EELA 20042009 Achievements and Impact Towards a Latin American Grid Initiative LGI

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EELA (2004-2009)Achievements and ImpactTowards
a Latin American Grid Initiative (LGI)

• Bernard M. Marechal (Project Coordinator)
• Roberto Barbera (Technical Coordinator)
• Philippe Gavillet (Deputy Project Coordinator)
• Francisco Brasileiro (JRA1 Activity Manager)
• CLARA NRENs Meeting
• San José (Costa Rica), 12.08.2009

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EELA and EELA-2

EELA and EELA-2 impact in Latin America

The EELA-2 model for long-term sustainability

Proposal for future activities
Outline
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Projects in numbers
EELA (SSA under EU FP6)
EELA-2 (CP-CSA under EU FP7)

• E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin
  America
• EC support 1.7 M
• CIEMAT extra support 0.4 M
• 10 Countries (3 in Europe)
• 2 International Organisations
• 20 Members (7 in Europe)

• E-science grid facility for Europe and Latin
  America
• EC support 2.1 M
• CETA-CIEMAT extra funds 0.3 M
• Currently 16 Countries (11 in LA)
• 2 new countries (Panama Uruguay)
• 1 International Organisation (CLARA)
• Currently 78 Members (62 in LA)
• 32 Institutions joining (31 in LA)
• Currently 13 JRUs (9 in LA)
• 4 new JRUs (3 in LA)

At the final review EELA was awarded the highest
EC rank Good to excellent project
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Countries and Resources Centres
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Joint Research Units in EELA-2

• A Joint Research Unit (JRU) is a partnership for
  e-Science Collaboration, with no legal status as
  such, formed between entities of the same
  nationality and meeting the following conditions
• scientific and economic unity (internal MoU in
  place)
• lasting a certain length of time (not linked to a
  particular project)
• recognised by a public authority (minister,
  secretary of state, etc.).

No JRUs were established in LA during EELA
One of the major successes of EELA-2
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EELA EELA-2 objectives

• EELA-2
• Provide an empowered Grid Facility with versatile
  services fulfilling application requirements
• Ensure production quality services
• Ensure the long term sustainability of the
  e-Infrastructure beyond the term of the project
• Expand the current EELA e-Infrastructure
• Look for new communities outside academia
  (Industry and Business)

• EELA
• Build a bridge between consolidated
  e-Infrastructure initiatives in Europe and
  emerging ones in Latin American
• Create a collaboration network to deploy a large
  portfolio of scientific applications on a well
  supported Pilot Test-bed
• Care in parallel of the training in grid
  technologies and of the knowledge dissemination
  and outreach

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More Numbers
EELA
EELA-2

• At the end of the Project
• Sites 19 (13 in Production)
• Cores 2700
• Storage 100 TB
• Jobs 430,000
• Scientific domains 4
• Applications 18
• 12 in production
• 6 gridified
• Conferences 3
• Workshops 8
• Tutorials 18
• Trained people 733
• Grid Schools 2

• After 1 year
• Sites 22
• Cores ? 5800
• Storage ? 190 TB
• Jobs ? 1,000,000
• Scientific domains 9
• Applications 55
• 12 in production
• 15 Gridified
• Conferences 1
• Workshops 4
• Tutorials 8
• Trained people 158
• Grid Schools 1

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EELA-2 achievements - NA2
NA2 Dissemination Training Much more training
effort delivered than pledged
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EELA-2 achievements - NA3
NA3 Application Support The EELA-2
gridification universe
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Applications distribution per country, continent
and scientific domain (Y1)
EELA-2 achievements - NA3
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EELA-2 achievements - SA1
SA1 Grid Infrastructure Service Activity Every
EELA-2 country has access to the LA PKI
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EELA-2 achievements - SA1
Resource Centres Map (Y1)
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EELA-2 achievements - SA1
Infrastructure Usage - all VOs (Y1)
About 1 million jobs executed
Resource Centres
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EELA-2 achievements - SA1
Infrastructure evolution as a function of time
(Y1)
Month 12
Month 1
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Network activity in EELAs
No Grid infrastructure without (good) network
Then
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CLARA NRENs in EELA

• M. Stanton s report at the final EELA review,
  partially reproduced in slides 16 to 22
• Complete presentation available at
• http//indico.eu-eela.eu/materialDisplay.py?contr
  ibId10ampmaterialIdslidesampconfId113
• Besides CLARA, 2 LA NRENs
• RNP (BRAZIL)
• REUNA (Chile)

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Grid Related Activities in CLARA before EELA

• Hosted first pre-EELA demo at RedCLARA launch at
  EU-LAC Summit in November 2004 in Brazil
• RedCLARA support provided for Brazilian HEPGrid
  participation in demos at Supercomputing
  conferences (SC04 and SC05)

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CLARA members of EELA and their roles in the
project

• RNP (Brazil)
• Exercised responsibility delegated by CLARA for
  Task 2.4 (Network support)
• Support for certification activities (hosting of
  1st TAGPMA face-to-face meeting, creation of
  general academic PKI in Brazil) (Task 2.2)
• Articulation of Brazilian NGI/JRU initiatives
• REUNA (Chile)
• Exercised responsibility delegated by CLARA for
  Task 4.1 (Dissemination)
• Certification activities (Task 2.2)
• Articulation of Chilean NGI/JRU initiatives
• CUDI/UNAM (México)
• UNAM operates CUDI and RedCLARA NOCs and also
  Mexican grid CA (Tasks 2.4 and 2.2)

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Grid initiatives carried on in CLARA thanks to
EELA

• Creation of IGTF-accredited Grid CAs in Brazil,
  Chile, Mexico (and now, thanks to EELA-2,
  Argentina, Venezuela and Peru)
• Conferences
• LAGrid07 (together with CCGrid07) in Rio de
  Janeiro, May 2007
• e-Science sessions at RNP Workshop, SBPC
  (Brazilian Society for Advancement of Science)
  Annual meeting and SBBD (Brazilian Symposium on
  Data Bases) in 2007
• EELA project progress presented and discussed at
  CLARA technical meetings (twice-yearly)

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Grid initiatives carried on in CLARA thanks to
EELA

• Network support activities
• RNP is a leading member of the perfSONAR
  consortium (together with Dante, Internet2 and
  ESNET)
• CLARA and RNP are deploying perfSONAR tools in
  parts of the EELA overlay network
• Tuning of transport protocols for high-bandwidth
  high-latency applications, such as
  intercontinental file transfers
• Improved network error-handling support for
  end-users of networking services

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EELA impact on CLARA

• EELA has been very successful in disseminating
  knowledge and encouraging interest in grid
  computing in CLARA countries, including some
  outside of EELA
• EELA has demonstrated and justified the need for
  higher bandwidth connections to and within
  RedCLARA to support grid activities
• EELA has provided important support in defending
  continued EU involvement in future LA networking
  activities

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Plans for long term sustainability of
e-Infrastructure in CLARA

• EC financial support for RedCLARA will be
  unavailable between April and December 2008
• Contingency plans are underway for maintenance of
  present (or improved!) connectivity for this
  period
• Current 10 Mbps access links to be significantly
  upgraded, affecting Colombia, Ecuador and
  Guatemala, amongst others
• It is expected that the EC will contribute to an
  ALICE-2 project from 2009
• CLARA plans to use the ALICE-2 project to set up
  a sustainable facilities-based network
  infrastructure, at a lower operating cost
• Important commitments are being provided by the
  Brazilian government via RNP

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Plans for long term sustainability of
e-Infrastructure in CLARA

• It is important to recognise that the near future
  will involve substantial European collaboration
  in e-Science activity in Latin America
• LHC for the user community in the region
• New observatories in LA for international users
• Pierre Auger Southern Cosmic Ray Observatory (AR)
  
• ALMA Atacama Large Millimetre Array (CL)
• DES - The Dark Energy Survey, Blanco telescope
  (CL)
• LSST Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (CL)
• Most of these will make significant demands on
  network capacity, greatly in excess of current
  provision
• International interest in these activities will
  require corresponding participation in meeting
  infrastructure costs

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CLARA NRENs in EELA-2

• M. Faerman s report on SA2 activities at the
  first EELA-2 review, partially reproduced in
  slides 24 to 36
• Complete presentation available at
• http//indico.eu-eela.eu/conferenceOtherViews.py?v
  iewstandardampconfId193
• See also the Daniela Brauner s presentation at
  the CLARA-TEC meeting (S. José - Costa Rica)
• http//indico.rnp.br/conferenceDisplay.py?confId6
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• Besides CLARA, 5 LA NRENs
• INNOVA-RED (Argentina)
• RNP (BRAZIL)
• REUNA (Chile)
• CEDIA (Ecuador)
• CUDI (Mexico)

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SA2 Main Objective

• To play a central role in
• Network related activities
• Network engineering and operations support
  integrated with the EELA-2 Operations Centre
  (EOC)
• Management of the relationships between EELA-2,
  CLARA, GÉANT and NRENs in Latin America and
  Europe
• Strengthening of the link between the Grid and
  the Network/NREN communities
• Automation (to the extent possible) of the
  processes for network service provisioning for
  EELA-2.

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Goal and Criterion

• Provide Network Support to EELA-2
• Targeting a
• Long-Term Sustainable Framework

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Integrate Network Support with EOC

• Legacy from EELA 1st Phase
• Initial model of incident control system
• EELA-2 Results
• Specification of the EELA-2 Network Support
  Centre (ENSC)
• Set of the ENSC procedures defined DSA2.3
• Support Protocols agreed with SA1
• ENSC integrated as a support unit inside the
  Trouble Ticket System implemented by SA1
• Milestone MSA2.2 reached

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Integrate Network Support with EOC

• Legacy from EELA 1st Phase
• Pilot network monitoring system
• Already perfSONAR (http//www.perfsonar.net/)
• Single prototype implementation
• Selected locations
• Proposal of a broad interoperable multi-domain
  system
• EELA-2 Results
• Development and deployment of a sustainable
  multi-domain monitoring system

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EELA-2 Network Monitoring

• Deployment of a sustainable perfSONAR-based
  multi-domain network monitoring service
• 3 measurement points on EELA-2 RCs (Overlay
  network monitoring) already installed
• Integration with available monitoring services in
  the domains (LA and EU-NRENs, RedCLARA, GÉANT2,
  EGEE-III, etc.)

• Multi-domain monitoring

• Overlay network monitoring

• EELA-2 Measurement Points (MPs)

• RedCLARA MPs

• LA-NREN A - MPs

• LA-NREN B - MPs

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Results Monitoring Delay on Overlay Network
Actual Screen Snapshots
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Results Monitoring Delay Across EELA-2 and
NREN (RNP) domain
Actual Screen Snapshots
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Results Monitoring Delay Within Network Domain

Actual Screen Snapshots
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Collaboration Outcomes

• All LA-NREN representatives agreed to support the
  ENSC in order to solve network incidents
  involving EELA-2 community.
• European network support
• Provided by committed cooperation between
  EGEE-III ENOC and EELA-2 ENSC
• MoU between EELA-2 and EGEE-III being finalized
• SA2 member has leading role on CLARA Measurements
  Working Group
• Key to multi-domain monitoring dissemination
• RedCLARA and LA-NRENs infrastructure and services
  upgraded
• SA2 has represented EELA-2 demands and
  requirements
• Participating in the service and infrastructure
  upgrade decisions of the Latin American academic
  networks
• CLARA Management Meeting, from June 23rd to 27th,
  2008
• SA2 participated on the redesign of RedCLARA,
  with expanded links to Peru, Colombia, Ecuador

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Upgrade network services for EELA-2

• SA2 is sowing the seed of the technology of
  dynamic end-to-end provisioning of dedicated
  network circuits, in light of e-Science and grid
  requirements
• At CLARA and LA-NRENs
• Coordinating with GEANT and other international
  network projects, such as GLIF (Global Lambda
  Interactive Facility)
• Features in MoU agreement with EGEE-III
• Interaction in the deployment of first Latin
  American GOLE (GLIF Open Lightpath Exchange)
  Southern Light

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1st Year Quality Metrics

• Number of requests received, from EOC or users,
• No tickets ENSC operation started at M10 no
  escalation up to it yet
• Final situation of networking requests received
• Not applicable (No tickets received so far
  Metric 1.)
• Deployment and operational status of network
  monitoring service
• Deployment of 3 EELA-2 perfSONAR measurement
  points
• UFRJ EOC, UNAM, UPV
• Deployment of the perfSONAR central services in
  EELA-2, including the Lookup Service, the
  Authentication Service and the the tools to be
  used by the ENSC team
• Dissemination and Evolution of multi-domain
  interoperation framework between LA and EU
  networks
• Level of adoption of networking operational
  procedures supporting interactions between
  EELA-2, the NRENs and continental backbones
• All LA-NRENs and continental backbones adhered to
  ENSC networking operational procedures. EU-NRENs
  interoperate through the EGEE-III ENOC

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Next Steps

• Extend monitoring infrastructure deployment and
  integration
• Derive and provide information about the network
  measurements to the EELA-2 Grid Operations team
  and community
• Network availability, performance
• NRENs maintenance and faults through dashboard
• Conduct application requirement survey in
  coordination with NA3
• Coordinate multi-domain network monitoring
  interoperation tests

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Final Considerations

• Network Service Support related to a broad set of
  players
• Research and Education Networks
• Continental backbones GEANT, CLARA
• Local campus networks
• EELA-2 locations
• SA1
• NA3
• EGEE-III
• Technology developers and providers
• Approach is strongly based upon
• Coordination
• Adaptation
• Integration
• Dissemination
• Which are key factors in the long term
  sustainability of the multi-domain network
  services

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EELA impact in Latin America
Just a few examples
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EELA-2 impact in Colombia (1/2) (H. Castro
EELA-2 First Review)

• Colombian professionals trained in Grid
  technology
• Decision to create the Certification Authority
  Centre for e-Science in Colombia
• First RC certified in an international
  infrastructure
• It will evolve as a Tier-3 for UNIANDES
  scientists in CMS
• Installation of a second RC in progress
• High visibility of Colombian institutions and
  research groups within the grid community
• Increase of awareness of grid technology and its
  possibilities within Colombian institutions

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EELA-2 impact in Colombia (2/2) (H. Castro
EELA-2 First Review)

• Strengthening og the Colombian JRU
• Goverment awareness
• New Call for Proposals more inclusive
• New institutions want to join (now with a better
  understanding)
• JRU with 9 universities estalished
• 5 in EELA-2
• Universidad de los Andes (Coordinator)
• Universidad Industrial de Santander
• Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
• Universidad Católica de Colombia
• Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga
• RENATA (Colombian NREN) supports the long-term
  sustainability EELA-2 model and already proposes
  e-Science services

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EELA-2 impact in Ecuador (S. Arias EELA-2 First
Review)

• Ecuadorian professionals trained in Grid
  technology thanks to Tutorials, Grid schools,
  Workshops and Conferences
• Ecuador is creating its own RA for the LA
  catch-all CA
• JRU created with support from the National
  Secretary of Science and Technology (SENACYT)
  Coordinated by CEDIA (Ecuadorian NREN)
• SENACYT LoS
• Referring to the motion D.E.C. 09-19 dated
  February 19, 2009, in which seeking the
  endorsement of SENACYT to establish working group
  ECUADOR-GRID, the Secretary with the authority it
  deserves, and considering that research in this
  area encouraged the GRID development of science
  and technology, supported the request of the
  Executive Director of CEDIA.

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EELA-2 impact in Peru (R. M. San Martin EELA-2
All Members Meeting)

• Peru GRID (www.perugrid.org) has started the
  process of obtaining official recognition as a
  National Grid Initiative (NGI).
• We are working together with CONCYTEC in Peru to
  achieve this goal.
• We need to demonstrate sustainability and to have
  a group active and coherent of institutions, and
  demonstrate compliance with the main goals of our
  group.

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The global Grid coverage
How to take care of the future of
e-infrastructures?
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The EELA-2 answer
Detailed proposal will be shown in the next
slides by Roberto
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Grid Ecosystem evolution in Europe
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and in Latin America ?
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Some considerations

• EELA-2 will end up on 01/04/2010
• Will 6-year of successful efforts to
• Set up a production quality Latin American
  e-Infrastructure at the level of existing
  European Grids
• Acquire the various Grid technology skills to
  autonomously support the Latin American
  e-Infrastructure on the long term (about 1000 LA
  people trained and 10s of local tutor formed)
• Allow LA scientific communities to
• Strengthen their active participation in EU LA
  collaborations by satisfying the required
  contributions to computing resources
• Enter new international collaborations to take
  part in new research field or attract new
  partners in their own field of research
• Altogether contribute to amplify the relevance
  of e-Infrastructures, blazing the trail towards
  Latin American e-Science Initiatives via National
  Grid Initiatives (NGIs) created in cooperation
  with existing NRENs and RedCLARA (EELA-2
  proposal)
• just be wasted ???

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The EELA-2 proposal

• A 3-level organisation is proposed
• Local (RCs ? LAN/MAN)
• National (NGIs ? NRENs)
• Continental (LGI ? CLARA)
• Multi-middleware (gLite, OurGrid, OSG, )
  structures NGIs and LGI must not be middleware
  dependent
• Close synergy with EGI that foresees to support
  three middleware (ARC, gLite and UNICORE)
• Important role of both the LA NRENs and CLARA
  fully justified by their participation in EELA
  and EELA-2
• Even more e-Infrastructures (Grid) should be
  part of the NRENs and CLARA structure (cost
  effective, technically correct, politically
  easier)

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The Latin American Grid Initiative
(LGI)(http//documents.eu-eela.org/record/1119/fi
les/)
(RC Resource Centre, NGI National Grid
Initiative, GOC Grid Operation Centre,
NREN National Research Education Network, NOC
Network Operation Centre, LGI Latin
American Grid Initiative, CLARA Cooperación
Latino Americana de Redes Avanzadas, GSC Grid
Support Centre, NSC Network Support Centre)
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The Latin American Grid Infrastructure - GridLGI

• GridLGI is composed, from bottom to top of three
  layers, each of them including Grid and Network
  components
• At the lower Institute level
• The Resource Centre (RC) is the actual site of
  the Grid computing resources
• The backbone LAN or MAN network connects the
  Computing and Storage Elements (CE SE) at the
  RC site
• At the intermediate national level
• The National Grid Initiative (NGI) integrates all
  Grid Institutions in the country and federates
  under its Grid Operation Centre (GOC) all their
  RCs in a National Grid (GridNGI)
• The underlying National Research Education
  Network (NREN) links country-wide the Research
  and Education Institutes and optimizes / monitors
  their network activity via its associated Network
  Operation Centre (NOC)
• At the upper international layer
• The Latin American Grid Initiative (LGI) which
  brings together all NGIs and supervises the
  various GridNGIs operation from its Grid Support
  Centre (GSC)
• CLARA it is the WAN network which integrates the
  Latin American NRENs and supervises the overall
  RedCLARA network activity by means of its Network
  Support Centre (NSC).

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RC tasks
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RC tasks(detailed description)

• Deploy and operate the local grid services such
  as Computing Elements and Storage Elements
• Provide 1st level support to users, application
  developers and Resource Centre administrators,
  usually through a trouble-shooting ticketing
  system
• Coordinate the deployment and update of the grid
  middleware used by its resource providers
• Monitor the status of the grid services run by
  the national resource providers to quickly detect
  problems, request of corrections and be sure that
  problems are fixed
• Deal with security incidents making sure that
  proper solutions are quickly applied
• Deploy an authentication service this includes
  one or more Registration Authorities of the
  National Certification Authority
• Operate an accounting repository to keep track of
  grid resource usage.

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GOC tasks
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GOC tasks(detailed description)

• Deploy and operate the core grid services needed
  to interconnect to the GSC. It includes Workload
  Management Systems, Grid Information Systems,
  Data Management Systems, etc.
• Provide 2nd level support to users, application
  developers and resource centre administrators in
  the region
• Setup, support the Operator on Duty (OOD) Teams
  responsible for the continuous monitoring and
  support of the Resource Centre fabric, for prompt
  error detection, diagnosis and resolution of
  operational problems
• Route and follow up trouble-shooting tickets to
  the proper support unit
• Coordinate the deployment and updating of the
  grid middleware
• Monitor the status of the grid services running
  in the country to quickly detect problems,
  request corrections and be sure that problems are
  fixed
• Coordinate the solution of security incidents,
  making sure that proper solutions are quickly
  applied
• Operate an accounting repository to keep track of
  grid resource usage
• Operate a configuration repository
• Operate the VO management systems for
  country-wide-scope Virtual Organisation
• Coordinate the resource allocation and brokering
  for national VOs
• Deploy and operate an Authentication Service at
  national level. This includes a Certification
  Authority and as many Registration Authorities as
  needed

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GSC tasks
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GSC tasks(detailed description 1/2)

• Coordinate the operation of all GOCs
• Deploy and operate the core grid services needed
  to interconnect all the GOCs and the single RCs
  in the infrastructure. It is usually done in an
  hierarchical way, profiting from the services
  already deployed and maintained by the GOCs,
  including Workload Management Systems, Grid
  Information Systems, Data Management Systems,
  etc.
• Provide 3rd level support to users, application
  developers and Resource Centre administrators in
  the infrastructure
• Route and follow up trouble tickets with the GOCs
• Maintain and Operate a central ticketing system
• Maintain and Operate a central Operations Portal
• Maintain a central Knowledge Database
• Maintain a Knowledge Sharing System
• Define best practices, operation procedures and
  operation requirements
• Coordinate the middleware deployment, release and
  support

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GSC tasks(detailed description 2/2)

• Gather requirements for new services from users,
  resource centre administrators and grid operators
• Advertise new Infrastructure and Application
  services to users and applications developers
• Deploy and operate an Authentication Service.
  This includes a catch-all Certification
  Authority having as many Registration Authorities
  as needed in those countries which do not yet
  have a national Certification Authority the GSC
  should also provides consulting services to those
  countries in order to speed-up the creation of
  new Certification Authorities and their
  accreditation by TAGPMA, the relevant Policy
  Management Authority
• Operate the VO management for global VOs
• Coordinate the resource allocation and brokering
  for global VOs
• Coordinate the solution of security incidents,
  making sure that proper solutions are quickly
  applied
• Operate a global accounting repository to keep
  track of grid resource usage
• Operate a global configuration repository
• Coordinate interoperation efforts with other grid
  infrastructures
• Perform studies to plan the growth of the
  infrastructure

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NSC tasks
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NSC tasks(detailed description)

• Be a single point of contact for network related
  issues
• Trace and diagnose network problems
• The NSC could receive two types of tickets
• User ticket an e-Infrastructure user notifying
  about a network issue on his/her site or within
  some site that he/she is trying to access
• NREN ticket a NREN notifying the NSC about
  network issues. It is important to note the
  assumption that the NREN is not expected to
  notify (at least initially) the NSC only about
  network issues which involve the e Infrastructure
  sites, but actually about all the NREN issues,
  e.g., through a general mailing list assignment
• Support E2E communication between sites
• Provide quality indicators about the network
  infrastructure

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Training dissemination tasks
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Training dissemination tasks(detailed
description 1/2)

• The activities to be performed by the tutors
  operating at NGI and RC level include
• Participate as instructors in tutorials at local,
  national levels in cooperation with the LGI
• Update their knowledge as improvements and new
  services are added to the middleware(s)
• Create, update and translate training material
  maintained by the LGI
• The dissemination activities include
• Coordinate the dissemination actions at local and
  national levels in cooperation with the LGI
• Produce press releases, brochures, flyers,
  posters, multimedia material, and keep updated
  the contents (related to advancements plus news
  and reports) of websites in order to inform
  appropriately about the technology and events
  organized by the LGI as well as related
  communities
• Organise workshops and conferences at local and
  national levels in cooperation with the LGI

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Training dissemination tasks(detailed
description 2/2)

• The activities at the LGI level can be summarized
  as follows
• Definition of training plans. At least 2 travels
  per country and per year should be foreseen in
  order to support and define common training
  strategies with all participating countries
• Designing and maintaining a master event calendar
  scheduling the most important LGI training and
  dissemination events like Grid schools,
  conferences and workshops
• Maintenance of a central training material
  repository training material should also be
  translated from English to Spanish and Portuguese
  by this task the maintenance of a training
  database will be also provided by this task
• Deliver Training courses for trainers
• Offer consultancy to Application Developers when
  needed by the Application support Team.

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User support tasks
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User support tasks(detailed description)

• The activities that must be performed by the
  Application Support teams located either at the
  GOCs at the GSC include
• Answer tickets issued by the central support
  ticket system
• Participate in periodic virtual meetings with
  application developers and forward their request
  if necessary to the middleware developers
• Contribute for the creation of FAQs and
  gridification guidelines
• Visit or accepting visits of application experts
  in events similar to the current EELA-2
  "Gridification Weeks
• Participate as a tutor in the training events
  organized by the LGI
• Make available a public central database
  containing the profile and the current status of
  all applications supported by the GridLGI
• Act as a liaison between the GridLGI and new
  application communities or related projects
• Evaluate the technical requirements and the
  impact of new projects/applications willing to be
  supported by the GridLGI

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LGI Management/Governance
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Possible structure of a Latin American NGI
A strong liaison with the NREN is strongly
suggested/recommended. Local conditions
permitting, the NGI should be incorporated into
the NREN.
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Long-term sustainability status (1/2)

• Long-term sustainability of e-Infrastructures
  world wide is key for a continued support of
  scientific communities
• EELA-2 is definitely contributing to the
  establishment of JRUs and NGIs in Latin America,
  in close synergy with NRENs and CLARA, also in
  countries not initially involved in the project
• EELA-2 has defined a detailed model and
  architecture of the Latin American Grid
  Initiative
• Contacts with CLARA have formally been
  established and a Joint Committee has been formed
  at the Bogotá Conference (with Spanish
  participation) to analyse, agree on, and start
  implementing the proposed model

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Long-term sustainability status (2/2)

• CLARA Management has been officially approached
  and it supports the EELA-2 model (see below the
  letter signed by Carlos Casasus)

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Whats round the corner? CHAIN?

• No EELA-3 foreseen (at first sight), then
• Co-ordination and Harmonisation of Advanced
  e-INfrastructures
• Objective
• Design study of the collaboration scheme
  between EGI and non-European Grid infrastructures
• Time scale
• Transition period to EGI start early 2010 (also
  end of several Grid-related projects) to
  typically 2011
• Vision / Facts (from the common Input to EC
  programme)
• "It is clear from the current projects that one
  cannot revert to a European-only model since many
  of the user communities currently supported are
  already of a global dimension"
• "Ongoing efforts of inter-projects coordination
  and collaboration are converging and deemed to be
  supported
• "There is an enormous variation in the level of
  maturity and organisational models of the
  regional Grid which want to contribute to EGI"

CHAIN is however only a stop-gap project with a
limited budget to be submitted in a highly
competitive call. It can not be the only
solution for the future of
e-Infrastructure in Latin America.
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Proposal to be discussed today

• We (CLARA, EELA-2, the NRENs, and the JRUs)
  prepare and agree on a Memorandum of
  Understanding containing
• The number of FTEs each NREN can second to CLARA
  to manage LGI and the central GOC
• The number of managed (with local manpower) CPU
  cores and TeraBytes of storage each country can
  commit to LGI
• for the period 4/2010-3/2012 (2 years)
• The MoU is signed at the EELA-2 Conference in
  November by all the NRENs willing to participate
  from Day 1 (the others can of course join
  later) and enters into force on the 1st of April
  2010
• Between December 2009 and March 2010 the profiles
  for the people to be hired are defined and the
  positions are open
• CLARA appoints immediately an ad interim LGI
  Director till 3/2012 to oversee the transition
  from EELA-2 to LGI and the start-up of the
  Infrastructure
• Bonus if CHAIN will be approved, the LGI
  kernel constituted above will be the strong
  unfunded contribution of Latin America to the
  project.

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Useful references

• Project website
• www.eu-eela.eu
• Final review of EELA
• http//indico.eu-eela.eu/conferenceOtherViews.py?v
  iewstandardampconfId113
• First review of EELA-2
• http//indico.eu-eela.eu/conferenceOtherViews.py?v
  iewstandardampconfId193
• LGI model
• http//documents.eu-eela.org/record/1119/files