[pgm-rg] GGF!# PGM Session 2 Notes
Laura McGinnis
lfm at psc.edu
Thu Apr 14 08:37:05 CDT 2005
And here are the notes from the second session.
LM
Production Grid Management (PGM-RG)
Session 2 - Open Session: Who We Are, What We Do, How You Can Get Involved
Agenda
• RG Introductions
– Charter
– Leadership introductions
– History
– Communication
• website
• mailing list
– Topics Being Addressed by the RG
• Documents
– Completed
– In progress
• Workshops
– Completed
– Proposed
• Next Steps
• Open Forum
Charter Purpose
The purpose of this group is to bring together grid practitioners to
document experiences, identify best practice and develop informational
documents. These documents are offered as suggested guides to organizations
moving a grid to the persistent level. This group also explores new
paradigms in supporting grids that aspire to become large scale grids with
a large user/application base, while not excluding the small grid efforts.
In addition, this forum can be used to discuss problems and concerns that
are likely to be encountered, technical as well as non-technical, when
moving grid testbeds to production environments. This group should have an
ongoing presence in GGF, serving a SIG/UG purpose in the grid community.
Charter - Goals
G-1) Identify technical and non-technical issues that need to be addressed
for a production grid installation to be successful.
G-2) Develop "common practices" documents for critical issues as they are
identified.
G-3) Facilitate opportunities for grid users and practitioners to share
experiences in bringing grids to production.
G-4) Spin off Working Groups when the need for detailed GGF documents (e.g.
recommendations) is identified.
Charter - Milestones
M-1) Grid Constitution Document - spin off WG to complete
M-2) PGM Survey
M-3) Tools Document - to be completed by current team (had been submitted
to GGF Editor)
M-4) Trouble Ticket Document - revaluate interest, identify authors for
this document; spin off WG if warranted
M-5) Workshops
Leadership
• David Wallom, University of Bristol, UK
• Laura McGinnis, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, USA
• Judith Utley, USA (emeritus)
History
•Chartered in June, 2003
•Document Attempts
Best Practices
Case Studies
•Presentations from production grids
DOE Grid (GGF5)
ApGrid (GGF7)
Titech Grid (GGF7)
Unicore (GGF7)
Grid Account Management: A Case Study (GGF9)
•Workshops
•Merge with Grid User Services RG in progress
Communication
•Website:
https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/pgm-rg
•Mailing list: Majordomo
pgm-rg at gridforum.org
•Face-to-face
Group is geographically distributed; face-to-face is primarily at GGF meetings
•Conference calls
Available, but we haven’t used regularly yet
•Access Grid
Topics Being Addressed by the RG
Existing Grids
•Ops Centers
•Co/Meta Schedule
•Software stack updates
•User- base
•Support / call centers
•Support for VOs and related process
•Performance monitoring/metrics
•Service level descriptions
•Standardization in monitoring
Pre-deployment Sites
•Have users with unmet need
•Physical Deployment
•Commercial Solutions
•Confidence Measures
Shared/Common
•Deployment
•User training
•Administrative policies
•Site manager training
•“Repeatability”
•SLAs (Service Level Agreements)
Documents - Completed
• GFD.35 (Informational):
– Management of Grid Services in Production Grids Workshop
– J Utley (Editor)
– June, 2004
– www.ggf.org/documents/GWD-I-E/GFD-I.035.pdf)
Documents In Progress
• From PGM:
– Membership Survey (Stephen Newhouse)
• From User Services:
– Grid Constitution (David Wallom)
– Tools Requirements
– Trouble Ticket
Workshop: GGF8
• Tools For Grid Management
– GSI Credential Management with MyProxy
– A System for Monitoring and Management of Computational Grids
– GRIP: Creating Interoperability between Grids
– Grid Weaver
– Automatically Establishing the Executive Environment for User
Applications
– Exegrid Workflow Support and Resource Management
– Grid Packaging Using GPT 3.x
Workshop: GGF11
• Management of Grid Services in Production Grids
– The UK Grid: Moving from Research to Production
– TeraGrid Architecture: A Grid for Users
– Grids in Asia Pacific: What has been done? And what hasn’t?
– Grid3 Experiences and thoughts on Federation
– Challenges of Moving IPG into Production
Workshops Proposed
• Usage Record Format: Site Implementations (GGF15)
• Site Testing for Production Environments
• Cost modeling (Total Cost of Ownership, etc)
– May be done as a tutorial (GGF16)
• Training (users, site managers, trainers, etc)
Next Steps
• Finalize merger of PGM-RG and GUS-RG
• Finish work on GUS documents
• Set up workshops for future GGF meetings
Call for Volunteers: Documents
[Notes:
Are these documents still relevant/necessary?
Tools: definitely
Trouble Tickets: probably
What about doing it the same way we did usage records?
Bruce Barkstrom has a document proposal from the digital library project
that maybe could be used as a jumping-off point for requirements documents
Laura got it from Bruce via memory stick
Asia-Pacific input? None
Repost both documents to PGM gridforge space
Maybe able to get support once we repost to mailing list
• Tools Requirements
• Trouble Ticket
Call for Volunteers: Workshops
• Usage Record Format: Site Implementations (GGF15)
– Laura McGinnis
• Site Testing for Production Environments
– David Wallom
• Cost modeling (Total Cost of Ownership, etc) (GGF16)
– Bruce Barkstrom
• Training (users, site managers, trainers, etc)
– Grid Schools
Laura F. McGinnis
Project Coordinator: Data & Information Resource Services
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center 4400 Fifth Avenue, #
409D Pittsburgh, PA 15213
email: lfm at psc.edu voice:
412-268-5642 fax: 412-268-5832
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