LHC Grid Software Development DAECERN Protocol agreement

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LHC Grid Software DevelopmentDAE-CERN Protocol
agreement

• Total 50 man years spread over 5 years 7.5 MCHF
• Present Status
• Addendum1 BARC Tool for Fabric Management
• 762, 000 CHF (61 man-month)
• Addendum 2 CAT DSL Lib 150, 000 CHF
• Addendum 3 TIFR AFS file System NA

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LCG Addendum 1 BARC Projects
Three projects Co-relation Engine CHF
262,500/- Problem Tracking System CHF
200,000/- Grid Operations Centre SoftwareCHF
300,000/- Total Value 762, 000 CHF (61
man-month)
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CERN-BARC Projects (Status Report)

• Project Measuring Quality of Service on Nodes.
• Start Date Dec. 2002
• End Date Oct. 2003
• Estimated Cost CHF 262,500/-
• Status Cluster setup and implementation of EDG
  monitoring software, Development of repository
  reading tool and metrics for load-average and
  disk I/O. Probe and load program developments for
  cpu bound, memory bound, I/O bound, network bound
  applications. Data on probe execution time and
  metrics is gathered. Finding correlation is in
  progress. First prototype given in April 03

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CERN-BARC Projects (Status Report)

• Project PTS (Problem Tracking System)
• Start Date Jan. 2003
• End Date Dec. 2003
• Estimated Cost CHF 200,000/-
• Status Working first prototype was delivered in
  April 2003 during Mr. Dheknes visit to CERN.
  Currently Mr. Phoolchand is in CERN has
  installed fully operational version at CERN. CERN
  has replaced commercial software in favor of PTS
  and asked Phoolchand to extend his stay to
  implement additional features.

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CERN-BARC Projects (Status Report)

• Project Grid Monitoring System
• Start Date Jan. 2003
• End Date Dec. 2003
• Estimated Cost CHF 300,000/-
• Status Grid test-bed setup, Implementation,
  analysis and comparison of different monitoring
  tools, Implementation of prototype grid
  monitoring system. Future work will be carried
  out in consultation with CERN.

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CERN-BARC Projects (Status Report)

• Project High Availability Service
• Start Date July 2003
• End Date To be decided
• Estimated Cost To be decided
• Status Working prototype was discussed in April
  2003 during Mr. Dheknes visit to CERN. CERN
  says they can not provide exact specs. We have
  tested 5 node configuration. More details have to
  be worked out.

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Mechanism Set Up At BARC

• Monthly report is being sent. Regular
  video-conference meetings
• are held with CERN.
• Test Setup of Cluster
• 32 Nodes
• Each node is P4_at_1.5GHz with 640 MB RAM
• RedHat 7.3 with OpenAFS, Globus, OpenPBS, EDT
  tools etc.
• Connected using Fast Ethernet
• 2 Mbps Internet link
• Video Conference Facility
• Totally isolated network
• Number of bugs were located by BARC in EDG
  software which
• were fixed up and new version released by CERN
• Request from IT Division for to have meeting for
  annual review of
• all Indian Projects

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Benefits to BARC
Grid expertise generated at Computer
Division BARC Grid set up with ANUPAM and Alpha
Clusters