Neil Geddes CCLRC Head of e-Science
Director of the UK Grid Operations Support Centre
NGS “Today”
Projectse-Mineralse-MaterialsOrbital Dynamics of GalaxiesBioinformatics (using BLAST) GEODISE projectUKQCD Singlet meson projectCensus data analysis MIAKT projecte-HTPX project.RealityGrid (chemistry)
Users LeedsOxfordUCLCardiffSouthamptonImperialLiverpoolSheffieldCambridgeEdinburghQUBBBSRCCCLRC.
InterfacesOGSI::LiteOGSI::LiteWSRF::LiteWSRF::Lite
Oxford and Leeds (White Rose Grid)
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
Production Status
• TODAY• 4 new core nodes operational• 136 Users registered (36 since 1 September ’04)• Grid enabled – Globus v2 (VDT distribution v1.2) at present• BDII information service (GLUE + MDS Schemas)• Data Services – Oracle, SRB and OGSA-DAI• Growing base of user applications• MyProxy and CA services provided by GOSC• VO Management Software – LCG-VO • User support: Helpdesk
• Next…• Other Middleware [gLite/OMII etc…]• NGS Portal• Resource Broker• SRB production service
Training
• December 8-10•Train the trainers
•NGS, e-Science Centres
• Quarterly “New Users” at NeSC• EGEE + NGS mods
• Computing Services workshop ~ June
• GOSC/NGS sysadmin training•First “face to face” meeting• Need “New Sites” training
Other Developments
• NGS newsletter• OMII helpdesk
• Resource Broker (LCG) available for early adopters
• TeraGrid• UK certificates accepted on TeraGrid• Looking at INCA with Jenny Schopf
•Part of accounting dev’t. with e-Markets• Meeting with OSG iGOC• HPCX, CSAR, CCPs• Collect user exemplars
• Agreed acknowledgement
GOSC Timeline
Q2 Q4 Q2 Q3Q1Q4Q3Q2Q1Q3
2004 20062005
EGEE gLite alpha release
gLite release 1
OMII release
NGS Expansion(Bristol, Cardiff…)
OGSA-DAI
WS plan
NGS ProductionService
NGS WS Service
EGEE gLite releaseOMII Release
NGS Expansion
WS2 plan
NGS WS Service 2
“Tomorrow”
Web Services based National Grid Infrastructure
UofA
HPCx
UofD
GOSC
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’sMonitored interfaces (+security etc.)
RAL Oxford
LeedsMan. CSAR
UofB
UofC
CommercialProvider
PSRE
UK e-Infrastructure
LHC ISIS TS2HPCx + HECtoR
Regional and Campus grids
Users get common access, tools, information, Nationally supported services, through NGS
Integratedinternationally
VRE, VLE, IE
Timeline
Q2 Q4 Q2 Q3Q1Q4Q3Q2Q1Q3
2004 20062005
EGEE gLite alpha release
gLite release 1
OMII release
NGS Expansion(Bristol, Cardiff…)
OGSA-DAI
WS plan
NGS ProductionService
NGS WS Service
EGEE gLite releaseOMII Release
NGS Expansion
WS2 plan
NGS WS Service 2