INDICATE Final Conference, Ankara, Turkey – 15 October, INDICATE Final Conference, Ankara, Turkey EGI & eCulture The role of EGI for eCulture Applications Steve Brewer Chief Community Officer 15 October,

INDICATE Final Conference, Ankara, Turkey – 15 October, 2012 European Grid Infrastructure

INDICATE Final Conference, Ankara, Turkey – 15 October, 2012 Resource infrastructure Providers (RPs) Integrated EGI-InSPIRE Partners and EGI Council Members Internal/External RPs being integrated External RPPeer RP:

INDICATE Final Conference, Ankara, Turkey – 15 October, 2012 CPU Usage last 12 months

INDICATE Final Conference, Ankara, Turkey – 15 October, 2012 EGI Strategy: go.egi.eu/EGI2020 Pillars of the strategy: 1.Coordination and interaction with research communities and resource infrastructure providers 2.Delivery of an open uniform European- wide federated production infrastructure 3.Technologies for federating new resources 4.Integration and operation of Virtual Research Environments personalised to each research community 5

INDICATE Final Conference, Ankara, Turkey – 15 October, 2012 The EGI community Public Funding Bodies European Commission National Research Councils Resource & service Providers EGI.eu National Grid Infrastructures (NGIs) ~45 Technology Providers Grid middleware software Software for federated cloud Requirements Policies + Funding Strategic Feedback Requirements + Feedback User Community Services + Support Requirements + Feedback SW + Support TRANSfoRm VRC: Virtual Research Community VO: Virtual Organisation DCH/eCulture: Valued community: Specialised applications Existing user support Community growing 6

INDICATE Final Conference, Ankara, Turkey – 15 October, 2012 Community Outreach: Events EGI Forums –Every 6 months, around 500 people meet to share knowledge and plans User Community needs presented, Technological solutions, best practices –Keynotes, presentations, workshops, training, demonstrations, posters –Next: EGI Community Forum, Manchester 8-12 April Submit eCulture-related contributions? Presentation, workshop, demo, poster? Workshops and trainings (face-to-face and also ‘webinars’) Often technological topic specific: Workflows, Data management Sometimes software specific: GFAL and FTS service DCH and eCulture-related workshops? What is needed? 7

INDICATE Final Conference, Ankara, Turkey – 15 October, 2012 Dissemination & design EGI Website Case studies: Workflows and workflow systems: (Data from AppDB) Blog: News: Quarterly newsletter: (Twitter, Facebook) EGI Champions: – Dispaches for the NGI International Liaisons (planned) What is our key message to NILs after the DCH-RP kick-off? Technical brochures (planned) Brochure on eCulture applications? 8

INDICATE Final Conference, Ankara, Turkey – 15 October, 2012 Training marketplace Register eCulture/DCH-RP Events Training material Training resources (e.g portal) 9

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INDICATE Final Conference, Ankara, Turkey – 15 October, 2012 Applications Database  Software database Register eCulture applications INDICATE DCH-RP 11

INDICATE Final Conference, Ankara, Turkey – 15 October, 2012 Gadgets A way to reuse EGI services in third party websites Benefits –Customisability –Simplicity –Compatibility Existing gadgets: –Training Marketplace –Applications Database –Requirements Tracker Examples and howto: 12 Embed EGI gadgets into eCulture websites? INDICATE DCH-RP

INDICATE Final Conference, Ankara, Turkey – 15 October, 2012 Integrating services: Globus Online

INDICATE Final Conference, Ankara, Turkey – 15 October, 2012 Standardisation EGI technology providers are –involved in standardisation –implementating standards EGI.eu is not a standard developing institute EGI.eu and NGIs identify relevant standards and relevant implementations –UMD brings these to the infrastructure –See report from 2011: EGI Standards Roadmap (link)link –Example: FedCloud Task Force (OCCI, CDMI) 14

INDICATE Final Conference, Ankara, Turkey – 15 October, 2012 Requirements NGIs & projects Technology Coordination Board (TCB) EGI Requirements Tracker NGIs VRCs VOs User Community Support Team of EGI.eu projects events Submit requirements Browse requirements Offer solution to requirements: Channels for User & resource provider requirements EGI Helpdesk User Community Board (UCB) Operations Management Board (OMB) Structured scientific communities Technology providers Resource centres DCH submit requirements to EGI: Middleware capabilities (for UMD) Site configuration Policy... 15

INDICATE Final Conference, Ankara, Turkey – 15 October, 2012 EGI Virtual Team projects NGI International Liaisons –Single point of contact in NGIs for Outreach activities Virtual Team projects: –Short (1-6 month) project with multiple NGIs involved –Setup through NILs –Help EGI enlarge its user base –DCH-EGI Integration – now finished, explored possibilities (now succeeded by DCH-RP) 16 EGI.eu in DCH-RP FP7 project: Digital Cultural Heritage Roadmap for Preservation

INDICATE Final Conference, Ankara, Turkey – 15 October, 2012 Personalised environments EGI.eu Coordination Core software and support gLite UNICORE dCache ARC Community Platform Community Platform NGI VM Mgmt Data Image Sharing Monitoring Accounting Notification NGI Monitoring Accounting Notification EGI-wide message bus NGI VM Mgmt Data Image Sharing Monitoring Accounting Notification Commercial VM Mgmt Data Image Sharing Monitoring Accounting Notification Personalised environments for individual research communities in the European Research Area. Community Services Community Services Community Services Globus

INDICATE Final Conference, Ankara, Turkey – 15 October, 2012 EGI Federated Cloud EGI Federated Cloud task force with testbed: –Call for use cases  ER-flow to propose use cases? To become part of EGI production infrastructure in April 2013 Hardware OS Grid middleware Scientific portal Hypervisors Developer environments OS Scientific portal Hardware OS Grid middleware Scientific portals (SaaS environments) Developer environments OS Custom services OS 18

INDICATE Final Conference, Ankara, Turkey – 15 October, 2012 Federated Cloud Task Force Musicology – Peachnote project: music score search engine and analysis platform. Linguistics – CLARIN project: scalable ‘British National Corpus’ service (BNCWeb). Engagement: identify and work with resources providers, technology providers, and user communities. Integration: integration of cloud resources within EGI’s production infrastructure – e.g. monitoring, accounting and information publishing. Recommendations: identify issues that need to be addressed by other areas of EGI – e.g. policies, operations, support and dissemination. Blueprint document: advice/full documentation to resource providers/users Test bed: implement interfaces and services based on blueprint

INDICATE Final Conference, Ankara, Turkey – 15 October, 2012 EGI.eu Contacts Director Infrastructure Operations User Community Support Strategy and Policy Marketing, Communications and Outreach Secretariat 20