Candidate VRCs for a world-wide demonstration ISGC 2012 – Taipei, 27 Mar 2012

Outline The VRC WP inside CHAIN Milestones (identifying VRCs) List of VRCs Next actions First version of the road-map of services

WP in CHAIN CHAIN is an EC (260011) funded project Structured in ~ 1.9 M€ Started on December 1st 2010 for 2 years Structured in WP 1 Project Management WP 2 Consolidation of existing state of the art WP 3 Present and emerging needs of trans-continental scientific communities WP 4 Modelling the cooperation of European e-Infrastructures with non-European ones WP 5 Dissemination and Outreach

WP3 in numbers 78 PM out of 281.50 (~28%) Partners INFN CIEMAT CESNET UBUNTUNET CLARA IHEP PSA ASREN Third parties

WP3 in numbers 78 PM out of 281.50 (~28%) Partners INFN CIEMAT CESNET UBUNTUNET CLARA IHEP PSA ASREN Third parties Europe

WP3 in numbers INFN CIEMAT CESNET UBUNTUNET CLARA Europe IHEP PSA ASREN Third parties Europe Africa

WP3 in numbers INFN CIEMAT CESNET UBUNTUNET CLARA IHEP PSA ASREN Third parties Africa Latin America

WP3 in numbers INFN CIEMAT CESNET UBUNTUNET CLARA IHEP PSA ASREN Third parties Latin America Asia

WP3 in numbers INFN CIEMAT CESNET UBUNTUNET CLARA IHEP PSA ASREN Third parties Asia Middle East

WP3 in numbers INFN CIEMAT CESNET UBUNTUNET CLARA IHEP PSA ASREN Third parties Middle East

WP3 in DoW WP3 is a SUPPORT Activity WP3 “Present and emerging needs of trans-continental scientific communities” Task 3.1 Scientific communities across the continents (INFN) Task 3.2 Proposed road-map of services for communities to be deployed on the e-Infrastructures (CIEMAT)

Objectives & Aim To provide (limited) support to the existing and well experienced VRC (LHC, Biomed…) To provide support for communities interested to widen their activities collaborating with other continents To discover and attract new scientific communities or merging similar ones operating worldwide.

Objectives & Aim Performing a large spectrum investigation on the existing and potential trans-continental communities (T3.1) Looking for requirements, commonalities, challenges and possible synergies to be gathered and analysed Then, the results will be used for feeding T3.2…

WP3 milestones MS5 Call for interest for reference communities It briefly described WP3 aims and objectives It showed a couple of identified VRC candidates Based on EGI monitoring systems (CESGA), it provided some info about VO usage for Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America (Feb 2011)

WP3 milestones MS6 Shortlist of reference communities ready It reports on identified VRC candidates Initiative coordinators agreed on it All of them with (potential) impact in CHAIN regions

WP3 milestones MS7 Agreements with reference communities signed MoUs already signed WeNMR 21/09/2011 WRF4G 19/09/2011 jModelTest 21/02/2012

Actions: Definition VRC1 range VRC1 cover from a group of researchers working together, sharing means to carry out common investigations, such as distributed resources: instruments, computing, storage and software tools up to large international well-structured collaborations VRC1 cover Small user communities (several groups) With or without Grid knowledge Large collaborations Looking for more computing resources and/or advanced services 1 GISELA D3.1

Identified VRC Identified VRC

Identified VRC We-NMR (http://www.wenmr.eu) Coordinator: Dr. Alexandre M.J.J. Bonvin – Universiteit Utrecht Structural biology, making use of NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance), SAXS (Small Angle X-ray Scattering), computational modelling or other related techniques to study biomolecules

Identified VRC We-NMR partners in red, collaborations in orange

Identified VRC We-NMR MoU signed on 21/09/2011 New contacts (WP2 survey) Burundi Costa Rica

Identified VRC WRF4G (http://www.meteo.unican.es/es/software/wrf4g) Coordinator: Dr. Antonio Cofiño – Universidad de Cantabria Meteorology and other Earth Science related areas willing to enhance their forecasting techniques on Idealized simulations, Regional and global applications, Parameterization and Data assimilation or Forecast and hurricane research Dissemination within CORDEX project

Identified VRC WRF4G partners in red, collaborations in orange

Identified VRC WRF4G MoU signed on 19/09/2011 New contacts (WP2 survey) Burundi China Costa Rica Cuba

Identified VRC jModelTest & ProtTest (http://darwin.uvigo.es/) Coordinator: Dr. David Posada – Universidad de Vigo Evolutionary biology for the statistical selection of best-fit models of nucleotide substitution and amino acid replacement for given set of aligned sequences (molecular systematics, phylogenetics, phylogenomics, molecular evolution and/or bioinformatics)

Identified VRC jModelTest & ProtTest registered users

Identified VRC jModelTest & ProtTest MoU signed on 21/02/2012 New sequential and distributed computing versions available on SG and being tested New contacts (WP2 survey) Burundi Costa Rica Democratic Republic of Congo Ethiopia Nigeria Panama Sudan Taiwan

Identified VRC INDICATE / DC-NET (http://www.indicate-project.org/ - http://www.dc-net.org/) Coordinator: Dr. Antonella Fresa – Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali These initiatives are working on coordinating policy and best practice regarding the use of e-Infrastructures for digital cultural heritage

Identified VRC INDICATE / DC-NET partners in red, collaborations in orange

Identified VRC DECIDE (http://www.eu-decide.eu) Coordinator: Dr. Fulvio Galeazzi - GARR Design, implement, and validate a GRID-based e-Infrastructure building upon neuGRID and relying on the Pan-European backbone GEANT and the NRENs. Over this e-Infrastructure, a service will be provided for the computer-aided extraction of diagnostic markers for Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia from medical images

Identified VRC DECIDE partners in red

Identified VRC Climate Change Conf. Role of e-Infrastructures in Climate Change List of interested people and projects 4 projects identified 20 contacts WRF4G is being promoted inside the VRC New development: CAM4G  Strategy to be also used in other models Seismology groups identified in LA, India and Italy

Identified VRC SuperB SuperB will be a heavy flavour accelerator that will provide complementary information to LHC, looking at rare decays with a very high luminosity electron-positron asymmetric collider Potential contacts world-wide by means of LHC collaborations

Identified VRC LSGC Very well known VRC One of the biggest Grid users, HEP excluded

Next actions Next VRCs related ‘milestones’ are: To sign new MoUs To test the proposed model of services (road-map) Science Gateways To update such a road-map (services and commonalities)

Road-map of services First version of the road-map of services Complete version in D3.2 (http://documents.ct.infn.it/record/510/files/CHAIN%20D3.2-V03.pdf) Brief summary in the CHAIN Wiki page (http://www.chain- project.eu/wiki/-/wiki/WIKI+Page/WP3) Study of the current status of DCIs in what VRCs concerns 48 Recommendations for existing and emerging e-Infrastructures for Virtual Research Communities Technical Training, administration and use Collaborative scenario

Road-map of services Workshops to profit from CHAIN/GISELA workshop as part of EGI CF 2012 Munich (Germany), March 29th 2012 GISELA/CHAIN Conference Mexico DF (Mexico), June 27th-29th 2012 CHAIN workshop as part of CLARA/ALICE2 meeting Lima (Peru), July 2nd-6th 2012 EGI TF 2012 Prague (Czech Republic), September 2012 Grid 2012 Conference Beijing (China), September 2012

Road-map of services Workshops to profit from And of course, this CHAIN/GISELA workshop that is being held by now as part of ISGC 2012 Let’s discuss about it !!!

Manuel Rodríguez-Pascual (CIEMAT) Thank you! Manuel Rodríguez-Pascual (CIEMAT)