UltraLight Short Term Plan 6 Months

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UltraLight Short Term Plan(6 Months)

• 1st Draft !
• Comments and Criticism Welcome !

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Important

• UltraLight is a project with two equal and
  symbiotic activities
• Application driven Network RD
• Not just a networking project, nor solely a
  distributed data analysis project
• UltraLight is a Physics ITR
• Ultimate goal
• Enable and produce physics (more generally
  e-science), which could not otherwise be
  performed
• Network Technical Group is the backbone of the
  Project
• Activity Perform network RD
• Metric CS Publications, demonstrations
• Applications Technical Group is the driver of
  the Project
• Activity Perform middleware RD, perform LHC
  Physics research
• Metric CS and Physics Publications,
  demonstrations, community adoption

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Reminder from the Proposal

• Phase 1 (12 months)
• Implementation of network, equipment and initial
  services
• Phase 2 (18 Months)
• Integration
• Phase 3 (18 Months)
• Transition to Production

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Original UltraLight Synchronisation Plan with CMS
Phase 1
Now
UltraLight Milestones
6-m from now
CMS Milestones and activities
Phase 2
UltraLight Deliverables
UltraLight Users
Phase 3
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6-month Overall Project Goals

• Establish early ties to the LHC
• Tightly couple with LHC experiment needs and
  timelines
• Possibly take on official roles within
  experiments?
• Must aggressively come up to speed to be meet LHC
  milestones
• Already underway
• Establish collaborative ties with external
  partners
• OSG, Grid3, CHEPREO, AMPATH, etc
• Already underway
• Establish scope of the project
• Evaluate trade-offs between
• RD interests and application needs
• Functionality and LHC timeline
• Determine what technology we
• Can adopt off the shelf
• Must develop to meet project goals
• Establish initial UltraLight infrastructure and
  user community

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Project Structure of UltraLight

• In the Proposal
• HEP Application-layer Services
• E-VLBI Application-layer Services
• Global Services
• Testbed Deployment and Operations
• Network Engineering
• Education Outreach

• Current
• Applications
• CMS
• ATLAS
• Global Services
• Testbed
• Network
• Global Services
• Testbed
• Engineering
• Education Outreach

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Early Focus of the UltraLight Technical Groups

• Networking
• Construct the UltraLight Network Testbed (UNT)
• Applications
• Construct the UltraLight Applications Testbed
  (UAT)
• Leverage GAE, Grid3, CMS, ATLAS, etc
• Prepare applications that will exploit the
  Network Testbed
• EO
• Build relationships with external partners
• CHEPREO, CIARA, AMPATH, etc
• To first order, the Network Testbed can be
  instantiated independently from the Application
  Testbed and EO activities
• This will be our early strategy
• Later, bring the (largely orthogonal) testbeds
  together in an evolutionary way

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Longer Term Goals (past initial testbed building
phase)

• Global Services
• Develop handles which monitor, control, and
  provision network resources
• Manually at first, then move to automate
• Close collaborative effort between Applications
  Group and Networking Group
• Requires the that the UNT and UAT work together
  as a coherent whole
• Combine to operate single UltraLight Testbed (UT)
• Smooth transformation to UT expected as UNT and
  UAT activities are very complementary

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6-month Network Goals

• Inventory the different UltraLight sites
• What are the current connections available at
  each site?
• What type of switches, how many, and where are
  they located, etc?
• Construct the UltraLight Network Testbed
• Persistent development environment
• Piece together all the different network
  components
• Create the NOC Team
• Begin thinking about disk-to-disk transfers
• Interface with Storage Elements
• Important for later integration work with
  Applications

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6-month Application Goals

• Establish UltraLight Application Grid Testbed
• Persistent development environment
• Deploy Application-layer services and middleware
• Deploy HEP Applications
• Create the GOC Team
• Perform System Integration Tests Demonstrate
• Interoperability of existing UltraLight
  Application-layer Services
• Operability of HEP Applications on top of
  existing Application-layer Services
• Study HEP application (ORCA ATHENA) behaviour
  in-depth
• Execution environment, Data/Metadata Model,
  Performance Profiles
• Current and future versions

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6-month EO Goals

• Sorry Laird, I have not yet had a chance to call
  you up and discuss your plansIll do so early
  this week ?

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6-month User Community Goals

• Feedback loop between developers and users
• Update and confirm the Proposed UltraLight
  Grid-enabled Analysis Environment
• Use actual LHC data analysis work
• Contribute to the CMS Physics TDR Milestones
• Many UltraLight members are strongly engaged
• Effort recognised in CMS
• Application driver for UltraLight!
• Challenging and essential!
• Very tight, ambitious schedule to meet however

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Current UltraLight Application Group Status
Much Delivered for SC04
Demonstrated at SC04
CMS P-TDR Analysis Efforts Already Underway
(very ambitious schedule)
Application Group is already working hard to ramp
up in time for the LHC
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Major Milestones over the Next 6 Months

• Dec
• Initial UltraLight Collaboration Meeting at CIT
• Jan
• UltraLight Week at CIT UltraLight Applications
  Testbed in place
• Feb CMS PRS Meeting
• UM connects to MiLR, UF connects to FLR
• Mar CMS Week
• FLR declared to be Production
• Apr
• May CMS CPT Week
• First round of CMS approvals for analyses to
  enter P-TDR
• Jun CMS Week
• UltraLight Meeting (UM?) UltraLight Network
  Testbed in place