Transcript The GridPP Portal Progress & Plans Sarah Marr & Dave Colling 16th September, 2002 5th GridPP Collaboration Meeting.

The GridPP Portal
Progress & Plans
Sarah Marr & Dave Colling
16th September, 2002
5th GridPP Collaboration Meeting
The GridPP Portal
Outline
• Introduction
• Walkthrough of GridPP/CMS portal
• Key features
• Removing CMS specificity:
• CMS specifics in existing portal
• Suggested architecture for removal
• Development plans
• Summary
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The GridPP Portal
Introduction
• GUIDO
• Grid User Interface – Demo. Only
• Created for UK e-Science ‘all hands’
• Two parts
• Job Submission Portal
• Map
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Walkthrough
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The GridPP Portal
Key Features (1)
• Access
• Widely accessible – no need for UI, etc.
• Sessions on same server are persistent
• Security
• Browser certificate & valid proxy required
• Further server security to be implemented
• Ease of use
• Fairly self-explanatory
• End-to-end workflow implemented
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The GridPP Portal
Key Features (2)
• Flexibility
• Files & jdl can be uploaded to server
• These need not be CMS specific
• Which leads to…
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The GridPP Portal
Removing CMS specifics (1)
• Two main areas in existing portal:
• Job submission
• Job monitoring
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The GridPP Portal
Removing CMS specifics (2)
• Service
availability
Definition:
• Depends on installation on server machine
‘Service’ – a set of grid utilities,
• May
have UI, and
Impala,
BOSS…
databases
protocols
• Enable
portal services
accordingly
implemented
for use
in the
monitoring, etc. of
• Portalsubmission,
Architecture
jobs relating to a specific project,
• Job description entries for available services
e.g. CMS, BABAR
• ‘Submit job’ button is ‘hook’ for service cgi
• ‘Execution details’ button, similarly
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The GridPP Portal
Portal (html/cgi)
Services
UI
CMS
Impala-G…
BABAR
BABAR
Other…
Other…
Core
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The GridPP Portal
Summary
• We already have…
• …a prototype portal for CMS jobs
• We wish to develop a portal which is…
• …able to provide a standard interface
• …not tied to a specific project
• …flexible and extensible
• …easy to distribute as a core & ‘plug-ins’
• Thank you for your time.
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