European e-Infrastructure Research Networks

1. Research Networks: A leading edge for the European e-Infrastructure Luis Rodríguez-Roselló Director a.i. Directorate “Emerging Technologies and Infrastructures. Applications” Luis.Rodriguez-Rosello@cec.eu.int European Commission, Information Society Directorate-General "The views expressed in this presentation are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission"

2. Outline of Presentation Table of Contents: • eEurope • ERA • DG INFSO and IST • e-Infrastructures GÉANT, Grids and Test-beds • Impact and Vision

3. Green books Liberalisation New Regulatory Framework Directives National Regulatory Entities Multinational projects Accompanying Measures Demonstrations Integrated Projects Networks of Excellence Telecommunications policy Research and Development eEurope,applications and contents Electronic eCommerce eContent eLearning Broadband Security eEurope: part of a EU co-ordinated action on IS

4. eEurope: from 2002 to 2005 Action Plan • Achievements eEurope 2002 • Speeding up EU decision making • Co-ordination of EU policies • Monitoring national progress • Internet on top of political agenda • New Telecom framework • New priorities for eEurope 2005 • Stimulate demand to: • Promote content, services and applications • Provide interactive public services on-line • Achieve digital inclusiveness eGovernment, eHealth, eLearning and eBusiness environments • Boost enabling technologies to: • Promote broadband access • Ensure trust and confidence in cyberspace From an increasing connectivity to an increasing effective use of Internet

5. ERA - a new context for EU supported RTD • Moving to a European level Research policy • Strengthen co-operation between National and EU Activities • Improve links between National and EU policies and schemes • Take into account enlargement • Development of a “shared vision” on European RTD • Potential for co-funding arrangements • Realising ERA will require • New thinking: more strategic and goal oriented • New approach: integration, concentration, critical mass and flexibility • New scope: taking account of the international dimension of RTD (greater awareness of who’s doing what) • New instruments: Integrated Projects (IPs) & Networks of Excellence (NoEs), Integrated Infrastructure Initiatives (I3s)

6. Knowledge technologies and Interfaces Future & Emerging Technologies Communications, Computing and Software Components and Microsystems Technologies for major societal and economic challenges Priority Themes of IST Research Infrastructures

7. DG INFSO - addressing e-Infrastructures in a coherent wayDirectorate on “Emerging Technologies & Infrastructures, Applications” Policies : eInclusion, eEconomy eInclusion New working environment Applied Research Technology Development Grid-technology/middleware for complex problem solving Infrastructure & Testbeds Grids & Advanced Commun. Testbeds Research Infrastructures Future and emerging technologies Research at the Frontier of knowledge

8. e-Infrastructure Research (2002-2006) Serving Advanced User Communities • Architecture, design and development work relevant for e-Infrastructure • beyond extensions of existing technologies leading to • open standards • including security built-in at all levels, programming environments, customisable middleware, resource management • economic and business models for new services • interoperability with existing e-Infrastructure services (e.g. GRID and Web services) • Enabling Technologies • providing a homogeneous end-to-end networked infrastructure • enabling the seamless provision of services • interconnecting all research in Europe for solution of complex problems requiring a grid-based approach • exploiting synergies across different application sectors

9. R&D on e-Infrastructures (RI) • Deployment of Grids-empowered infrastructures to the Research Community in all scientific disciplines • further deployment of GÉANT • deployment of a second layer with widespread Grid features, able to openly provide services to a large set of application communities1 • … moving from experimental pilots to stable provision of services • Indicative budget in FP6 - GÉANT infrastructure:100 M€ • Indicative budget in FP6 - Grid infrastructure:100 M€ • 1 The deployed Grid infrastructures should exhibit production-level performance capabilities and constitute themselves distributed facilities at gigabit/terabit scales (computing, storage, communication power)

10. China Japan Korea NeDAP US EUROLINK Canada Japan SILK NORDUnet:an important partner in GÉANT 10 Gbit/s 2,5Gbit/s <2,5Gbit/s Research Networking • Pan-European coverage (33+ Countries/NRENs) • Gigabit connectivity at 10 Gb/s • Linking more than 3100 Universities • Total 200 MEuro over 4 years (80 MEuro from EU) • Extend to Mediterranean, Asia Pacific Rim, Latin America...

11. GÉANT Performance Figures Transfer Volume in the European Backbone Network before and after the introduction of GÉANT 2500 2000 1500 Terabyte/month 1 Petabyte 1000 500 0 12/2000 06/2001 12/2001 06/2002 12/2002 06/2003 12/2003 TEN-155 GÉANT

12. FP6 – Focus on GÉANT • GÉANT – maintain and capitalise on worldwide leadership on Research Networks • FP6 GÉANT network will represent a significant step forward in terms of • services (end-to-end together with NRENs) • communities served (schools, libraries, etc.) • geographical scope (Balkans, Russia, Turkey) • bandwidth (access to managed/dark fibre) • and pioneering new technologies

13. Test-beds in FP6 • Promote fast validation & pervasive penetration of state-of-the-art technology in Research Infrastructures • Scale the breadth and magnitude of technology developments in other parts of the programme • Support test-bed schemes open to all users • Focus on • IP (Internet Protocol) over optical paths • new routing and protocol schemes • access technologies • photonic networks • lambda and terabit networking • . . .

14. Extensive European-wide IPv6 Test-beds To Japan To NorthAmerica NORDUnet:an important partner in 6NET To Korea GÉANT and NRENs collaborating on the introduction of new technologies

15. In FP5, deployment of GÉANT and (e.g. IPv6/Grid) pilots Grids Grids Grids Grids middleware GÉANT IPv6 IPv6 IPv6 Moving towards an e-Infrastructure

16. In FP6, deployment of a Grid empowered e-Infrastructure e-Infrastructure Moving towards an e-Infrastructure

17. Radio telescopeinterconnectedvia NORDUnet GÉANT changes in the way Research is done Example of an e-Infrastructure:eVLBI Radio-Telescopes interconnected by GÉANT

18. Making e-Infrastructures a Reality • Enable the provision of a state-of-the-art distributed computing resource available to all researchers in Europe • Deliver a production-level Grid service platform that is manageable, scalable, robust, secure and provides training for its users

19. e-Science e-Health e-Learning e-Business aeronautics genomics environment astronomy e-Infrastructure (Grids empowered) security semantic web. broadband automatic management Grid mobility Vision: Create an e-Infrastructure Global knowledge infrastructure

20. Virtual Silk Highway GÉANT Russia Japan Projects & GRIDs EUMEDIS EUMEDconnect China TEIN2 India Central Africa @LISALICE Singapore Australia Southern Africa Operational or contract signed Request to interconnect received Interconnect e-Infrastructures

21. Policies Research e-Infrastructures: • “corner-stone” of ERA • “spear-head” of an “eEurope Infrastructure” (e.g. broadband plus) • “integrator” of National Infrastructures • powerful “instrument” for International Cooperation • … cohesion, cooperation, etc…

22. Conclusions • With the support of the IST Programme and in the context of the eEurope action plan, a new generation backbone for research has been launched - GÉANT • The EU is investing in FP6 in GRIDS, IPv6, Photonics to support highly demanding user community The provision of an e-Infrastructure is fundamental for the realisation of the European Research Area (ERA)