EUFORIA FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2007-1, Grant 211804

JRA3, SA1, SA2 & SA3 parallel session

23 January 2008

Kick-Off Meeting

21-24 January 2008

Goteborg (Sweden)

EUFORIA FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2007-1, Grant 211804

Summary Architecture: several issues

1st issue: Portal

Integrate Kepler and all the ITM applications in Migrating Desktop

Migrating Desktop is running on the user’s desktop => Kepler and the others are running on the user infrastructure => must be launched as a batch on the gateway

Non java applications (Matlab, IDL, …) must be launched through VNC (performance??)

MD could run interactive jobs (2 ssh channels) but not available for the Kepler part running on the “gateway”

=> loose the benefits from MD

If not used, a web portal must be developed

Actions:

Must be investigated more deeply (1 month)

Distribute the “ITM Web portal requirements” document

EUFORIA FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2007-1, Grant 211804

Summary Architecture: several issues

2nd issue: Data communication

Access to external data from the codes running on the GRID/HPC

ITM data server: consistent plasma + fusion device state (stored in the gateway memory during the simulation)

Investigate biomedical + EuroVO_AIDA project + …

Could use fast FTP as a backup

3rd issue: Jobs launching:

Interactive jobs: jobs are running for a long duration

loop on many time steps: communication with Kepler at each time step

only the batch mode is available => simulations will be less efficient

Actions:

Less urgent but must be investigated as early as possible