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UK e-Science Grid

Dr Neil Geddes CCLRC Head of e-Science

Director of the UK Grid Operations Support Centre

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Situation Today

* LeedsManchester *

* OxfordRAL *

Level-2 Grid

National Grid Service

* DL

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In the Future

NGS

UK Grid OperationsSupport Centre

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UKCampus

andother Grids

GOSC

• 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. – EGEE – low level services, CA, GOC, CERT...

• Dedicated deployment and operations management will be a key component

OMII

ETF

NGSOther software sources Software with proven

capability & realistic deployment experience‘Gold’ services

Prototypes &specifications Feedback & future requirements

EGEE…

Deployment/testing/advice

Operations

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GOSC Roles

Core UK Grid services: Simple Registry, data transfer, Job Submission, security, Data Access

Key services (to be supported for all Grids): Authorisation, Notification, Workflow, Monitoring and Accounting, Grid Management Services, VO support

Services to be coordinated with others (eg OMII, NeSC, LCG): Integration testing, compatibility & Validation Tests, User Management, training

Timeline:May/June • Develop a roadmap for the development of the grid operations centre over the next two years June• Develop the GOSC proposal for next two years.

– including deployment and support plans, interfaces to related projects and integration of non core resources into NGS, and criteria for service evaluation.

September• Formal start of GOSCOctober • NGS “production service”• Compatibility with EGEE

Oxford and Leeds (White Rose Grid)

MPI, co-scheduling …

Manchester and CCLRC-RAL

Also includes: http://www.csar.cfs.ac.uk/

256 Itanium2 processor SGI Altix512 processor Origin3800

•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 …

http://www.hpcx.ac.uk/Full installation = 1600 IBM p690+ Regatta processors currently 1236 processors

EMBL Nucleotide Sequences

NCBI, BLAST, EMBOSS, FASTA, Gaussian

NGS Status 28 May 2004

• All 4 cluster nodes operational– Announcement made on 5th April, to user communities in UK

• “Pre-production”

• ETF, NeSC, HPCx, and also via JISC web site

– Common grid-mapfile for user management.

– VOM server installation abandoned. • VOMS is now under review & installation by Grid Support Centre.

– Information service operating using BDII infrastructure.

– GridIce installation to give front end interface to BDII data.

– GRidMon work to allow NGS monitoring, almost complete.

– Federated Ganglia operational to allow centralised monitoring of resources and load across the four JISC/CCLRC sites.

What is Available?

Ab Initio Molecular Orbital Theory

The DL_POLY Molecular Simulation Package  Fasta   

eMaterials

Users and Projects

Users – 63 Users registered (excluding sysadmins etc…)

• Leeds, Oxford, UCL, Cardiff, Southampton, Imperial, Liverpool, Sheffield, Cambridge, Edinburgh, QUB, BBSRC and CCLRC.

Projects– e-Minerals– e-Materials– Orbital Dynamics of Satellite Galaxies (Oxford),– Bioinformatics (using BLAST), (John Owen BBSRC) – GEODISE project (Southampton)– Singlet meson project within the UKQCD collaboration (QCDGrid Liverpool +

Edinburgh), – Census data analysis for geographical information systems (Sheffield)– MIAKT project (image registration for medical image anaylsis – Imperial)– e-HTPX project.– RealityGrid – Computational chemistry

More than just computation and data resources…

In future will include services to facilitate collaborative (grid) computing•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

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NGS Resources

• Free at the point of use (for UK e-Science)• Site contributions defined by Service Level Description• 4+2 core sites now

– Cardiff and Bristol any day now• Anyone can join

– Agree to the Base SLD• VDT (RB/VOM) … EGEE

– Level of support/resource up to providers– Access conditions up to providers

• Needs VO management and monitoring/accounting– Common core services

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Concluding Remarks

• UK e-Science grid in pre-production mode• Goal is to provide national services

– Not just access to storage + CPU– Likely to be a component of UK computing

provision• Compatibility with EGEE,TeraGrid etc. important

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