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Describe the added value of the Grid for the scientific/technical activity you (plan to) do on the Grid. This should include the scale of the activity and of the potential user community and the relevance for other scientific or business applications
We plan to create a great example of Metropolitan Area Grid
between all the
University department's distributed in 4 big site in the City of
Naples, in order to
have a singole interface to the heterogeneous resources. The
first step are the
implementation of a new computational centre in the site of
M.S.Angelo and the
integration with the already available and distributed resources.
The goal is obtain
an improvement of the scientific results by using in a more
efficient way the
existing hardware and promoting a grid dissemination. At first,
the system will be
used from all the researchers of the University "Federico II",
INFN and of other
local research institutes and from local industrial partners,
respectively for
fundamental research applications in the 3 fields of Microcosmic
and Macrocosmic
Sciences, Life Sciences, Matter and Environmental Sciences and
for business applications.
Describe the scientific/technical community and the scientific/technical activity using (planning to use) the EGEE infrastructure. A high-level description is needed (neither a detailed specialist report nor a list of references).
The University of Naples "Federico II" is one of the great
Universities of Italy and
is employed in the main fields of the fundamental research, in
strong collaboration
with the INFN Naples Unit. More than 1000 people that include
Professors,
researchers, phd students and technicians work in the
computational sciences for many
different applications that we divided in three different areas:
- Microcosmic and
Macrocosmic Sciences, Life Sciences, Matter and Environmental
Sciences.
With a forward look to future evolution, discuss the issues you have encountered (or that you expect) in using the EGEE infrastructure. Wherever possible, point out the experience limitations (both in terms of existing services or missing functionality)
I think that will be useful a metadata system based on a
relational model. Currently
we can add only a label for each file register in a catalog.
However from the experience in data analysis in the within of the
VIRGO Experiment,
appare the necessity of having more fields appears in order to
execute file searches
based on the metadata.
Report on the experience (or the proposed activity). It would be very important to mention key services which are essential for the success of your activity on the EGEE infrastructure.
We plan to implement in Metropolitan scale all the main Grid
services available in
gLite. In this context the Workload Management Services will be
very important to
facilitate the access to the Grid and the Grid monitoring to
manage the system.
Very important will be the choice of the best interface to
simplify the access to the
Grid at the new user (shell and graphical interface available).
Finally the S.Co.P.E. Project promote the implementation in local
scale of new
services or new implementation of already existing services in a
limited and simplex
testbed environment in order to contribute at the Grid reserach.
