FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026024 [ Empowering e Science across the Mediterranean ] EUMEDGRID Project Status Roberto Barbera, Univ. of Catania and

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026024

[Empowering eScience across the Mediterranean]

EUMEDGRID Project Status

Roberto Barbera, Univ. of Catania and INFNEGAAP Meeting - CERN, 03.03.2006

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EGAAP Meeting, CERN, 03.03.2006

Outline

Objectives Partners Workplan Organization Status Conclusions & Outlook

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Objectives (1/2)

[O1] Stimulate the formation of National Grid Infrastructures (NGI) in the Mediterranean Countries, thus contributing to the creation of a “virtual Grid-based research space” (“horizontal action” of the project). It is expected that in the majority of the third countries a National Grid event will take place.

[O2] Promote awareness in the region regarding Grid developments through the organization of a number of dissemination and outreach events, which will promote the project results to the private and public sector, ultimately reaching the general public.

[O3] Establish a dialogue regarding policy developments for research and education networking and provide input to the agenda of national funding bodies and if possible governments. This is to be done as part of NGI establishment (O1) as well as in a form of dedicated policy workshop.

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Objectives (2/2) [O4] Capture local eScience user requirements in terms of resources needed, Grid services,

and application software. [O5] Provide guidelines and technical cookbooks to guide regional integration in the Euro-

Mediterranean infrastructures. [O6] Carry out the regional integration in the Euro-Mediterranean infrastructures by

supporting the establishment of pilot Grid resource centres at each country in the region. Adapt and implement the operational and organisational management techniques of the existing production Grids and bring the region up to speed with production-level operations. Pilot Grid Resource Centres are intended to be the major vehicle of this process, becoming the seeds of National Grid Infrastructures in the Mediterranean Countries.

[O7] Build upon and exploit the infrastructure provided by the Gigabit Pan-European Research & Education Network (GEANT) and the Mediterranean Research and Education Networking (EUMEDCONNECT) initiative in the region. The coordination of NGI into a Regional (Mediterranean) infrastructure will take advantage from the existing human network created within the EUMEDCONNNECT project; on the other hand, such human network will be a trigger towards the creation of a physical backbone connecting directly all EUMEDGRID actors, to maximize the effectiveness of the pilot grid infrastructure, which in a first phase will mainly build upon Gèant2 network and the EUMEDCONNECT links towards the Mediterranean

[O8] As a proof of principle, support the deployment of EGEE applications (High Energy Physics, BioMed) and other Grid applications of regional interest on the pilot infrastructure, with the involvement of local user community; actively encourage new user communities to join the EUMEDGRID community and deploy their own applications on the Pilot infrastructure.

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PartnersPartic.

Role*Partic.

No.Participant name

Participant short name

CountryDate enter

project **

Date exit projec

t **

CO 1 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare INFN Italy M1 M24

CR 2 European Organisation for Nuclear Research CERN Switzerland M1 M24

CR 3 Cyprus Research and Academic Network CYNET Cyprus M1 M24

CR 4 Delivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe

DANTE UK M1 M24

CR 5 Consortium GARR GARR Italy M1 M24

CR 6 Greek Research and Technology Network GRNET Greece M1 M24

CR 7 Entidad Pública Empresarial RED.ES RED.ES Spain M1 M24

CR 8 University of Malta UOM Malta M1 M24

CR 9 Centre de Recherche sur l’Iformation Scientifique et Technique CERIST Algeria M1 M24

CR 10 Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique CNRST Morocco M1 M24

CR 11 Egyptian Universities Network EUN Egypt M1 M24

CR 12 Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology

HIAST Syria M1 M24

CR 13 Ministry of Scientific Research, Technology and Competency Development

MSRTDC Tunisia M1 M24

CR 14 The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey TUBITAK Turkey M1 M24

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Third Parties

Third Party PartnerRelevant

WP’s

Università di Messina – Dipartimento di Matematica INFN WP4

Dipartimento di Fisica – Università di RomaTre INFN WP4, WP5

CRS4 GARR WP4

ICTP INFN WP4

IUCC (Inter University Computing Center) - ISRAEL GARR WP4, WP5

Laboratoire CRISTAL - Ecole Nationale des Sciences de l'Informatique

MRSTDC WP4, WP5

Research Unit of Technologies of Information and Communication – University of Tunis

MRSTDC WP4, WP5

Bilkent University TUBITAK WP4

JUNet, Jordan GRNET WP5

PADI2, Palestine GRNET WP5

Institute of Communication and Computer Systems, Athens, Greece

GRNET WP3

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Workplan

Work-package

No

Work-package title Lead contractor No

Person-months

Startmonth

Endmonth

WP1Project administrative and technical management

1 (INFN)37.4 (25.4)

M1 M24

WP2Requirement capture and analysis

8 (UoM)42

(36.4)M1 M7

WP3Pilot infrastructure operational support

6 (GRNET)144.9

(123.6)M6 M24

WP4 Applications support 1 (INFN)103.7 (82.5)

M6 M24

WP5Dissemination and Outreach

5 (GARR)152.6

(123.8)M1 M24

TOTAL480.6

(391.7)

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Commitment

37.4

25.4

4236.4

144.9

123.6

103.7

82.5

152.6

123.8

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

160

WP1 WP2 WP3 WP4 WP5

Funded

Unfunded

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Project management structure

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Project executives

Project Manager: Federico Ruggieri (INFN) Technical Manager: Roberto Barbera (Univ. of

Catania and INFN) WP2 Manager: Kevin Vella (UoM) WP3 Manager: Ognjen Prnjat (GRNET) WP4 Manager: Giuseppe Andronico (INFN) WP5 Manager: Federica Tanlongo (GARR)

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Work already done

WP1: Project Administrative and Technical Management

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The Project website(http://www.eumedgrid.org)

Both in English and French.

Soon in Arabic!

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Work already done

WP2: Requirements Capture and Analysis

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The EUMEDGRID Questionnaire

A questionnaire to gather information from partners has been finalized and is online at the URL:• https://secure.um.edu.mt/eumedgrid/questionnaire/

The survey closes on the 16th of March and the results will be available soon after.

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Work already done

WP3: Pilot Infrastructure Operational Support

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The EUMEDCONNECT Network

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The EUMEDGRID e-Infrastructure(from the Technical Annex)

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The EUMEDGRID e-Infrastructure(NOW! - from GridICE)

INFN-CT

INFN-RM3

GRNETINFN-CNAF

TUBITAK

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The EUMEDGRID GridICE(http://eumed-gridice.cnaf.infn.it:50080/g

ridice)

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The EUMEDGRID GStat and SFT(http://goc.grid.sinica.edu.tw/gstat/eumed/)

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Certification Authorities

INFN Certification Authority has accepted to act as a “catch-all” CA for the first months of the Project to ease and speed up the start-up of users.

4 out of 7 needed Registration Authorities have already been setup at:• CNRST, Morocco (Redouane Merrouch)• Research and Academic Network, Cyprus (Christos

Koutsioupis)• HIAST, Syria (Maher Suleiman)• RicerkaNet, Malta (Charles Mifsud, Simon Portelli )

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The “eumed” VOMS(https://voms2.cnaf.infn.it:8443/voms/eu

med/)

New registrations at: https://voms2.cnaf.infn.it:8443/voms/eumed/webui/request/user/create

Grid Acceptable User Policy already defined

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The User Support System(http://support.eumedgrid.org)

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Work already done

WP4: Application Support

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Grid Applications

Biomed applications (already EGEE pilot applications)

HEP applications (already EGEE pilot applications) New candidates:

• Earth science (hydrology, see presentation later)• e-Learning (multi-media content on-demand)

Others to be selected by WP2

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Aim: estimate sustainable extraction scheme - improve management

CODESA-3D: Density-dependent 3D coupled groundwater flow and transport simulations

Data requirement• Geology• Topography• Meteorology• Water extraction by the

farmer• Aquifer properties• Soil maps• Land use

6.60E+05 6.70E+05 6.80E+05

4.04E+06

4.05E+06

4.06E+06

4.07E+06

H [m.a.s.l]

1601208040201050

-2

N

One simulated map of water levels

Hydrology

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Work already done

WP5: Dissemination and Outreach

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The first Project’s information

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•19 sites in 3 continents•> 3000 certificates issued, >15% renewed at least once•> 100 tutorials and demos perfor-med in 23 months•> 1,000,000 hits (> 50,000 unique visits) on (of) the web site from 10’s of different countries •> 0.6 TB of training material downloaded from the web site

The GILDA t-Infrastructure

(https://gilda.ct.infn.it)

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Preliminary time schedule of tutorials

Where When Who

Greece (Athens) 27-28 March 2006 SysAdmins

Turkey (Istanbul) 3-7 July 2006 SysAdmins and Users

Tunisia (Tunis) Autumn 2006 SysAdmins and Users

Algeria (Algiers) June 2007 Users

Israel (Tel Aviv) July 2007 Users

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Conclusions and Outlook

The progress made by EUMEDGRID since its beginning is very good and promising.

The kernel of the pilot infrastructure is already set up and will grow rapidly.

Some applications have already been defined and many more will come thanks to the survey done inside WP2.

So, more news very soon !

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FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026024 [ Empowering e Science across the Mediterranean ] EUMEDGRID Project Status Roberto Barbera, Univ. of Catania and