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NMI Testbed GRID On the Call: UABJohn-Paul Robinson UAHSandi Redman GSUArt Vandenberg Internet2Steve Olshansky UMichShawn McKee SURAMary Fran Yafchak, Kate Barzee TACCAshok Adiga, Ed Walker Purpose of meeting - Review status of NMI Testbed GRID; details on Internet2 presentation and demo (both proposals now accepted); discuss SURA Invitation to Participate; brief from Ed Walker, TACC, re GridShell. Summary of Discussion Internet2 Demo & Scenarios - For the demonstration session, we have Tuesday 1-5pm and Wednesday 10am-5pm. Idea is that we'll "staff the booth" during those hours and we agreed that we'd rotate the schedule so that every 45 minutes (or so) we'd feature one site's demo on the main screen, but other sites could use laptops to do presentations to smaller audiences. (Pretty standard demo floor set up.) We thought that publishing a schedule of "what shows when" might be helpful. Participants: Georgia State, U. Virginia, U. Alabama at Birmingham, U. Alabama at Huntsville, U. Michigan, Texas Advanced Computing Center U. Texas at Austin. Scenarios are being developed (though they're works in progress).
New sites, SURA Invitation to Participate - Mary Fran and Art discussed the July 26, 2004 email from SURA to the itcomm@sura.org list with subject: Seeking additional collaborators for NMI Testbed Grid project (ATTACHMENT 2). Mary Fran and Art will be contacting sites that express interest (including several that earlier expressed interest in NMI Testbed Grid) and see how we might expand our NMI Testbed Grid collaboration. The list of contacts is about 5 at the moment. SURA has related initiative in the formation of a SURA HPC/Grids Planning Group . SURA is responding to a number of indicator activities across the region: the SURA HPC meeting earlier this year, the NSF NMI Testbed Program, the NMI Testbed Grid project and SURA's AT&T partnership among others. More as it develops. GridShell - Ashok Adiga introduced Ed Walker, TACC Research Associate and manager of Grid and Distributed Computing ( http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/general/staff/walker/ ). Ed briefed the call on Grid Shell. While there are many portal efforts, Ed observes that many scientist prefer a shell interface, a command prompt interface. GridShell is a C shell implementation that invokes and agent on behalf of the user. Grid Shell is a client done in coordination with UTGrid, basically extending the grid to the workstation. UAB noted that it was also trying to work a similar kind of interface for its scientists. Summary of Action Items: ACTION ITEM (GSU/USC): Run genome alignment application at USC. Implies getting USC cert and appropriate policy for access. And sets up potential of using USC cert to access UAB genome alignment application (and vice versa.) Deadline: By June 24? On July 24 sent more formal documentation of request (including draft paper on the topic) to Jim Cotillier, USC, who has been really helpful. He observed, "We've never had a request like this [from non-USC user]..." [PS: found out that Jim's research area is certificates.hmmm.] ACTION ITEM (GSU): Implement OGCE portal, Ganglia. Deadline: By June 24? Still working. Though call with TACC June 18 seems to indicate Georgia State should go Linux due to limited availability of workable agents to work OGCE in reporting resource information (see above). ACTION ITEM (GSU/UAB): Run genome alignment using MPICH-G2. In process. Deadline: Nova has run her multiple genome alignment algorithm (8 or 9 sequences, rather than just 2) on UAB resources (hats off to UAB! Thank you for sharing your resources!) - not just one cluster, but across several. Now working algorithm to do a significant number of genome sequences. ACTION ITEM (ALL): Policy Documentation. Open item: NMI Testbed Grid should draft policy? - at least we should state our current assumptions. ACTION ITEM (ALL): Documentation. Ongoing. NEXT CALL : Thursday September <29? or 22?>, 2004 4:00-5:00pm EDT ATTACHMENT 1. From: smckee@UMICH.EDU Subject: Re: NMI Testbed Call - Thurs Jun 24 4pm EDT Date: June 23, 2004 11:36:44 AM EDT To: NMI-TESTBED@sura.org Reply-To: smckee@UMICH.EDU Hi Art, <SNIP> A while ago we talked about Pacman and software installation. I am sending you the Grid3 install instructions web site, a short Linux shell script and the URL for our site install info, FYI. The Grid3 installation instructions are at: https://griddev.uchicago.edu/download/grid3/doc.pkg/installation/grid3v2.1.html The results of the install at Michigan are visible at: http://atgrid.grid.umich.edu/Grid3/ And a script which can do the bulk of the work of installing a Grid3 site is below: (Let me know if you have questions about this). The bulk of the work is done with the simple line: 'pacman -get iVDGL:grid3v2.1' Let me know how it goes if you try this on a machine. The "registration" for Grid3 is likely not desired for your site(s). The host certs can come from UVa maybe. I will try to think of some demonstrative script or scripts for Michigan... Shawn -------cut here, save to setup_Grid3.sh, chmod a+x setup_Grid3.sh------------ # Create a directory for Grid3 echo "You should be in a directory where you want to install the Grid3 directory!" echo "Creating VDT area for Grid3..." mkdir Grid3 cd Grid3 export MyGrid3=`pwd` # Get pacman cd /tmp mkdir pacman cd pacman wget http://physics.bu.edu/~youssef/pacman/sample_cache/tarballs/pacman-2.116 # Install pacman tar xzf pacman-2.116.tar.gz . ./pacman-2.116/setup.sh # Install any one or more of these VDT packages with pacman echo " " echo "Installing complete Grid3 system...iVDGL:grid3v2.1" echo " " pacman -get iVDGL:grid3v2.1 # Setup the environment (use setup.sh / setup.csh depending on your shell) source setup.sh echo "Initial Grid3 environment installed at $MyGrid3..." echo "Steps 1) and 2) complete for Grid3 V2.1 install." echo "See https://griddev.uchicago.edu/download/grid3/doc.pkg/installation/grid3v2 .1.html for details" ---------------------------- ATTACHMENT 2. From: maryfran@sura.org Subject: Seeking additional collaborators for NMI Testbed Grid project Date: July 26, 2004 11:26:50 AM EDT To: itcomm@sura.org Cc: avandenberg@gsu.edu, jaj@Virginia.EDU, maryfran@sura.org Dear all, I am forwarding the following for Art Vandenberg (GSU) and Jim Jokl (UVA), co-leads of the NMI Testbed Grid project. As reported at recent IT Committee meetings, the Testbed Grid project has been gaining steam since last September. It is now reaching the stage where both development and deployment can benefit greatly from expanded participation. I know that many of you and your IT teams (as well as researchers at many of your institutions) are also working on grid development. If so, I'd encourage you to consider this opportunity for value-added collaboration. Thanks! -mfy ************************************* NMI Testbed Grid - Invitation to ParticipateThe NMI Testbed Grid is a project born within the NMI Integration Testbed program ( http://www.nsf-middleware.org/testbed ) and a multi-institutional effort to investigate and deploy Grid technology for true inter-institutional (vs. project-specific) sharing of network-based resources. A primary objective of the NMI Testbed Grid is to provide a distributed, heterogeneous, dynamic environment in which faculty, researchers and students can form "virtual organizations" using various grid components. Active areas of investigation include: - Addressing cross-campus authentication - Expanding the usage of components to link grid authentication to the campus enterprise - Evaluating a Bridge Certificate Authority for inter-operation of campus Certificate Authorities (CA) - Investigating a "Shibbolized" CA, as a Grid Sector CA, for use by sites without a local campus CA - Publishing a catalog of existing and potential grid applications at Testbed and other sites - Demonstrating applications and shared access of grid resources to researchers and faculty - Establishing a NMI Testbed Grid portal for "friendly" access - Providing outreach and dissemination of Grid technology to the SURA community Several NMI Testbed Grid milestones are scheduled to be completed by November 2004 (a presentation and demo are scheduled for the I2 Members' Meeting in September) and SURA is optimistic that participants will be able to leverage and expand this "enterprise-aware" Grid deployment well beyond that, helping to build a sustainable cyberinfrastructure capable of supporting future education and research collaboration. The potential to benefit from such grid technology within the SURA region, and beyond, could be significantly advanced by broader participation in this initial effort - working collaboratively, contributing shared resources to a common grid, developing grid-enabled applications, and exchanging knowledge about meaningful grid applications for education and research. If your institution is interested in participating in the NMI Testbed Grid (joining immediately, learning more about grid technology through an NMI Testbed Grid demo and presentation, or just continuing conversations), please contact Art Vandenberg < avandenberg@gsu.edu > or Mary Fran Yafchak < maryfran@sura.org >. ************************************************************ Mary Fran Yafchak IT Program Coordinator SURA (Southeastern Universities Research Association) ************************************************************ The Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA) is a consortium of over sixty universities and colleges throughout the US. SURA operates the US Department of Energy's Jefferson Lab and promotes initiatives in nuclear physics, information technologies, and coastal research.
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