Luis Rodríguez-Roselló Director a.i.

1. eInfrastructures (9-10 December 2003, Rome) Progressing towards an EU eInfrastructure: developments, technological research, strategies Luis Rodríguez-Roselló Director a.i. Directorate “Emerging Technologies and Infrastructures. Applications” European Commission, DG INFSO

2. Contents • The context of European RTD on Grids, Networking • The eInfrastructure and Grid Research vision • DG INFSO: current achievements and future plans • Policy aspects of eInfrastructures • Context of international co-operation • Conclusions

3. Ambitious strategic goal for Europe Lisbon 2000: A strategy towards the Knowledge Economy and Society Specific strategic actions: eEurope: A major instrument to attain the Lisbon objective providing consolidation in Member States European Research Area (ERA): A major initiative to ensure Europe’s long term competitiveness Growth initiative: Broadband for all Mobile Communications Research Networking Context overview

4. 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 eEurope eLearning Broadband Security eEurope: part of an EU co-ordinated action on IS

5. 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

6. European R&D: a fragmented landscape Only 4% of the total civil research budget of the EU FIN CERN, EMBL, ESA, ESO and other international organisations S UK NL IRL DK A B LUX D Enterprises, universities and research centres Framework programme F IT P ES EL Candidate and associated countries ERA - fostering an EU internal knowledge market

7. 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 (I3)

8. eInfrastructures: empowering the user eInfrastructures as a foundation for ERA: • integrated communication and information processing service to the researcher/user • integrating distributed resources (instrumentation, tools, computers, data, humans...) • unprecedented levels of computational, data transfer and storage capacity • knowledge sharing environments for science and engineering

9. Computing- & data-resource sharing services (Grids...) Connectivity services (GÉANT & the NREN) eInfrastructures eInfrastructures: the next generation ICT-infrastructures “One stop shop” ICT-service to researchers/users

10. eInclusion • New working environments Applied Research Technology Development • Grid-technology/middleware • for complex problem solving Infrastructure & Testbeds • Grid & IPv6 Testbeds • Research Infrastructure • Future and emerging technologies (FET) Research at the Frontier of knowledge DG INFSO: addressing Grids-networks in a coherent wayDirectorate on Emerging Technologies & Infrastructures, Applications Mastering Complexity - Empowering User - Sharing knowledge

11. Research Infrastructures: eInfrastructures for Research Strategic objective: Grid empowered eInfrastructure for research • 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 communities • … moving from experimental pilots to stable provision of services • Indicative budget in FP6 - GÉANT infrastructure:100 M€ • - Grid infrastructure:100 M€ • - Test-beds: 50 M€

12. Optical, IPv6... test-beds Grid test-beds GÉANT (+NRENs) operating at 10 Gbps, 33+ countries, 3500 Universities, supporting Grid test-beds, QoS eInfrastructures: building on current achievements

13. Next generation of GÉANT and the NRENs • Continue to provide connectivity to all NRENs - yearly growth 2x to 3x • Serve new user communities (education, cultural heritage...) • Geographical extension (Balkans, NIS etc) • Provide high BW for special applications (e.g. Grids) • End-to End QoS, Security, Mobility • Deployment of a European wide AAA scheme • IPv6 all the way; deployment of new underlying switched transport network (lambda-based) New GN2 network 1Q 2005

14. BIO HEP operational support DL federating NI networking training specific services supercomputers pan-european grid AAA joint research activities middleware research results from IST (e.g. networking & Grid research) global file system Next generation Grid RI (international dimension to be taken from the start - e.g. cyberinfrastructure/Teragrid)

15. Optical, IPv6... test-beds Grid test-beds Research on new technologies (Grids, Security, Networking etc) GÉANT (+NRENs) operating at 10 Gbps, 33 countries, 3100 Universities, supporting PoC and Grid test-beds, QoS eInfrastructures: role of research

16. Industry& Business Grids e-Science Vision of EU Grid ResearchThe Challenges Moving Grids from e-Science to Industry Promote Grid research to • Solve complex problems with high economic and societal impact • Exploit the potential of Grids beyond e-Science • Ease access and use of Grids Moving towards Next Generation Grids Total indicative budget in FP6: 125 M€

17. Next Generation Grid(s): 3-fold vision • End-user empowerment • Life-support to business processes Abstraction Simplification NextGenerationGrids • Continuously changing requirements • Grid services development environments End-User Vision Softwarevision Architectural Vision • Societal behaviour (millions of self-organising nodes) • Computational semantics, ontologies, meta-descriptions • Pervasive virtual organisations Virtualization

18. Next Generation Grid(s): Identified Research Themes Properties Open Reliable ScalablePersistent TransparentPerson-centric Pervasive Secure / trusted Standards-based Research Themes NextGenerationGrid(s) Facilities Models Virtual Organisation Systems Management Co-ord. and orchestrationInformation representation User Interface Grid Economies Business models

19. eInfrastructures: supporting important EU policies • “corner-stone” of European Research Area • enabling sharing of information/knowledge • “integrator” of National Infrastructures • “spear-head” of an “eEurope infrastructure” (e.g. broadband ++) • can potentially be a key element of the GROWTH initiative • cohesion, co-operation across Europe • key element for international co-operation

20. eInfrastructures: motivation for new policy initiatives • Breaking barriers: • New organizational policies • Resource sharing attitude • Common policies of accessing computing & data storage resources across institutions, application domains, national boundaries The harmonization of such policies is a major challenge!

21. eInfrastructures: new policy initiatives • MS and AS and the EC work together to harmonize such policies in Europe • Building on the experience of GÉANT & NRENs • eInfrastructures Reflection Group • A monitoring and advisory role • To broaden the user basis through common policies • Links to ESFRI, TERENA etc • …for e-Science and beyond...

22. eInfrastructures: forging international co-operation • GÉANT: linking European NRENs to all big world RNs • DATATAG: building a cross-Atlantic Test-bed link • International participation in EC funded projects • GRIDLAB: funds for partnership with US technology • development centres • EGEE: US and Russian partners (project still in negotiations) • Test-beds: IPv6 (US, Japan, Canada …) etc • Context for new initiatives on more harmonised international policies on the access and use of ICT-resources (notably computing, data storage…) • Challenge: closer links and synergies between the eInfrastructure - Cyberinfrastructure - other similar concepts of the AP and of other world regions

23. Conclusions European commitment to ... • Spearheading of European eInfrastructure for research (e.g. broadband+) fully connected to the world • Broadening user basis through common policies • From E-Science to Industry and all users • Collaboration (ERA, policies…) • Growth within cohesion • Fostering international co-operation