1 SCI-BUS: building e-Science gateways in Europe: building e-Science gateways in Europe Peter Kacsuk MTA SZTAKI Start date: Duration: 36 months SCI-BUS is supported by the FP7 Capacities Programme under contract nr RI

2 Motivations There are many user communities who would like to access several DCIs (grids, clouds, clusters) in a transparent way They do not want to learn the peculiar features of the used DCIs They want to concentrate their scientific application Therefore they need a science gateway

3 How to build a science gateway? There are two basic options: –Build from scratch Long time to produce a robust gateway Requires substantial manpower and development cost –Adapt and customize an existing gateway technology Significantly reduces development time Produces a robust and usable service SCI-BUS provides the required core gateway and customization technology

4 Main objectives of SCI-BUS Create a generic-purpose gateway technology Elaborate an application-specific gateway building technology and customisation methodology Establish production gateway services both for NGIs (horizontal user communities) and various science communities (vertical user communities) Provide seamless access to major computing, data and networking DCIs and services including supercomputers, clusters, grids and clouds Create and maintain a Liferay portlet repository that enables the quick creation of user specific customised gateways Provide gateway development and application development support Develop business models to guarantee the sustainability of the gateway services and to enable the commercial exploitation

5 Project partners NoParticipant organisation namePart. short nameCountryExpertise & Experience 1Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia Szamitastechnikai es Automatizalasi Kutato Intezet MTA SZTAKIHungaryCoordinator in EDGeS, EDGI, SHIWA, developer of WS-PGRADE 2Academisch Medisch Centrum bij de Universiteit van Amsterdam AMCThe NetherlandsGateway developer for the medical user community 3Simsoft Bilgisayar Teknolojileri Ltd. Sti.SIMSOFTTurkeyGateway developer for business process modeling 4E-GROUP Ict Software Informatikai ZrtEGHungaryGateway developer for Web 2.0 5Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ZürichETH ZurichSwitzerlandGateway developer for bioscience 6Middle East Technical UniversityMETUTurkeyGateway developer for seizmology 7Scaletools Ltd.STSwitzerlandGateway developer for clouds 8Eberhard Karls Universität TübingenEKUTGermanyGateway developer for computational chemistry 9University of WestminsterUoWUKDeveloper of UK NGS P-GRADE 10Universidad de ZaragozaUnizarSpainGateway developer for PireGrid SMEs 11CloudBroker GmBhCBSwitzerlandGateway developer for clouds 124D SOFT SZAMITASTECHNIKAI KFT4D SOFTHungaryGateway developer for ETICS-2 13Istituto Nazionale di AstrofisicaINAFItalyGateway developer for astrophysics 14Laurea-ammattikorkeakoulu oyLaureaFinnlandGateway developer for Blender 15The Provost Fellows & Scholars of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin TCDIrelandGateway developer for helio- physics

6 Re-usability and adaptability to different communities and needs Create 11 gateways in the 1st project year for the following user communities: –International seismology community –Helio-physics communityc –Swiss systems biology community of the SystemsX.ch project –German MoSGrid computational chemistry and bioinformatics community –Biomedical researchers community of the Academic Medical Centre of the University of Amsterdam –Astrophysics community –PireGrid SMEs community –Business process modelling community –Blender rendering community –Citizen web-2 community –Public application developer community (based on ETICS-2 results) Create another 16 user community gateways (including 6 subcontractors)

7 The SCI-BUS Infrastructure Create 11 gateways in the 1 st project year

8 Tools and user roles in SCI-BUS Portlets Repository Portlets Repository Applications Repository Applications Repository fMRI MRI simulator Sequencing …. NonLinSyst simulator NonLinSyst simulator SCI-BUS Generic Framework based on WS- PGRADE and Liferay SCI-BUS Generic Framework based on WS- PGRADE and Liferay Application Developer Portlet Developer Gateway Developer SCI-BUS Generic Framework SCI-BUS Generic Framework Portlet Application DCI Custom Gateway Scientist Gateway Operator Data transfer Profile Monitoring Function Workflow Job submission …. Workflow Template A Data management Portlet Function

9 Portals and repositories in SCI-BUS

10 Where to find further information? gUSE/WS-PGRADE: – gUSE on sourceforge – – – SCI-BUS web page: – SHIWA web page: – See demos at the SZTAKI booth

Collaboration with EGI Jointly approaching –NGIs to set up a SCI-BUS gateway –User communities to set up or adapt the SCI-BUS gateway SCI-BUS will create a user forum –to discuss portal/gateway issues –Build a community of portal developers and users in Europe EGI level monitoring of SCI-BUS gateways Organizing joint dissemination events Joint survey of user needs 11