Luis Rodríguez-Roselló Director a.i. Directorate “Emerging Technologies and Infrastructures. Applications” European Commission, DG INFSO eInfrastructures (9-10 December 2003, Rome) Progressing towards an EU eInfrastructure: developments, technological research, strategies Progressing towards an EU eInfrastructure: developments, technological research, strategies

Contents  The context of European RTD on Grids, Networking  The eInfrastructure and Grid Research vision  DG INFSO: current achievements and future plans  Policy aspects of eInfrastructures  Context of international co-operation  Conclusions

Context overview  Ambitious strategic goal for Europe  Lisbon 2000: A strategy towards the Knowledge Economy and Society  Specific strategic actions:  eEurope:  A major instrument to attain the Lisbon objective providing consolidation in Member States  European Research Area (ERA):  A major initiative to ensure Europe’s long term competitiveness  Growth initiative:  Broadband for all  Mobile Communications  Research Networking

eEurope: part of an EU co-ordinated action on IS Green books Liberalisation New Regulatory Framework Directives National Regulatory Entities Telecommunications policy Multinational projects Accompanying Measures Demonstrations Integrated Projects Networks of Excellence Research and Development Electronic eCommerce eContent eEurope eLearning Broadband Security eEurope,applications and contents

Achievements eEurope 2002  Speeding up EU decision making  Co-ordination of EU policies  Monitoring national progress  Internet on top of political agenda  New Telecom framework Achievements eEurope 2002  Speeding up EU decision making  Co-ordination of EU policies  Monitoring national progress  Internet on top of political agenda  New Telecom framework New priorities for eEurope 2005  Stimulate demand to:  Promote content, services and applications  Provide interactive public services on-line  Achieve digital inclusiveness eGovernment, eHealth, eLearning and eBusiness environments  Boost enabling technologies to:  Promote broadband access  Ensure trust and confidence in cyberspace New priorities for eEurope 2005  Stimulate demand to:  Promote content, services and applications  Provide interactive public services on-line  Achieve digital inclusiveness eGovernment, eHealth, eLearning and eBusiness environments  Boost enabling technologies to:  Promote broadband access  Ensure trust and confidence in cyberspace eEurope: from 2002 to 2005 Action Plan From an increasing connectivity to an increasing effective use of Internet

European R&D: a fragmented landscape Framework programme Only 4% of the total civil research budget of the EU LUX B IRL UK S FIN DK A IT EL NL F PES CERN, EMBL, ESA, ESO and other international organisations D Candidate and associated countries Enterprises, universities and research centres ERA - fostering an EU internal knowledge market

 Moving to a European level Research policy  Strengthen co-operation between National and EU Activities  Improve links between National and EU policies and schemes  Take into account enlargement  Development of a “shared vision” on European RTD  Potential for co-funding arrangements  Realising ERA will require  New thinking: more strategic and goal oriented  New approach: integration, concentration, critical mass and flexibility  New scope: taking account of the international dimension of RTD (greater awareness of who’s doing what)  New instruments: Integrated Projects (IPs) & Networks of Excellence (NoEs), Integrated Infrastructure Initiatives (I3) ERA - a new context for EU supported RTD

eInfrastructures as a foundation for ERA:  integrated communication and information processing service to the researcher/user  integrating distributed resources (instrumentation, tools, computers, data, humans...)  unprecedented levels of computational, data transfer and storage capacity  knowledge sharing environments for science and engineering eInfrastructures: empowering the user

Connectivity services (GÉANT & the NREN) Computing- & data-resource sharing services (Grids...) eInfrastructures “One stop shop” ICT-service to researchers/users eInfrastructures: the next generation ICT-infrastructures

DG INFSO: addressing Grids-networks in a coherent way Directorate on Emerging Technologies & Infrastructures, Applications Future and emerging technologies (FET) Grid-technology/middleware for complex problem solving eInclusion New working environments Applied Research Infrastructure & Testbeds Research at the Frontier of knowledge Grid & IPv6 Testbeds Research Infrastructure Technology Development Mastering Complexity - Empowering User - Sharing knowledge

Research Infrastructures: eInfrastructures for Research  Deployment of Grids-empowered infrastructures to the Research Community in all scientific disciplines  further deployment of GÉANT  deployment of a second layer with widespread Grid features, able to openly provide services to a large set of application communities  … moving from experimental pilots to stable provision of services  Indicative budget in FP6 - GÉANT infrastructure:100 M€  - Grid infrastructure:100 M€  - Test-beds: 50 M€ Strategic objective: Grid empowered eInfrastructure for research

GÉANT (+NRENs) operating at 10 Gbps, 33+ countries, 3500 Universities, supporting Grid test-beds, QoS Grid test-bedsOptical, IPv6... test-beds eInfrastructures: building on current achievements

 Continue to provide connectivity to all NRENs - yearly growth 2x to 3x  Serve new user communities (education, cultural heritage...)  Geographical extension (Balkans, NIS etc)  Provide high BW for special applications (e.g. Grids)  End-to End QoS, Security, Mobility  Deployment of a European wide AAA scheme  IPv6 all the way; deployment of new underlying switched transport network (lambda-based) New GN2 network 1Q 2005 Next generation of GÉANT and the NRENs

pan-european grid supercomputers research results from IST (e.g. networking & Grid research) specific services operational support federating NI training networking joint research activities global file system middleware AAA (international dimension to be taken from the start - e.g. cyberinfrastructure/Teragrid) Next generation Grid RI

GÉANT (+NRENs) operating at 10 Gbps, 33 countries, 3100 Universities, supporting PoC and Grid test-beds, QoS Grid test-bedsOptical, IPv6... test-beds eInfrastructures: role of research Research on new technologies (Grids, Security, Networking etc)

IST Work Programme Strategic Objective “To expand the potential of the Grid approach to solving complex problems which can not be solved with current technologies in application fields such as, industrial design, engineering manufacturing, health, genomics, business and finance, …..” -“To overcome present architectural and design limitations hampering the use and wider deployment of computing and knowledge Grids and to enrich its capabilities by including new functionalities, …..” -“To extend the concept from computation Grids to knowledge Grids eventually leading to a “semantic” Grid” Grid-based systems for Complex Problem Solving Total indicative budget in FP6: 125 M€

Vision of EU Grid Research The Challenges Moving Grids from e-Science to Industry Promote Grid research to  Solve complex problems with high economic and societal impact  Exploit the potential of Grids beyond e-Science  Ease access and use of Grids Moving towards Next Generation Grids e-Science Industry & Business Grids Total indicative budget in FP6: 125 M€

Next Generation Grid(s): 3-fold vision End-user empowerment Life-support to business processes Societal behaviour (millions of self-organising nodes) Computational semantics, ontologies, meta-descriptions Pervasive virtual organisations Virtualization Next Generation Grids End-User Vision Software vision Architectural Vision Simplification Abstraction Continuously changing requirements Grid services development environments

Next Generation Grid(s): Identified Research Themes Research Themes Open Reliable Scalable Persistent Transparent Person-centric Pervasive Secure / trusted Standards-based User Interface Grid Economies Business models Properties FacilitiesModels Virtual Organisation Systems Management Co-ord. and orchestration Information representation Next Generation Grid(s)

 “corner-stone” of European Research Area  enabling sharing of information/knowledge  “integrator” of National Infrastructures  “spear-head” of an “eEurope infrastructure” (e.g. broadband ++)  can potentially be a key element of the GROWTH initiative  cohesion, co-operation across Europe  key element for international co-operation eInfrastructures: supporting important EU policies

eInfrastructures: motivation for new policy initiatives  Breaking barriers:  New organizational policies  Resource sharing attitude  Common policies of accessing computing & data storage resources across institutions, application domains, national boundaries The harmonization of such policies is a major challenge!

eInfrastructures: new policy initiatives  MS and AS and the EC work together to harmonize such policies in Europe  Building on the experience of GÉANT & NRENs  eInfrastructures Reflection Group  A monitoring and advisory role  To broaden the user basis through common policies  Links to ESFRI, TERENA etc  …for e-Science and beyond...

eInfrastructures: forging international co-operation  GÉANT: linking European NRENs to all big world RNs  DATATAG: building a cross-Atlantic Test-bed link  International participation in EC funded projects  GRIDLAB: funds for partnership with US technology  development centres  EGEE: US and Russian partners (project still in negotiations)  Test-beds: IPv6 (US, Japan, Canada …) etc  Context for new initiatives on more harmonised international policies on the access and use of ICT-resources (notably computing, data storage…)  Challenge: closer links and synergies between the eInfrastructure - Cyberinfrastructure - other similar concepts of the AP and of other world regions

Conclusions European commitment to...  Spearheading of European eInfrastructure for research (e.g. broadband+) fully connected to the world  Broadening user basis through common policies  From E-Science to Industry and all users  Collaboration (ERA, policies…)  Growth within cohesion  Fostering international co-operation