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EGI-InSPIRE
www.egi.euEGI-InSPIRE RI-261323Astro-CG OGF35 19 June 2012
EGI and the European Scientific Communities:
Astro-CG, OGF35, Delft, NL
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Steve Brewer, Chief Community Officer, EGI.eu
steve.brewer@egi.eu
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Outline
1. The landscape for integrated e-infrastructure
2. Overview of grid user communities
3. Roadmap for community collaboration
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Outline
1. The landscape for integrated e-infrastructure
2. Overview of grid user communities
3. Roadmap for community collaboration
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C21: Digital Research
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Extracting Knowledge from the Data Deluge
Requires an infrastructure to share services and tools personalised to individual
research communities
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Digital Agenda for Europe
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• Borderless Services• Interoperability• Supporting Innovation
Digital Agenda for Europe“Europe should also build its innovative
advantage in key areas through reinforced e-Infrastructures (i.e. GEANT & EGI)”
remove barriers to the free movement
of knowledge
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What is EGI?
• European Grid Infrastructure (EGI)– Federation of National Grid
Infrastructures– Represented by EGI.eu (Dutch
foundation)
• National Grid Infrastructures (NGIs)– Sole national point of contact for
‘Grids‘– Integrates individual resource
centres
• Current Status:– 35+ NGIs & 350+ resource centres– 300,000 CPUs & 200PB+ storage
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EGI.eu partners
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EGI-InSPIRE Project
Integrated Sustainable Pan-European Infrastructure for Researchers in Europe
A 4 year project with €25M EC contribution
– Project cost €72M– Total Effort ~€330M– Effort: 9261PMs
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Project Partners (50)
EGI.eu, 38 NGIs, 2 EIROs
Asia Pacific (9 partners)
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Outline
1. The landscape for integrated e-infrastructure
2. Overview of grid user communities
3. Roadmap for community collaboration
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VO Statistics (April 2012)
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Metrics Value
Registered national and international VOs
226 (3.20% )
Registered users 20883 (14.30% )
Active VOs (High/Medium/Low)
25/23/8
ArcheologyAstronomyAstrophysicsCivil ProtectionComp. ChemistryEarth SciencesFinance
FusionGeophysicsHigh Energy PhysicsLife SciencesMultimediaMaterial Sciences
…
Supported Research Communities
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Technology Innovation
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• Will come from outside EGI– Moving research technologies into production
• Partnership with technology projects– EMI (European Middleware Initiative)– IGE (Initiative for Globus in Europe)– EDGI (European Desktop Grid Initiative)– StratusLab– VenusC– SAGA
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VOs, VRCs and partner projects
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• Virtual Organisations: rules defining people & resources
• VRCs are self-organised (virtual) research communities which give individuals within their community a clear mandate to represent the interests of their research field within the EGI ecosystem.
• Current EGI VRCs: (http://www.egi.eu/community/vrcs/)– WeNMR - Structural biology– LSGC – Life sciences– HMRC – Hydro-meteorology– WLCG – High energy physics– CLARIN/DARIAH – Humanities (with a Letter of Intent)
Plus: Astro, Earth Sciences, Comp. Chem., Fusion, Digital Cultural Heritage
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EGI: strategy for 2020
Pillars of the strategy:• Community & Coordination
– Community building through events– Community networking through the NGIs
• Operational Infrastructure– Operate a European wide infrastructure– Offer its use to other research infrastructures– Build a federated cloud environment
• Virtual Research Environments– Enable 3rd party integration & operation of VREs
http://go.egi.eu/EGI2020
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VRCs – VREs & EGI
EGI Community
Platform
EGI Collaboration
platform
EGI resources(clusters, storages,...)Dedicated or shared resources/platforms
(e.g. Clusters; EC2, PRACE, XSEDE)
Research facilities (e.g. detectors, sensor
networks)
VMVM
VM
SWVM
VMSW EGI Infrastructure platform
DB
DB
Virtual Research
Environment
Created by a project such as CLARIN, ELIXIR,
LifeWatch, ...
Virtual Research Communities
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Services(Applications & data)
Anatomy of a VRE
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Service access (Science gateways - portal, desktop and mobile)
Off-the-shelf and custom VM images
Domain specific and generic data
repositories
Off-the-shelf and custom applications
Service integration(workflows)
EGI support
EGI support
EGI support
EGI suppo
rt
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EGI support:Service access
• Catalogue of existing solutions– http://go.egi.eu/sciencegateways
• Gateway components repository– SCI-BUS portlet repository
will be used (see MoU)
• Plan: “How-to” documentation– Develop an EGI science gateway primer
(through a new EGI Virtual Team project and portal-community@mailman.egi.eu)
• Portal & gateway workshops– CF & TF– Portal workshops by NGIs– Community workshops on portals
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EGI support: Cross cutting support
• Applications Database (EGI software catalogue)– Stores information about any EGI software– Tags:
• Organise software into clusters
– Subscription:• Join an item/cluster as supporter
(developer, operator, expert)
– Notifications:• To get informed about changes
– Web gadgets:• Embed customised lists of software into your website
– Write API Planned• Itegrate the catalogue with the EGI platform (e.g. Info system)• Integrate the catalogue with other catalogues
• Training Marketplace– Advertise and search for events, materials, online courses– Web gadgets:
• Embed customised lists of software into your website
• Events– Community and Technical Forums (Call for TF2012 co-located events is open!)– Topical workshops (hosted by NGIs)
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Outline
1. The landscape for integrated e-infrastructure
2. Overview of grid user communities
3. Roadmap for community collaboration
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Roadmap for collaboration
• EGI wants to support Astronomy– work with Astro-CG, AA VRC, other projects– What is needed? VRE, gateways, apps?– Virtual Teams to achieve short-term goals
• Specific use cases and scenarios – descriptions?
• Formally involve specific NGIs – which?
• Virtualisation to achieve scalability of solutions?
• Identify which software applications are needed?
• Data archiving and reuse; sharing and security
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VT projects and more
Initiatives of relevance to Astronomy
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1. The Federated Cloud Task Force is already providing a cloud infrastructure through a few committed NGIs. Pilot resources are being made available to various research communities participating in the Task. (User workshop in July in Amsterdam)
2. A lively portal developer and provider community is being supported by EGI. The group is able to setup and operate custom, application and/or community specific portals for members of the community to interact with EGI.
3. A project to assess the possibilities for federated identity management in EGI and the readiness of EGI member states for federated authentication and authorisation mechanisms will deliver greater flexibility for integrated services.
4. EGI’s operating resources and user support services continue to grow, with new types of services and infrastructures, such as desktop grids, map-reduce frameworks, GPU clusters continuously being developed and made available.
5. Virtual Team (VT) projects – 3- 6 months (with NGIs)
Suggestions for future VT projects may emerge from discussions at OGF35Further information on VTs: https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Virtual_teams
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Conclusions
• EGI is more than a production infrastructure:– A framework for sharing and innovation– A forum for communication and collaboration
• Astronomy research community has strong grid history– Many years experience plus involved from the start of EGI– Many grid-based applications, research and publications
• Astronomy community is a key part of future EGI Strategy– EGI Strategy is aligned with EU 2020 strategy inc. Innovation Union – EGI will support and partner various ESFRI projects and researchers– EGI will develop requirements with technology developers & providers
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Questions?
EGI user community support team:
ucst@egi.eu
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See you at the EGI Technical Forum 2012,Prague, Czech Republic between 17–21 September
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