The UK NGI Claire Devereux NGI Manager. Overview What is it? Who does it include? How does it work? Why do we need it? How is it evolving and what does.

The UK NGIClaire Devereux

NGI Manager

Overview

• What is it?• Who does it include?• How does it work?• Why do we need it?• How is it evolving and what does it hope to

achieve?

What?

National Grid Initiatives• manage the computing resources they

provide to the European Grid Infrastructure (EGI)

• single point of contact for governance, research communities and resource

centres• EGI main stakeholders

Who?

How?

Internal governance• NGI Management Board• NGI Operations at GridPP Ops meeting

External representation• Representation in EGI:

- NES(NGS)/GridPP/JISC

Why?

• Requirement for EGI• Project-neutral forum for discussion• Enables collaboration

• Vision: UK e-infrastructure landscape should provide easy access for researchers

• Flavours to suit different community needs but with common standards underlying & common tools for production and usage

UK e-Infrastructure

• Ongoing £200M per year investment• Additional capitol investment £145M

• Reinventing the wheel syndrome...

UK has produced tools and services for e-Science that should be reused.

NGI umbrella should give communities confidence in their longevity and sustainability

Service Hierarchy

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Compute3rd

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DataPortals/Science

GatewaysCloudWMS Community

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EXAMPLES

Service Hierarchy

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EXAMPLES

NGI

Service Hierarchy

Lang

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AHE

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tutio

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Compute3rd

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DataPortals/Science

GatewaysCloudWMS Community

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EXAMPLES

NGI

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• UK e-Science Certification Authority

• SARoNGS– Grid– HPC

• VOMS

Accounting & Policing

• APEL– Single accounting repository for LHC & EGI– Passes summaries to portal for data visualisation– Flexible, compute and cloud clients developed,

planning for data and services

• User Accounting System– Simple interface for managing users in projects,

VOs, institutions– Manage resource allocations– Passes data into APEL

Monitoring and Service Discovery

• Monitoring– A Nagios based monitoring system for grid

services– Designed for a multi-level monitoring system

Sites, ROCs, Projects

• Service Discovery – BDII/GOCDB– People– Services– resources

Helpdesk and Security

• UK NGI helpdesk – GGUS and Footprints• Can offer helpdesk with different levels of user

facing support

• International security co-ordination• Need to liaise with institutional security

officers and project security officers• Must be at a national level

Training Marketplace

Summary

• Variety of options within the core services• Flexible portfolio• Should incorporate new services as they

develop• Should be open to community and

commercial solutions• NGI should evolve and grow with new

communities and projects – NEI?

http://cf2013.egi.eu/

UK hosting EGI Community Forum Manchester, 8 to 12 April 2013

Questions?

[email protected]