General Status of the Project

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General Status of the Project

• Fabrizio Gagliardi
• Project Leader

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Outline

• Review of main issues and feedback from the EU
  review and EDG4
• Current status
• Future plans
• Announcements

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Review feedback follow up

• ESA issues addressed in a dedicate ESA review
  early June
• Role of ESA clarified and cost realigned with the
  original project budget
• Comments on the software release process
  addressed and clarified in the recent retreat
• In future releases the reviewers will look for
  scalability, fault tolerance,and security issues
  to be addressed more in detail.
• Addressed at the retreat, see retreat detailed
  report in the next talk
• The project licensing issues are seen as
  important and the project is urged to resolve
  this quickly to aggressively deploy the results
  and ensure the project gets the credit for all
  the innovations it is making.
• Project licence agreed in line with GGF
  recommendations and Globus policy
• Concerning dissemination there is the need for
  tangible quantitative results for the next
  review.
• PMB dissemination steering board appointed under
  leadership of Kors Bos
• Collaboration with DataTAG and GRIDSTART (Rosy
  Mondardini)

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Future Plans (Technical), from EDG4

• Expand and consolidate testbed operations
• need to improve the distribution, maintenance and
  support process, also understand what operating a
  Grid means
• Testbed 1.2 released, new release policy and
  support structure discussed at the recent retreat
• Project re-focussed on quality, stability and
  production
• Requested by all application WPs and by LCG
• Role of LCG being clarified
• Plan for second test bed release in the future
  (when?)
• Enhance synergy with US via DataTAG-iVDGL and
  GLUE
• Being done via DataTAG

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Future Plans (Technical), from EDG4

• Promote early standards adoption with
  participation to GGF and other international
  bodies
• Remarkable presence of EDG at the last GGF5
• Evolve architecture and software on the basis of
  TestBed usage and feedback from users (consider
  converging to a common document with
  PPDG/GriPhyN, understand possible impact of
  OGSA)
• New ATF re-launched

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EDG4 Project conference feedback Testbed

• Applications want testbed stability (WP6
  responsibility)
• EDG 1.1.2 to be consolidated by mid-March
• Separation of dev. testbed from production
  testbed
• Support structure to be deployed ASAP
• Test bed support structure remains an issue,
  addressed at the retreat
• Platforms
• EDG 1.2 use same Globus release as EDG 1.1 (i.e.
  GT2b21)
• Support for RedHat 7.2 from EDG 1.4 onwards
• ITeam to convene at CERN for 3 days each release
• Sites
• CERN 200 CPUs available in 2002
• LCFG lite (WP4) for installation (limited
  support)

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EDG4 Project conference feedback MD/ware

• Remove redundancy
• Logging Book-keeping (WP1) testing use of R-GMA
  (WP3)
• R-GMA will use Spitfire security (WP2) with
  common RDBMS and Java development package
• Improve integration
• NetSaint(INFN) WP7 integration
• WP7, WP4, WP5 info providers with Info System
  (WP3)
• Testing
• Integration testing plan (WP6)
• WP specific test-plans (unit tests)

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Project conference feedback Architecture

• Architecture group
• Re-launched to produce a new architecture
  document
• Security
• Being addressed by the security group, still
  under-resourced
• Globus/OGSA
• Being followed by ATF, not very relevant for the
  time being
• License
• Finalized

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Current Status

• Project at midlife point
• Good visibility in GGF
• Major member of GridSTART
• Good collaboration with CrossGrid, DataTAG, LCG,
  US Grid projects (GriPhyN, iVDGL, PPDG etc)
  Condor and Globus
• Need refocus on production quality and
  demonstrate real applications
• A project policy statement has been agreed by all
  WPs and issued by the project management (on the
  WEB)
• A special effort with a consequent task force
  launched with one of the particle physics
  applications (Atlas). Deadline on September 16th
• A special retreat held August 27-28 near CERN
  (with PPARC funds)

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EDG Production Quality Retreat

• Goals
• software process, T/B 1.2 deployment, Atlas
  exercise, future releases and tutorials
• Results
• Software process issues identified by a common
  document with LCG (see Quality Process Document
  and Z. Sekeras slides on the WEB)
• First positive results from Atlas test of T/B 1.2
  discussed
• New architecture document discussed
• Actions
• reinforce test-team , establish a certification
  test bed and develop auto-install and
  configuration tools

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EDG Production Quality Retreat

• This project strengthening needs new resources
  and refocusing of existing ones
• Additional new resources being negotiated with
  LCG release manager, a certification and test
  team, end users support to be defined
• Process to introduce new people to be worked out
• Tutorial and road shows need to be further
  developed to disseminate the knowledge and
  facilitate introduction of new people and
  collaboration with other projects

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Plans for the future

• Make plans to preserve current major asset of
  the project probably the largest Grid
  development team in the world
• EoI for FP6 ( www.cern.ch/egee-ei ), possible
  extension of the project, etc.
• Demonstrate a stable and reliable T/B with
  appropriate support infrastructure
• Develop a revised architecture to guide final
  release in 2003
• Progress with tutorials in view of a road show
• Prepare for the next review (March 14, 2002)

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Announcements

• New WP 8 Manager (Frank Harris, deputies Paolo
  Capiluppi, Pier Giorgio Cerello, Laura Perini,
  Eric Van Herwijnen)
• Thanks to Federico Carminati for the excellent
  work in driving the application part of the
  project up to now and through the first
  successful review
• New member of the ATF Lee Momtahan
• New administrator (Karin Burghauser) in WP12 to
  alleviate the overload
• Unfortunately Alexias unexpected temporary
  absence has put the project back in a stressful
  situation (to be discussed at the PMB)

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Announcements

• EDG hands-on at the CSC02, September 15-28, near
  Naples, few posts could still be made available
  for EDG and related projects members
• GGF6 in Chicago mid-October, IST 2002 in
  Copenhagen November 3-5, EU FP6 launching event
  11-13 November in Brussels, SC02 Baltimore end
  November, next project EU review March 14th, EDG6
  in Barcelona early May 03 and final project
  conference in Berlin end of October

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Announcements

• First cost claim received, please respond to
  Karin
• Please send your plenary presentations to
  PNORBERT_at_SZTAKI.HU