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UK and Ireland Partner

Dave KantDeputy ROC Manager

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Overview of UK + Ireland

• We are a ROC + CIC

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Who is Involved

• Grid Infrastructures• GRIDPP serves Particle Physics Community in UK

• http://www.gridpp.ac.uk• NGS is the National e-Science Core Grid Program

• http://www.ngs.ac.uk• Grid-Ireland

• Mission Statement• UK/I Strong commitment to deploy a common middleware

throughout the infrastructure

• Certificate Authorities Established• UK – eScience CA established by the Grid Support Centre

based at RAL• Ireland - established by the Computer Architecture Group

based at TCD

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UK Particle Physics Sites

• Involves 18 Universities• ScotGrid

• Edinburgh Glasgow Dublin • NorthGrid

• Daresbury Lancaster Liverpool Manchester Sheffield

• SouthGrid• Bristol Birmingham Cambridge

Oxford RAL-PPD • London

• Brunel IC RHUL UCL QMUL• Virtual Organisations

• ATLAS ALICE CMS LHCb CDF D0 BaBar UKQCDGridPP

Distributed Grouping into 4 Virtual Tier-2 Centres

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GridPP ProtoType Tier1/a Computing Centre

• Provides Large Scale Computing Facilities for UK PP• 700 Intel CPU (450Mhz – 2.6GHz) • 80TB Disk• 200TB Tape (Capacity up to 1PB) • 2.5Gbps Connection to UK academic Netowork

SuperJANET4• Strong program for substantial increase in resources over

next 3 years.

+ 500 CPU, + 120 TB Disk (April 2004)

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National Grid Service

• Building a Service Grid from resources at national eScience centres

• Belfast, Cambridge, Cardiff, CLRC, London Esc, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Oxford, Southampton, Manchester

• Pilot Scheme involves 4 centres• Manchester, Oxford, RAL, White Rose

• Deployment Challenge• Heterogeneous computing grid SUN SGI Origin, Wildfire, E6800, AP3000 CRAY T3E, Alpha Clusters, IBM SP Linux Beowulf Clusters

NGS will support a wider community of users

NON-Particle Physics Applications

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GRID - IRELAND

• Team of IT Specialists to manage grid services (Brian Coghlan)

• Principle Sites• University College Dublin (UCD)• Trinity College Dublin (TCD)• Dublin Institute for Advanced

Studies (DIAS)• University College Cork (UCC)• National University Ireland,

Galway (NUIG)• Queens University, Belfast

(QUB) • Virtual Organisations

• CosmoGrid WebCom-G • MarineGrid GenCon

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Bringing Resources into EGEE

• Experience & Expertise• EDG (UK PP) and EDG/CrossGrid (Grid-Ireland)

• Support• Troubleshooting provided through tb-support mailing list• GridPP WebPage http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/• Regular Phone meetings

• Timescales• Most GridPP sites to deploy LCG2 middleware over the next 3

months.• RAL, Imperial College, Cambridge already present

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What Services We Will Provide

• Prototype Grid Operations Centre• Monitor sites – provide regular reporting

Status: April 19 12.30pm

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People

Recruitment program underway ~ 25 FTE

Operations Manager, GOC, GSC, M/W specialists already in place.