The CHAIN project 5th Iberian Grid Infrastructure Conference (IBERGRID2011) Santander, June 8-10 2011

Outline Regional Grid Infrastructures co-funded by the European Commission Commonalities and differences A common strategy for the future The CHAIN Project Developments Conclusions

Globalisation of Grid Infrastructures CNGrid NKN & Garuda EUAsiaGrid SAGrid & SANREN GISELA 3

Why ? - To extend the ERA (European Research Area) 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. 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.

Who ? - Two (at least) scenarios No previous Grid and e-Infrastructures activities Scarce knowledge and/or experience in deploying/managing large e-Infrastructures. Isolated spots of research activities with high computing demands. Greenfield regions/countries e-Infrastructures already started/deployed Locally developed MW. Fair to good knowledge and experience in e-Infrastructures High quality research groups and institutions with world wide collaborations. Advanced regions/countries

How ? - Instruments & methods National Grid Initiatives Internal (national) Infrastructures sustainability is still an issue Regional coordination Difficult to shape the demand of collaboration with Europe in a Regional perspective (bilateral agreements always preferred) Coordination and interoperation with EGI Stable Communication Networks co-operations still under development Synergistic approach with GEANT and EU NRENs and specific regional networks projects, i.e. ALICE-2, EUMEDCONNECT2…

Coordination & Harmonisation of Advanced eINfrastructures A new project Coordination & Harmonisation of Advanced eINfrastructures

Timing 2009 2010 2011 2012 EGEE III EGI EUAsiaGrid SEEGRID-SCI EELA II GISELA EUMEDGRID-Support EUIndiaGrid2

CHAIN project CHAIN is an EC (260011) funded project Structured in ~ 1.6 M€ 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

CHAIN project 281.5 PM in 24 Months (started in Dec 1st 2010) Partners INFN CIEMAT CESNET UBUNTUNET CLARA IHEP PSA ASREN Asia-Pacific consortium

CHAIN objectives 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 e- Infrastructures Validate this model, as a proof-of-principle, by supporting the extension and consolidation of worldwide VRC Explore and propose concrete steps forward towards the coordination with other projects and initiatives 11

Work Packages

WP2 Conduct a state-of-the-art analysis regarding current solutions for European Grid interfacing with Grids in other world regions A questionnaire has been prepared and is On-Line Target people are persons responsible of a NGI or a Regional Grid Infrastructure (2 different surveys) http://survey.chain-project.eu

WP2 The analysis of the Questionnaire will lead to a set of guidelines for operational and organisational interactions, customised for the type of region Disseminate the NGI concept in the regions where this is needed, and conduct actions for national and regional sustainability

WP3 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.

WP3 Producing studies of the necessary steps for e-Infrastructures to fulfil the requirement of present and emerging VRC with trans- continental span based on The existing plans of relevant organisations, projects and/or committees (ESFRI, e-IRG, EGI, PRACE…) The feedbacks received during the thematic workshops and high-level conferences

But to do it, being sustainable is a must! WP3 Thus, the final goal is to involve at least a couple of reference communities to validate the proposed model (services) But to do it, being sustainable is a must!

WP3: Synergies CHAIN collaboration with ‘INFN-coordinated’ projects Later in this presentation CHAIN collaboration with GISELA (WS at EGI UF 2011) Projects presented what can they offer to VRC VRC presented their necessities https://www.egi.eu/indico/materialDisplay.py?contribId=183&sessionId =19&materialId=slides&confId=207

VRC Candidates We-NMR (http://www.wenmr.eu) 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

VRC Candidates We-NMR partners in red

VRC Candidates WRF4G (http://www.meteo.unican.es/es/software/wrf4g) 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

VRC Candidates WRF4G partners in red

VRC Candidates jModelTest/ProtTest (http://darwin.uvigo.es/) 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)

VRC Candidates jModelTest/ProtTest registered users Modeltest ~ 30.000

VRC Candidates DC-NET / INDICATE (http.//www.dc-net.eu and http://www.indicate-project.eu/) Dr. Antonella Fresa – Promoter These initiatives are working on coordinating policy and best practice regarding the use of e-Infrastructures for digital cultural heritage

VRC Candidates INDICATE / DC-NET partners in red

VRC Candidates DECIDE (http://www.eu-decide.eu) Dr. Laura Leone – 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

VRC Candidates DECIDE partners in red

VRC Candidates Climate Change Synergies with EuIndiaGrid-2, EUMEDGRID Support

WP4 Study and propose a model for cooperation and interoperation among European and non-European e-Infrastructures Perform an organizational study that will take into account a regional “customisation” applied to a shared model for sustainability

WP4 Request and collect feedbacks from qualified actors in the field of e-Infrastructures worldwide on the proposed model and produce a final version with a road-map for the follow-up of extensions to the European Grid Infrastructure Brainstorming meetings with EGI.eu were held in Rome (Dec 2010) and Amsterdam (Jan 2011) A Workshop on Interoperations was organised in cooperation with EUIndiaGrid-2 at OGF 31 (April 2011)

WP5 Disseminate the benefits of e-Infrastructures in the scientific and technical communities, training them and supporting the transition of relevant applications to the new e-Infrastructure paradigm Get the consensus of scientific communities, stake holders, funding agencies, etc. on the usefulness and relevance of these e- Infrastructures for the improvement of their research activities

WP5 Several MoUs Flyers, banners…

http://www.chain-project.eu

New Identity Federation

CHAIN Knowledge Base Largest e-Infrastructure related knowledge base Information dynamically available for about half of the countries of the world

CHAIN Knowledge Base RREN(s) NREN NGI CA(s) ROC(s) Grid site(s) Application(s)

CHAIN Knowledge Base

CHAIN Knowledge Base Linked to a world wide Application Database Federated with the EGI AppDB.

Africa ROC In production Will be integrated in a dedicated instance of the EGI Dashboard

Africa ROC Nagios

China ROC Dedicated instances of GOCDB and Support System will soon be put online Customizations of the service are in progress

ASREN Arab States Research and Education Network (ASREN) Association of the Arab region NRENs and strategic partners. Promotes world-class Pan-Arab e-Infrastructures and e-services for the Research and Education communities to boost Scientific Research and regional Cooperation

CHAIN geo-map

Conclusions To build stable and sustainable e-Infrastructures has been the main effort of several regional projects Different levels of development have been achieved, but every e- Infrastructure aims to collaborate with the rest It is time to produce a coherent, multi-region and multi-path road-map for the sustainability and interoperations of those Regional e-Infrastructures towards EGI and among themselves

Rafael Mayo (on behalf of the CHAIN project) Thank you Rafael Mayo (on behalf of the CHAIN project)