Resources WG Update

PRAGMA 9

Hyderabad

Status (in 1 slide)

Applications QMMD (AIST) Savannah (MU) iGAP (SDSC, AIST)

Middleware Gfarm (AIST) Community Scheduling

Framework (JLU) MOGAS (NTU) SCMSWeb (KU)

Software Integration Ninf-G / Rocks / NMI

(AIST, SDSC, ISI) NAREGI-CA / GAMA

(AIST, SDSC) SCMSWeb Ports (KU,

CICESE, CNIC) KRocks (KISTI, SDSC)

Testbed ~ 14 Clusters ~ 200 CPUs ~ 300 GFlops (peak)

Plan for this Meetings Today (1.5 hrs)

Presentations Current status - Zheng Others?

Review of Paper for CCGrid Review purpose of this WG

No longer just about Resources Most applications are coming from the Resources WG Testbed versus Laboratory

Tomorrow (1 hr) Issues with setting up applications

How we can speed this up? Who still needs help bringing online resources? Software Requirements?

Planning for SC’05 Milestones for next year Open Discussion (real point of this WG meeting)

Minimum Requirements

GT4 All sites need to upgrade SDSC, UH, AIST, NCHC to upgrade first (after SC’05 - but by end of year)

Test ninf-g (QMMD) Test Savannah

After test everyone to upgrade by next meeting

SCMSWeb

MPICH-G2 Reservations

PBS (yes) / SGE (no) SGE Dedicated Queue w/ ACL

Public IPs MPICH-GX (KISTI) 4-6 Clusters on PRAGMA have public Ips

AIST, ASCC, KISTI, NCHC, NCSA, SDSC, TiTech GT4 requires pre-ws GRAM (same as ninf-g) SGE + Public Ips

AIST, SDSC AIST will teach SDSC how to use SGE

Policy for SGE Reservations (Yoshio, Mason) Proposal from application drivers required

CICESE, ASCC Reservation of extra nods

Performance Testing (NCHC)

GOC

Accounting MOGAS Needs helps with reporters

GRAM based Non-GRAM based (NIMROD)

Eventually have a PRAGMA MOGAS server

SCMSWeb/Ganglia/APAN/Indiana Missing Aida, Hicks, Uthayopas

CA

APGrid PMA Grid Inter-Trust

NAREGI/GAMA CA Deploy at SDSC next year Sign certificates for anyone in PRAGMA Name (DN) must be PRAGMA not SDSC

Issues

Software Versions NIMROD, Gfarm move too fast Cannot upgrade SW every few weeks

Training for using middleware Applications Tutorials

Teach resources group how applications work Resources can recommend (and help) with middleware

Accounting XML schema for MOGAS (NGO) MOGAS backend to become part of GOC (NGO, SDSC)