EU Review Preparation - 1 March 2002 at CERN

Information

 

 

Preparation schedule

 

Monday 25th of February

Preparation

 

Tuesday 26th of February

14:00 - 16:00

Preparation

Demo rehearsal (B600/R-017)

This session will recorded by WP11

 

Wednesday, 27th of February

9:00 – 10:00

 

 

 

10:00 - 16:00

Rehearsal

Demo rehearsal for check timing (B600/R-017)
This session will be focused on timing issues to ensure we stay within the hour.
 

General rehearsal (B513/1-024)

This session will recorded by WP11

 

Thursday, 28th of February

Last day for any modification needed

 

Friday, 1st of March

8:30 - 18:00

Review

Room B31/3-004 (IT Amphitheatre)

 

 

 

Review participants

 

·         WP manager at all times (mandatory)

·         PMB (very welcome)

·         Loose Cannons

·         Integration Team representatives

·         Associated partners representatives

 

Ø       Everybody concerned with demos and presentations is requested at CERN for Monday 25th and Tuesday 26th of February.

Ø       Project representatives (WP Managers and PMB members) should plan to be available all time during the Review.

 

 

Responsibilities

 

Ø       Project status and overview (Fabrizio Gagliardi)

Ø       Applications Team (Federico Carminati)

Ø       Testbed - Integration and deployment status (Charles Loomis)

Ø       Networks (Pascale Primet & Peter Clarke)

Ø       Project Architecture (Bob Jones in coordination with ATF and WP managers)

Ø       Coordination of the Demo Team (Markus Shultz)

(Demo Team = Bob Jones, Charles Loomis, Ingo Augustin, Susanna Tosi, Markus Shultz)

Ø       Demo presentation (Ingo Augustin)

Ø       Quality Assurance (Gabriel Zaquine)

Ø       WP11 presentation (Roberto Puccinelli)

Ø       Overall logistic (Alexia Augier-Bochon)

 

 

Documents needed for the Review

Slides should be given on Monday 25/02/02 at the very latest. (Slides will be printed on Thursday, 28/02/02 to allow modifications)

 

Action list (from the WP Managers weekly meeting minutes)

 

Date in

Responsible

Subject

Status

23/01/02

WP Managers

Send to Fabrizio short inputs (best accomplishments/major problems) for his general project review presentation.

WP11 achievements are missing

ON-GOING

 

30/01/02

WP Managers

Send to Alexia the name of participants for each WP

ON-GOING

 

 

Recommendations

-          Only the bottom lines should be given during the presentation (Reviewers are supposed to have read all details in the deliverables)

 

-          Following a suggestion of the PMB members, a video of the Rehearsal (February 27th) will be done by WP11 and shown in case of real demos problems.

 

-          In terms of participants, the WP managers are reminded that it is there responsibility to ensure they will have sufficient colleagues present to be able to respond to the reviewers’ questions. At least one representative of each partner and assistant contractor should be also be present.

 

 

Demonstrations

 

Demo points:

 

Times foreseen for the review:

 

Roberto Barbera is a backup if necessary (different demo)

 

Ingo will show and explain the monitoring map as part of the demo introduction (contact person is Franck Bonnassieux).

Note: the time slot is 1 hour and the above timings come to 55’ so, assuming we need 5’ for change of speakers/presenters, we have no spare time so we have to stick very closely to the schedule.

 

Demo will held in B600 integration room

 

Hardware for demo:

 

2 laptops – running Linux/NICE2000. Provided by CERN

Will be used to display mapcentre and to log into a testbed machine where the EDG User Interface software can be run

 

1 laptop – running Windows/Linux. Provided by Ingo

Will be used to show slides for the introductory presentation

 

3 beamers to project the screen of the PCs and laptop

1 beamer will be provided by CNR (Susanna)

1 beamer will be provided by Alice (Ingo)

1 beamer will be provided by the Project Office (Bob)

 

Ø       3 screens (at least 2mx1,5 m) to be provided by CERN

-          One for Ingo’s presentation and explanations of the demonstration (Eric),

-          One for the demos

-          One for a map of the Testbed 1 (current 5 sites) which will flip to a general map centers (all sites in the future)

 

 

Sites for demo

 

The following sites are foreseen to be able for the demo (in order of priority):

CERN

Lyon (for access to storage elements)

CNAF/NIKHEF/RAL

 

As a backup, the intention is to keep the existing EDG v1.0 setup in CNAF in case EG v1.1.1 has difficulties,

 

HEP demo (Eric Van Herwijnen, WP8):

 

It will be a LHCb demo (Alice detector will not be presented during the review)

Software from WPs 1,2,5 will be represent the complete middleware chain from job submission, to quality checking, to final data (submit job, copy I/O data, logging, copy output to MSS, update L&B, check validity of data).

Job submission from UI on testbed machine that makes use of 3 sites. Production and display of histograms. As a backup, a copy of the histograms will be placed on the local disk before the demo starts.

 

Earth Observation demo (WP9):

Validation of Ozone data

     - Satellite data GOME from KNMI

     - Lidar data from IPSL

 

Flow processing :

- Selection of data coincidence based on location and time criteria

- Processing of the selected data

- Computation of the mean and std  deviation of the difference between these two sets of data

- Graphical representation : Ozone profile, statistical results

 

2/ Possible contribution of ESA and KNMI

KNMI : Gome ozone profile from the KNMI web site or from "new" OPERA code

       Registration of Gome files on the SE CERN using the replica catalogue

       Request and the location of the files for IPSL programm

 

ESA : IDL RPM sets on the CERN machine

      IPSL provides the IDL code and data to plot (on next Monday - 18/02/02)

 

3/ Plan

- Running of the IPSL demo, at it was, on the testbed1 at CERN or on other sites

as soon as it works.

- Integration of the ESA and KNMI contribution next week (18-20 /02/02)

- On next monday (18/02/02) phone conference to check the status of each partner work

 

 

Biomedical demo (WP10):

The principle of the demo is to show how a biologists can use the grid for genomics comparative analysis. They will have an input file made of several sequences to be compared to a database.

They will execute the genomics comparative analysis job (BLAST) on the testbed1 and will save the result of the comparison on a storage element, publish it in the replica catalog and then get the results from the replica catalog and show the data through a graphical interface.

 

The goal of the first application is to execute the comparative genomics algorithm BLAST on the testbed1 through a graphical interface.

BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) is a set of similarity search programs designed to explore all of the available sequence databases regardless of whether the query is protein or DNA. The BLAST programs have been designed for speed, with a minimal sacrifice of sensitivity to distant sequence relationships. The scores assigned in a BLAST search have a well-defined statistical interpretation, making real matches easier to distinguish from random background hits. BLAST uses a heuristic algorithm which seeks local as opposed to global alignments and is therefore able to detect relationships among sequences which share only isolated regions of similarity.

 The BLAST  is one of the algorithms most used by the biologists of the whole world, in many fields of search. The code is made up of a main program which calls several subroutines. It also works with larger files, like biological databases, or output files, ranging from a few Mo to a few Go.

A technical note (DataGrid-10-TED-105-2_4) describes the deployment of the BLAST algorithm on DataGrid testbed0. After evaluating the available options to launch BLAST on a remote machine using Globus commands, a script was written to automatically execute the commands required for this goal. The performances of the so-called Grid-Blast were evaluated on the CC-IN2P3 farm by comparing the yeast protein database to itself.

For the demonstration, the script used to execute the Grid-Blast has been evolved into JDL description language.

The demonstration scenario is the following :

- Through a graphical interface, select a set of protein sequences.

- Execute the grid-blast to compare these sequences to the swissprot database.

- Save the results on a storage element and publish them on the replica catalogue

- Query the grid to retrieve the results

- Visualize them on a graphical interface

 

 

 

 

Ø       Meeting of 6/02/2002 (CERN)

WP11 will organize the recording of the rehearsal of the EU review demo and presentations at CERN on Wednesday 27th Feb starting at 09:00. This material will be edited to make a video to be shown at Paris the following week.

 

Ø       Meeting of 14/02/2002 (CERN)

CERN, Lyon In2p3, RAL, NIKHEF and CNAF will be the sites available.

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

 

Project Officer

Dr Kyriakos Baxevanidis

European Commission - Rue de la Loi 200 (Office: BU31, 2/15) B-1049 Brussels,  Belgium

Tel:(+32-2)299 40 16,   Fax:(+32-2)299 31 27
E-mail: kyriakos.baxevanidis@cec.eu.int

 

Reviewers

 

1. Dr Karsten M. Decker

 

Director Decker Consulting

Via Celso Bottani 9 CH-6933 Muzzano SWITZERLAND

Tel: +41 (91) 950-0078 Mobile: +41 (79) 292-5053

Fax: +41 (91) 950-0079 E-mail: decker@MIT-Solutions.com

 

2. Dr Salvatore Filippone

 

Centro di Calcolo e Documentazione

Universita' di Roma "Tor Vergata",

Via Orazio Raimondo 18, 00173, Roma, Italy

tel: +39-0672593108 fax: +39-0672592125

e-mail: sfilippone@uniroma2.it

 

3. Dr George Samaras

 

University of Cyprus - Department of Computer Science

75 Kallipoleos Str., P.O.Box 20537

CY-1678  Nicosia,  Cyprus

tel: +357-2-338705/06   fax: +357-2-339062

E-mail: cssamara@cs.ucy.ac.cy