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The Wider Context of the NGS
Mike MineterTraining Outreach and EducationEdinburgh e-Science
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Contents
• More of the projects and organisations that influence the NGS– EGEE
– OMII-UK
– OMII-Europe
– NextGRID
– ICEAGE
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Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
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EGEE – international e-infrastructure
• Build, deploy and operate a consistent, robust a large scale production grid service that
– Links with and build on national, regional and international initiatives
• Improve and maintain the middleware in order to deliver a reliable service to users
• Attract new users from research and industry and ensure training and support for them
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Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
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EGEE-II: Expertise & Resources
• More than 90 partners • 32 countries• 12 federations Major and national
Grid projects in Europe, USA, Asia
+ 27 countries through related projects:– BalticGrid– SEE-GRID– EUMedGrid– EUChinaGrid– EELA
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Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
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EGEE is running…
• … the largest multi-VO production grid in the world!
• What’s happening now?http://gridportal.hep.ph.ic.ac.uk/rtm/
• What resources are connected?http://goc.grid-support.ac.uk/gridsite/monitoring/
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NGS – Some Possible Futures
NGS
EGEE
Campus grids
GridPP
Interoperability
GridPP / NGSConvergence ?
UK & IrelandLCG VO’s
Note: EU-wide progress towards European and National Grid Infrastrustures…
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Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
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NGS- adopting VOMS, as used in EGEE grid
Virtual Organization Membership Service
Before VOMS
• User is authorised as a member of a single VO
• All VO members have same rights
• Gridmapfiles are updated by VO management software: map the user’s DN to a local account
• grid-proxy-init
VOMS
• User can be in multiple VOs– Potentially: aggregate rights
• VO can have groups– Different rights for each– Nested groups
• VO has roles– Assigned to specific purposes
E,g. system admin When assume this role
• Proxy certificate carries the additional attributes
• voms-proxy-init• VOMS establishes and
communicates VO credentials… how these are used is service-specific
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Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
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GILDA demonstrator and testbed(https://gilda.ct.infn.it)
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Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
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Related projects: infrastructure, education, application
Name Description
BalticGrid EGEE extension to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
EELA EGEE extension to Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Mexico, Argentina
EUChinaGRID EGEE extension to China
EUMedGRID EGEE extension to Malta, Algeria, Morocco, Egypt, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey
OMII-Europe interoperable, tested, certified middleware
ISSeG Site security
eIRGSP Policies
ETICS Repository, Testing
BELIEF Digital Library of Grid documentation, organisation of workshops, conferences
BIOINFOGRID Biomedical
Health-e-Child Biomedical – Integration of heterogeneous biomedical information for improved healthcare
ICEAGE International Collaboration to Extend and Advance Grid Education
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OMII-UK: Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute
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Mind the gap….
Research Pilot projects
Early adopters
Routine production
Researchers are not funded to provide production quality software for others to use
OMII-UK exists to help bridge this gap!
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Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute
Formed University of Southampton (2004) Focus on an easy to install e-Infrastructure solution Utilise existing software & standards
Expanded with new partners in 2006 OGSA-DAI team at Edinburgh myGrid team at Manchester
To be a leading provider of reliable interoperable and open-source
Grid middleware components services and tools to support
advanced Grid enabled solutions in academia and industry.
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Activity By providing a software repository of Grid
components and tools from e-science projects By re-engineering software, hardening it and
providing support for components sourced from the community
By a managed programme to contract the development of “missing” software components necessary in grid middleware
By providing an integrated grid middleware release of the sourced software components
What is OMII-Europe?http://wiki.nesc.ac.uk/read/omii-eu-na3?BeijingMarch2007
Mike MineterTraining Outreach Education – National e-Science Centre,
Edinburgh, [email protected]
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EU project: RIO31844-OMII-EUROPE
What is OMII-Europe?
• Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute for Europe• European Union funded FP6 project (RI)
– FP: Framework Programme - all research-related EU investment – OMII-Europe is funded from the 6th FP – a ”Research Infrastructure - Integrated Infrastructure Initiative” – Starting May 2006, initial 2 year duration– 16 partners (8 European, 4 USA, 4 Chinese)
• Complimentary to existing national programmes (OMII-UK, NMI, C-OMEGA, OMII-China…)
• Goal is to provide key software components for building e-infrastructures
• Project will demonstrate “proof of concept” with expectation for a follow-on project in FP7
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EU project: RIO31844-OMII-EUROPE
What will OMII-Europe do?
• Initial focus on providing common interfaces and integration of major Grid software infrastructures
• Common interoperable services:– Data Access, Virtual Organisation Management,
Portal, Accounting, Job Submission and Job Monitoring
– Capability to add additional services• Infrastructure integration
– Initial EGEE/UNICORE/Globus/CROWN interoperability
– Interoperable security framework
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EU project: RIO31844-OMII-EUROPE
OMII-Europe JRA1 re-engineering activities
OGSA DAI BES VOMS RUSGrid
Sphere
Etc. Identified
Components
EGEE
(GLite)
UNICORE
Globus
Etc. OMII-UK, USA, China
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NextGRID:Next Generation Grids
Stephen Davey, NeSC, UK
NextGRID Project 11M€ EU FP6 project; 3 years starting September 2004. 22 partners, some industrial, some academic. Developing Architecture for Next Generation Grids. Research and exploration project: A 5-10 year lookout.
www.nextgrid.org
NextGRID Project Vision
Grid offering services
Business focus Grids Applicable to Industry Inter Enterprise Grids
Service Level Agreements & Quality of Service (not
just best effort). Basis in Standards (for interoperability & stability).
Challenges & Experiments Key focus areas:
Service Level Agreements Workflows (across domains) Security Data
Challenges are manifested in NextGRID reference applications: Financial modelling (Implied Volatility, Derivatives Pricing)
Digital media production (On-demand video rendering)
Key components being developed and evaluated.
NextGRID Architecture White Paper Presents the NextGRID Vision and Technical
Challenges, plus future work of the project Architectural Principles
Dynamics, Composition, Infrastructure NextGRID Generalized Specifications and Profiles
http://www.nextgrid.org/download/publications/NextGRID_Architecture_White_Paper.pdf
Contributors & Acknowledgments. Particular thanks to: Malcolm Atkinson (NeSC), David Snelling (Fujitsu), Bryce
Mitchell (BT) NextGRID Architecture WP1 & many others
www.nextgrid.org
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INFSO-SSA-26637
• Training– Targeted– Immediate goals– Specific skills– Building a workforce
• Education– Pervasive– Long term and sustained– Generic conceptual models– Developing a culture
• Both are needed
Society
Graduates
EducationInnovation
Invests
PreparesCreate
Enriches
Organisation
Skilled Workers
TrainingServices & Applications
Invests
PreparesDevelop
Strengthens
Malcolm Atkinson
International Collaboration to Extend and Advance Grid Education – ICEAGE
International Collaboration to Extend and Advance Grid Education – ICEAGE
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INFSO-SSA-26637
ICEAGE
• Mission
Stimulate and support advances in grid education throughout Europe
• Goals– Achieve rapid growth in effective advanced grid
education– Make best use of worldwide capacity for advanced grid
education– Deliver a stimulating programme of educational events
Including international summer schools
– Broaden engagement in an advanced grid education both geographically and across disciplines
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Iceage – Activities• Forum
– International panel of experts to develop curricula, policies & strategies, ontologies
• Support, Outreach, Induction & Training services
– Attracting & Training the Trainers
– Persuading Universities to adopt Grid Computing Curricula
– E-Learning, repository & course scheduling & announcement
• Summer Schools– General
– Specialised – S/W engineering Bio-informatics …
• T-Infrastructure
– A training grid - very different from a production grid• response time vs throughput
• lightweight CA
• middleware agility
• safe and effective play-ground
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Contents
• More of the projects and organisations that influence the NGS– EGEE
– OMII-UK
– OMII-Europe
– NextGRID
– ICEAGE
• NGS Future Developments
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NGS middleware: future
• Middleware recently deployed– Portal v2
– GridSAM – alternative job submission and monitoring
• Developed by partners:– Application Hosting Environment: AHE
– P-GRADE portal and GEMLCA
• Being deployed – VOMS support – coupled to developments of support procedures for projects
– WS-GRAM: GT4 job submission
– Resource Broker
• Under development– Shibboleth integration
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The End
That’s All Folks…
almost!!
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Feedback
Thanks to EGEE’s GGUS for this picture!!
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