pd) GRAM Job submission on remote host works !! On-going installation of Pythia + Cmsim GSIFTP Installed at Cnaf and Padova On-going tests on LAN and WAN Bugs found in the Globus sw

5. Next steps (Web) tools for MDS browsing Configurations to implement and test: 1.Globus clients accessing Globus Grid 2.Globus jobs submitted to Condor pool Single machine with Globus gatekeeper configured as front end machine with Condor pool Condor pool as Globus resource 3.Condor jobs submitted to Globus Grid (“To- Globus” glide-in Condor jobs) Personal Condor as broker

6. Globus jobs Globus client Globus Client Accessing Globus GRID Globus Grid

7. Globus jobs Globus Grid Globus client Globus Client Accessing Globus GRID Condor pool as Globus resource Condor pool Globus gatekeeper

8. Personal Condor jobs Condor pool Site Y Site X Globus Gatekeeper Globus Gatekeeper Globus Gatekeeper Site Z “ To-Globus” glide-in Condor jobs Personal Condor as broker

9. Next steps (cont.) Broker Personal Condor High Throughput Broker (now “pretty crude program”) Development of other “smart” brokers ?? Italian Certification Authority