Grid activities in Czech Republic

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Grid activities in Czech Republic

• Jiri Kosina ltkosina_at_fzu.czgt
• Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences
  of the Czech Republic
• http//www.fzu.cz/

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Experiments Czech Republic is active in(1)

• ATLAS, ALICE, D0 and STAR detector simulation
  activities, reconstruction and data analysis in
  running projects - main participants are
  Institute of Physics, Charles University and
  Czech Technical University
• Facilities created by EDG are starting to be used
  by HEP projects under schedule of LCG in the
  scope of GDB, to which Czech Republic also
  contributes

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Institutions involved

• CESNET (http//www.cesnet.cz/)
• Charles University in Prague (http//www.cuni.cz/)
  
• Czech Technical University in Prague
  (http//www.cvut.cz/)
• Institute of Physics AS CR (http//www.fzu.cz/)

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Institutions involved CESNET(1)

• Czech scientific network provider provides all
  participating subjects with connectivity
• Founded by Czech universities and AS CR. It's
  main goal is to provide and develop main backbone
  academic network infrastructure.
• Currently their network (called CESNET2) provides
  on their backbone speeds of gigabites per second
  and connection to GEANT and other scientific
  networks.

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Institutions involved CESNET(2)
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Institutions involved CESNET(3)

• 12Gbps connection to GEANT
• 2Gbps connection to NIX (Peering with czech ISPs)
• 622Mbps connection to USA(Telia)
• 1Gbps CzechLight connection

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Institutions involved CESNET(4)

• Participating in European DataGrid project
  member of WP1 (workload management) and WP7
  (network monitoring) work packages.
• Certification authority was established during
  participation on EDG project issuing
  certificates to czech academical subjects

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Institutions involved CESNET(5)

• MetaCenter (http//meta.cesnet.cz/) - project to
  establish virtual computer allowing efficient
  utilization of HW and SW of project participants

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Institutions involved FZU(1)

• Dedicated server farm for HEP and Grid computing
  (34x dual 1.13Ghz PIII, 1TB disk array, currently
  experimenting with new 10TB disk array)

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Institutions involved FZU(2)

• Member of WP6 work package farm is running EDG
  1.4 software, for testbed purposes
• Currently installation of LCG-tier 1 software
  (based on EDG software) is in progress.

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Institutions involved contacts

• Jan Svec ltsvecj_at_fzu.czgt - FZU farm and network
  system manager, D0 experiment
• Jiri Kosina ltkosina_at_fzu.czgt - installation of
  grid software at FZU, ALICE experiment, network
  and system management
• Jiri Chudoba ltJiri.Chudoba_at_cern.chgt - ATLAS
  experiment
• ltpcclust_at_cesnet.czgt - CESNET's PC clusters

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Experiments Czech Republic is active in

• Czech republic is also member of EGEE project
  proposal.
• EGEE is going to be successor of EDG project,
  mainly sponsored by EU
• More information about EGEE can be found at
  http//cern.ch/egee/

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Summary Grid infrastructure

• Basic Grid infrastructure has been established
  during last year and further expansion due to
  research or commercial needs in future shouldn't
  be problematic
• CESNET provides good international network
  connectivity
• 12Gbps over GEANT (http//www.dante.net/geant/)
• Recently we have connected our farm to CzechLight
  optical network (1Gbps via Amsterdam to CERN)