Grid Accounting-Gratia

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Grid Accounting-Gratia

• Philippe Canal (FNAL)
• July 2007

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Since May (1)

• Finished the upgrade required by OSGs SAM
  (Philippe)
• Upgraded
• Database Schema
• DB Maintenance Interface
• Probe Library
• However OSGs SAM effort did not realize they
  needed to work on the output side.

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Since May (2)

• Released new version (v0.25)
• SAM support (Philippe)
• DB performance improvement (Chris, Philippe)
• Split off main tables (spin off columns).
• VO renaming support (Chris, Philippe, Jeff)
• Will release v0.26 for OSG 0.8.0
• Simplification of lookup of SiteName and
  corrected VOName. (Chriss)
• Progress being made
• Birt 2.2 (Penelope)
• VOMS authentication (Margherita)

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Since May (4)

• VORS is monitoring Gratia
• http//vors.grid.iu.edu/cgi-bin/gindex.cgi?region
  0VO0grid1res0dtype1
• (Chris with OSG GOC)

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New-ish Request

• VO Accounting Infrastructure
• What is Gratia responsible for
• Provide collector/report software
• NO management of the services.
• Connector with EGEE/APEL

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Ongoing

• Upgrade to Birt 2.2
• First prototype for put together (in 2005)
  optimizing implementation time (at the expense
  of ease of longer term maintenance)
• Now putting in place the infrastructure to allow
  for easier per-report implementation and less
  maintenance.
• Updates to the reports
• Consolidation and simplifications
• VOMS based authentication
• For Roles etc.
• Test Bed Development
• Schema and Collector enhancements
• Push for more deployment (FNAL and OSG)

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Project

• MS Project file currently available at
• \\cdserver\cd_shared\Group_Leaders\kennedy\Gratia
• Accounts for
• Meeting and Services Administration
• Development tasks
• Plan to add shortly
• regularly spaced milestones
• soft dependencies indicating priority
• Planned to use the MS Project file as the
  bulletin board to keep track of priorities and
  milestones.
• Show be up in the MS Project server shortly.

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Project

• 9000ish FTE hours (10 completed)
• More or so including tasks done since beginning
  of June.
• According to MS Project Resource Leveling
• Would finish by May 09
• BUT
• Some tasks should be off load from CG
• Some tasks are not detailed/split enough to be
  properly parallelized by RL algo.
• One resource is the bottle neck.
• So eye-ball estimation is around 3rd quarter
  2008
• BUT this of course does not take into account
  diversions and new features.

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Current Effort

• .50 Philippe C.
• .50 Chris G.
• .75 Jeff M.
• .50 to 1.00 Penelope C.
• .50 John W.

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Issues

• OSG unhappy with presentation layer.
• Need more effort and priority.
• Not enough functionality
• Current graphical representation is a barrier to
  understanding the data.
• Partially due to a low prioritization so far and
  unforeseen effects of early implementation
  choices
• Main focus has been server side strengthening.
• Need more proactive contact with OSG
• Not enough data is being uploaded.
• Communication not as fluid as hoped for with OSG
  Executive Board
• Missing staff on OSG side too (deputy facility
  coordinator)
• Need to redirect some of the energy toward
  communication and outreach.

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Issues (2)

• Need also to pursue data validation.
• 3 equally important priority
• a) Presentation Features.
• b) Data validation.
• c) Scaling considerations.
• d) Server side improvements required by a), b)
  and c)
• Ergo more work than we can currently deliver
• Missing FTE
• 0.5 FTE java/python server client/server
  developer.
• 0.5 FTE web UI interface and graph presentation
  expert.