Reports from Resource Breakout

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Reports from Resource Breakout

• PRAGMA 15
• USM, Malaysia

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1st day

• VOMS in PRAGMA Grid (60 min)
• PRAGMA Data Grid (20 min)
• SCMSWeb (20 min)

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VOMS in PRAGMA Grid

• Clarify motivation
• Current status of deployment
• How VOMS will be deployed in PRAGMA Grid?
• PRAGMA VO
• Create a group for each application
• VO admin manages memberships of all groups (apps)
• Cindy? Add one from each group?
• VOs for applications
• Create a VO for each application
• Each application is independent with each other.
• Options for resource providers
• PRIMA/GUMS (VDT)
• LCAS/LCMAPS (gLite)
• What VO admin should do?
• Requirements for application users
• Just run voms-proxy-init (how to install VOMS
  client?)
• How to proceed
• Provide more documents
• Hands-on tutorial

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Status, todo and milestones

• VOMS server and a PRAGMA VO are ready.
• Existing groups
• Avian Flu
• Wilfred
• Nimrod
• Blair
• PRAGMA
• Cindy
• PRIME
• Cindy
• e-AIRs (will be created)
• Current VOMS-aware resource
• Tested with BeST Grid
• Add more VOMS-aware resources
• Requirements
• PRIMA/GUMS, gsissh
• Cindy will check the documentation.
• Instructions for single-user account
• Should be included in Vlads document

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PRAGMA Data Grid Testbed

• Metadata server
• rocks-45.sdsc.edu
• File system nodes
• rocks-45.sdsc.edu in US
• sakura.hpcc.jp in Japan

gfdf 1K-blocks Used Avail
Capacity Host 365042664 64603664
300439000 18 rocks-45.sdsc.edu 2550636308
7180216 2543456092 0
sakura.hpcc.jp -----------------------------------
---------- 2915678972 71783880 2843895092
2
Total Capaity 2.9 TBytes
Courtesy of Tatebe-san
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PRAGMA Data Grid Testbed todo

• Ask Wilfred to run Avian Flu on DATA Grid
  Testbed.
• How the other new applications will use Gfarm?
• Client package must be installed on compute nodes
  to mount file systems.
• Are there documents?
• Included in Gfarm package
• PRAGMA Wiki.
• Look for more applications!
• Approximately 3TB storage is waiting your
  proposal!!

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2nd day

• A special talk and reports from PRAGMA
  applications (60 min)
• Introduction of ASTAR Digital Nervous System
  (Foo Yong Siang , iHPC)
• e-AIRs (JongBae Moon, KISTI)
• Showed a chart of PRAGMA resources.
• Should be put on the application wiki page.
• Will discuss about issuing certificates for
  students.
• Phaser (David Abramson, Monash U.)
• Interoperation between 5 Grids.
• APAC, OSG, Enterprise, FermiGrid, PRAGMA
• Identified five categories where they had
  problems
• AccessSecurity, Resource Discovery, Usage
  guidelines/AUPs
• Application compatibility, Middleware
  compatibility
• Open Discussions Future direction of PRAGMA
  Grid (30 min)
• Theme How make it easier for all players (esp.
  Cindy)
• Virtualization, VOMS, Portals, etc.
• Supporting GEO/Tele applications

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Future Direction of PRAGMA Grid

• PRAGMA Grid is growing, but what should the
  future direction be?
• We have decided to use VOMS for reducing
  administrative costs.
• Should be more application driven.
• How to differentiate with the other Grid?
• How do we support non-computing-intensive apps?
• PRAGMA Data Grid Testbed
• Applications?
• Can we support Tele/GEO apps? If yes, how?
• Streaming apps (e.g. remote presentation)
• Virtualization?
• GT4.2
• Others?