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The National Computational Grid for Ireland

OpsCentre

Infrastructure

Staff

TestGrid

Porting

Current Issues

Future Plans

Grid-Ireland OpsCentre


OpsCentre

Infrastructure

Staff

TestGrid

Porting

Current Issues

Future Plans


OpsCentre OpsCentre


OpsCentre

Infrastructure

Staff

TestGrid

Porting

Current Issues

Future Plans


•John Walsh: Grid Manager, Site Security,

Deployment ...

•Stephen Childs: Deployment, Gateway in a box

•David O’Callaghan (0.5): AuthN, AuthZ, CA

•Geoff Quigley (0.5): Portals, Trans.deployment

•Keith Rochford: OpsCentre Monitoring

•Stuart Kenny (0.5): CrossGrid deployment

StaffStaff


OpsCentre

Infrastructure

Staff

TestGrid

Porting

Current Issues

Future Plans


• Grid-Ireland is umbrella for VOs – many VOs, one grid layer

• NREN (HEAnet, like JANet) provides network

Infrastructure

Grid-Ireland

Infrastructure

OpsCentre

NUIG

UCD

TCD

DIASUCC

QUB


OpsCentre

Infrastructure

Staff

TestGrid

Porting

Current Issues

Future Plans


Gridnm (NM)

Gridui (UI)

Gridmon (WN)

Gridstore (SE)

Gridgate (CE)

Gridinstall (LCFG)Level-3 switch UPS

CHOICES:

• via intranet

• direct connection

• VLAN

• VPN

CHOICES:

• boot from gateway

• install RPMs

• install tarball

Generic Grid-Ireland

Site

Infrastructure


OpsCentre

Infrastructure

Staff

TestGrid

Porting

Current Issues

Future Plans


TCDGrid-Ireland

Gateway (x3)

Grid-IrelandNational

Servers (x16)

SharedCluster

(16 CPUs)

SharedCluster

(16 CPUs)

SoloVOCluster

(16 CPUs)

Internet

TCD Router

Dept. Router

Firewall

Switch

RAID 1

RAID 2

RAID 3

TestGrid(x36)

CrossGridTestbed

(32 CPUs)

Firewall

csTCDie Site

Infrastructure


OpsCentre

Infrastructure

Staff

TestGrid

Porting

Current Issues

Future Plans


•Implements a fully working replica of the national servers + sites

•Permits experimentation without affecting the national services

•Testing and Validation platform

•Non-reference Porting platform

TestGrid

TestGrid


OpsCentre

Infrastructure

Staff

TestGrid

Porting

Current Issues

Future Plans


Firewall

TCDGateway

(x4)

Grid-IrelandNational

Servers (x8)

DIASGateway

(x4)

NUIGGateway

(x4)

QUBGateway

(x6)

AIX

IRIX

MacOS X

Athlon

Gateway-in-a-box (x1)

Gateway-in-a-box (x1)

WN Pool (x4)

TestGrid

TestGrid


OpsCentre

Infrastructure

Staff

TestGrid

Porting

Current Issues

Future Plans


•Autobuild from CVS

•Worker Node Ports:

•FC2, FC2 x86_64 (athlon)

•AIX

• IRIX

•MacOS X

Porting

Porting


OpsCentre

Infrastructure

Staff

TestGrid

Porting

Current Issues

Future Plans


•Worker Node Port is:

•Globus, Replica Management, VOMS

client

•Non-trivial exercise

•In collaboration with CERN

•Work in progress

•Eamonn Kenny (1 FTE)

Porting

Porting


OpsCentre

Infrastructure

Staff

TestGrid

Porting

Current Issues

Future Plans


•Security

• concerned about intrusions on LCG

•Student MSc projects

• Grid wide intrusion detection

• OpsCentre monitoring incl.security alerts

•LCG-2 status• Grid-Ireland EGEE/LCG

Current Issues

Current

Issues


OpsCentre

Infrastructure

Staff

TestGrid

Porting

Current Issues

Future Plans


•Encourage other Grid-Ireland sites to join EGEE/LCG infrastructure

•Structures are in place on all gateways

•Queuing for shared EGEE/LCG access

•Porting, Transactional Deployment

•Deploy Grid-in-a-box to 11 new sites

•Quattor for install/maintainance

Future

Plans

Future Plans

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