D6.3.1: First Annual Technology Report

Task 6.3 ‘Technical evolution of the PRACE operational services’ in work package 6 ‘Operation of the Distributed Research Infrastructure’ of PRACE-3IP continues the work from PRACE-1IP (WP6, Task 6.3). It also takes over the technical evolution of the PRACE operational services from work package 10 ‘Advancing the Operational Infrastructure’ in PRACE-2IP after the completion of WP10. In the first year 6.3 started to evaluate the Bolt software as a job submission tool complementing UNICORE. Also the evaluation of gsatellite has been started to provide additional functionality to GridFTP, the standard file transfer technology in PRACE. For PRACE internal needs the task members worked on and finished the setup of an internal GridFTP repository. Also the evaluation of DMOS is almost finished. Additionally the perfSONAR evaluation has been started. A further objective was the handover from WP10. This has been planned and agreed in detail with the WP10 members