EGI-InSPIRE RI EGI-InSPIRE RI EGI-InSPIRE Community-Driven Innovation and Support Solution Gergely Sipos EGI.eu 1

EGI-InSPIRE RI Outline Objectives Structure of activities Results in PY5 –Events and communications –Innovation projects –Distributed Competence Centre –SME engagement –Federated Cloud Use of resources Next steps Conclusions 2

EGI-InSPIRE RI Objectives 3 Enabling excellent science through EGI solutions –Raising awareness of EGI –Technical engagement with community representatives –Requirement-driven customisation and extension of EGI solutions Target groups: –Research Infrastructures –Scientific collaborations (international & national projects) –The ‘long tail’ –SMEs and industry Engagement strategy defined and driven from EGI-InSPIRE

EGI-InSPIRE RI Approach 4 Engagement strategy – –To define what, why, who, how, when –Monthly Engagement meetings Coordination, implementation and support from EGI-InSPIRE NGI International Liaisons Champions Heavy User Communities (User Community Board) EGI.eu teams Communication Coordination Support Collaborating projects EGI-InSPIRE NA4.2 NA4.1 NA4.3, SA5.2 NEW in PY5 Distributed Competence Centre

EGI-InSPIRE RI From needs to solutions 5 Excellent science Events and communication Consultancy and support Virtual Team projects Outreach Technical engagement Implementation Outcome Activity plan Awareness and interest in EGI Success cases, tools, champions, etc. Existing solutions User communities

EGI-InSPIRE RI Results from PY5

EGI-InSPIRE RI Results from PY5 1.Events and communications 2.Innovation projects 3.Expanding the DCC concept with RIs 4.SME engagement 5.Federated Cloud 7

EGI-InSPIRE RI Events EGI events –EGI Community Forum, Helsinki, May 2014 Ca. 400 participants Technical tracks, Hackathons,Tutorials, Workshops, … –EGI Conference on Challenges and Solutions for Big Data Processing on Cloud, Amsterdam, Sep Ca. 160 participants Technical sessions on AAI, Data, Storage, etc.; EGI-GEANT Symposium Contributions to external events –Conferences Bioenergetics, Computational Biology, Climate modelling, Low-frequency Radio Telescopes –ESFRI workshops BioMedBridges, DASISH, BBMRI, ELIXIR, EPOS, LifeWatch, DARIAH –EC consultation events E-infrastructures for Mathematics; E-infrastructures for Africa 8

EGI-InSPIRE RI Communications: Publications 9 Solutions’ brochures EGI CF2014 –Book of Abstracts Case studies –Six new case studies Astro-seismology, Crystallography, Environmental science, Physics, Medical, Space science –Case studies booklet Newsletters –2 issues of Inspired

EGI-InSPIRE RI Innovation projects Technical projects –Support for genome analysis and protein folding –Integrating ELIXIR Reference Datasets into EGI 10 PROJECTSTART DATEEND DATE Promoting Desktop GridsNov 2013Feb 2015 Support for genome analysis and protein folding Apr2014Ongoing Platform for the long-tail of scienceOct 2014Ongoing Integrating ELIXIR Reference Datasets into EGI Dec 2014Ongoing

EGI-InSPIRE RI Promoting Desktop Grids 11 Goals/Tasks: –Full integration of desktop grids into EGI –Promote DG technology and support uptake –Increase the number of DG VOs and applications Members: –Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary (leader), Italy, Malaysia, Netherlands, Serbia, Spain, Taiwan, UK, Ukraine Achievements: 1.European DG Operations Centre XXX cores from xxx countries 2.xxx events, reaching xxx researchers Workshops, tutorials, demos 3.xxx new applications Xxx CPUh in xxx months

EGI-InSPIRE RI Life sciences Support for genome analysis and protein folding Goals/Tasks: 1. Sanitize software within EGI (AppDB, VOs) 2. Identify and integrate relevant tools 3. Disseminate tools, services, support 12 Achievements: 1. Improved information and availability of 13 applications 2. Integration of 4 tool from the domain with EGI READemption (DE), Trufa (ES), Chipster (FI), RSTAT (FR) 3. Promotion - 1 webinar and at 3 face-to-face events Reaching approx. 100 scientists Members: 2 EGI Champions 3 NGIs 3 scientific communities Genomics Structural Biology Bioinformatics Proteomics

EGI-InSPIRE RI Platform for the long-tail National solutions exist in several countries. But there is need for –More consistent support across all countries –Simplified access to grid and cloud –More interactions between researchers and NGIs –Lower cost of operation Long-tail platform –User registration portal –Dedicated resources (grid and cloud) –Science gateways –New security mechanism: User-specific robot proxies Development started in October 2014 –Release in Spring

EGI-InSPIRE RI Integrating ELIXIR Reference Datasets into EGI Goals/Tasks: –Identify life science datasets suitable for replication in EGI –Extend Applications Database (AppDB) towards a dataset registry –Propose analysis tools to work with data replicas –Integration with the ELIXIR-BMB Registry Members: –EGI.eu, EUDAT, ELIXIR Hub + ELIXIR nodes of DK, GR, IT, PT, SI Achievements until now: 1.User survey identified 10 datasets for replication 7 potential replicator tools 2 example setups in the NGIs 2.Proposed database schema for AppDB extension 14

EGI-InSPIRE RI Expanding Competence Centres From flat to hierarchical structure –8 Competence Centres – with 8 ESFRIs –Joining effort from NGIs, communities, technology and service providers Ongoing and planned activities: –Community-specific evaluation of EGI Solutions: Cloud, AAI, Data, GPGPU –Community support (applications, gateways, training, consultancy) Next generation of RI CCs are emerging from national collaborations 15 ELIXIR BBMRI MoBrain (Instruct, WeNMR) LifeWatch EISCAT_3D EPOS Disaster mitigation Life sciencesEnv. sciences ELI ICOS ESS KM3NET DARIAH Humanities CLARIN LOFAR

EGI-InSPIRE RI SME engagement Local/project initiatives continued in PY5 –EGI Business Engagement Programme defined by a Virtual Team project –Implementation plan endorsed by EGI Council in February 2015 Federated Cloud as engagement facilitator –6 use cases from private companies Water Quality Modelling –CSIC (Ibergrid) and Ecohydros SME in Life+ project –Starting point: Data collection and visualisation tool with alarm system: Alert authorities when water quality is under the limits –Innovation: Predicting changes in water quality  Prevention Delft3D software suite Rapid calibration, compilation, execution on the cloud 16

EGI-InSPIRE RI Federated Cloud - Support A new EGI platform –Production launch in May 2014 Established user support –Online guides –Incubator resource pool –Network of user support teams In 13 NGIs with bi-weekly meetings –Tutorials and webinars 17

EGI-InSPIRE RI Federated Cloud - Impact Supported 50 use cases from 26 communities in PY5 –Biological sciences – 18 –Physical sciences – 11 –Earth sciences – 5 –+ Computer science, Digital archives, Arts, Language and literature, … Usage statistics: –11 VOs –31 VM images in AppDB registry – VM instantiated Setup statistics –29 use cases using rOCCI client –12 use cases adopted high level tools CSGF, COMPSs, Slipstream, WS-PGRADE, DIRAC, VCYCLE 18

EGI-InSPIRE RI Use of resources NA4 (Community engagement) EGI.eu with 44 PM 28 partners with 162 PM (~6 PM / partner) Achieved PMs –NA4.1: 90% –NA4.2: 106% (EGI.eu) –NA4.3: 99% SA5.2 (Cloud use cases) 18 partners with 63 PM Achieved PMs: 41% –CESNET, CSIC, GRNET 19 TO REPLACE

EGI-InSPIRE RI Key achievements of 5 years 20 Operational Infrastructure Research CommunitiesCommunity coord. Excellent science +82 partners: NILs, UCB, Champions (only ~10 FTE from EGI-InSPIRE) +23 Virtual Team projects +31 VM image registration in the Applications Database +49 multi-national + 27 national new VOs +6 ESFRI VOs ELI, (2) LifeWatch, EISCAT, Km3Net, BBMRI-NL +62 million CPUh in new VOs +710 power users + 80 user groups +8 RIs with Competence Centres +6 additional RIs with NGI engagement +250 support projects for science groups + >2000 publications with support from EGI

EGI-InSPIRE RI Next steps Keeping the diversified engagement approach –Setup service and operation level agreements for heavy user communities –Launch RI Competence Centres –Roll-out the long-tail platform –Expand support for the Federated Cloud High level platforms (e.g. Hadoop clusters) –Implement the EGI Business engagement programme Reinforce the human networks –NILs, Champions, UCB, Operation Managers –New partner projects under H2020 –E-infrastructure partnerships (joint calls) 21

EGI-InSPIRE RI Summary Engagement activity at the pan-European scale would not be possible without EGI-InSPIRE –Successfully established framework, tools and human networks Activities driven by the Engagement Strategy –Integrates effort across NGIs and projects –Customised approaches for each user segment Intensified activities in PY5 –Community-driven innovation projects –Federated Cloud support –Distributed Competence Centre concept with RIs Intensify business engagement in

EGI-InSPIRE RI Questions 23 Members of the EGI-InSPIRE collaboration thank the EC for supporting EGI