1. SAMPLE IMAGE gLite on the Market – Why and How ir Works 4 th EGEE User Forum Thursday, 05 March 2009 Le Ciminiere, Catania, Sicily, Italy Gaël Youinou – Software Department Manager gael.youinou@cggveritas.com

2. EGEE 1 st EU Review - Feb 2005

3. iSGTW – 5 November 2008 http://www.isgtw.org/?pid=1001436

4. Business opportunities Sell Computing-on-Demand (CoD) to the small and medium sized companies that explore the earth’s depths (ie. expand the market for Geosciences services) Sell geosciences processing services on demand to the small companies that explore the earth’s depths (Expanding- Geosciences-On-Demand) COD and EGEODE services

5. COD and EGEODE services Benefits: Process data quicker EGEODE VO X

6. COD and EGEODE services Benefits: Provides access to the most advanced software

7. COD and EGEODE services SWOT Diagram HelpfulHarmful Internal Origin External Origin  The EGEODE service is user-friendly and can be accessed anywhere  The Grid-computing is a scalable architecture and processes data faster  The data can be replicated  The EGEODE service allows for collaborative platforms  Good market and technical knowledge in the Oil & Gas and Grid technology domains  The reliability and security of the data must be proven  Internet speed is not homogeneous and is shared with other users  Network bandwidth is still an issue  Customers might prefer certified solutions by ISV, or could keep their current solutions  Competitors could develop new services that would target the same segment  The Oil and Gas environment is constantly under pressure  The demand for exploration & geosciences services is increasing  The competitors underserved the SME segment

8. COD and EGEODE services Example of Global Architecture Intranet Worker nodes (WNs)‏ Private network (Management node)‏ VOMS/WWW/GGS/flexlm SE CE RB/LFC /BDII UI Worker nodes (WNs)‏ Private network SE CE UI (Management node) ‏ XPS Site 1 Site 2 Site 3 CE WNs

9. COD and EGEODE services Services/Machines/Sites  Service/Machine list in the Site 1  UI (User Interface with remote visualisation system/portal?)  RB/LFC/BDII (Resource Broker/Metadata catalog/global Information system)  CE (Computing Element)  SE (Storage Element)  WNs (Worker Nodes minimum one machine ‏ )  VOMS/GGS/WWW/Flexlm (Virtual Organisation Mgmt, GeoGrid Server, Web server and Flexlm server)  XPS (Seismic meta data server)  Service/Machine list in the Site 2  UI (User Interface with remote visualisation system/portal?)  CE (Computing Element)  SE (Storage Element)  Wns (Worker Nodes minimum one machine)  Service/Machine list for desktop  CE (Computing Element)  Desktop will be Wns at night (or in shared time)  automatic reboot each night with SL  or install glite Wns packages on RHEL (like)

10. COD and EGEODE services 1Tb between 2 points Line typeBandwidthDuration Internet Massy2Mb/s45 days 100Mb/s22 hours 1Gb/s2.2 hours Best in France10Gb/s13 minutes Carriocas40Gb/s3.3 minutes Line typeBandwidthActualDuration actual EGEE-CGG2Mb/s1.8Mb/s49 days Marseille-Lyon2.5Gb/s shared88Mb/s1 day geodesktop100Mb/s41Mb/s !2 days CERN-Caltech (10000km) One stream (2006) Multiple streams (2003) 2,38Gb/s 5,44 Gb/s 1 hour 30mn theoretical Experimental

11. COD and EGEODE services Network Issues  Network bandwidth  Lack of network infrastructure  At international scale  Affordable  For Industry usage => tape copy + 6 months 12 m 18 m Cpu Data Network *2

12. Questions and concerns  User community  Learning curve is still significant  Instabilities after updates (too frequents)  MPI integration  Resources reservation (or allocation for // apps)  Command line (no simple or basic graphical interface for job submission and file management)  gLite  Consortium  gLite and the EGI/NGIs model – Specialized Support Centers organization and funding  Roadmap (who are the users, requirements) Report on ES family of applications and their requirements: http://www.eu-degree.eu/  Support and maintenance  License (Apache?)  From R&D project to standardization and industrial product