FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026024

[Empowering eScience across the Mediterranean]

A GRID infrastructure to promote cooperation across the Mediterranean

The EUMEDGRID ProjectRoberto Barbera – Univ. of Catania and INFN

(EUMEDGRID Technical Manager)

EGEE User ForumManchester 9-11 May 2007

www.eumedgrid.eu

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Outline

General information

Objectives & Strategies

Main Achievements & Applications

Perspectives & Conclusions

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Generalities

EUMEDGRID is a Specific Support Action (SSA) funded under the EU VI Framework Programme.

The project started the 1st of January 2006. 24 months duration. 14 partners from EU and Non-Member States. More information on the Project web site:

www.eumedgrid.eu.

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Participants

Partners Third Parties

INFN (Italy) Coordinator Università di Messina – Dipartimento di Matematica (IT)

CERN (Switzerland) Dipartimento di Fisica – Università di RomaTre (IT)

CYNET (Cyprus) ICTP – (IT)

DANTE (UK) CRS4 – (IT)

GARR (Italy) IUCC (Inter University Computing Center) – ISRAEL

GRNET (Greece) Institute of Communication and Computer Systems, Athens, Greece

RED.ES (Spain) JUNet, Jordan

University of Malta (Malta) PADI2, Palestine

CERIST (Algeria)

CNRST (Morocco)

EUN (Egypt)

HIAST (Syria)Laboratoire CRISTAL - Ecole Nationale des Sciences de

l'Informatique (TU)

MRSTDC (Tunisia)Research Unit of Technologies of Information and Communication -

University of Tunis (TU)

TUBITAK-ULAKBIM (Turkey) Bilkent University (TK)

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It’s about People: The core of the EUMEDGRID approach is to establish a human network in the eScience area, enlarge and train this community, and establish a pilot Grid infrastructure supporting proof of concept regional applications.

It’s about Technology: EUMEDGRID aims to provide specific support actions to assist the participation of the states of the Mediterranean region in the pan-European and worldwide Grid initiatives, thus expanding and supporting the European Research Area (ERA) in the region.

EUMEDGRID

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Digital Divide

http://maps.maplecroft.com/

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Social Impact

e-Infrastructures support wide geographically

distributed communities → enhance

international collaboration of scientists → promote collaboration in other fields.

Grids and networks allow the access of many researchers to Science (laboratories and data)

→ the brain drain can be reduced. The European Research Area program wants to

set Europe as the most advanced region in e-Infrastructures and promote the development of less advanced countries to alleviate as much as possible the digital divide.

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Corner stones

EUMEDGRID uses EGEE, and its middleware implementation gLite, as reference GRID Infrastructure.

We leverage on the existing communities already involved in international collaborations (LHC and HEP experiments are the most advanced).

EUMEDGRID is built upon and exploits the infrastructure provided by the Gigabit Pan-European Research & Education Network (GÈANT2) and the Mediterranean Research and Education Networking (EUMEDCONNECT) initiative in the region.

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The Network in the Mediterranean

GRNET - Gr

TUBITAK - Tr

MARWAN - Ma

- It

RED.ES - Es

ARN - Dz

EUN - Eg

JUNET - Jo

IUCC - Il

CYNET - Cy

The NRENs in th

e Region are EUMEDGRID partners.

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Strategies

(TOP-DOWN)• Foster the creation of National Grid Initiatives (NGIs) in the

Med Countries → promote the creation of sustainable national grid infrastructures with production quality level.

• Deploy first those applications which are already grid-enabled and/or easy to be ported (LHC, WISDOM).

(BOTTOM-UP)• Discover and support New User Communities which will be

the driving force of constant expansion and evolution of the Grid Infrastructures → stimulate new demanding application to be deployed and support NGIs creation.

• Discover and support new applications which are relevant for the Region (Earth Science, Archaeology, etc.).

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The EUMEDGRID e-Infrastructure

MA-GRID

INFN -Roma3

INFN -Catania

INFN - CNAF

ULAKBIM

CYNET

IUCC

GRNETUn. of Tunis

Un. of Malta

ERI/EUN

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The “spread” of Knowledge: geo-distribution of training

events

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New Applications & Communities

https://secure.um.edu.mt/eumedgrid/questionnaire/wp4/

Questionnaire

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Already Deployed Applications

CODESA-3D (Earth Science)• It is a three-dimensional finite element simulator for

coupled flow and density dependent transport in variably saturated porous media.

• Requires data from: Geology, Topography, Meteorology, Water extraction, Aquifer properties, Soil maps, Land use.

ArchaeoGrid (Multi-disciplinar)• Paleoclimate simulation (with modern tools like MM5)• Aims at studying the origin of the City in the

Mediterranean Region between X-VIII Centuries B.C.

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Grid-enabled Subsurface Hydrology application in the

Mediterranean area Sustainable management of groundwater

exploitation using Monte Carlo simulation of seawater intrusion in the Korba aquifer (Tunisia).

Seawater intrusion in the aquifer is a very severe problem in some of the coastal zones of the Med Area.

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A'Korba

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Grid-enabled hydrology application

CODESA-3DCODESA-3D is a three-dimensional finite element simulator for coupled flow and density dependent transport in variably saturated porous media.

x

6.55E+05 6.60E+05 6.65E+05 6.70E+05 6.75E+05 6.80E+05 6.85E+05

y

4.04E+06

4.05E+06

4.06E+06

4.07E+06

z

-400

-200

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200

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0.990.80.60.40.20.01

Frame 001 15 Jun 2006 KO-AQ3D PROBABILITY MAP

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ArchaeoGRID (1)

Aerial photo or satellite image

DEM

Land use

Infrastructures

Archaeological sites

WHEREArchaeological data are geospatial data

Archaeological GIS

Best resolution

X,Y < 1 m Z < 0.1 m (SAR)

How many layers ?

Number of layers large, depending from the complexity of the archaeological problem

Best resolutionby Differential GPS

X,Y,Z ˜ few cm

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ArchaeoGrid (2)WHEN

Archaeological data must be ordered by timeArchaeological GIS + time

1000 B.C.

500 B.C.

500 A.D.

~20 years, most precise resolution in time

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Biology Applications

EUMEDGRID supported the WISDOM data challenge on it’s infrastructure.

WISDOM is an initiative for Grid-enabled drug discovery against neglected and emergent diseases, using GRIDs for in Silico Drug discovery.

Simulation of docking of compounds on proteins.

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The EUMEDGRID Grid School(http://www.eumedgrid.org/egsap-1)

First EUMEDGRID Grid School (Cairo, Egypt, 17-28 April 2007)

– 10 applications selected, all “gridified”, several with a web interface based on GENIUS(biology, engineering, mathematics, physics, cognitive sciences , etc.)

– 80 nodes, 4 grid sites, 6 Mb/s connection installed in a hotel

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Perspectives

Increase site availability and usability.

Strengthen and enlarge the collaboration with the Universities and Research Institutes of the Med Countries.

Increase the number of NGIs.

Discover new communities and interesting (for the area concerned) applications.

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Conclusions

EUMEDGRID has created a “human network” across the Mediterranean.

It is a step towards the creation of a Mediterranean Grid Infrastructure for e-Science.

We are effectively promoting the creation of National Grid Initiatives as building blocks for such an infrastructure.

We are discovering new applications and new scientific communities to collaborate with.

Collaboration and cooperation in the Mediterranean can start from science and education.

The development of countries needs to be supported by e-Infrastructures to rapidly close the gap with the more advanced regions.

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026024

[Empowering eScience across the Mediterranean]

Thank You !