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INAF experience in Grid
projects
C. Vuerli, G. Taffoni, V. Manna,
A. Barisani, F. Pasian
INAF – Trieste
Overview
• The GRID.IT Project
• DRACO and the VO INAF
• Planck Simulations in EGEE
• New powerful Grid infrastructures
– TriGrid Virtual Laboratory
• Training and Dissemination
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GRID.IT Project
• The GRID.IT Project
– Application 1
• Accessing Databases through the GRID
• Processing Data extracted from Databases
• Ingesting results of Data Processing in Databases
– Application 2
• Porting in GRID the VST Pipelines
– Application 3
• Monitoring of Astronomical Instrumentation through the
GRID
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GRID.IT / Application 1
• Problem
– The middleware based on Globus 2.4 didn’t
offer any mechanism to access databases
• Solutions
– Evaluation of a number of possible solutions
• Spitfire
• OGSA-DAI
• G-DSE
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GRID.IT / Application 1
• Spitfire
– Not suitable for us (poor functionalities)
• OGSA-DAI
– WS-based: we don’t want to merely access data. We
want databases integrated in Grid and look at DBMS
machines as computational machines
• G-DSE
– Databases as embedded resources in GRID
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GRID.IT / Application 3
• Past experience in developing Telescope
and instrumentation control systems and
participation to EU pilot projects to
remotely monitor and control them
– We want to go ahead with this experience
and use GRID for this purpose
– First simple monitoring prototype: tests
carried out at Trieste and Naples
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GRID.IT / Future evolution
• G-DSE + QE
– G-DSE prototype engineering
– Design, implementation and test of the QE
– G-DSE + QE in production
• G-ICS + IE
– Design, implementation and test of the G-ICS
and of the IE
– G-ICS + IE in production
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In production…but where ?
• G-DSE + QE
– All INAF Databases in GRID with G-DSE
– Other scientific communities are testing it : INFN,
Bioinformatics, Archaeologists, …
– Supporting Planck simulations in future releases
– Projects in preparation to port it on EGEE and DEISA
• G-ICS + IE
– Close contacts with GridCC
– Strong interest for instruments and sensors in Grid
• ICTP and INAF Naples : monitoring and controlling networks
of sensors via Grid
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DRACO
• A Grid portal thought and designed for astrophysical
•
applications
Porting astrophysical applications in GRID
– Definition of astronomical data analysis workflow on a serviceoriented Grid architecture using BPEL (Manna et al.)
– Data Mining and Massive computing for GRID at Naples-Salerno
Unit
– Astronomical Data Reduction in Data Grid
– Various kinds of evolutionary models
– ACME for GRID
• The INAF VO is now growing
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Planck simulations in EGEE
• Planck simulations is an officially
supported pilot EGEE application since
November 2004
• Planck application also in EGEE-2
• A Planck VO, led by INAF Trieste, is in
place. It groups together Grid sites located
in six European countries
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Planck simulations in EGEE
• First experiments to port the Planck simulations
in Grid at INAF-Trieste
– Partial Planck simulation pipelines in June 2004 using
the GRID.IT Grid infrastructure
– Simulation of the whole Planck mission (two complete
sky surveys) in Grid and comparison of results with
those got on a single dual-CPU workstation
– New bricks of the Planck pipeline in Grid in the next
months
• WG8 meeting at MPA (Germany) in June 2006
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Planck simulations in EGEE
• Planck simulations didn’t make use of databases
until now, but…
– They could be profitably integrated and used in the
near future
– Ground based test and calibrations of the spacecraft
and of the instruments are now in progress
– Data collected in this phase must be saved
somewhere and used during the operative phase of
the mission
• …therefore this is a new test-bed for G-DSE
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TriGrid Virtual Laboratory
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TriGrid Virtual Laboratory
• Catania Pole:
– ~100 machines dual CPU 32/64 bit. Aggregated power of 300
kSpecInt2000.
– 30 TB of storage EIDE-to-SCSI or FC-to-SATA in RAID 0,1,5
– 20 working stations for development/porting of applications
• Messina Pole:
– ~80 machines dual CPU 32/64 bit. Aggregated power of ~240
kSpecInt2000.
– 20 TB of storage EIDE-to-SCSI or FC-to-SATA in RAID 0,1,5
• Palermo Pole:
– ~30 machines dual CPU 32/64 bit. Aggregated power of ~100
kSpecInt2000.
– 10 TB of storage EIDE-to-SCSI or FC-to-SATA in RAID 0,1,5
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Training and dissemination
• The knowledge of GRID must grow both
at national and European level
– It is necessary to train Grid managers able to
install, configure and maintain Grid sites
– It is necessary to train astronomers to
illustrate them this new technology and make
them aware of what they can profitably do
with the Grid for their everyday work
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Training and dissemination
• How to train ?
– Meetings and workshops both at national and
European level
• Theoretical lessons
• Practical training
– Astronomers bring applications of interest and try to gridify
them with our help
– On site dedicated workshops
– Grid schools
– Coordination with Working Groups having the same
objectives (the Planck Working Group 8)
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The End
Thank you for your attention
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