Working with NGS
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The NGS site status table gives an overview of where GridPP sites are in working with the UK National Grid Service (NGS). In the first iteration columns are marked with Yes as applicable. If a site is being monitored appropriate links may be given. For example Inca2 test results are found here (http://inca2.ngs.ac.uk/).
| Site | ngs.ac.uk VO supported | NGS affiliate | NGS partner | NGS staff at site | NGS users at site | Other/Notes
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| RAL Tier1 | Yes | In progress | No | Yes (NGS-RAL) | Not passing INCA tests due to out default queue not being submittable to from the CEs - discussions are underway to change this. Collaborating with NGS-RAL to deploy a CE in EGEE Production in front of NGS-RAL resources for na4 and new vos. | ||
| NorthGrid | |||||||
| Lancaster | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | ||
| Liverpool | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | As part of a sharing of compute resources central University e-sciece users will be recommended to use the NGS VO for their serial jobs. | |
| Manchester | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Passing INCA tests since 18 of May. University of Manchester MCC is NGS partner so there is staff on the other side of the road. The gridpp VOMS are passing under their control and there are some potential users (at least 1) although so far they've prefered to be part of Northgrid VO to use our resources. At the moment no plan to become partners. | |
| Sheffield | In progress | No | No | No | No | We plan to submit test jobs from UKI-NORTHGRID-SHEF-HEP CE to Sheffield White Rose Grid cluster WNs with aim to test possibility to have a joint NGS and GRIDPP clusters WNs in Sheffield
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| ScotGrid | |||||||
| Durham | Yes | Yes | No | No | Occasional use in Chemistry | site page (http://www.ngs.ac.uk/sites/durham/) conformance (http://inca2.ngs.ac.uk/conformance.shtml?host=DurhamGridPP&suite=all) | |
| Edinburgh | No | No | No | 0 | 0 | ECDF has separate NGS middleware at the affiliate level. They have recently secured NGS funding for 0.5 FTE over 2 years. As for users we have a few (Computational Chemistry: approx 2, Evolutionary biology: approx 2). The GridQTL project has about 100 users world-wide using ECDF through the NGS interface. | |
| Glasgow (http://www.scotgrid.ac.uk/wiki) | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | site page (http://www.ngs.ac.uk/sites/glasgow/) Recent logins to Manchester and Leeds. Software Tags published to UEE standard. | |
| London Tier2 | |||||||
| Brunel | Yes | Yes | No | none | unknown | site page (http://www.ngs.ac.uk/sites/brunel) conformance (http://inca2.ngs.ac.uk/conformance.shtml?host=BrunelGridPP&suite=all) | |
| IC-HEP | No | ||||||
| IC-LeSC | Yes | Yes | No | none | unknown | ||
| QMUL | In progress | In progress | No | No | No | VO enabled. lcgsge bug with timeouts now fixed and sent upstream. | |
| RHUL | Yes | Yes | No | none | one or two occasional, minor users in computer science dept | site page (http://www.ngs.ac.uk/sites/rhul/) conformance (http://inca2.ngs.ac.uk/conformance.shtml?host=RHULGridPP&suite=all) | |
| UCL-HEP | No | ||||||
| UCL-CCC | No | UCL Research Computing continues to watch NGS developments and is seeking to enable intra-campus workflows before considering general purpose inter-campus 'Grid' enablement. | |||||
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| Birmingham | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | - | |
| Bristol | Was at one time - will re-enable eventually | No | No | No | None known | Previous NGS-vo enablement got zero usage, so it was left to expire. | |
| Cambridge | No | No | No | No | None known | Tried once in the past, which didn't work; will try again. | |
| Oxford | Yes | Yes | No | Yes NGS-Oxford (Is a core site) | Not in HEP, users from other sub-departments in Physics | ||
| RAL Tier2 | No | No | No | Yes (NGS-RAL) | |||
