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STATUS REPORT

Guillermo Díaz (CIEMAT)on behalf of WP3 Manager, Leandro Ciuffo (RNP)

First-year Project Review

Brussels, 15.09.2011

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WP3 Status Outline

• ACHIEVEMENTS

• OPEN ISSUES

• PLANS FOR NEXT REPORTING PERIOD

• CONCLUSIONS

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ACHIEVEMENTS as compared to WP3 objectives

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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

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HEP VOs GISELA sites

alice CIEMAT-TIC, INFN-CATANIA, ICN-UNAM

atlas EELA-UTFSM

auger UNIANDES, UFRJ-IF, INFN-CATANIA, ICN-UNAM cmd UNIANDES, INFN-CATANIA lhcb CIEMAT-TIC, UFRJ-IF, INFN-CATANIA

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WP3 Achievements on supported VRCs

• Overall list of apps & VOs supported per VRC:

• Evolution of supported groups in LA…

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Local support at the RC level (new comers)

Central support at LGI / GSC level (VOs)

VRC(s) VO(s) Legacy applications

Life Sciences biomed, enmr.eu Haddock, Cyana, Xplor-NIH, CS-rosetta, MD, Amber, MDD, Bowtie, jModelTest, etc.

Earth Sciences prod.vo.eu-eela.eu AERMOD, CAM, WRF4G

High Energy Physics alice, atlas, auger, cms, lhcb Applications managed by each VO

…catch-all… prod.vo.eu-eela.eu Applications inherited from EELA and EELA-2 projects, smaller research communities, new comers, etc.

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WP3 Applications Portfolio

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• 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/

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WP3 Infrastructure usage statistics

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• 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

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WP3 Achievements on Users support

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• 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)

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OPEN ISSUES and deviations from the work plan

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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.)

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PLANS for the next reporting period

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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

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CONCLUSIONS after the 1st year activity

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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