Grid Initiatives for e-Science virtual communities in Europe and Latin America GISELA Achievements & Legacy (A vision into the future) Roberto Barbera (Univ. of Catania and INFN- Italy) Final Project Review Brussels,

2 Outline Looking back to the past The Latin America AAI: state of the art and future activities Adaptability of the GISELA Science Gateway to present and future challenges Once more about sustainability: the Science Gateway market place Summary and conclusions GISELA - Final Project Review - Brussels - 11/10/2012

Looking back to the past 7 years… 3 EELA (A test- bed) EELA-2 (A production Infrastruc- ture) GISELA (A sustaina- ble service) 4/2008-3/2010 1/ /2007 9/2010 – 8/2012 GISELA - Final Project Review - Brussels - 11/10/2012

Size of the consortia 4 EELA 10 countries 21 partners EELA-2 16 countries 18 partners 60 third parties GISELA 15 countries 19 partners 12 third parties 4/2008-3/2010 1/ /2007 9/2010 – 8/2012 GISELA - Final Project Review - Brussels - 11/10/2012

GISELA - Second Project Review - Brussels - 08/12/ GISELA Partners

Brussels, Second EELA Annual Review, – At least 8 applications in year 2 (4 in year 1) In 2006, 13 were identified, but not ported… 6 Biomedical, 3 HEP, 5 e-Learning, 4 Climate applications  18 applications in total! – At least 2 new applications considered (1 in 2006) 9 in 2006 Out of the 18 applications, 13 are new! 8 Dec 2007 QUALITY METRICS - APPLICATIONS

9 Brussels, Final Project Review, As presented at the First Review After 2nd Grid School Today Fully deployed on the production infrastructure Gridified but running on another gLite-based Grid Ready for standalone use, running locally Deployed on the prod. infrastructure, but in testing phase Mar 2010 Supported Applications’ status

WP3 Applications Portfolio – End of 1 st year GISELA - First year Project Review - Brussels - 15/09/ legacy grid applications inherited from EELA & EELA-2 34 of them are in a production stage –Not all of them running on regular basis, but… –Can be provided at anytime upon users request in LA MoU signed with EGI-InSPIRE (M08) enables… –VRC members in Europe exploit GISELA resources –VRC members in LA exploit EGI resources (most usual) –EGI/GISELA to coordinate VRC support in every EGI forum –Publishing GISELA applications in

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WP4 Numbers – End of 1 st year Cumulative GISELA contribution per site (normalised CPU hours) GISELA – First year Project Review – Brussels – 15/09/

Brussels, Second EELA Annual Review, – At least 100 researchers after 2007 (50 after 2006) that have tested an enhanced application 61 EELA VO members at the end of EELA VO members at the end of 2007 (not counting ALICE VO and tutorials’ generic users) 14 QUALITY METRICS - USERS Dec 2007

saturation decrease 15 Mar 2010

16 GISELA - End of 1 st year issue Quality Metric Current status Y2 Q1 Expected outcome Y2 Number of Active Users in the catch-all VO (prod.vo.eu-eela.eu) Number of Active Users in the VRC-driven Science Gateway Number of Applications in production status on the e-Infrastructure4240 Number of Applications integrated in VRC-driven Science Gateways415 Number of specialized Science Gateway for VRC22 GISELA - Second Project Review - Brussels - 08/12/2011 Almost as many users in the Science Gateway in 2 months as in the production VO in 15 months

Path to technology uptake 17 The Rogers “bell-shape” curve - Rogers, E. M. (1962), “Diffusion of Innovations”, Glencoe: Free Press. Development of the GISELA SG GISELA - Final Project Review - Brussels - 11/10/2012

– the GISELA Grid 18 Davis, F. D. (1989), "Perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, and user acceptance of information technology", MIS Quarterly 13(3): 319–340 Development of the GISELA Science Gateway Requirement for sustainabilityAchieved! GISELA - Final Project Review - Brussels - 11/10/2012 IT acceptance model

The «Catania» Science Gateway model 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 Standard-based (SAGA) middleware-independent Grid Engine Standard-based (SAGA) middleware-independent Grid Engine Middleware currently available in LatAm GISELA - Final Project Review - Brussels - 11/10/2012

AuthN & AuthZ Schema AuthorisationAuthorisation GISELA Science Gateway GrIDP (“catch-all”) GrIDP (“catch-all”) IDPCT (“catch- all”) IDPCT (“catch- all”) IDP_y LDAP Register to a Service 2. Sign in Authentication Social Networks’ Bridge IdP 20

Official Identity Federations supported by GISELA Science Gateway 21 To be created on November 2012 GISELA - Final Project Review - Brussels - 11/10/2012

Training Material to create Federated Identity Services Virtual Appliances included 22 Especially developed in the context of GISELA GISELA - Final Project Review - Brussels - 11/10/2012

23 Creation of Federated Identity Services in LA IdF Mexico (managed by UNAM) –Done in cooperation between GISELA and EPIKH –2 persons came to Catania in July 2012 to learn and install the services –By end of November 2012, the Mexican federation will comprise:  UNAM  Universidad de Colima (UCOL)  Dirección General de Institutos Tecnológicos (DGIT)  CUDI ... for a total of about 500,000 students and researchers ! Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama –A training event to create federated identity services will take place in Bucaramanga on November (fully paid by RENATA  a nice example of sustainability and commitment) Future: –INFN will continue to assist and support LA countries to create federated identity services until the ELCIRA project will take over (ELCIRA started on the 1 st of June 2012) GISELA - Final Project Review - Brussels - 11/10/2012

eduGAIN ( 24 GISELA Science Gateway is also registered as Service Provider of eduGAIN GISELA - Final Project Review - Brussels - 11/10/2012

The Grid IDentity Pool (GrIDP) ( This is an “open” Identity Federation 25 GISELA - Final Project Review - Brussels - 11/10/2012

GISELA - Final Project Review - Brussels - 11/10/2012 The Grid IDentity Pool (GrIDP) ( 26 While Identity Federation are being established in LA, single users as well as Identity Providers are welcome to join GrIDP to access and use the GISELA Science Gateway

First set of considerations – Interoperability Interoperability is a property referring to the ability of diverse systems and organizations to work together (inter- operate). The term is often used in a technical systems engineering sense, or alternatively in a broad sense, taking into account social, political, and organizational factors that impact system to system performance; According to ISO/IEC (Information Technology Vocabulary, Fundamental Terms), interoperability is "The capability to communicate, execute programs, or transfer data among various functional units in a manner that requires the user to have little or no knowledge of the unique characteristics of those units". 27 GISELA - Final Project Review - Brussels - 11/10/2012

The «Catania» Grid Engine Grid Engine Users Tracking DB Science GW Interface SAGA/JSAGA API Job Engine Data Engine Users Track & Monit. GISELA SG Science GW 2 Science GW 3 Grid MWs Liferay Portlets eToken Server New by WP6 ModifiedNewModified Middleware currently available in LatAm 28 GISELA - Final Project Review - Brussels - 11/10/2012

The CHAIN Worldwide Interoperability Demo 29 GISELA contributions (WP3, 4 & 6) GISELA - Final Project Review - Brussels - 11/10/2012

e-Infrastructures can be made interoperable at user/application level using standards 2.Both general purpose and VRC-specific applications can be submitted from anywhere and run everywhere The demo “in action” GISELA - Final Project Review - Brussels - 11/10/2012

31 The demo “in action” 1.The GISELA Science Gateway is completely «agnostic» w.r.t. the middleware deployed in LA 2.No more technical (and political) barriers for a much wider adoption of the e-Infrastructure paradigm GISELA - Final Project Review - Brussels - 11/10/2012

Second set of considerations – Social Networks About 1 billion people have accounts on the existing Social Networks (many of the researchers we are targeting with e-Infrastructures are among them) Web-based social networking accounts for more than 10-15% of the total time spent online in the whole world Social Networks’ are by far the most used (liked) virtual environments in the world 32 GISELA - Final Project Review - Brussels - 11/10/2012

“Social” Science Gateways ( 33 GISELA - Final Project Review - Brussels - 11/10/2012

GISELA “social” Science Gateway (The Science Gateway as a Facebook app) 34 SSO possible through the Social Networks’ Bridge IdP GISELA - Final Project Review - Brussels - 11/10/2012

Third set of considerations – Mobile Access 35 More than 25% of mobile phones in the world are smartphones and the number of people connected through mobile appliances increases every year Social networking amounts to 91% of mobile internet access, compared to 79% on desktops, and it is expected that by 2014 mobile internet should take over desktop internet usage (*) So, mobile access to “everything” is not any more an option; it is a must and e-Infrastructures shouldn’t/won’t be an exception (*) GISELA - Final Project Review - Brussels - 11/10/2012

The “mobile” Authentication Procedure (REST API access to the GISELA Science Gateway) 36 GISELA - Final Project Review - Brussels - 11/10/2012

Big challenges are in front of us… Now that many users can potentially access and use the GISELA Science Gateway, a new training and communication strategy is needed as well as a portfolio of appealing applications to attract them How all this is feasible and sustainable in the future the least possible cost ? 37 GISELA - Final Project Review - Brussels - 11/10/2012

The Science Gateway market place Users/VRCs SG Dev. GISELA Science Gateway GISELA - Final Project Review - Brussels - 11/10/2012

Survey to propose new applications ( 39 GISELA - Final Project Review - Brussels - 11/10/2012 The survey is also available in english

Training for GISELA Science Gateway developers New training material New training tools: New training events: – – 40 GISELA - Final Project Review - Brussels - 11/10/2012

GISELA Science Gateway developers task force Composition: –Argentina: 1 –Brazil: 1 –Colombia: 9 –Ecuador: 2 –Italy: ~10 –Mexico: 6 –Spain: 2 –Uruguay: 1 –Venezuela: 7 A tutorial for developers will take place in Bucaramanga (Colombia) on November (fully paid by RENATA  a nice example of sustainability and commitment) 41 GISELA - Final Project Review - Brussels - 11/10/2012

Uptake of «Catania» Science Gateways 184 Organisations from 43 Countries GISELA Science Gateway figures: 174 users ( ~ 700% increase since Dec 2011; about twice the current number of members of the VO and steadily increasing) 75 Organisations 18 countries 42 GISELA - Final Project Review - Brussels - 11/10/2012

Summary and conclusions (1/2) GISELA legacy builds on four pillars: standard adoption, simplicity, easiness of use and re-usability e-Infrastructures can be very useful platforms for many VRCs, provided that they are really easy to use and GISELA has demonstrated that this is not only feasible but also sustainable The federated identity based AAI services promoted/fostered/ established by GISELA will bring Latin American countries to the state of the art and will help CLARA and the NRENs in creating new services across the whole continent, shared with Europe and other regions of the world The GISELA Science Gateway, with its support for Identity Federations, Social Networks, and mobile access is changing the way the LA Grid infrastructure is used, hugely widening its potential user base, especially non-IT experts and the “citizen scientist”, yet keeping the required level of security The adoption of standards (JSR 286, SAGA, SAML, etc.) was a concrete investment towards sustainability and allowed worldwide interoperability at user application level and re-usability of applications at the Science Gateway level 43 GISELA - Final Project Review - Brussels - 11/10/2012

Summary and conclusions (2/2) “We now have clear ideas and goals, the (standard- based) tools and a roadmap to achieve them, and the strength of choices largely shared and supported by other projects” (from GISELA 2 nd review, 8/12/2011) In the last 10 months ideas were turned into reality and all goals have been achieved but… …we have done much more than this: we now have a vision for the future of e-Infrastructure in Latin America which is shared and financially sustained by the most important stakeholders in the region (i.e., CLARA and the NRENs) 44 GISELA - Final Project Review - Brussels - 11/10/2012