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