Dr Neil Geddes CCLRC Head of e-Science Director of the UK Grid Operations Support Centre

1. Dr Neil Geddes CCLRC Head of e-ScienceDirector of the UK Grid Operations Support Centre

2. UK Core e-Science programme - Situation Today National Grid Service Level-2 Grid * Leeds Manchester * * DL * Oxford RAL *

3. The Future According to Hey N G S UK Grid Operations Support Centre

4. NGS “Today” Interfaces OGSI::Lite WSRF::Lite • Projects • e-Minerals • e-Materials • Orbital Dynamics of Galaxies • Bioinformatics (using BLAST) • GEODISE project • UKQCD Singlet meson project • Census data analysis • MIAKT project • e-HTPX project. • RealityGrid (chemistry) • Users • Leeds • Oxford • UCL • Cardiff • Southampton • Imperial • Liverpool • Sheffield • Cambridge • Edinburgh • QUB • BBSRC • CCLRC.

5. SRB service OGSA-DAI service

6. Also includes: • http://www.csar.cfs.ac.uk/ • 256 Itanium2 processor SGI Altix • 512 processor Origin3800 http://www.hpcx.ac.uk/ Full installation = 1600 IBM p690+ Regatta processors currently 1236 processors EMBL Nucleotide Sequences NCBI, BLAST, EMBOSS, FASTA, Gaussian • Thus, the NGS provides access to over 2000 processors, over 36TB of "data-grid" • capacity, common scientific applications and extensive data archives. • Other resource providers anticipated to join in the future …

7. GOSC Roles • UK Grid Services • National Services • Authentication, authorisation, certificate management, VO management, security, network monitoring, help desk + support centre. • NGS Services • Job submission, simple registry, data transfer, data access and integration, resource brokering, monitoring and accounting, grid management services, workflow, notification, operations centre. • NGS core-node Services • CPU, (meta-) data storage, key software • Services to be coordinated with others (eg OMII, NeSC, LCG): • Integration testing, compatibility & Validation Tests, User Management, training • Administration: • Policies and acceptable use • SLA’s, SLD’s • Coordinate deployment and Operations

8. GOSC + ETF • Core of GOSC built around experience in deploying and running National Grid Service (NGS) • Support service • Important to coordinate and integrate this with deployment and operations work in EGEE, LCG and similar projects. • e.g. EGEE – low level services, CA, GOC, CERT... • Focus on deployment and operations, NOT development. UK Campus and other Grids EGEE… ETF NGS Other software sources Software with proven capability & realistic deployment experience Prototypes & specifications Operations OMII ‘Gold’ services Feedback & future requirements Deployment/testing/advice

9. ETF • Registry • A freely available UDDI implementation has been deployed/tested between 4 sites • Experience passed on to the GRIMOIRES OMII project. • Secure Flocking of Condor • Condor pools at 4 sites have been flocked together, through firewalls • authentication through use of X.509 certifcates • OMII test bed • Portals • Support access to the NGS. • Tied in with JISC VRE developments • Evaluations • InnerGrid - Contractual issues delayed start - just started. • OMII – Start later this month • GT4 – Start later this month • gLite – start next month

10. Stuff We Don’t Do • Run a repository • Develop software • contribute to developments to influence/adaptcf “I’ve got one of those you can have. You just need to …” • (Training – Edinburgh/NeSC are part of GOSC) • Extensive user hand-holding and app support • Need the e-Science Centres • Priorities will be driven by users

11. Commercial Provider UofD PSRE Leeds Man. RAL Oxford NGS Core Nodes: Host core services, coordinate integration, deployment and support +free to access resources for all VOs. Monitored interfaces + services NGS Sites: Integrated with NGS, some services/resources available for all VOs Monitored interfaces + services NGS Connected Sites: Integrated with NGS, support for some VO’s Monitored interfaces (+security etc.) GOSC U of C U of A H P C x U of B C S A R

12. How do I Join ? • Acceptable use and Security policies • Install required interfaces (~EGEE) • VDT • EGEE CE and SE interfaces (and Authorisation) • Monitoring and accounting • Provide services as defined in your own SLD • Buys you representation at the board (?)

13. “Tomorrow” Web Services based National Grid Infrastructure

14. VRE, VLE, IE HPCx + HECtoR LHC ISIS TS2 UK e-Infrastructure Users get common access, tools, information, Nationally supported services, through NGS Regional and Campus grids Integrated internationally

15. Core services to facilitate collaborative (grid) computing – run by GOSC • Authentication (PKI X509) • Job submission/batch service • Resource brokering • Authorisation • Virtual Organisation management • Certificate management • Information service • Data access/integration services (SRB/OGSA-DAI/DQPS) • National Registry (of registry’s) • Data replication • Data caching • Grid monitoring • Accounting UK e-Science Cert. gsi-ssh, globus-job-submit, condorG EDG-RB VOM/VOMS VOMS (+Grid3/EGEE) myProxy(++) BDII/Glue ? ETF ? ? EGEE ? ? EGEE ? EGEE/LCG + ETF +TeraGrid EGEE/LCG/ETF/GGF Web Services interfaces

16. Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 2006 2004 2005 Timeline NGS WS Service NGS Expansion (Bristol, Cardiff…) NGS Production Service NGS WS Service 2 OGSA-DAI NGS Expansion WS2plan WS plan OMII release gLite release 1 EGEE gLite alpha release EGEE gLite release OMII Release

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18. NGS Status October 2004 • All 4 cluster nodes (+HPC) operational • Pre-Production 5th April • Production Service from September 1 • 120 registered users • 20 users registered since 1 September 2004 • Not yet “full”