Description
This session, on Infrastructure Tools and Services, covers a cross section of the emerging tools that are being created to make life easier for the VOs, as well as for individual users. The first talk, "A solution to distribute software packages at Grid sites using Squid" describes an alternative approach to making VO applications available at grid sites. The second talk, "Application Domain Accounting for EGI", focuses on the 'missing' functionality of the EGEE grid accounting systems: VO application-level accounting. The talk on "Site Status Board" gives an overview of the tool, how it is used by the LHC VOs, and how it could benefit other VOs. The penultimate talk, "Visual GRID Activity Monitoring in the Dashboard Framework", describes a Google Earth based monitoring application which visualizes grid activity and provides a very appealing tool for educational and public relations purposes. The final talk in this session, "Workflow repository, user specific monitor, and vulnerability analyzer in SEE-GRID", introduces some high-level services, which extend the gLite-based SEE-GRID infrastructure in order to ease several tasks of end-users and VO application developers.
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Dr Elisa Lanciotti (PIC (Spain))12/04/2010, 15:30Experiences from application porting and deploymentOralIn the current model of Grid computing the software needed by virtual organizations (VO) is stored at the sites in a shared area mounted on NFS and jobs running on the worker nodes access the necessary applications through NFS protocol. An alternative model, based on Squid, is proposed in this article. With this approach, the software packages are pulled from the central VO repository to the...Go to contribution page
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Dr Javier Lopez (CESGA)12/04/2010, 15:45Software services exploiting and/or extending grid middleware (gLite, ARC, UNICORE etc)OralAccounting is a powerful tool for users and VOs to obtain information on grid resources usage. Currently, they can access the accounting portal to display executed jobs. However, grid users and VOs prompt further improvements to enhance the EGEE accounting system and foster cooperative endeavors. One of the most requested features is application-level accounting. Together with COMPCHEM VO the...Go to contribution page
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Jacobo Tarragón Cros (CERN)12/04/2010, 16:03End-user environments, scientific gateways and portal technologiesOralNow that the LHC has started, the experiments require a high standard of reliability and performance on their computing activities. Monitoring these activities is not a trivial task mainly due to two reasons: first of all, asserting the proper behavior of a site depends heavily on the software model of each experiment; secondly, the number of sites taking part in WLCG has increased drastically...Go to contribution page
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Ms Julia Andreeva (CERN)12/04/2010, 16:20Support services and tools for user communitiesOralIt is sometimes hard to conceptualise the GRID and visualise its activity. But having a graphical representation of its workings and movements, we can more easily surpass these problems; coupling this with a system that provides accurate measurements of such activities, we obtain a powerful monitoring system that is visually appealing, intuitive to use and of great practical worth. Our...Go to contribution page
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Mr Robert Lovas (MTA SZTAKI)12/04/2010, 16:38Software services exploiting and/or extending grid middleware (gLite, ARC, UNICORE etc)OralThis talk introduces some high-level services, which extend the gLite-based SEE-GRID infrastructure in order to ease several tasks of end-users, application developers, and grid operators. The Common Workflow Repository Extension (CWRE), and the User/application Specific Grid Infrastructure Monitoring Extension (USGIME) of P-GRADE portal can provide efficient tools for user and application...Go to contribution page