The SEE-GRID-2 initiative is co-funded by the European Commission under the FP6 Research Infrastructures contract no. 031775

www.see-grid.eu

SEE-GRID-2

Advancing South-East Europe

into the eInfrastructure era

Peter KacsukMTA SZTAKI

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Grids: regional expansion 2004-2008

EGEE

EELA, RedCLARAEUMEDGRID, EXPRESS

EUChinaGrid

peer cooperationsSEE-GRIDBalticGrid

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Outline

SEE-GRID-1 project May 2004 - May 2006: results

SEE-GRID-2 project May 2006 - May 2008: Definition Objectives

Recommendations for regional initiatives

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SEEREN

SEEREN

> http://www.see-grid.org

The SEE-GRID-1 initiative

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SEE-GRID-1 project partners: the regional dimension

ContractorsGRNET GreeceCERN SwitzerlandSZTAKI Hungary IPP-BAS BulgariaICI RomaniaTUBITAK TurkeyINIMA AlbaniaBIHARNET Bosnia-HerzegovinaUKIM FYR of MacedoniaUOB Serbia-MontenegroRBICroatia

Third Parties18 universities / research centres

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SEE-GRID and EGEE

Infrastructure overlapping and complementing to EGEESEE-GRID open to new “fresher” sitesSEE-GRID open to new applications

EGEE SEE VO SEE-GRID Grid

EGEE-wide VOs

EGEE-SEE core servicesSEE-GRID VOs

SEE-GRID core services

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SEE-GRID-1 key results: infrastructure

Large, distributed infrastructure spanning all countries: Including EGEE-SEE sites, 30 sites, 450

CPUs 150 CPUs in 20 non-EGEE-SEE sites

LCG-2 MW on Scientific LinuxSupport the SEE-GRID Virtual OrganizationInterconnection of SEE sites by P-GRADE portalCatch-all SEE-GRID CA operationalOverlap with EGEE production Operations centre management solutions deployed: a number of monitoring tools, helpdesk, sites database, etc…

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SEE-GRID-1 key results: applications

2 regional grid applications developed: Search Engine for South-

East Europe (SE4SEE) for Grid-aided web-crawling & data indexing.

Volumetric Image Visualization Environment (VIVE) for medical images and other static or time-dependent scalar and vector 3D fields

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SEE-GRID-2 project partners: expansion

ContractorsGRNET GreeceCERN SwitzerlandSZTAKI Hungary IPP-BAS BulgariaICI RomaniaTUBITAK TurkeyASA/INIMA AlbaniaUoBL Bosnia-

HerzegovinaUKIM FYR of MacedoniaUOB SerbiaUoM MontenegroRENAM MoldovaRBICroatia

Third Parties27 universities / research centresHungary: Univ. of Miskolc

Int. Business School

Start date: 01/05/2006Duration: 24 monthsTotal Budget: 2,028,886 Є

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Current infrastructure

Number of Countries: 11Number of Sites: 31Number of CPUs: 540TBs of Storage: 11.64

Migrating from LCG to gLite

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Infrastructure management: monitoring

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Infrastructure management: Helpdesk, database, wiki

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Using the infrastructure

Going to website www.seegrid.euTalking to the SEEGRID representative in the country Miklos Kozlovszky (SZTAKI): m.kozlovszky@sztaki.hu

Obtaining a certificate from SEE-GRID catch-all CAJoining the SEE-GRID VOAsking local country Grid team to provide support

Currently 10+ new applications under development, ~20 in the course of the project