General Status of the ProjectFabrizio Gagliardi

Project Leader

Budapest EDG5 – 02/09/2002 – F.Gagliardi – Project Status Review – n° 2

Outline

Review of main issues and feedback from the EU review and EDG4

Current status

Future plans

Announcements

Budapest EDG5 – 02/09/2002 – F.Gagliardi – Project Status Review – n° 3

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)

Budapest EDG5 – 02/09/2002 – F.Gagliardi – Project Status Review – n° 4

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

Budapest EDG5 – 02/09/2002 – F.Gagliardi – Project Status Review – n° 5

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

Budapest EDG5 – 02/09/2002 – F.Gagliardi – Project Status Review – n° 6

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)

Budapest EDG5 – 02/09/2002 – F.Gagliardi – Project Status Review – n° 7

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)

Budapest EDG5 – 02/09/2002 – F.Gagliardi – Project Status Review – n° 8

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

Budapest EDG5 – 02/09/2002 – F.Gagliardi – Project Status Review – n° 9

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)

Budapest EDG5 – 02/09/2002 – F.Gagliardi – Project Status Review – n° 10

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. Sekera’s 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

Budapest EDG5 – 02/09/2002 – F.Gagliardi – Project Status Review – n° 11

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)

Budapest EDG5 – 02/09/2002 – F.Gagliardi – Project Status Review – n° 13

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 Alexia’s unexpected temporary absence has put the project back in a stressful situation (to be discussed at the PMB)

Budapest EDG5 – 02/09/2002 – F.Gagliardi – Project Status Review – n° 14

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

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