Enabling Grids for Escienc E NA 2 report
Enabling Grids for E-scienc. E NA 2 report for LIP-Lisbon Gabriel Amoros on behalf of LIP-Lisbon J. Aparício, G. Barreira, Gonçalo Borges, M. David, J. Gomes, J. P. Martins LIP Lisboa NA 2 Meeting, November 2007 www. eu-egee. org EGEE-II INFSO-RI-031688
About LIP Enabling Grids for E-scienc. E • LIP is a Portuguese scientific research Lab – Devoted to High Energy Physics – Funded by the Portuguese public funding agencies – Private non-profit association – Created in 1986 when Portugal joined CERN – LIP has three centres: Lisbon, Coimbra and Faro • LIP participation in physics experiments: – Atlas, CMS, Compass, Auger, AMS, SNO, Zeplin, Hades, n-TOF, … • Other activities include: – – – Building DAQ systems and detectors Detectors R&D Medical physics, Geant 4 Grid computing Electronics, precision mechanics EGEE-II INFSO-RI-031688 LHC - CERN
LIP staff and projects Enabling Grids for E-scienc. E • LIP has previously participated – EDG and CROSSGRID and is presently working in – EGEE, EELA and INTEUGRID EU projects • EGEE Grid LIP team (6 people) – Mainly devoted to SA 1 activities LIP takes part of the SWE ROC • Operation of core services • • Coordinating GRID operation problems Certifying Portuguese sites Negotiating service level agreements (SLA’s) Operates LIPCA: Portuguese Certification Authority – NA 3 and NA 2 activities are shared among the staff Normally performed in the SA 1 framework EGEE-II INFSO-RI-031688
Talks & Seminars Enabling Grids for E-scienc. E • ~ 15 Seminars/Talks since Apr 2006 – Ranging from International Conferences to Universities and High School seminars • Most relevant seminars where EGEE and g. Lite middleware was “advertised” – Int. EU. Grid KOM, 06/2006, > 80 part. – CISTI Conference, 06/2006, 80 part. Scientific paper in conference proceeding – Lauching of the Portuguese Grid Initiative, 06/2006, > 100 part. – Cracow Grid Workshop, 11/2006, > 150 part. Scientific paper in Conference proceedings – IBERGRID Conference, 05/2007, > 200 part. 2 scientific papers in Conference proceedings – HP Meeting on “Grid and HPC”, 09/2007, ~30 part. – EGEE’ 06 and EGEE’ 07 Conferences EGEE-II INFSO-RI-031688
Media Relations and User Induction Enabling Grids for E-scienc. E • Press cuttings with references to EGEE – Newspaper “Público” with ~50000 nb/day (05/2006) Regarding the Avian Flu Data Chalenge in EGEE Regarding Portuguese Investiment in Grid Computing – On-line newspaper “TV Ciência On-line” (09/2006) Article regarding Grid Computing and EGEE in General – Minho University newspaper (11/2006) Generic article regarding Grid Computing • g. Lite and Int. EU. Grid Tutorial for end-users (11/2007) – 30 participants – First part of the tutorial consisted mainly in EGEE dissemination this will be repeated in comming introductory tutorials EGEE-II INFSO-RI-031688
Events (Co-) Organized Enabling Grids for E-scienc. E • Events Organized, Co-organized or sponsored by LIP since April 2006 where EGEE dissemination was present – INGRID’ 06 (Nov 2006) Workshop to prepare the Portuguese Grid Iniciative A strong focus on EGEE was prepared with the participation of Portuguese EGEE members and key persons of the EGEE project – IBERGRID (May 2006) First Iberic Conference on Grid Computing Again a strong focus on EGEE was given in the conference agenda were LIP had a strong participation as Portuguese member of the conference organization – Open Workshop on e-Infrastructures” (Oct 2006) e-IRG meeting in Lisbon The EGEE project and South. West federation were presented in the context of the Portuguese grid activities EGEE-II INFSO-RI-031688
Enabling Grids for E-scienc. E Building the INGRID+ infrastructure • The Portuguese NGI was officially launched in 29 April 2006 by the Ministry of Science http: //www, gridcomputing. pt – Deployment of a grid infrastructure (INGRID+) in coordination with IBERGRID and other international initiative • LIP will be a leading partner in The Portuguese national INGRID+ • grid initiative resulted INGRID+ from the LIP dissemination efforts near the Main Site INGRID+ will start with the g. Liteand government (Ministry academic community Worldwide LCG infrastructure already in place in Grid (WLCG) : of Science) Computing. Ingrid Portugal – EGEE, int. eu. grid, EELA • + LIP-Lisboa, LIP-Coimbra Prof Gaspar Barreira an LIPEGEE-II EGEE team National Base: Ingrid+, LIP-Lisboa, LIPCore serviceshas deployed at extremely active member been in this area Coimbra, Univ. do Porto, Univ. – FCCN (INGRID+ Main site) – LIP computer centre – Services and infrastructure managed by LIP EGEE-II INFSO-RI-031688 do Minho, Univ. Lusíada, IEETA INGRID projects
INGRID+ Enabling Grids for E-scienc. E • Welcome new users – Provide adequate training – Establish new virtual organizations – Integrate new resources • Deploy and support new middleware services targeted at the user needs – Enhance the infrastructure – Follow the technology • Coordination with other European infrastructures extremely important – IBERGRID – Major grid infrastructures such as EGEE-II INFSO-RI-031688
Conclusions Enabling Grids for E-scienc. E • The income of LIP activities in Portugal has originated – increase in the number of sites from 1 to 6 in 2 years Lip-Lisbon, Lip-Coimbra UPorto (3 Clusters) DI-UMINHO Cluster. UL IEETA (PPS) Currently working with other organizations to deploy new sites (IST and several other contacts) – Huge effort on giving user support to deploy those sites Which is the next step after dessimination • LIP will drive (technically!) the Portuguese NGI and will play an important role in related projects as IBERGRID – Use/Expand g. Lite middleware and proposed EGEE solutions EGEE-II INFSO-RI-031688
Future Work Enabling Grids for E-scienc. E • Organization of events – Tutorials for site admins and end-users; Portuguese GRID open day • Continue the set of seminars with the academic community and industry • Apply to international Grid Conferences – Produce scientific papers related to Grid Operations and Support • Increase the governmental contacts – Due to LIP involvement in the Portuguese NGI • Maintenance of the public web page • Production/Translation of Portuguese specific dissemination material – Press Releases; Brochures and posters EGEE-II INFSO-RI-031688
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