SEEGRID2 Project: Overview and achievements

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SEE-GRID-2 ProjectOverview and achievements
Ognjen Prnjat GRNET
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eInfrastructures access to advanced services

• GEANT, SEEREN and other extensions ? bind
  national networks and create a high performance
  production network for Europe and beyond
• EGEE, SEE-GRID and other extensions ? will bind
  national Grid infrastructures towards
  establishing a production quality Grid for Europe
  and beyond
• Together they constitute the basic components of
  eInfrastructure in an extended ERA

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The SEE-GRID initiative
Contribute to building a Pan-EU eInfrastructure
by expanding the eInfrastructure inclusion into
South-East Europe
SEEREN
SEEREN
SEE-GRID-1 project May 2004 - May 2006 SEE-GRID-2
project May 2006 - May 2008
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Grids regional interconnections
SEE-GRID as role model
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SEE-GRID-1 achievements

• Operations
• Large, distributed infrastructure spanning all
  countries
• 30 sites, 450 CPUs incl. EGEE overlaps 150 CPUs
  in 20 non-EGEE-SEE sites
• Infrastructure overlapping and complementing to
  EGEE
• Catch-all SEE-GRID CA operational
• A number of management tools
• gLite
• Applications
• 2 regional grid applications developed
• Search Engine for South-East Europe (SE4SEE)
  Volumetric Image Visualization Environment (VIVE)
• EGEE applications deployed
• The Human Network that will outlive the project
• Dissemination
• Trainings
• NGIs

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SEE-GRID-2 new directions

• Policy-focused deployment strategy
• Shift priority from a top-down approach (i.e.
  from regional project execution to national
  implementation) towards a a bottom-up approach
  (from national priorities, cooperation, and
  innovation to regional cohesiveness)
• Achieve Grid uptake and buy-in beyond the usual
  suspects of the RE community (-gt government,
  policy-makers, dialogue with industry)
• Growth of infrastructure
• Expand regionally to include new countries/areas
  and widen the SEE eInfra community
• Expand nationally to include new sites/institutes
  and strengthen collaboration in each country
• Application-driven deployment approach
• serve the needs of diverse and multi-disciplinary
  communities
• extend the user-base use the grid, use the
  network, use the Infrastructure

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SEE-GRID-2 project partnership
Start date 01/05/2006 Duration 24
months Total Budget 2,002,691 ?

• Contractors
• GRNET Greece
• CERN Switzerland
• SZTAKI Hungary
• IPP-BAS Bulgaria
• ICI Romania
• TUBITAK Turkey
• ASA/INIMA Albania
• UoBL Bosnia-Herzegovina
• UKIM FYR of Macedonia
• UOB Serbia
• UoM Montenegro
• RENAM Moldova
• RBI Croatia
• 3 types of countries
• Third Party / JRU mechanism used
• 27 universities / research centres

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Objective 1ensure sustainable development

• Clear National Grid Initiative strategy
• National government commitment and support for
  incubating NGIs
• Build solidarity and cooperation with research
  and academic organizations at national level
• Engage regional and national user communities
• Build long-term operational solutions operations
  centres, CAs, etc, in each country

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Objective 2 upgrade SEE grid infrastructure

• Upgrade the capacity of the regional pilot
  infrastructure
• Guarantee stability and interoperability of the
  infrastructure
• Support the accreditation of national Grid CAs
• Strengthen operations at national level
• Deploy portal technology for accessing the grid
  and supporting application development and
  deployment
• Draw upon deployment experience/results of other
  grid projects (EGEE/EGEE-II, EUMEDGRID,
  BalticGrid, EELA, etc)

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Objective 3strengthen the human network

• Liaise with and beyond SEE user communities
• Training events
• at regional level for site admins and end-users
• at national-level
• Dissemination events
• at regional level for policymakers and public at
  large
• at national-level
• Regional eInfra projects Policy Workshop

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Work organization

• WP1 - Project management
• WP2 Sustainability
• Studies and Strategies for sustainable
  operational, organizational and policy schemes
• WP3 - eInfrastructure expansion and operations
  support
• WP4 - User community enlargement and applications
  support
• WP5 - Training, dissemination and communication

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Key results management

• Stable management structure WP Leaders, Activity
  Leaders, Steering Committee Members, Grid
  Infrastructure Managers, Registration Authority
  Managers.
• Project notebook as an efficient management tool
• Project Objectives and WorkPackages have been
  kept constantly up-to-date.
• A number of PSC meetings held co-located with
  high-profile events
• High complexity of management with 13 partners
  and 27 3rd parties
• High-level EAB established

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Key results sustainability and NGIs

• NGI concept strongly supported by SEE-GRID-2
  input to EGI concept
• SEE-GRID definition for NGI
• SEE-GRID guideline on the NGI set-up procedure
  cook-book
• Ongoing national-level actions towards
• NGI national-level and government recognition
• NGI optimal structuring
• NRN cooperation
• eInfrastructure national strategy
• National-level policies
• eIRG membership status
• National-level projects
• Technical independence

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NGI status
MGKK 2003
RoGrid 05/02
Before SEE-GRID-2
CRO-GRID 01/04
AEGIS 04/05
NGI-BA 03/06
BGGC 01/03
During SEE-GRID-2
MARGI 04/05
MGI 11/06
Planned for 2nd Year
TR-GRID 09/03
HellasGrid 11/03
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Key results infrastructure

• Current infrastructure 11 Countries, 31 sites,
  950 CPUs, 24B storage gLite
• Infrastructure overlapping and complementing to
  EGEE
• SEE-GRID open to new fresher sites
• SEE-GRID open to new applications
• Core services deployed redundantly and maintained
  with no interruptions in operation

SEEREN
EGEE
SEE-GRID
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Key results infrastructure operations

• Catch-All Certification Authority National CAs
• Operational tools
• Static Database HGSM (Hierarchical Grid Site
  Management)
• Monitoring
• SAM (Service Availability Monitoring), GStat,
  GridIce, Googlemap/earth, MonaLisa, Real Time
  Monitor, Nagios
• Ticketing system (operational and user support)
  OneOrZero
• Accounting RGMA
• Tools integration and automation
• P-GRADE Portal
• SLA definition, monitoring and enforcement
• Operational tools extensions and middleware
  add-ons including BBmobileSAM, JAVA data man.
  API, night-grid solutions

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Key results applications

• Support for EGEE HEP and Biomed and SEEGRID1
  applications
• SEE Region within EGEE and SEE-GRID strongly
  supports WISDOM data challenges drug discovery
  for malaria
• Volumetric Image Visualization Environment (VIVE)
  and Search Engine for South-East Europe (SE4SEE)
• Extended application questionnaire on-line
• 32 Applications identified
• ? Prioritization needed in terms of support
• Supported applications
• 19 supported applications
• Seismology, nanoelectronics, financial
  mathematics, scientific visualization, rendering,
  bioinformatics, etc
• 5 applications at EGEE user forum
• 3 flagship applications

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Flagship applications

• SALUTE Semiconductor physics- novel Monte Carlo
  algorithms for solving complicated integral
  equations algorithms are different from MC
  simulations used in the very popular HEP
  applications. Computationally intensive.
• PBFS Biomedical - computer simulation of
  cardio-vascular system designed for usage in
  predictive medicine (detailed analysis of the
  blood flow in arteries which are liable for
  disease development)
• SDA automatic mirroring of hourly data from
  Turkish seismic stations (massive data sets).
  Earthquake detecting application under
  development.

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Earthquake Seismic Data Server Analysis SDA

• Dynamically serve Turkeys earthquake seismic
  data.
• Help earthquake researchers to readily access
  massive seismic data sets (TBs) and computational
  power to process them
• Data is fed hourly from various stations from all
  over Turkey
• Applications will use developed programming tools
  to access mirrored data.
• One application (epicentre detection application
  is developed) User interface displays where
  earthquakes happened on Google maps, within a
  specific queried interval

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Infrastructure use Accounting distribution per VO
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Key results training and dissemination

• Dissemination Event Agenda official SEE-GRID-2
  website
• Training Event Agenda SEE-GRID-2 Training portal
• Large number of national dissemination training
  events
• 2 major regional events User and CA training in
  Budapest, SEE-GRID-2 / SEEREN dissemination event
  in Serbia
• tInfrastructure 7 sites, 60 CPUs, core services,
  mock CA
• A pool of 34 SEE-GRID-wide trainers identified
• Harmonization of the training material
• Training material repository
• Training materials in local languages

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1st year Dissemination events

• 1st year total number of SEE-GRID-2 dissemination
  events 66
• SEE-GRID-2 organised events 22
• SEE-GRID-2 presentations in external events 39
• Self Funded events 28

Dissemination category levels
Dissemination event sizes
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1st year Training events

• 1st year total number of SEE-GRID-2 training
  events 34
• SEE-GRID-2 organised events 31
• SEE-GRID-2 presentations in external training
  events 3
• Self funded events 22

Targeted audience
Training event sizes
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Key results Regional eInfrastructure projects
concertation event

• SEE-GRID-2 Regional Projects Concertation
  Workshop 28.09.2006 Geneva, during EGEE06
  Conference
• Attended by other regional eInfrastructure
  projects (EUMEDGRID, BalticGrid, EELA, etc.). The
  aim of the event was to discuss and transfer best
  practices among regions for the deployment and
  sustainability of eInfrastructures.
• List of common recommendations and guidelines
  produced
• Widely disseminated and propagated to the EC

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SEE-GRID-2 In Numbers (June07)

• Project
• Total Budget 2.028.886 Euros of which EC funding
  2.002.691 Euros
• Total partner institutions 40 contracting
  partners 13
• Number of countries represented by project
  partners 12
• Infrastructure
• Number of sites in the SEE-GRID infrastructure
  31
• Number of countries in the SEE-GRID
  infrastructure 12
• Number of CPUs available to users 24/7 gt 950
• Storage capacity available to users 24/7 gt 24 TB
  disk
• Users
• Number of Virtual Organisations using the
  SEE-GRID infrastructure gt 6 Regional national,
  8 EGEE VOs
• Number of application domains making use of the
  SEEGRID infrastructure more than 10
• Number of registered users gt 175
• Number of active users gt 57
• Number of scientists benefiting from the
  existence of the SEE-GRID infrastructure 300
• Number of jobs 600 jobs/day for SEE-GRID VO only
• Trained People gt 250
• Disseminated to gt 4000 people

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Future converged communication and service
infrastructure for SEE
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Thank you!