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EGI USER FORUM 2011 Book of Abstracts held in conjunction with the EMI TECHNICAL CONFERENCE EGI BOOK OF USER FORUM ABSTRACTS 2011 held in conjunction with the EMI TECHNICAL CONFERENCE 11–14 APRIL 2011, VILNIUS, LITHUANIA First published in 2011 in the Netherlands by EGI.eu Science Park 105 FORUM HOSTS 1098 XG Amsterdam The Netherlands www.egi.eu ISBN 978 90 816927 1 7 Copyright © 2011 by Members of the EGI-InSPIRE Collaboration This work is licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Licence. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0 or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA. The work must be attributed by attaching the following reference to the copied elements: “Copyright © Members of the EGI-InSPIRE Collaboration, 2011. See www.egi.eu for details of the EGI-InSPIRE project and the collaboration.” Using this document in a way and/or for purposes not foreseen in the licence requires the prior written permission of the copyright holders. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE EGI-InSPIRE (“European Grid Initiative: Integrated Sustainable Pan-European Infrastructure for Researchers in Europe”) is a project co-funded by the European Alberto Aimar CERN Yannick Legre HealthGrid Commission as an Integrated Infrastructure Initiative within the Sergio Andreozzi EGI.eu Rob van der Meer EGI.eu 7th Framework Programme. EGI-InSPIRE began in May 2010 and will run for 4 years. Steve Brewer EGI.eu Alberto Di Meglio CERN Daniele Cesini INFN Johan Montagnat CNRS The Organisers and the Publisher have made every effort to provide accurate and complete information in this Book. However, changes or corrections may Diana Cresti INFN Steven Newhouse EGI.eu occasionally be necessary after publication. Michel Drescher EGI.eu Morris Riedel CHJUELI Florida Estrella CERN Horst Schwichtenberg RF AUNHOFER Tiziana Ferrari EGI.eu Jamie Shiers CERN Laurence Field CERN Gergely Sipos EGI.eu Patrick Fuhrmann DESY Giuliano Taffoni INAF Catherine Gater EGI.eu Claudio Vuerli INAF Francesco Giacomini INFN John Walsh TCD Emidio Giorgio INFN Cecile Germain CNRS Editors: Sara Coelho, Neasan O’Neill Maria Girone CERN Ioannis Liabotis GRNET Design: Viviane Li Forum poster: Ori Ginale Balázs Kónya LUND Contents Overview ...............................................................xii A suite for distributed execution of general purpose applications on the grid for small- and mid-size VOs. .30 Worker node software management: the VO perspective ..........................32 USER SUPPORT SERVICES 2 A new integrated monitoring tool for grid site administrator .........................34 Benefits and vision for the VRC community model ................................4 Accounting and SLA support in KnowledgeGrid Malaysia by P-GRADE portal ..........36 EGI VO Services activities ...................................................6 UNICORE accounting service for Belarusian Grid Infrastructure .....................38 Applications Database ......................................................8 NGI-based user support in the European Grid Infrastructure collaboration .............10 EMI 40 CTACG – The Cherenkov Telescope Array Computing Grid .........................12 What's new in EMI 1 .......................................................42 DC-NET – Digital Cultural Heritage Network ....................................14 EMI-ES: a common interface to ARC, gLite and UNICORE computing elements. .44 FP7-EU project ‘DECIDE’ (Diagnostic Enhancement of Confidence by an International Distributed Environment): a national prototype of e-services A uniform MPI user experience with MPI-Start in EMI .............................46 for the assisted diagnosis of neurodegenerative functional studies .................16 EMI Data, the unified European Data Management Middleware .....................48 GÉANT and EGI: enabling seamless distributed computing infrastructures through high-speed, dedicated networking .....................................18 Supporting SRM over SSL ..................................................50 Logging and Bookkeeping – what can it do for you? ..............................20 The ARC data client in EMI 1 ................................................52 Supporting Distributed Computing Infrastructures ................................22 Parallel NFS: EMI data in competition with high-end industry storage solutions .........54 HammerCloud: an automated service for stress and functional testing of grid sites ......24 gLite File Transfer Service in the EMI data area ..................................56 Catering for different user profiles in the HELIO project ............................26 Storage catalogue consistency ..............................................58 WeNMR: the tale of virtual research community in NMR and structural biology ..........28 Software quality assurance in EMI ............................................60 VI | EGI USER FORUM 2011 CONTENTS | VII Software quality assurance tools in EMI ........................................62 U SER ENVIRONMENT 92 Definition, reporting and analysis of EMI software metrics ..........................64 A science gateway for molecular simulations ....................................94 EMI Integration and large scale testing infrastructure ..............................66 Proteomics portal: an e-science gateway for Swiss bioinformatics ...................96 The gLite Data Management continuous integration and testing process ..............68 SOMA2 – gateway to grid-enabled molecular modelling workflows in www-browser. .98 ARC tools for revision and nightly functional tests ................................70 Data-driven portal for hadron therapy ........................................100 EMI and dCache: the vanguard of standards adoption ............................72 Job Submission Tool, web interface and WebDAV data management ................102 Proposing a Storage Accounting Record standard ...............................74 New developments of gUSE and WS-PGRADE to support e-science gateways ........104 Implementation of GLUE 2.0 support in the EMI Data Area .........................76 Grid computing for biomechanical markers extraction ............................106 VIRTUALISATION AND CLOUD COMPUTING 78 Socially impacting grid services from the chemistry Heavy User Community ..........108 e-Social Science development in Taiwan: scalable social simulation Operating grid services on the StratusLab cloud. 80 using commodity computing ...............................................110 Data management at VENUS-C ..............................................82 Access earth science data from the EGI infrastructure ...........................112 Mantychore – dynamic networks for e-Infrastructure ..............................84 Grid computing for electrophysiology ........................................114 Federated cloud computing environment for malaria fighting. .86 Grid-empowered molecular simulators of crossed beam signals ....................116 Searching Eclipse behind the cloud ...........................................88 Earth science oriented data processing tools and applications for the Black Sea catchment basin .............................................118 GPU computing in EGI environment using a cloud approach .......................90 The grid rocks ..........................................................120 e-science on earthquake hazard mitigation ....................................122 VIII | EGI USER FORUM 2011 CONTENTS | IX An overview of CMS workload management for data analysis ......................124 InSilicoLab – grid environment for supporting numerical experiment in chemistry .......156 Getting a grip on the grid: a knowledge base to trace grid experiments ..............126 The GRelC Project: main service, functionalities and relevant use cases ..............158 Shared services and tools based on the Ganga job definition and management framework ..................................................128 DATA MANAGEMENT 160 Cheminformatics platform for drug discovery application on grid ...................130 An insight into the ATLAS Distributed Data Management .........................162 VisIVO, visualisation in different grid environments, from gLite to desktop grid .........132 Improving CMS data transfers among its distributed computing facilities .............164 e-Infrastructures integration with gCube ......................................134 Evolution of the ATLAS data placement model .................................166 Distributed multi-scale computing: the MAPPER project ..........................136 Theompi: a large MPI cluster on the grid for theoretical physics ....................138 TECHNOLOGIES FOR DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING 168 CORAL – a relational abstraction layer for C++ or Python applications ...............140 A new ‘lightweight’ crypto library for supporting an advanced grid Challenges in the adoption of the EGI paradigm for authentication process with smart cards ......................................170 an e-Science / Tier 2 centre (ES-ATLAS-T2) ....................................142 Federated access to grids .................................................172 Monitoring of the LHC computing activities during the first year of data taking .........144 Argus, the EMI Authorisation Service .........................................174 Optimisation of the job submission and data access in a LHC Tier 2 .................146 Site integral management