Co-ordination & Harmonisation of Advanced e-Infrastructures Research Infrastructures – Grant Agreement n The Virtual Research Communities CHAIN Workshop (IEEE Cluster 2012) – Beijing, 28 Sep 2012

2 Outline  The VRC WP inside CHAIN  Actions (identifying VRCs)  List of VRCs  Updated version of the road-map of services  Conclusions

CHAIN Workshop (IEEE Cluster 2012) – Beijing, 28 Sep WP in CHAIN  CHAIN is an EC (260011) funded project  ~ 1.9 M€  Starting on December 1 st, 2010 with a 2-years duration  Structured in  WP 1 Project Management  WP 2 Consolidation of existing state of the art  WP 3 Present and emerging needs of trans-continental scientific communities  WP 4 Modelling the cooperation of European e-Infrastructures with non-European ones  WP 5 Dissemination and Outreach

CHAIN Workshop (IEEE Cluster 2012) – Beijing, 28 Sep WP in CHAIN  CHAIN is an EC (260011) funded project  ~ 1.9 M€  Starting on December 1 st, 2010 with a 2-years duration  Structured in  WP 1 Project Management  WP 2 Consolidation of existing state of the art  WP 3 Present and emerging needs of trans-continental scientific communities  WP 4 Modelling the cooperation of European e-Infrastructures with non-European ones  WP 5 Dissemination and Outreach

CHAIN Workshop (IEEE Cluster 2012) – Beijing, 28 Sep WP3 in numbers  78 PM out of (~28%)  Partners  INFN  CIEMAT  CESNET  UBUNTUNET  CLARA  IHEP  PSA  ASREN  Third parties

CHAIN Workshop (IEEE Cluster 2012) – Beijing, 28 Sep WP3 in numbers  78 PM out of (~28%)  Partners  INFN  CIEMAT  CESNET  UBUNTUNET  CLARA  IHEP  PSA  ASREN  Third parties Europe

CHAIN Workshop (IEEE Cluster 2012) – Beijing, 28 Sep WP3 in numbers  INFN  CIEMAT  CESNET  UBUNTUNET  CLARA  IHEP  PSA  ASREN  Third parties Europe Africa

CHAIN Workshop (IEEE Cluster 2012) – Beijing, 28 Sep WP3 in numbers  INFN  CIEMAT  CESNET  UBUNTUNET  CLARA  IHEP  PSA  ASREN  Third parties Africa Latin America

CHAIN Workshop (IEEE Cluster 2012) – Beijing, 28 Sep WP3 in numbers  INFN  CIEMAT  CESNET  UBUNTUNET  CLARA  IHEP  PSA  ASREN  Third parties Latin America Asia

CHAIN Workshop (IEEE Cluster 2012) – Beijing, 28 Sep WP3 in numbers  INFN  CIEMAT  CESNET  UBUNTUNET  CLARA  IHEP  PSA  ASREN  Third parties Asia Middle East

CHAIN Workshop (IEEE Cluster 2012) – Beijing, 28 Sep WP3 in numbers  INFN  CIEMAT  CESNET  UBUNTUNET  CLARA  IHEP  PSA  ASREN  Third parties Middle East

CHAIN Workshop (IEEE Cluster 2012) – Beijing, 28 Sep WP3 in DoW  WP3 is a SUPPORT Activity  WP3 “Present and emerging needs of trans-continental scientific communities”  Task 3.1 Scientific communities across the continents (INFN)  Task 3.2 Proposed road-map of services for communities to be deployed on the e-Infrastructures (CIEMAT)

CHAIN Workshop (IEEE Cluster 2012) – Beijing, 28 Sep Objectives & Aim  To provide (limited) support to the existing and well experienced VRC (LHC, Biomed…)  To provide support for communities interested to widen their activities collaborating with other continents  To discover and attract new scientific communities or merging similar ones operating worldwide.

CHAIN Workshop (IEEE Cluster 2012) – Beijing, 28 Sep Objectives & Aim  Performing a large spectrum investigation on the existing and potential trans-continental communities (T3.1)  Looking for requirements, commonalities, challenges and possible synergies to be gathered and analysed  Then, the results are used for feeding T3.2…

CHAIN Workshop (IEEE Cluster 2012) – Beijing, 28 Sep WP3 milestones  First step: Call for interest for reference communities  It briefly described WP3 aims and objectives  It showed a couple of identified VRC candidates  Based on EGI monitoring systems (CESGA), it provided some info about VO usage for Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America (Feb 2011)

CHAIN Workshop (IEEE Cluster 2012) – Beijing, 28 Sep WP3 milestones  Second step: Shortlist of reference communities ready  It reported on identified VRC candidates  Initiative coordinators agreed on it  All of them with (potential) impact in CHAIN regions

CHAIN Workshop (IEEE Cluster 2012) – Beijing, 28 Sep WP3 milestones  Third step: Agreements with reference communities signed  WeNMR 21/09/2011  WRF4G 19/09/2011  jModelTest 21/02/2012  LSGC 27/03/2012  INDICATE 28/03/2012  DECIDE 13/04/2012  SuperB (on the way)  Earth Science (ICTP) (on the way)

CHAIN Workshop (IEEE Cluster 2012) – Beijing, 28 Sep Actions: Definition  VRC 1 range  from a group of researchers working together, sharing means to carry out common investigations, such as distributed resources: instruments, computing, storage and software tools  up to large international well-structured collaborations  VRC 1 cover  Small user communities (several groups)  With or without Grid knowledge  Large collaborations  Looking for more computing resources and/or advanced services 1 GISELA D3.1

CHAIN Workshop (IEEE Cluster 2012) – Beijing, 28 Sep Identified VRC

CHAIN Workshop (IEEE Cluster 2012) – Beijing, 28 Sep Identified VRC  We-NMR (  Coordinator: Dr. Alexandre M.J.J. Bonvin – Universiteit Utrecht  Structural biology, making use of NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance), SAXS (Small Angle X-ray Scattering), computational modelling or other related techniques to study biomolecules

CHAIN Workshop (IEEE Cluster 2012) – Beijing, 28 Sep Identified VRC  We-NMR partners in red, collaborations in orange

CHAIN Workshop (IEEE Cluster 2012) – Beijing, 28 Sep Identified VRC  We-NMR  MoU signed on 21/09/2011  New contacts (WP2 survey)  Burundi  Costa Rica  India  They plan to study the Science Gateway paradigm feasibility  See Dr. Ruggieri and Dr. Barbera presentations about SG during this workshop for a deeper explanation about this framework promoted by CHAIN

CHAIN Workshop (IEEE Cluster 2012) – Beijing, 28 Sep Identified VRC  WRF4G (  Coordinator: Dr. Antonio Cofiño – Universidad de Cantabria  Meteorology and other Earth Science related areas willing to enhance their forecasting techniques on Idealized Simulations, Regional and Global Applications, Parameterization and Data Assimilation or Forecast and Hurricane Research  Dissemination within CORDEX project

CHAIN Workshop (IEEE Cluster 2012) – Beijing, 28 Sep Identified VRC  WRF4G partners in red, collaborations in orange

CHAIN Workshop (IEEE Cluster 2012) – Beijing, 28 Sep Identified VRC  WRF4G  MoU signed on 19/09/2011  New contacts (WP2 survey)  Burundi  China  Costa Rica  Cuba  India  SG pending on the development of a SAGA – GridWay actor

CHAIN Workshop (IEEE Cluster 2012) – Beijing, 28 Sep Identified VRC  jModelTest & ProtTest (  Coordinator: Dr. David Posada – Universidad de Vigo  Evolutionary biology for the statistical selection of best-fit models of nucleotide substitution and amino acid replacement for a given set of aligned sequences (molecular systematics, phylogenetics, phylogenomics, molecular evolution and/or bioinformatics)

CHAIN Workshop (IEEE Cluster 2012) – Beijing, 28 Sep Identified VRC  jModelTest & ProtTest registered users  Modeltest ~  jModelTest ~  ProtTest ~ 5.000

CHAIN Workshop (IEEE Cluster 2012) – Beijing, 28 Sep Identified VRC  jModelTest & ProtTest  MoU signed on 21/02/2012  New sequential and distributed computing versions available on SG    New contacts (WP2 survey)  Burundi  Costa Rica  Democratic Republic of Congo  Ethiopia  Nigeria  Panama  Sudan  Taiwan

CHAIN Workshop (IEEE Cluster 2012) – Beijing, 28 Sep Identified VRC  LSGC  MoU signed on 27/03/2012  One of the biggest Grid users, HEP excluded. According to EGI accounting portal, during last year, there were jobs running in these Regions:  Asia Pacific  Europe  Canada  Latin America (IGALC & ROC_LA)  Russia

CHAIN Workshop (IEEE Cluster 2012) – Beijing, 28 Sep Identified VRC  INDICATE (  Coordinator: Dr. Antonella Fresa – Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali  These initiatives are working on coordination of policy and best practice regarding the use of e-Infrastructures for digital cultural heritage

CHAIN Workshop (IEEE Cluster 2012) – Beijing, 28 Sep Identified VRC  INDICATE partners in red, collaborations in orange

CHAIN Workshop (IEEE Cluster 2012) – Beijing, 28 Sep Identified VRC  INDICATE  MoU signed on 28/03/2012  Essential since these two VRCs offer much different requirements than those usually demanded by more traditional R&D communities  New contacts to integrate a digital repository in China and Panama by means of the INDICATE e-Culture Science Gateway

CHAIN Workshop (IEEE Cluster 2012) – Beijing, 28 Sep Identified VRC  DECIDE (  Coordinator: Dr. Fulvio Galeazzi - GARR  Design, implement, and validate a GRID-based e-Infrastructure building upon neuGRID and relying on the Pan-European backbone GEANT and the NRENs. Over this e-Infrastructure, a service will be provided for the computer-aided extraction of diagnostic markers for Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia from medical images

CHAIN Workshop (IEEE Cluster 2012) – Beijing, 28 Sep Identified VRC  DECIDE partners in red

CHAIN Workshop (IEEE Cluster 2012) – Beijing, 28 Sep Identified VRC  DECIDE  MoU signed on 13/04/2012  Science Gateway paradigm adopted  New contacts in Nigeria

CHAIN Workshop (IEEE Cluster 2012) – Beijing, 28 Sep Identified VRC  Climate Change  Conf. Role of e-Infrastructures in Climate Change  List of interested people and projects  4 projects identified & 20 contacts  WRF4G / CAM4G have been promoted inside the VRC  Seismology groups identified in LA, India and Italy (SPECFEM3D)  Conversations to form a VRC associated to the Earth Science group of ICTP  RegCM

CHAIN Workshop (IEEE Cluster 2012) – Beijing, 28 Sep Identified VRC  SuperB  SuperB will be a heavy flavour accelerator that will provide complementary information to LHC, looking at rare decays with a very high luminosity electron-positron asymmetric collider  Potential contacts world-wide by means of LHC collaborations  New contacts provided by CHAIN to be considered as associated  Groups belonging to 23 countries have been identified  MoU discussed within its Board; suggestions to be received

CHAIN Workshop (IEEE Cluster 2012) – Beijing, 28 Sep Identified VRC Road-map of services

CHAIN Workshop (IEEE Cluster 2012) – Beijing, 28 Sep Road-map of services  Second version of the road-map of services  Complete version in D3.4 (to be submitted in the next month)  Brief summary in the CHAIN Wiki page (to be published)  First version in D3.2 (  Study of the current status of DCIs in what VRCs concerns  73 Recommendations for existing and emerging e- Infrastructures for Virtual Research Communities  Technical (49)  Training, administration and use (14)  Collaborative scenario (10)

CHAIN Workshop (IEEE Cluster 2012) – Beijing, 28 Sep Road-map of services  Special thanks to  CHAIN meetings and workshops  EGI’s role for 2020  Contributions received from:  The identified VRCs  The National representatives (first and second release of the VRC part of the WP2 survey)

CHAIN Workshop (IEEE Cluster 2012) – Beijing, 28 Sep Road-map of services  Summary of the recommendations to DCIs for their own running (1/2)  To settle a consolidated domestic NGI  To progress from JRU model to a legal body  To draw instruction up about how to set-up and manage fully pledged ROCs  To analyse sustainability for the ROCs and to make a dissemination plan about its sustainability  To ensure a service quality by means of SLA and SOP

CHAIN Workshop (IEEE Cluster 2012) – Beijing, 28 Sep Road-map of services  Summary of the recommendations to DCIs for their own running (2/2)  The use of GGUS  The organisation of training activities  The implementation of standards  To coordinate the security related efforts  To form VRCs

CHAIN Workshop (IEEE Cluster 2012) – Beijing, 28 Sep Road-map of services  Summary of the requirements to DCIs (Technical, 1/3)  Adoption of standards  Interoperation and interoperability between Grid, HPC, Cloud…  Queues for a great variety of submission and scheduling of jobs  Readiness for interactive jobs  Smoothly run those multiple queues  Computing Elements and Working Nodes should provide  2GB RAM/core minimum  Working space larger than 10 GB  Availability for MPI clusters  Increasing request for GP-GPU clusters

CHAIN Workshop (IEEE Cluster 2012) – Beijing, 28 Sep Road-map of services  Summary of the requirements to DCIs (Technical, 2/3)  Storage should provide  At least 1 TB  Short Term storage to long term preservation  Backup capabilities  Bandwidth for the Data  Huge data transfers  New visualization tools  Useful metadata and search (semantic) engines  Migration, decommissioning, cleaning... for the management of files

CHAIN Workshop (IEEE Cluster 2012) – Beijing, 28 Sep Road-map of services  Summary of the requirements to DCIs (Technical, 3/3)  Plans for scalability issues  Accurate information about the sites should be published as well as their working rules  Counting on up-to-date middleware and certificates  OLA and SLA to be agreed where possible  Simple mechanisms to deal with troubleshooting and monitoring  Provision of intellectual property rights (when some data/information demand it) and secure mechanisms for the data transmission

CHAIN Workshop (IEEE Cluster 2012) – Beijing, 28 Sep Road-map of services  Summary of the requirements to DCIs (Training, administration and use)  VO sustainability and agile administration  There are still communities and/or groups of researchers who are not sufficiently ICT-skilled  Specific community training events are an asset  Implementation of user friendly front-ends for the submission of jobs (Science Gateways)  More accessible authentication and authorisation methods (Identity Providers)  Drawing-up of best practice Handbooks, Technical References and Wikis

CHAIN Workshop (IEEE Cluster 2012) – Beijing, 28 Sep Road-map of services  Summary of the requirements to DCIs (Collaborative scenario)  Promotion of collaborative environments (community building)  VRC-VRC, VRC-DCI, VRC&DCI-Funding Agencies  Agreement on future strategies  Dissemination and outreach activities  Public information about:  Regional and/or national database of applications  List of software and services  Open and periodic calls for promoting and (if possible) funding e-Science

CHAIN Workshop (IEEE Cluster 2012) – Beijing, 28 Sep Conclusions  CHAIN is much focused on the VRCs coordination and promotion  CHAIN has identified several communities  Trans-continental presence  Different scientific domains  Different level of maturity  CHAIN promotes SG paradigm  A new road-map of services has been produced

Co-ordination & Harmonisation of Advanced e-Infrastructures Research Infrastructures – Grant Agreement n Thank you! Rafael Mayo (CIEMAT)