Worldwide Large Hadron
Collider Computing Grid (WLCG)
LCG node is deployed and maintained by the advanced scientific computing group at NCP. The effort to deploy a grid node in
Pakistan was started in October 2003, with a workshop named “Grid Technology Workshop” held from October 20 – 22, 2003. The first ever testbed was deployed using LCG_1 tag 1.1.1.2 during the workshop consisting on 9 machines providing the following services:
Item
Abbreviation
No.
Storage Elements
SE
01
Resource Brokers
RB
01
Computing Elements
CE
02
User Interface
UI
01
Worker Node
WN
03
Grid Information Index Server
GIIS
01
30 machines were used during the tutorial for enabling users to communicate with the deployed testbed in
Grid Technology Workshop held in NCP.
Now NCP is a Tested & Certified Grid Node in Pakistan. Grid node was tested & CERTIFIED by the Grid Deployment Team (dteam) at CERN and added to the Grid Operations Centre (GOC) website. Now NCP is a certified
WLCG Grid node, first in South Asia and fifth in Asia.
The WLCG team
consists of:
Usman Ahmad Malik
Sajjad Asghar
Adeel-ur-Rehman
Fawad Saeed
Saqib Ehsan
Manzoor
Ahmad
NCP Grid Node remains up-to-date with the newer versions of
WLCG.
NCP deployed a new
WLCG version which is LCG_2 tag 2.0.0 in June 2004
In September 2004, we moved to the newer version of LCG_2 tag 2.2.0
In January 2005, we installed WLCG tag 2.3.0 In March we updated it to tag 2.3.1
In April 2005, we upgraded our node to LCG_2 tag 2.4.0
In November,
2005 we upgraded to the version tag 2.6.0 on our node.
In March 2006, we installed the version tag 2_7_0
In October 2006, we installed the latest version tag
3.0.2_1
We also upgraded in hardware resources by adding more machines in October 2008 and now we have
74 CPUs in our node. The details are as follows:
