TGQR 2010Q4 Report.pdf - Teragridforum.org

6.5 RP Operations: Accounting/Core Services
TG RP staff provided local allocations and account management support for users including
account creation/deletion, password reset, and local system usage accounting. These staff
interacted with the TG Account Management transaction system (AMIE), which is a transactionbased
grid account management system that is central to all users having access to the TeraGrid.
6.5.1
NCSA staff continues to support and maintain AMIE and contributed to the recent upgrade of the
TGCDB.
6.5.2
NCSA
PSC continues to house, support and maintain the secondary instance of the TGCDB. The PSC
staff continues to ensure replication between the secondary and the primary continues. PSC staff
were central to the success of the recent upgrade of the TGCDB.
6.5.3
PSC
SDSC continues to house, support and maintain the primary instance of the TGCDB. The SDSC
staff continues to ensure replication between the secondary and the primary. SDSC staff were
central to the success of the recent upgrade of the TGCDB. SDSC staff also built the local
accounting infrastructure to track Trestles CPU usage and the Trestles resource was integrated
into the TeraGrid via AMIE in December.
6.5.4
SDSC
TACC
TACC staff members continued to contributed to activities related to User Facing Projects and
Core Services. Maytal Dahan led TGUP portal development activities including the development
of vetted/unvetted user portal accounts and GridShib authentication to enable users to easily gain
access to TeraGrid resources. Furthermore, this quarter the user portal team released expanded
job service features. The user portal team released an interface to the Karnak prediction service
offering start time and wait time predictions on TG resources. The team also released a ‘’My
Jobs’’ feature, which lists the status of a user’s jobs on the TeraGrid. It also integrates Karnak by
enabling prediction capabilities on queued jobs. The team continued to support the software and
systems for both the TeraGrid User Portal and the TeraGrid Web Site. Katie Cohen and Kent
Milfeld coordinated the TRAC review process and organized the allocation review meeting held
within the reporting period. In addition, the TACC team organized and chaired the weekly
allocations working group meetings, and processed all advance, startup and supplement allocation
requests (275) during the reporting period.
6.6 User Information Presentation
This objective ensures that users are provided with current, accurate information from across the
TeraGrid in a dynamic environment of resources, software and services. Operationally, this
objective ensures high reliability of the presentation mechanisms, including quarterly operational
support for the TGUP and TeraGrid web site. Support for TeraGrid internal web environments,
notably the Wiki, is included here.
Members of both the TGUP and Documentation teams received advance LifeRay training at the
LifeRay corporate offices in CA.
The TGUP and TeraGrid Web presence continued to increase its user base and support large
numbers of visitors and page hits. Table 6-2 shows hits, visitors and logins for the TGUP, Web
site and Wiki.
67