Co-ordination & Harmonisation of Advanced e-Infrastructures Research Infrastructures – Grant Agreement n The CHAIN Project Federico Ruggieri, INFN – Project Director CHAIN Workshop at IEEE Cluster 2012 Beijing, 28 September 2012

Outline  Regional e-Infrastructures  The need for a project like CHAIN  Benefits of e-Infrastructures  General information about CHAIN  Virtual Research Communities  Interoperability  The demo  Conclusions 2

Regional Grid infrastructures CNGrid NKN & Garuda EUAsiaGrid SAGrid & SANREN GISELA 3

Operational Sites UoM CYNET TUBITAK ULAKBIM JUNET HIAST ERI EUN INFN RM3 NARSS 39 sites (30 in production) in 16 countries CERIST INFN LNS (UAE) In progress / Maintenance IUGAZA INFN BA OBSPM ANKABUT CCK INFN TS CNRST INFN PI SNS PISA IN2P3 LPSC IN2P3 IRES Univ.Bordeaux IN2P3 CPPM 4 ECTP GARR INFN CT COMETA Mediterranean Grid (EUMEDGRID) 4

Africa & Arabia Regional Operation Centre 5

China  HPC Systems  Two 100 Tflops  3 PFlops  Grid Software: CNGrid GOS  CNGrid Environment  14 sites  One OP Centers  Some domain app. Grids  Applications  Research  Resource & Environment  Manufacturing  Services  ChinaGrid for Education (Globus)  Sites with gLite/EMI (IHEP, PKU) in WLCG CNGrid 6

India National Knowledge Network  A state-of-the-art multi- gigabit pan-India network for providing a unified high speed network backbone for all knowledge related institutions in the country  An ultra-high speed CORE (multiples of 10 Gbps), with a distribution layer at speeds of 1 Gbps or higher. 7

GARUDA &  GARUDA is the Grid Computing initiative of the C-DAC to allow access for scientific and academic institutions to the aggregation of High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters from various C-DAC centres and partners, comprising now over 6000 CPUs (~ 70 teraflops) and terabytes of mass storage to provide distributed data.  The GARUDA Grid is now powered by the NKN - a highly reliable and secure national backbone. 8

Latin America  Red CLARA connects almost all the countries in Latin America and is managed by CLARA  CLARA is going to coordinate also the Regional Grid Infrastructure in LA 9

10 15 Countries (11 in Latin America) 19 Partners (14 in Latin America) 12 Third Parties (9 in Latin America) GISELA Project

CHAIN: global coverage 11

Why ? The e-Infrastructures promote the usage of network connectivity and stimulate scientific and technical development of countries contribute to fight the digital divide and brain drain. e- Infrastructures support wide geographically distributed communities enhance international collaboration of scientists promote collaboration in other fields. Grids and networks allow the access of many researchers to scientific resources (laboratories and data) Disparity can be reduced and larger participation and contributions to high quality research. 12

Project information  Grant Agreement for a total EC contribution of 1.1 M€  Total cost: about 1.9 M€  Start Date: 1st December Duration 24 Months  Partners: 1) INFN (Italy - Coordinator) 2) CESNET (Czech Rep.) 3) CIEMAT (Spain) 4) GRNET (Greece) 5) IHEP (China) 6) UBUNTUNET (Africa) 7) CLARA (Latin America) 8) PSA (India) 9) ASREN (Med./Middle East/Gulf) Since 1 August

Partners in China 14

Project objectives 15 Define a strategy and a model for external collaboration, in close collaboration with EGI.eu which will enable operational and organisation interfacing of EGI and external eInfrastructures Validate this model, as a proof-of-principle, by supporting the extension and consolidation of worldwide Virtual Research Communities Explore and propose concrete steps forward towards the coordination with other projects and initiatives (e.g. EGI.eu, NKN & Garuda, CNGrid etc.)

Knowledge base (WP2, WP5) 16

Country view 17

VRCs (WP3)  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) 18

Worldwide Interoperability Demo 19

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Science Gateway Science Gateway App. 1 App. 2 App. N Embedded Applications Administrator Power User Basic User Users from different organisations having different roles and privileges Access: the Science Gateway model (WP3, WP4) Standard-based middleware-independent Grid Engine Standard-based middleware-independent Grid Engine 21 Europe, Africa, Asia Pacific, Latin America Brasil China India

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NKN Conference – Mumbai 31 Oct. – 2 Nov

Conclusions  The CHAIN project has gathered the experience and knowledge of regional Grid infrastructures around the world  CHAIN has made useful recommendations on several aspects of regional e-Infrastructures and specifically to their sustainability  CHAIN has successfully agreed with other regional projects (EUMEDGRID-Support, GISELA) on the SG approach  The first usage of SG in these projects has been very encouraging  An Interoperability demo has been demonstrated at the EGI TF 2012 in Prague and will be still available to be shown in other events such as the NKN 2012 Conference in Mumbai  A Road-Map for the interaction between EGI and other regional infrastructures is being finalised 24

Co-ordination & Harmonisation of Advanced e-Infrastructures Research Infrastructures – Grant Agreement n Thank you