Proposal for a Baltic Grid

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1 The Baltic Grid Initiative Proposal for a Baltic Grid Research Infrastructures Call FP Infrastructures-6 Communication Network Development - einfrastructure - Consolidating Initiatives

2 BalticGrid Partners: 10 Leading institutions in six countries in the Baltic Region Budget: 4.4M over 30 months Coordinator: KTH PDC, Stockholm Resources: SA 51% JRA 13% 17 resource centers Effort by Activity NA 36% FP I-6 proposal Baltic Grid Proposal May

3 BalticGrid Partners Estonian Educational and Research Network, EENet The Network operator for the Estonian research and educational institutions. Working infrastructure for IPv6, maintainer of Estonian CA (EUGridPMA) and BalticGrid CA Keemilise ja Bioloogilse Füüsika Instituut, NICPB Estonia's largest independent research institute in the areas of high-energy physics, chemical physics and biophysics with more than 100 researchers. Internationally recognized NMR effort. First Estonian internet connection. First Estonian grid enabled system. Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, IMCS UL Latvian leading research institute of mathematics and computer science. Hosts LATNET, the Latvian academic network operator, and is the GEANT partner in Latvia. Partner in BALTNET and host of the first BALTNET conference Riga Technical University, RTU Technical university strong in materials science, architecture, E-learning. Latvian representative e-irg. Vilnius University, VU Leading university in Lithuania with students. Strong areas are mathematics, physics and chemistry. Partner of LITNET FP I-6 proposal Baltic Grid Proposal May

4 BalticGrid Partners (cont) Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy, ITPA Independent research institute in observatory astronomy and fundamental physics. Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, PSNC Leading Polish HPCN centre. Responsible for the Polish academic and educational network PIONIER - early 10G backbone. Partner in several Grid projects like CROSSGRID, GridLab and European Grid Support Centre. Member of the Globus Alliance Instytut Fizyki Jadrowej, im. Henryka Niewodniczanskiego, Polskiej Akademii Nauk, IFJ PAN Research institute with 200 resaerchers in the areas of high-energy and subatomic physics and their application. Partner in Grid projects like CROSSGRID and EGEE. Close cooperation with the HPC centre CYFRONET Parallelldatorcentrum at Kungl Tekniska Högskolan, KTH PDC Leading Swedish technical university. Nine years of experience in Grid technologies. EGEE Northern Europe Regional operating centre. Leads the EGEE Security JRA. GGF security area director. Funding member of the Globus Alliance. Partner in SWEGRID. Founder of the European Grid Support Centre CERN FP I-6 proposal Baltic Grid Proposal May

5 Distribution of Effort (person months) Major part of the work to be performed by the Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian partners Lithuania 18% Poland 18% CERN 3% Sweden Admin 5% Sweden Tech 8% Estonia 29% Latvia 19% FP I-6 proposal Baltic Grid Proposal May

6 Major Roles of the Partners Estonian Educational and Research Network, EENet Lead SA1. Grid operations, establishment and maintenance of the BalticGrid CA (SA1). Operation and integration of national network infrastructures (SA2). Enable EGeen bioinformatics application (NA3) Keemilise ja Bioloogilse Füüsika Instituut, NICPB Establishment and operation of the BalticGrid and its core services (SA1). Enable high-energy physics applications (NA3). Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, IMCS UL Lead SA2. Establishment of SLA s with NREN s and operation and integration of national network infrastructures (SA2). Enable bioinformatics and materials science applications (NA3) Riga Technical University, RTU Grid infrastructure, operations and user support (SA1). Vilnius University, VU Lead NA3. Enable pilot applications and establish the application special interest groups. Develop the Baltic Sea environmental application area. (NA3). Grid operations, user support and grid monitoring (SA1) Institute of Theoretical Physic and Astronomy, ITPA Enable material science, bioinformatics and HEP applications (NA3). User support and grid operations (SA1) FP I-6 proposal Baltic Grid Proposal May

7 Major Roles of the Partners (cont) Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, PSNC Lead JRA2. Development uniform application access framework (JRA2). Development of user account management, accounting and secure procedures for SLA s (JRA1) Instytut Fizyki Jadrowej, im. Henryka Niewodniczanskiego, Polskiej Akademii Nauk, IFJ PAN Lead NA2. Establish the educational, training, dissemination and outreach infrastructure for BalticGrid (NA2). Grid application performance supervisor (JRA2) Parallelldatorcentrum at Kungl Tekniska Högskolan, KTH PDC Coordinator. Lead NA4 and JRA1. Ensure standards compliance by active participation in policy and standardization efforts (NA4). Development of Grid accounting and secure procedures for SLA s (JRA1). Development of Grid applications performance tools (JRA2). CERN Provide the state-of-the-art in e-infrastructure components and operations. Assistance in staging the implementation of the BalticGrid (SA1). Contribute to training of BalticGrid community. Knowledge transfer and coordination with other Grid efforts (NA2, NA3, NA4). FP I-6 proposal Baltic Grid Proposal May

8 Strength of the Proposal 4 New member states, 3 of which have not previously been involved in EU Grid projects Cover major universities and research institutes in the Baltic States from start Networking activities aimed to expose the BalticGrid to all potential users Research activities to fill the gaps in present Grid systems to reach production quality and achieve high usability Consortium includes partners with extensive experience in implementation and operation of Grids Consortium also includes partners with extensive experience in provisioning and operations of networks Extensive experience among the partners in education, training, dissemination and outreach Majority of the compute resources for research and education within the Baltic states will be part of BalticGrid BalticGrid is aligned with regional infrastructure development Partners established in the Grid community can facilitate federation with other Grids Focus on applications with strong participation in the consortium FP I-6 proposal Baltic Grid Proposal May

9 Q1: How do you propose to address risk management and conflict resolution? Risk management Each activity will make an initial risk analysis to be reassessed regularly Acted upon in accordance with the management responsibilities Conflict resolution Disputes of administrative and financial The process for resolving disputes will include proper escalation and eventually an arbitration process to be defined in the consortium agreement Disputes of technical nature within or between activities and tasks To be solved within the activity Ultimately escalation process Escalation process First level Activity Leader then PMB for cross activity issues. Further Executive Board for issues affecting overall project planning or execution of the contract FP I-6 proposal Baltic Grid Proposal May

10 Q2: Can you identify the people who will undertake the key technical and managerial roles? Project Director Per Öster (KTH) Operations Director Mario Kadastik (NICPB) Security Head Pending Technical Director Pending Network Manager Guntis Barzdins (IMCS UL) Activity Leaders NA2: Michal Turala (IFJ PAN) NA3: Algimantas Juozapavicius (VU) NA4: Olle Mulmo (KTH) SA1: Lauri Anton (EENet) SA2: Inara Opmane (IMCS UL) JRA1: Thomas Sandholm (KTH) JRA2: Norbert Meyer (PSNC) FP I-6 proposal Baltic Grid Proposal May

11 Q3: Can you identify those activities within JRA1 and JRA2 which are critical to the success of the project and explain why they are critical? Grid accounting and account management is required for shared production systems Service Level Agreements are necessary in service oriented Grids On-line monitoring and analysis tools critical for enduser to achieve insight in and improve applications behaviour in a complex environment. Monitoring tools are integral to SLA s Framework for easy access of the Grid environment and lowering the threshold by hiding complexity FP I-6 proposal Baltic Grid Proposal May

12 Q4: What would be the implications for the project as whole by omitting JRA2? Significant risk in relying on other projects for the adaptation to the BalticGrid of critical tools like the Migrating Desktop and monitoring and analysis Support for tools used in NA3 will be hindered and introduction of new users put at risk FP I-6 proposal Baltic Grid Proposal May

13 Q5: How do the proposed JRA and NA activities relate to those in EGEE and similar initiatives? JRA1 Development on accounting and SLA procedures natural compliment to similar activities within EGEE JRA2 BalticGrid will use tools (Migrating Desktop, monitoring and performance analysis) necessary for effective support of BalticGrid users NA activities Educational, Dissemination and Outreach and Application activities are similar and complimentary to activities within EGEE. Similarly for policy and standardization. FP I-6 proposal Baltic Grid Proposal May

14 Q6: Could you envisage a more distributed management structure? Activity Lead NA1-KTH NA2 - IFJ PAN NA3-VU NA4-KTH SA1 - EENet SA2 - IMCS UL JRA1-KTH JRA2-PSNC Management Operations Director - NICPB Network Manager - IMCS UL Technical Director - pending Security Head - pending PMB made up of activity leaders and managers above EB made up of one representative per country and PD FP I-6 proposal Baltic Grid Proposal May

15 Q7: Can you justify the sub-contracting effort and cost? For NA2 the two non-signatory partners will provide highly leveraged services for dissemination to the BalticGrid user community (1.4% of the budget) For NA3 ensuring participation of expertise for introduction of new application areas. Initially one (EGeen) but within the Special Interest Group activity additional organisations may be engaged (e.g. BOOS, BALTEX) (3.7% of the budget) FP I-6 proposal Baltic Grid Proposal May