1. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026409 www.eu-eela.org E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Third EELA Conference, Catania, 3-5 December 2007 Developing a Grid infrastructure in Cuba Presented by Daniel López Aldama Centro de Gestión de la Información y Desarrollo de la Energía (CUBAENERGIA) aldama@cubaenergia.cu

2. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026409 www.eu-eela.org E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Third EELA Conference, Catania, 3-5 December 2007 Layout -Brief history -Cuban grid infrastructure -Applications -GATE -MOODLE -AERMOD -Java Distributed System

3. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026409 www.eu-eela.org E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Third EELA Conference, Catania, 3-5 December 2007 Brief history - Cuba participates in the EELA Project since January 1 st. -At the same time a National Grid Initiative (NGI) was launched in the frame of a national Program entitled “Cuban Network for Science” - Two project complemented each other

4. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026409 www.eu-eela.org E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Third EELA Conference, Catania, 3-5 December 2007 Brief history - CUBAENERGIA is the project coordinator -Other institutions: CITMATEL, UCI, INSTEC(BioInfo), ICIMAF

5. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026409 www.eu-eela.org E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Third EELA Conference, Catania, 3-5 December 2007 Cuban Grid Infrastructure - Problems -International Internet connection well below of Grid requirements (~100s Kbps) -Lack of training about Grid technology

6. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026409 www.eu-eela.org E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Third EELA Conference, Catania, 3-5 December 2007 Cuban Grid Infrastructure - Opportunities - Several Mbps (~8 Mbps) available for national Internet connections - EELA training course, tutorials and Grid schools

7. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026409 www.eu-eela.org E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Third EELA Conference, Catania, 3-5 December 2007 Cuban Grid Infrastructure - Outcome - An stand-alone grid infrastructure was deployed by CUBAENERGIA. - full compatibility with EELA e- infrastructure - Operating System: Scientific Linux - Middleware: gLite 3.0

8. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026409 www.eu-eela.org E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Third EELA Conference, Catania, 3-5 December 2007 Grid0CA,DHCP,DNS,NTP, APT Repository CUBAENERGIA Grid1RGMACUBAENERGIA Grid2VOMS, MyProxyCUBAENERGIA Grid3BDII,RB,LBCUBAENERGIA Grid4LFCCUBAENERGIA Grid5UICUBAENERGIA Cuban grid infrastructure

9. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026409 www.eu-eela.org E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Third EELA Conference, Catania, 3-5 December 2007 Grid0CA,DHCP,DNS,NTP, APT Repository CUBAENERGIA Grid6CECUBAENERGIA Grid7SECITMATEL Grid8MONCUBAENERGIA Grid9-12WNsCUBAENERGIA Cuban grid infrastructure

10. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026409 www.eu-eela.org E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Third EELA Conference, Catania, 3-5 December 2007 Cuban grid infrastructure (CA)

11. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026409 www.eu-eela.org E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Third EELA Conference, Catania, 3-5 December 2007 Cuban grid infrastructure VOMS (CLI)

12. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026409 www.eu-eela.org E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Third EELA Conference, Catania, 3-5 December 2007 Cuban grid infrastructure VOMS (WWW)

13. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026409 www.eu-eela.org E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Third EELA Conference, Catania, 3-5 December 2007 Applications GATE -It was the first one deployed -Robust application - Benchmark problems were solved - Training activities and preparation of real cases are on the way

14. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026409 www.eu-eela.org E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Third EELA Conference, Catania, 3-5 December 2007 Applications GATE

15. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026409 www.eu-eela.org E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Third EELA Conference, Catania, 3-5 December 2007 Applications MOODLE (Modular-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment) - Possibility to use the grid computing power for online simulations - MOODLE is modular, new modules were added to interact with the GRID

16. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026409 www.eu-eela.org E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Third EELA Conference, Catania, 3-5 December 2007 Applications MOODLE in a grid environment

17. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026409 www.eu-eela.org E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Third EELA Conference, Catania, 3-5 December 2007 Applications MOODLE in a grid environment

18. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026409 www.eu-eela.org E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Third EELA Conference, Catania, 3-5 December 2007 Applications AERMOD -Steady-state plume model - USEPA “prefered general-purpose” model to estimate local levels of ozone, volatile organic compounds, CO, NO2, SO2, particles and lead

19. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026409 www.eu-eela.org E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Third EELA Conference, Catania, 3-5 December 2007 Applications AERMOD - CPU intensive - Suitable for gridification, because the receptors are independent and the contribution from a source is additive - 5 times faster running in a Grid environment

20. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026409 www.eu-eela.org E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Third EELA Conference, Catania, 3-5 December 2007 Applications AERMOD UI

21. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026409 www.eu-eela.org E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Third EELA Conference, Catania, 3-5 December 2007 Applications AERMOD

22. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026409 www.eu-eela.org E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Third EELA Conference, Catania, 3-5 December 2007 Interoperability Java Distributed System for Bioinformatic -Developed at UCI (non in a Grid enviroment) - It was a need to make the system interoperable with gLite.

23. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026409 www.eu-eela.org E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Third EELA Conference, Catania, 3-5 December 2007 Interoperability Java Distributed System for Bioinformatics

24. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026409 www.eu-eela.org E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Third EELA Conference, Catania, 3-5 December 2007 Final remarks -A grid infrastructure applying a stand-alone model was deployed. -It is based on gLite-3.0 middleware and it is fully compatible with EELA-infrastructure.

25. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026409 www.eu-eela.org E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Third EELA Conference, Catania, 3-5 December 2007 Final remarks - Several applications are installed on such environment: -GATE for biomedical users -MOODLE for e-learning -AERMOD for assessment of local dispersion of atmospheric pollutants.

26. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026409 www.eu-eela.org E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Third EELA Conference, Catania, 3-5 December 2007 Final remarks -Additionally, the local grid infrastructure was made interoperable with a Java based distributed system for bioinformatics calculations. - This experience could be considered as a suitable approach for national networks with limited Internet connections.

27. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026409 www.eu-eela.org E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Third EELA Conference, Catania, 3-5 December 2007 Thank you for your attention!!!