EGEE-II INFSO-RI Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE and gLite are registered trademarks NA2 report for CSIC Gabriel Amorós (CSIC-IFIC) Prague, November 2007

2 Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI CSIC CSIC ( Largest scientific research institute in Spain. Experience in Grid projects and applications in several scientific areas ) participates with two institutes: IFCA (Instituto de Física de Cantabria), Santander. IFIC (Instituto de Física Corpuscular), Valencia. (Institutes for High Energy Physics) Total NA2 effort: 12 PM

3 Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI Overview Personnel involved Disemination activities summary –Talks and presentations about EGEE in external events  External to EGEE organized events  As a part of EGEE events. User induction: –Medical Imaging –Astrophysics community (Planck mission) –Astronomy Community (XMM analysis) Online dissemination activities –Web pages (SWE Federation) –Wiki pages (

4 Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI CSIC-Personnel involved Institute of Physics of Cantabria (IFCA, Santander) –EGEE funded effort  Irma Díaz (Grid related dissemination activities and web pages) Physics degree –Unfunded effort  Jesus Marco and Isabel Campos (CSIC staff) E-Science and Grid Computing specialists  Concepción Ruiz Journalist payed by CSIC for dissemination support Institute of Corpuscular Physics (IFIC, Valencia) –EGEE funded effort  Álvaro Fernández, Gabriel Amorós. E-Science and Grid Computing specialists –Unfunded effort  José Salt, Javier Sánchez (CSIC staff) E-Science and Grid Computing specialists

5 Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI CSIC-Talks in external events –“Introducción al GRID y principales logros del proyecto EGEE”. –Meeting: XVII Informatics Summer School: 'Computación GRID: del Middleware a las aplicaciones'. Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. Proceed. –Authors: José Salt, Santiago González, Álvaro Fernández. –Date: –Participants: ~ 35

6 Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI –Round table –Meeting: XVII Jornadas de Paralelismo, Albacete. –Speaker: José Salt. –Date: –Participants: ~ 40 –Round tabIe –Meeting: e-Ciencia Andaluza (e-CA). Granada, –Speaker: Álvaro Fernández. –Date: –Participants: ~ 30 CSIC-Talks in external events

7 Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI –“Nuclear Fusion Applications on the Grid” – Meeting: IV Tematic Network meeting of Grid Middleware, Madrid – Speaker: Isabel Campos – Date: – Participants: ~ 40 –“Towards the construction of the European Grid” – Meeting: Summer school of the University Complutense of Madrid – Speaker: Isabel Campos – Date: – Participants: ~ 35 –“Grid Job Management and Control in Earth Sciences” – Meeting: DEGREE workshop – Speaker: Jesus Marco – Date: – Participants: ~ 20 CSIC-Talks in external events

8 Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI –“Spanish National Grid Initiative in the Context of EGI” – Meeting: Andalusian meeting on E-Science, Granada, Spain – Speaker: Jesus Marco – Date: – Participants: ~ 35 –“What is a suitable Grid for researchers ?” – Meeting: Summer School on Grid Computing, Albacete, Spain – Speaker: Jesus Marco – Date: – Participants: ~ 60 CSIC-Talks in external events

9 Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI CSIC-Talks in external events –“e-Science: network supercomputing” – Meeting: “Social complexity & new scientific paradigms: towards building desirable futures” at the Summer University Menendez Pelayo, Santander, Spain – Speaker: Jesus Marco – Date: – Participants: ~ 20 – Remark: participation of José Manuel Silva Rodríguez (Director General DG Research – European Comission).

10 Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI CSIC-User induction Medical imaging –Several meetings with medical_image-biomed group from IFIC to offer them participation and use on the GRID infrastructure in collaboration with UPV. (Dec-06). –Participation in EU proposal to create applications related to Hadron Therapy Centers. Astrophysics community (Planck mission) –Meetings with the researchers of CSIC involved in the Planck mission to offer support to migrate their tools to the Grid –Integration of IFCA in the Astrophysics cluster of EGEE Astronomy Community (XMM analysis) –Meetings with the researchers of CSIC working in the data analysis of the X-Ray astronomy satellite XMM-Newton –Stablishment of agreement together with ESA to introduce them in the Planck VO as a subgroup

11 Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI CSIC-Organized events –Indirect dissemination activities (Related NA3 events):  ATLAS Distributed Analysis Tutorial. (14 part.). 3-May  Grids & E-Science IV. (17 part.) 24-Sep  Grid lectures at CARTIF (Valladolid) (8 part.) 5-Jun –Remarks:  Most of the participants are not involved with EGEE, so the introductory hours provides them a vision of GRID computing and EGEE in particular.

12 Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI CSIC-User Forum Events EGEE User Forum in Geneva (CH) September 2006 –Booth setup at the conference with general information about the grid projects involving CSIC centers OGF/EGEE User Forum in Manchester (UK) May 2007 –CSIC was Premier Sponsor the User Forum –Booth at the conference displaying general information about the grid projects involving CSIC centers CSIC Booth at the User Forum in Manchester in May 2007

13 Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI CSIC-Activities to broad public –2 Editions (2006 and 2007) of the Week of Science: “Science and computation” at IFCA  Presentations about the meaning of Grid computing and grid infrastructures at general public level  November 2006: over 200 students (between 10 and 16 years old)  November 2007 (ongoing): already inscribed 900 students for  Remarks (future): this event will be included within Madrid i+d, major event in SPAIN (april 2008, IFEMA, Madrid). ESOF (july 2008, Barcelona).

14 Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI CSIC-Activities to broad public –IFIC is in the Dissemination Program 'VISITAS GUIADAS' of CSIC  4-5 visits of High School students ( about students/visit) every year;  GRID infrastructure and achievements are shown –Virtual travelling to learn e-Science (by Jesus Marco)  Presentation to High School students (~ 60 attendants) –Internal IFIC Colloquium: with Dario Barberis (ATLAS Computing Responsable), January 2008 –Interview to J.Salt for MÈTODE (is a periodic publication addressed to the scientific an university community, edited by Universidad de Valencia). To be published.

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI CSIC- On line activities Visibility on internet –Web pages (SA1 helpdesk for SW federation: Portugal and Spain):   English.  Statistics tool: >+50 Unique visitor/month (excluded SW people means around >+30) 11 countries with >10 pages visited (exc. SW and related countries) –Wiki pages at IFCA:  e-Science wiki pages  Started several months ago not only for EGEE.  Spanish-English.

16 Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI CSIC in SPAIN CSIC is precursor member of the Spanish NGI (National Grid Initiative). CSIC is precursor member for the Spanish network for e- Ciencia, created during last months and related to Grid and Supercomputing. This network involves +100 groups in Spain.

17 Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI Conclusions I NA2 SW Federation contribution: 1.5 FTE Usually there are more people envolved with NA2. We reach to a large number of interested groups within the potential and de facto grid community. NA2 activites are related to other EGEE activities. Dissemination works on two ways: –The oportunities arrive to people: invitations to talks. –The oportunities are created: organizing events

18 Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI Conclusions II We use the oportunities and our strongness: –There are better results disseminating close to us. –We are experts, then we are invited. –We are the reference. The potential user community is an specialised community: the dissemination rules should be specialised. Any event is a good oportunity.