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OGF-Europe Tutorial: How new communities can get access to a Grid infrastructure
(90 mins)
Oxana Smirnova, David Fergusson, Morris Riedel
The purpose of the tutorial is to explain to a network administrator or manager the organizational and financial efforts needed to take advange of a Grid infrastructure. Three approaches are introduced by representatives of three major European Grid providers: EGEE, Nordugrid, DEISA. Adherence to standards is shown to be a way to simplify training and usage of a platform.
Key goals: Give the tools to compare different Grid Computing offers.
Target Audience: Decision making managers
Abstract:
A community of users may see the services offered by a Grid infrastructure as a favorable entry point in activities that require advanced processing resources: computational power and storage can be acquired without investing in logistics and training.
Several European projects have pionereed the field of providing grid services to communities that, mostly for scientific purposes, needed the availability of large scale processing resources without the possibility of engaging in its deployment.
The tutorial is composed by three contributions by major European providers.
NorduGrid is a Grid Research and Development collaboration aiming at development, maintenance and support of the free Grid middleware, known as the Advanced Resource Connector (ARC). Nordic DataGrid Facility (NDGF) is the largest production infrastructure that relies on ARC and leverages existing national computational resources and grid infrastructures.
EGEE (Enabling Grids for E-sciencE) is the largest multi-disciplinary grid infrastructure in the world, which brings together more than 140 institutions to produce a reliable and scalable computing resource available to the European and global research community. At present, it consists of approximately 300 sites in 50 countries and gives its 10,000 users access to 80,000 CPU cores around-the-clock.
The DEISA supercomputing Grid is a European research infrastructure resulting from the integration of national High Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructures. This integration of national resource using modern grid technologies is expected to contribute to a significant enhancement of HPC capability and capacity in Europe.
The attendees will learn how these infrastructures meet the needs of a community willing to use the computational services they provide, and the role of OGF standards in simplifying training and usage of a platform, allowing portability of grid applications. The decision maker will have a clear idea of the advantages coming from the utilization of a Grid infrastructure that complies with OGF standards.
Agenda:
-) NorduGrid (25')
- how do we meet the needs of a new community of users
- how to get access to NorduGrid
-) EGEE (25')
- how do we meet the needs of a new community of users
- how to get access to EGEE
-) DEISA (25')
- how do we meet the needs of a new community of users
- how to get access to DEISA
Location: Galilei
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| | Slides: DEISA case - Morris Riedel |
| | Slides: EGEE case - David Fergusson |
| | Slides: NorduGrid case - Oxana Smirnova |