Grid Initiatives for e-Science virtual communities in

Europe and Latin America

10 Good reasons to
become A GISELA User
F.Brasileiro, D.Carvalho, R.Diacovo, Ph.Gavillet,
B.Marechal, R.Mayo, L.Trejo, A.Tsaregorodtsev
GISELA Project

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Roma (Italy)

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 1. Long record in e-Science support

• Fruit of 5-6 year experience of successful

e-Science EU-LA Collaboration, through EU
funded projects:
– EELA: 2.7 M€ (EU: 1.7 M€), 1109 PMs
– EELA-2: 5.1 M€ (EU: 2.1M€), 1354 PMs
– GISELA: 2.9 M€ (EU:0.85 M€), 801 PMs
• Most encompassing e-Infrastructure for
scientific collaborations between Latin America
and Europe
• Present in almost all LA countries
• Sound long-term sustainability approach rooted
on CLARA, NRENs, LA NGIs or Equivalent
Domestic Grid Structures (EDGS)

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 2. Powerful e-Infrastructure
Summary of committed Computing and Storage Resources (DoW)

Country CPUs TBs RCs Country CPUs TBs RCs

Argentina 130 0 5 Mexico 198 2 8

Brazil 1212 25 9 Peru 110 8 7

Colombia 200 2 6 Panama 100 1 2

Cuba 50 0 1 Portugal 100 0 3

Ecuador 100 1 5 Spain 100 20 2
France 40 0 1 Uruguay 100 10 1
Italy 100 30 1 Venezuela 120 6 3

CPUs TBs RCs

Total 2660 105 56

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 3. EGI compliant Infrastructure
• The “Iniciativa de Grid de America Latina - Caribe” (IGALC) is
the Regional Operations Centre (ROC) operated by GISELA
(http://www.igalc.org)
• EGI compliance is based on the adoption of common
services and practices
– The Operational Level Agreement (OLA) (http://documents.gisela-
grid.eu/record/87?ln=en)
– Monitoring System (Nagios)
– Ticket System (GGUS)
– Accounting System (APEL)
– Middleware (gLite)
– Resource database (GOCDB)
– Operations Dashboard
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 4. Experienced e-Infrastructure environment

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 5. collaboration with EGI & related projects

• EGEE, EGI
– EGEE: Long, outstanding interaction (MoU) in collaboration with other
related projects (EUMedGrid, EU-IndiaGrid, EUChinaGrid, SEE-Grid-2,
BalticGrid, Belief,..)
– EGI-InSPIRE: Natural follow up of the EGEE cooperation
§ Infrastructure Providers MoU
§ VRC support MoU
§ Organisation of common Dissemination & Training events
• EGI-related projects / Regional Initiatives
– DEGISCO (UFCG-Brazil also partner)
§ Volunteer computing support
– CHAIN (CLARA, INFN, CIEMAT also partners)
§ Focus on VRC support
– EPIKH (Brazil: CEFET/RJ, UFRJ, Chile:UTFSM, Mexico: UNAM)
§ Joint sponsoring /organization of Tutorials & Workshops (MoU)
– EU-IndiaGrid2 (MoU being signed)

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 6. Strong strategy for VRC formation (1)

LA Site running HEP, Life Sciences and Industry VRCs

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 6. Strong strategy for VRC formation (2)
• VRC initial situation:
– EELA-2 ended up supporting 61 Applications from 78 Institutions

• Emerging VRCs
– Legacy: EELA-2 User Communities, typically 1-2 Institution group(s), largely located in Latin America,
alone or collaborating with a few Institutions.
– A few large VRCs from Life Sciences (e.g. WeNMR), Earth Sciences (WRF4G) and HEP (Auger, LHC
expts)
– Communities from National Scientific Institutes (e.g. Brazil INCT), Thematic Networks in Mexico,
Colombian Research Centres,..
– More than 200 scientific contacts in LA
– CLARA surveyed communities
– Excellent connection with Mexican Industry (San Luis Potosi)
– Others VRCs as from this meeting

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 6. Strong strategy for VRC formation (3)

LA Site running HEP, Life Sciences and Industry VRCs

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 7. Rich portfolio of new Services

• Broad range of services, covering both Application as

well as Infrastructure support

• Examples of services for which support is available are:

– Application-related Services
§ Job, Catalogue, File and Data Management
• Digital archives, Secure storage, WatchDog, lcg-rec toolkit

– Infrastructure-related Services
§ Support for opportunistic resources (OurGrid middleware)
§ Support for infrastructure bridging (OurGrid and gLite)
§ Support for Storage Accounting (SAGE)

– Data processing and distributed user analysis services

§ DIRAC: workload and data management system

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 8. DIRAC middleware: functionality & support

• DIRAC is a complete VRC

Grid solution
• Already used by several large
VRCs:
– HEP (LHCb, Belle, ILC, Magic)
– BIOMED(VIP)
• Development coordinated by
CPPM (Marseille), a GISELA
Partner
• Fully supported within WP6
• (See more in next talk..)

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 9. Integrated exploitation of opportunistic resources

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Grid Grid Resources

gLite

OurGrid

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 10. Comprehensive VRC Training & Support (1)

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 Conclusions
• GISELA:
• is much experienced in Grid computing (EELA, EELA-2)
• has a powerful Infrastructure
• complies with EGI policies & recommendations
• provides a comprehensive DCI environment
• collaborates with EGI related Initiatives e.g. VRC support
• provides a platform for all kinds of Applications
• offers a series of new, well-supported Services (e.g. DIRAC)
• supports opportunistic computing (OurGrid)
B.Marechal: The Boss
• ensures standard and customised VRC Training & Support

• Hence, don’t hesitate anymore to become a GISELA User

Ph.Gavillet D.Carvalho R.Diacovo F.Brasileiro A.Tsaregorodtsev

(WP1): Le Patron (WP3): VRC Support (WP4): Infrastructure (WP6): New Services (WP6): DIRAC
Support
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