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Progress of the Estonian Grid
Ilja Livenson & Andi Hektor
on behalf of the Estonian Grid
NGN Workshop in St Petersburg
May 18-20, 2005
Some last events of the EG
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Okt 04: EG technical support group publishes the first
article about the first scientific results produced with the EG
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Dec 04: the Ministry of Education and Research assembles
the committee of the Estonian Grid (EENet, NICPB, TUT, UT)
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Jan 05: NGN meeting in Tallinn
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March 05: the BalticGrid proposal to the FP6 in Brussels
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April 05: establishment of the BalticGrid CA and RAs (Riga,
Tallinn, Tartu, Vilnius)
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May 05: first positive news from Brussels about the BG
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May 05: EUGridPMA meeting in Tallinn, May 25-27
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June 05: the Estonian Tier2 proposal to the Estonian
government
Technical situation of the EG
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Choice of middleware
NorduGrid ARC
under testing: UNICORE and LCG2
Number and type of CPUs
max 122 CPUs
Pentium4 2.2…3.0 GHz and AMD64
Storage capacity
3.5 TB in three SEs
Technical plans for the end of 2005
- 200 CPUs
- 15-20 TB storage, 5 SEs
- stabilisation of the hardware resources
Technical support for the EG users
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Technical support and coordination group, 6 persons
at the different institutions
 Support lists
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
 Web: http://grid.eenet.ee
 Monitor: http://giis.eenet.ee/monitor/
 User certificates:
~100 certificates published by EG CA
~700 000 ID-card certificates! 
Main user groups
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Estonian CERN CMS group, NICPB
Porting CMS software to NorduGrid
CERN Tier 2 plans
http://www.nicpb.ee/centre
Lab of Grid technology, Tartu Univ.
DOUG software
Commercial applications
Theoretical chemistry, Tartu Univ.
UNICORE, OpenMolGrid
http://www.openmolgrid.org
Inst. of Cybernetics, Tallinn Tech. Univ.
Environmental science
Hardware systems
Commercial: Egeen AS (bioinformatics),
AS Microlink (hardware, storage)
Training and courses
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Workshops
- NGN tutorial, Jan 19, 2005
 Academic courses
- IT College, Tallinn, Autumn 2004, ~30 students
- Tartu Univ., Tartu, Spring 2005, ~50 students
 Web materials
- http://grid.eenet.ee/
- http://www.nicpb.ee/~mario/grid/itk/
- http://math.ut.ee/~eero/GTLA/
- http://www.nicpb.ee/~andi/
The Baltic Grid Initiative
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Estonia
– Estonian Educational and Research Network, EENet
– National Institute of Chem. Physics and Biophysics, NICPB
Latvia
– Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, IMCS UL
– Riga Technical University, RTU
Lithuania
– Vilnius University, VU
– Institute of Theoretical Physic and Astronomy, ITPA
Poland
– Posznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, PSNC
– Instytut Fizyki Jadrowej, im. Henryka Niewodniczanskiego, Polskiej
Akademii Nauk, IFJ PAN
Sweden
– Parallelldatorcentrum at Kungl Tekniska Högskolan, KTH PDC
Switzerland
– CERN
Tier2 Computing Centre in Estonia?
Tier2 Computing Centre
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Main objectives:
– LHC data analysis
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Technical details (2007):
– 300 CPUs
– 50 TB storage
– fast connection (~1Gbps) to GEANT2
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Estonia
– Estonian Educational and Research Network (EENet)
– National Institute of Chem. Physics and Biophysics (NICPB)
– Tallinn University of Technology (TUT)
– Tartu University (TU)
Collaboration partners in Finland
– Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP)
– Centre of Scientific Computation in Finland (CSC)
Thank you and…
Technical coordination group of the EG:
Mario Kadastik (NICPB), Lauri Anton, Hardi Teder (EENet),
Konstantin Skaburskas (UT), Vahur Kotkas (TUT)
Martti Raidal and Eero Vainikko: personal support for the EG
Estonian Science Foundation: the grants no. 5135, 5935, 5316
for the applications of the EG
EU 6th FP: the grant EC MC MERG-CT-2003-503626
Ministry of Education and Research of Estonia: the support of
the technical meetings of the EG,
Research Council of Norway (Nordplus Neighbour
Programme): the support for the NorduGrid technical meetings
Swedish Institute (Visby Programme): the support for Estonian
students to study Grid technology at the Lund University.