WP4: tInfrastructure

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WP4 t-Infrastructure

• Roberto Barbera
• University of Catania and INFN
• ICEAGE Kick-off Meeting
• Edinburgh, 23-24.03.2006

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Outline

• Introduction
• GILDA
• t-Infrastructure in EGEE-2 and ICEAGE
• Summary and Outlook

Photographer Kathy Humphry
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ICEAGE Work Packages
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ICEAGE Time Plan
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Deliverables
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WP4 Quality Metrics
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WP4 Initial Plans
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The t-Infrastructure

• Why t-infrastructure?
• e-Infrastructure for production
• t-Infrastructure for training
• Need guaranteed response for tutorials limit the
  vulnerability of production systems
• use training grid
• have training CA
• able to change middleware to prepare participants
  for future releases on production system
• Also
• need safe resources for installation training
• easy entry point for new communities

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The state of the art GILDA(https//gilda.ct.in
fn.it)
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The GILDA Test-bed(https//gilda.ct.infn.it/testb
ed.html)
Beijing (IHEP)
20 sites in 3 continents !
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The GILDA Sponsors(https//gilda.ct.infn.it/spons
ors.html)
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The GILDA Services
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The GILDA Monitoring System(http//alifarm7.ct.in
fn.it50080/gridice)
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gLite and GILDA
gLite Services
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The Grid Tutor(https//grid-tutor.ct.infn.it,
https//glite-tutor.ct.infn.it)
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The Grid Demonstrator (1/2)(https//grid-demo.ct.
infn.it, https//glite-demo.ct.infn.it)
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The GILDA Accounting System(based on DGAS)
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The GILDA User Interface PlugPlay
combined(https//gilda.ct.infn.it/UIPnPcomb/)
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The GILDA Live User Interface(https//gilda.ct.in
fn.it/live-cd/)
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GILDA UI on a Virtual Machine(https//gilda.ct.in
fn.it/VirtualServices.html)
In order to allow all windowss users to access
the grid, we have created a User Interface into a
Virtual Machine builded with VMWare Workstation
5.5. Thanks to the free VMWare-Player tool, any
Windows users can run an UI on a Windows
environment ! For more details and
download http//www.vmware.com/products/player/
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The GILDA Booking System for Users
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GILDA Virtual Services
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Virtual GILDA
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The GILDA Booking System for System
Administrators
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The GILDA Video Tutorials(https//gilda.ct.infn.i
t/video.html)
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GILDA summary numbers

• 19 sites in 3 continents
• gt 3300 certificates issued, 15 renewed at least
  once
• gt 100 tutorials and demos performed in two years
• gt 1,200,000 hits (gt 60,000 visits) on (of) the
  web site from 10s of different countries
• gt 1 TB of videos and UIs
• downloaded from the web site

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GILDA in EGEE-2 vs. ICEAGE

• EGEE-2
• more focus on tutorials both induction events
  and advanced courses
• platform for new communities to start developing
  the interfaces between their applications and
  gLite
• ICEAGE
• more focus on education and e-learning
• support platform for courses, theses, schools,
  stages

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GILDA at the University

• 2 PhD Theses have been done using GILDA (1 in
  France and 1 in Germany) and two more are in
  preparation (Turkey)
• 11 degree theses (Computer Science and Computer
  Engineering at the University of Catania) have
  been done on grid using GILDA
• GILDA is used in several university curricula in
  Italy, France, and Austria
• 8 students of Computer Science at University of
  Catania hosted so far by the GILDA Team for
  300-hours stages on distributed and grid
  computing
• GILDA has been used for ISSGC04, ISSGC05, and
  CSC05 and will be adopted also by ISSGC06 and
  CSC06

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Summary and Outlook (1/2)

• GILDA is a de facto standard for
  t-Infrastructures
• GILDA is/will be used not only by EGEE-2 and
  ICEAGE but also by BIOINFOGRID, COREGRID, EELA,
  EUCHINAGRID, EUMEDGRID, HEALTH-E-CHILD, and by
  several italian national and regional grid
  projects
• GILDA can then be used by ICEAGE as a common
  tool/platform to inoculate the ICEAGE
  principles into the EGEE Related Projects thus
  reaching a bigger number of people

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Summary and Outlook (2/2)

• In order to do that we need
• to identify as soon as possible all the persons
  who will work in WP4
• to create as soon as possible the Projects
  collaboration tools (web site, mailing lists,
  agenda, document server, wiki, weblog, support
  service, etc.)
• to increase the number of GILDA sites/machines
• to increase the offer in terms of available
  middlewares (gLite 3, GT4, OMII-EU, Condor, etc.)
  
• to encourage as much as possible the use of GILDA
  in academic curricula and university courses
• to make an inventory of courses and curricula
  already established

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Grid_at_Catania(http//grid.ct.infn.it)