Grid Initiative Othmane Bouhali

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1 MaGrid: The Moroccan Grid Initiative Université Libre de Bruxelles Brussels, Belgium

2 Outline! The Moroccan Grid Initiative, MaGrid! The EumedGrid project! Collaboration/Research activities! Future

3 Grid computing ingredients! local needs: scientific activities,! networking infrastructure! National grid competencies

4 Grid ingredients: local needs Research groups Publication/year ST 600 SHS % du PIB par année Pascal SCI 0,9 0,8 0,7 0,6 0,5 0,4 0,3 0,2 0,

5 Grid ingredients: Networking (Moroccan WAN) MARWAN Network National Research and Education sites connection: up to 34 Mbps IPv4 and IPv6 Connected to GEANT2

6 Grid ingredients: Networking (EumedConnect)

7 Grid ingredients: acquire competency through collaboration Collaboration Belgium-Morocco: since 2003! Belgium: Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) HEP: CMS, H1, ICE 3, crystal clear, OPERA, PET Grid: BEGrid and EGEE! Morocco: Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique (CNRST) Université Abdelmalek Essaadi (UAE)

8 Collaboration: acquire grid expertise 2003: brainstorming (O. Bouhali-ULB et C. El Amrani-UAE)! acquire basic knowledge in grid computing and necessary tools! Dissemination campaign: identify applications in the Moroccan research world! setting up a nation-wide group in «grid computing»: - develop and maintain competencies - grid related research: distributed activities, web services,! build a national grid computing infrastructure! build a national Certification Authority (CA)! get involved in international grid projects

9 Collaboration: UAE (Morocco) and ULB (Belgium)! Installation and administration of a local cluster: - basic Linux OS - Bach system and scheduling techniques - parallelism (MPI) - cluster networking

10 Collaboration: UAE (Morocco) and ULB (Belgium)

11 Collaboration: UAE (Morocco) and ULB(Belgium)! Prototype of a certification authority: basic cryptography principles issuing digital certification for the grid (user and machines)! Local grid computing platform main grid computing machines certificates issued by the CA prototype test sample jobs running on the grid! Dissemination campaign nation-wide

12 Collaboration: CNRST,UAE (Morocco) and ULB(Belgium) Why CNRST?

13 Collaboration: CNRST,UAE (Morocco) and ULB(Belgium) why CNRST? It has the following responsibilities:! MARWAN network management! EumedConnect partner! government decision to build a computing centre at the CNRST! partner of the FINCOME program FINCOME (Forum International des COmpétences Marocaines à l Etranger) = knowledge transfer through expatriate

14 Collaboration: CNRST,UAE (Morocco) and ULB(Belgium) National Grid Platform: MaGrid! project proposal sent to the CNRST grid mailing list: discuss grid issues! National committee on grid computing (December 2005): road map for a national grid platform National grid management committee Pilot phase ( ): two years period, three sites to be connected Final phase: nation-wide grid platform

15 Collaboration: CNRST,UAE (Morocco) and ULB(Belgium) Tanger Kenitra Tetouan - 40 CPUs - 5 servers - 1 TB storage Layoune Mohammedia Casa Agadir Marrakech Rabat Settat El Jadida Meknes Beni Mellal Fes Er Rachidia Oujda 100 Km UAE site - 5 CPUs - 3 servers GB storage

16 International projects TeraGrid DEISA

17 EumedGrid:Empowering e-sciences across the Mediterranean! funded by the EU within the 6th Research program! contribute to ease the digital divide North-South! build a pilot grid infrastructure for research in the region! training courses: site administrators and users! started in January 2006! MaGrid platform: first Southern Mediterranean site connected (Mai 2006)

18 EumedGrid:Empowering e-sciences across the Mediterranean

19 EumedGrid:Empowering e-sciences across the Mediterranean

20 EumedGrid:Empowering e-sciences across the Mediterranean! several workshop across the participating countries! several training courses both for administrators and users (e.g. Workshop in Marrakesh: 14 users were trained during 3 days)! EumedGrid Summer School

21 EumedGrid:Empowering e-sciences across the Mediterranean

22 EumedGrid:Empowering e-sciences across the Mediterranean

23 Collaboration: the Moroccan Certification Authority! october 2006: first document submitted to EUGridPMA! Comments/corrections 16 November 2007: the EUGridPMA released its new version with the accredited Moroccan CA First Arabic/ African country to have a Certification Authority

24 Collaboration: Belgium-Morocco, Research projects! simulation of the MaGrid platform using the GridSim package: Stratégie: optimisation de coût avec dead line 100 GridLets finies R0 R R0 R1 650

25 Collaboration: Belgium-Morocco, Research projects 4 Master theses since PhD theses in progress Research projects have been initiated with three Spanish groups:! gridsim Usage/Development! astronomy analysis! top quark analysis (proposal within ATLAS)

26 Summary/future! MaGrid: Moroccan platform for grid computing is operational and is part of the EumedGrid platform! MaGrid CA: accredited and officially released since two weeks The focus now is on:! Training users and helping them porting their applications to the grid! Grid related research activities: mainly for computer scientists! collaborate with other groups! make other countries (e.g.: African ) benefit from the Moroccan experience