IT Challenges and Initiatives in Scientific Research

Alberto Di Meglio CERN openlab Deputy Head

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.9809

LHC Schedule

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First run LS1 Second run LS2 Third run LS3 HL-LHC

2009 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2011 2010 2011 2019 2023 2024 2030? 2021 2020 2022 …

LHC startup

900 GeV

7 TeV L=6x1033 cm-2s-2

Bunch spacing = 50 ns

Phase-0 Upgrade (design energy,

nominal luminosity)

14 TeV L=1x1034 cm-2s-2

Bunch spacing = 25 ns

Phase-1 Upgrade (design energy,

design luminosity)

14 TeV L=2x1034 cm-2s-2

Bunch spacing = 25 ns

Phase-2 Upgrade (High Luminosity)

14 TeV L=1x1035 cm-2s-2

Spacing = 12.5 ns

FCC?

50 times more data than today in the next 10 years 50 PB/s out of the detectors

5 PB/day to be stored

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E-Infrastructure for the 21st Century

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http://zenodo.org/record/7592

•  Based on outcome and recommendations of high level experts and reflection groups (eIRG, GEG, HLEG-SD, etc.)

•  In collaboration with the EIROForum members •  A hybrid public-private service model (subsidized and

pay-per-use) providing: •  Base infra services (networks, support for FIM) •  A small number of facilities providing cloud and data

services •  A marketplace of services, software and tools from

communities, service and technology providers (EUDAT, BioMedBrdges, iMarine, many others) in curated public repositories

•  A network of Research Accelerator Hubs •  Two prototypes in 2014, CERN and EMBL-EBI

A European cloud computing partnership: big science teams up

with big business

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Strategic Plan

�  Establish multi-tenant, multi-provider cloud infrastructure

�  Identify and adopt policies for trust, security and privacy

�  Create governance structure

�  Define funding schemes

To support the computing

capacity needs for the ATLAS

experiment

Setting up a new service to simplify analysis of large genomes, for a deeper insight

into evolution and biodiversity

To create an

Earth Observation platform, focusing

on earthquake and volcano

research

Adopters

To improve the

speed and quality of research for

finding surrogate biomarkers based on brain images

Suppliers

Slide courtesy of the Helix Nebula project, http://www.helix-nebula.eu

Helix Nebula Marketplace •  Builds upon the work undertaken as part of the EC

funding project and overall initiative

•  Support by European cloud providers and integration with existing e-Infrastructures, a hybrid cloud Computing Market Place and open for new Cloud Providers

•  Trusted cloud services through compliance with EU regulations and legislation

•  Simplified procurement process for multiple cloud services

•  Offered to the global scientific community, for both publicly-funded and commercial Research and Technology Organizations, offering large-scale and HPC-type deployments from the start.

•  A focus on transparency and impartiality of the brokerage function. Trust is important.

Slide courtesy of the Helix Nebula project, http://hnx.helix-nebula.eu

CERN openlab in a nutshell

§  A science – industry partnership to drive R&D and innovation with over a decade of success

§  Evaluate state-of-the-art technologies in a challenging environment and improve them

§  Test in a research environment today what will be used in many business sectors tomorrow

§  Train next generation of engineers/employees §  Disseminate results and outreach to new

audiences

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Public-Private Collaborations

New partners

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Information Technology Research Areas

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Data acquisition and filtering

Computing platforms, data analysis, simulation

Data storage and long-term data preservation

Compute provisioning (cloud)

Data analytics

Networks

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CERN openlab IT Challenges Whitepaper

§  IT Challenges Whitepaper •  Workshops, discussions, presentations •  Printed this week, announcement on Mon 12th

§  Internal discussions, workshops, several iterations among contributors

§  Base for Phase V and extended collaborations

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