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EGI and the European Scientific Communities: Astro -CG, OGF35, Delft, NL

EGI and the European Scientific Communities: Astro -CG, OGF35, Delft, NL. Steve Brewer, Chief Community Officer, EGI.eu steve.brewer@egi.eu. Outline. The landscape for integrated e-infrastructure Overview of grid user communities Roadmap for community collaboration. Outline.

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EGI and the European Scientific Communities: Astro -CG, OGF35, Delft, NL

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  1. EGI and the European Scientific Communities:Astro-CG, OGF35, Delft, NL Steve Brewer, Chief Community Officer, EGI.eu steve.brewer@egi.eu

  2. Outline • The landscape for integrated e-infrastructure • Overview of grid user communities • Roadmap for community collaboration Astro-CG OGF35 19 June 2012

  3. Outline • The landscape for integrated e-infrastructure • Overview of grid user communities • Roadmap for community collaboration Astro-CG OGF35 19 June 2012

  4. C21: Digital Research Extracting Knowledge from the Data Deluge Requires an infrastructure to share services and tools personalised to individual research communities Astro-CG OGF35 19 June 2012

  5. Digital Agenda for Europe • Borderless Services • Interoperability • Supporting Innovation remove barriers to the free movement of knowledge “Europe should also build its innovative advantage in key areas through reinforced e-Infrastructures (i.e. GEANT & EGI)” Digital Agenda for Europe Astro-CG OGF35 19 June 2012

  6. 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 EGI.eu partners Astro-CG OGF35 19 June 2012

  7. 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 Project Partners (50) EGI.eu, 38 NGIs, 2 EIROs Asia Pacific (9 partners) Astro-CG OGF35 19 June 2012

  8. Outline • The landscape for integrated e-infrastructure • Overview of grid user communities • Roadmap for community collaboration Astro-CG OGF35 19 June 2012

  9. VO Statistics (April 2012) Supported Research Communities • Archeology • Astronomy • Astrophysics • Civil Protection • Comp. Chemistry • Earth Sciences • Finance • Fusion • Geophysics • High Energy Physics • Life Sciences • Multimedia • Material Sciences • … Astro-CG OGF35 19 June 2012

  10. Technology Innovation • 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 Astro-CG OGF35 19 June 2012

  11. VOs, VRCs and partner projects • 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 Astro-CG OGF35 19 June 2012

  12. 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 Astro-CG OGF35 19 June 2012

  13. VRCs – VREs & EGI Virtual Research Communities Virtual Research Environment Created by a project such as CLARIN, ELIXIR, LifeWatch, ... EGI Collaboration platform EGI Community Platform VM VM EGI Infrastructure platform DB SW VM VM Research facilities (e.g. detectors, sensor networks) VM DB SW EGI resources(clusters, storages,...) Dedicated or shared resources/platforms(e.g. Clusters; EC2, PRACE, XSEDE) Astro-CG OGF35 19 June 2012

  14. Anatomy of a VRE EGI support Service access (Science gateways - portal, desktop and mobile) EGI support Service integration(workflows) EGI support Services(Applications & data) Off-the-shelf and custom VM images Domain specific and generic data repositories Off-the-shelf and custom applications EGI support Astro-CG OGF35 19 June 2012

  15. 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 Astro-CG OGF35 19 June 2012

  16. 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) Astro-CG OGF35 19 June 2012

  17. Outline • The landscape for integrated e-infrastructure • Overview of grid user communities • Roadmap for community collaboration Astro-CG OGF35 19 June 2012

  18. 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 Astro-CG OGF35 19 June 2012

  19. VT projectsand more Initiatives of relevance to Astronomy 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) 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. 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. 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. Virtual Team (VT) projects – 3- 6 months (with NGIs) Suggestions for future VT projects may emerge from discussions at OGF35 Further information on VTs: https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Virtual_teams Astro-CG OGF35 19 June 2012

  20. 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 Astro-CG OGF35 19 June 2012

  21. Questions? EGI user community support team: ucst@egi.eu See you at the EGI Technical Forum 2012, Prague, Czech Republic between 17–21 September

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