Title: EGEE is proposed as a project funded by the
1EGEE Service Activity 1 (SA1)
EGEE is proposed as a project funded by
the European Union under contract IST-2003-508833
2SA1 Objectives
- Core Infrastructure services
- Operate essential grid services
- Grid monitoring and control
- Proactively monitor the operational state and
performance, - Initiate corrective action
- Middleware deployment and resource induction
- Validate and deploy middleware releases
- Set up operational procedures for new resources
- Resource provider and user support
- Coordinate the resolution of problems from both
Resource Centres and users - Filter and aggregate problems, providing or
obtaining solutions - Grid management
- Coordinate Regional Operations Centres (ROC) and
Core Infrastructure Centres (CIC) - Manage the relationships with resource providers
via service-level agreements. - International collaboration
- Drive collaboration with peer organisations in
the U.S. and in Asia-Pacific - Ensure interoperability of grid infrastructures
and services for cross-domain VOs - Participate in liaison and standards bodies in
wider grid community
3SA1 Partners
- CERN (OMC, CIC)
- UKIreland (CIC,ROC)
- France (CIC, ROC)
- Italy (CIC, ROC)
- GermanySwitzerland (ROC)
- Northern Europe (ROC)
- South West Europe (ROC)
- South East Europe (ROC)
- Central Europe (ROC)
- Russia (CIC M12, ROC)
- 48 Partners involved in SA1
- ROCs in several regions are distributed across
many sites
- ROCs must take responsibility
- Chapter in execution plan
- Organisation within region
- Reporting to overall SA1
OAG Operations Advisory Group OMC Operations
Management Centre CIC Core Infrastructure
Centres ROC Regional Operations Centres
4Steps to project start-up
- Hiring
- Refine roles and interactions between CIC, ROC,
NOC and other operational organisations - Clarify interactions with JRA1
- Clarify security issues
- Clarify relationship to international grid
projects for VOs that are larger than EGEE (LCG,
other HEP,) - Understand national infrastructure integration
issues - What requirements will this place on operations,
mw, processes, security, etc. - Set up basic policy frameworks
- How VOs access resources, limitations, rules, etc
sufficient that infrastructure can be exploited
from project start - Identify sites willing to run development service
(based on EDG tb sites?) - Set up OMC team
- Organise membership of QA, Security,
Requirements, etc. groups - Define transition process from LCG operations to
EGEE operations
5 OAG Objectives
- Advise the operations management on opertional
policy issues - Negotiate the agreements among the Resource
Centres (security policies, access policies,
acceptance of CAs etc.)
OMC Objectives
- Manage the operations of the entire EGEE grid
from a single centralised location (CERN) -
CIC Objectives
- Provide the basic service infrastructure of the
Grid - Operate the key services which connect users with
resources - Support the Regional Operation Centers
6ROC Objectives and Activities
- Customize and certificate the middleware releases
- Provide the middleware release and up-to-date
documentation to a set of Resource Centers (RC) - Maintain the Grid Resource Centers aligned with
the release - Validate the set of grid services and components
to form a functioning Grid to serve user
communities - Validate installation/upgrade procedures and
documentation - Develop/Run test suites for components and Grid
services to certify a site installation - Develop Expertise in the usage and
troubleshooting of problems experienced by
resource centers and users
7ROC Objectives and Activities (cont.)
- Provide support to resource centers and users,
interact with Application/VO specific support - Refer and escalate middleware problems to
developers - Collaborate with CIC to have monitoring systems
and performance evaluator running - Define the tools to measure the service level
provided by resource centers - Management of access policies and sharing of the
resources - Provide 24x7 support service
8Certification - Release documentation and
distribution
- Certification of the release
- the Certification Activity is a collaborative
activity between the ROCs Release team, - contact with the Middleware developers
- ROCs customize the release for their region
- add specific region VOs
- provide configuration and automatic installation
tools - A CVS packages repository will be used
- Cern central packages repository
- ROC specific repository if needed
- Certification testbed to verify installation
procedures and certificate the RCs joining the
grid
9ROC Management Team
- Has the responsibility to coordinate the upgrade
or new installation with the Resource Centers - Mantains a repository of Resource Centers
configurations - Collaborates with Resource Centers to
install/upgrade middleware release - Certificates the resources (in collaboration
with RC managers) and grid services - Development of certification suites
- Registration of the resources in the Grid
Information Service - Provides support for the deployment of the
release in collaboration with the Sites (Resource
Centers) and the Release Group
10 ROC Support
- User and Service Support
- VO Services
- Grid Services
- Resource Centers and local resources managers
- ROC Groups (Release Group and Management team)
- Development of specific procedures to recover or
proactively avoid congestion or faulty situation
in grid services or sites - Knowledge Base
- Escalation to middleware developers (need to
define who is allowed to submit bugs) - Need for coordination of support procedures and
ticket-database exchange procedures to provide
interoperability between ROCs support systems
and give users transparent problem resolution
11Grid groups within the support system
12 ROC Monitoring (in
collaboration with CIC)
- Monitoring of
- computing and storage resources at Resources
Centers - grid services (Resource Brokers, RLS, GIS etc)
- VO usage/availability of resources
- Jobs at VO level
- Monitoring tools already exist (GridICE) need
for improvements
13Personale
14Personale (cont.)
15Personale (cont.)
TOTALE
20 fund 8.5 unf Contributo
EU 8.5 FTE per INFN
(? 20 pers. fund 8.5
unfund) 2 FTE per ENEA Unics Unile Unina (?
forniranno 1 FTE ciascuno al ROC)
16Richieste di inventariabile
- Per il  Certification Testbed
- 5 nodi di calcolo (10Keuro)Â e 1 TB (3KEuro) per
ognuno dei Tier2 - CNAF.Â
- Uno o più siti (da definire) parteciperanno al
Certification Testbed di - EGEE, gli altri al Certification Testbed
italiano. - Macchine per servizi
- 8 macchine (10 KEuro) per i servizi grid in due
sedi (servizio principale al - CNAF e mirror a Padova/LNL) per un totale di 16
macchine
17Richieste di inventariabile (cont.)
- Complessivamente le richieste di inventariabile
ammontano a - CNAF 30 keuro
- MI 13
- PD/LNL 29
- ROMA1 13
- TO 13
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- TOTALE 98 keuro
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18Richieste per missioni
- Nessuna variazione rispetto alla
richiesta del settembre 2003 - Verifica ed eventuale aggiustamento a
settembre