WP3 - User Communities Support STATUS REPORT Guillermo Díaz (CIEMAT)

1. WP3 - User Communities Support STATUS REPORT Guillermo Díaz (CIEMAT) on behalf of WP3 Manager, Leandro Ciuffo (RNP) First-year Project Review Brussels, 15.09.2011

2. WP3 Status Outline • ACHIEVEMENTS • OPEN ISSUES • PLANS FOR NEXT REPORTING PERIOD • CONCLUSIONS GISELA - First year Project Review - Brussels - 15/09/2011

3. ACHIEVEMENTS as compared to WP3 objectives WP3 – User Communities Support GISELA - First year Project Review - Brussels - 15/09/2011

4. WP3 Achievements on supported VRCs • Life Sciences • WeNMR collaboration (EGI TF’10) • Access to WeNMR application portal • Opens some LA sites to “enmr.eu” VO • HealthGrid agreement (EGI UF’11) • Support of “biomed” VO in LA • Exchange of software and experiences • Users could be anywhere in LA or EU • Earth Sciences • Special interest detected in WRF model • Leveraging WRF4G from EELA-2 to new groups in Brazil and Cuba • Simulations in Amazon region • Pollution affecting air quality in atmosphere • World-wide interest (EGI TF’11) • High Energy Physics (HEP) • 4 experiments @LHC accelerator • Pierre Auger Observatory GISELA - First year Project Review - Brussels - 15/09/2011

5. WP3 Achievements on supported VRCs • Overall list of apps & VOs supported per VRC: • Evolution of supported groups in LA… Local support at the RC level (new comers) Central support at LGI / GSC level (VOs) GISELA - First year Project Review - Brussels - 15/09/2011

6. WP3 Applications Portfolio • 70 legacy grid applications inherited from EELA & EELA-2 • 34 of them are in a production stage • Not all of them running on regular basis, but… • Can be provided at anytime upon users request in LA • MoU signed with EGI-InSPIRE (M08) enables… • VRC members in Europe exploit GISELA resources • VRC members in LA exploit EGI resources (most usual) • EGI/GISELA to coordinate VRC support in every EGI forum • Publishing GISELA applications in http://appdb.egi.eu/ GISELA - First year Project Review - Brussels - 15/09/2011

7. WP3 Infrastructure usage statistics • Accumulated CPU-hours, grouped by VOs: • Identified main consumers: • LHC experiments (HEP) • Training events • New comers with new applications • Use of computing resources varies with time… • Some sites are not capable of supporting HEP VO(s) • Smaller applications generate burst-demand of resources GISELA - First year Project Review - Brussels - 15/09/2011

8. WP3 Achievements on Users support • 3 major training events • Jointly organized with EPIKH and CHAIN • Venues: • Mexico City • Valparaiso, Chile • Sonora, Mexico • 40 self-training documents available • Tagged and categorized • Multiple user profiles • 8 articles related to WP3 activity • SpringerLink (2) • Journal of Grid Computing (1) • Proceedings of the HPC LA Symposium (1) • IBERGRID’2011 (1) • iSGTW (3) GISELA - First year Project Review - Brussels - 15/09/2011

9. OPEN ISSUES and deviations from the work plan WP3 – User Communities Support GISELA - First year Project Review - Brussels - 15/09/2011

10. WP3 Open Issues • Slow start of CLARA TT on WP3 matters • CLARA TT WP3 person nominated in Q3 • CLARA TT is not yet fully engaged within WP3 activities • CLARA & NRENs are prospecting communities… • Difficulties to make them understand GISELA grid as a tool for e-Science • Usage of e-Infrastructures not yet at the expected level • Complete saturation of infrastructure on regular basis is a tough goal • Demand of resources coming in burst from smaller groups in LA • Some LA sites cannot comply specific requirements (disk size, network bandwidth, MPI environment, 64-bit calculations, etc.) GISELA - First year Project Review - Brussels - 15/09/2011

11. PLANS for the next reporting period WP3 – User Communities Support GISELA - First year Project Review - Brussels - 15/09/2011

12. WP3 Plans for 2nd Year • At least two more major training events • Possibly in cooperation with EPIKH, CHAIN and/or DEGISCO projects • Foster higher exploitation of e-Infrastructures • Leveraging WRF4G (Brazil, Cuba, but world-wide also) • High demand of resources is expected from the “biomed” VO • Enabling more RCs to support HEP VO(s), in cooperation with WP4 • Reaching new CLARA communities (social, cultural) • Approach to industry-related communities • Providing a Scientific Gateway (web portal), in cooperation with WP6 • Stimulating usage of grid resources • New WP3 VRC-driven website • Replacing contents currently available at http://applications.gisela-grid.eu • Handover of user communities support activities to CLARA TT GISELA - First year Project Review - Brussels - 15/09/2011

13. CONCLUSIONS after the 1st year activity WP3 – User Communities Support GISELA - First year Project Review - Brussels - 15/09/2011

14. WP3 Conclusions • WP3 is in good shape accomplishing its 1st year quality metrics • Despite difficulties reported during the Crash Program • Much help came, and is expected to come, from: • Signed MoUs with EGI.eu, EGI-InSPIRE and EPIKH • Close cooperation with CHAIN project • Plans are proposed for 2nd year seeking… • Success of WP3 activities • Contribution to long-term sustainability of e-Infrastructures in LA • Involvement of CLARA TT is required to take the baton GISELA - First year Project Review - Brussels - 15/09/2011