Neil Geddes
CCLRC Head of e-Science
Director of the UK Grid Operations Support Centre
NGS “Today”
Interfaces
OGSI::Lite
Projects
e-Minerals
e-Materials
Orbital Dynamics of Galaxies
Bioinformatics (using BLAST)
GEODISE project
UKQCD Singlet meson project
Census data analysis
MIAKT project
e-HTPX project.
RealityGrid (chemistry)
Users
Leeds
Oxford
UCL
Cardiff
Southampton
Imperial
Liverpool
Sheffield
Cambridge
Edinburgh
QUB
BBSRC
CCLRC.
WSRF::Lite
Oxford and Leeds (White Rose Grid)
Manchester and CCLRC-RAL
Also includes:
http://www.csar.cfs.ac.uk/
256 Itanium2 processor SGI Altix
512 processor Origin3800
http://www.hpcx.ac.uk/
Full installation = 1600 IBM p690+ Regatta processors
currently 1236 processors
EMBL Nucleotide Sequences
NCBI, BLAST, EMBOSS, FASTA, Gaussian
•Thus, the NGS provides access to over 2000 processors, over 36TB of "data-grid"
capacity, common scientific applications and extensive data archives.
•Other resource providers anticipated to join in the future …
Production Status
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4 new core nodes operational
136 Users registered (36 since 1 September ’04)
Grid enabled – Globus v2 (VDT distribution v1.2) at present
BDII information service (GLUE + MDS Schemas)
Data Services – Oracle, SRB and OGSA-DAI
Growing base of user applications
MyProxy and CA services provided by GOSC
VO Management Software – LCG-VO
User support: Helpdesk
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Other Middleware [gLite/OMII etc…]
NGS Portal
Resource Broker
SRB production service
Training
• December 8-10
•Train the trainers
•NGS, e-Science Centres
• Quarterly “New Users” at NeSC
• EGEE + NGS mods
• Computing Services workshop ~ June
• GOSC/NGS sysadmin training
•First “face to face” meeting
• Need “New Sites” training
Other Developments
• NGS newsletter
• OMII helpdesk
• Resource Broker (LCG) available for early adopters
• TeraGrid
• UK certificates accepted on TeraGrid
• Looking at INCA with Jenny Schopf
•Part of accounting dev’t. with e-Markets
• Meeting with OSG iGOC
• HPCX, CSAR, CCPs
• Collect user exemplars
• Agreed acknowledgement
“Tomorrow”
GOSC Timeline
NGS WS Service
NGS Expansion
(Bristol, Cardiff…)
NGS Production
Service
NGS WS Service 2
OGSA-DAI
NGS Expansion
WS2 plan
WS plan
Q2
Q3
Q4
Q1
2004
Q2
Q3
2005
Q4
Q1
Q2
OMII release
gLite release 1
EGEE gLite alpha
release
Q3
2006
EGEE gLite release
OMII Release
Web Services
based
National Grid
Infrastructure
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Commercial
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PSRE
Man. Leeds
GOSC
RAL
Oxford
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NGS Core Nodes: Host core services, coordinate integration, deployment and support
+free to access resources for all VOs. Monitored interfaces + services
NGS Sites:
Integrated with NGS, some services/resources available for all VOs
Monitored interfaces + services
NGS Connected Sites: Integrated with NGS, support for some VO’s
Monitored interfaces (+security etc.)
UK e-Infrastructure
Users get common access, tools, information,
Nationally supported services, through NGS
Regional and
Campus grids
Integrated
internationally
VRE, VLE, IE
LHC
ISIS TS2
HPCx + HECtoR
Timeline
NGS WS Service
NGS Expansion
(Bristol, Cardiff…)
NGS Production
Service
NGS WS Service 2
OGSA-DAI
NGS Expansion
WS2 plan
WS plan
Q2
Q3
Q4
Q1
2004
Q2
Q3
2005
Q4
Q1
Q2
2006
OMII release
gLite release 1
EGEE gLite alpha
release
Q3
EGEE gLite release
OMII Release