FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America EELA Project Overview Pedro Henrique Rausch Bello – Leader of Task 2.3 (Slides courtesy of Jesus Casado / Bernard Marechal / Roberto Barbera) ICTP/Democritos Workshop on Porting Applications to the GRID Trieste,

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Trieste, GRID Workshop, Introduction – Network in Latin America and Europe Objectives Partners Structure Work Packages Description Obligations Human Resources Budget Present Status Conclusions OUTLINE

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Trieste, GRID Workshop, NETWORK STATUS - RedCLARA

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Trieste, GRID Workshop, Goals: –Build a bridge between consolidated e-Infrastructure initiatives in Europe and emerging ones in Latin America –Reinforce collaboration between Latin America and Europe Objectives: –Establish a human collaboration network between Europe and Latin America:  Setting up the structure of the collaboration network  Establishing adequate support mechanisms  Adopting policies regarding the shared use of e-Infrastructure  Evaluating new areas of collaboration and relevant partners, both in Europe and Latin America OBJECTIVES

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Trieste, GRID Workshop, –Build a pilot e-Infrastructure in Latin America:  Implementing basic mechanisms for an interoperable e- Infrastructure, adopting a security policy, establishing Certification Authorities and defining basic tools middleware  Setting up a Pilot Testbed, establishing Virtual Organizations and supporting application developers and users  Supporting advanced network services –Promote a sustainable framework for e-Science:  Identifying research communities and applications  Supporting dissemination efforts  Coordinating participation in possible new projects  Defining a map for a future consolidated e-Infrastructure in LA OBJECTIVES

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Trieste, GRID Workshop, –EUROPE  Italy:INFN  Portugal:LIP  Spain:CIEMAT(coordinator), CSIC, RED.ES, UC, UPV –INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS  CERN  CLARA –LATIN AMERICA  Argentine:UNLP  Brazil:CECIERJ/CEDERJ, RNP, UFF, UFRJ  Chile:REUNA, UDEC, UTFSM  Cuba:CUBAENERGIA  Mexico:UNAM  Peru:SENAMHI  Venezuela:ULA PARTNERS

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Trieste, GRID Workshop, WP1: Project administrative and technical management –Manager: CIEMAT –In charge of the financial and administrative parts of the project –Assisted by the legal advisor of CIEMAT –Elaborates technical documents, deliverables and reports –Interacts with EC –Takes care of the EELA private Web Site –Distributes EC funds amongst the partners –Controls budget and audits WORK PACKAGE 1

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Trieste, GRID Workshop, The EELA “external” web site (

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Trieste, GRID Workshop, The EELA “internal” web site (

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Trieste, GRID Workshop, WP2: Pilot testbed operation and support –Manager: UFRJ –Establishes a common interoperable Pilot Grid Testbed between existing resources in Latin America and Europe –GÉANT, RedCLARA and European and Latin American NRENs will provide the network infrastructure –The grid infrastructure will be based on the EGEE middleware framework –The EELA Pilot Testbed will support dissemination activities and application exploitation Task 2.1 – Coordination – Operation Management Team Task 2.2 – Certification Authorities and Virtual Organizations Task 2.3 – Pilot Testbed Operations Task 2.4 – Network Support and Operations WORK PACKAGE 2

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Trieste, GRID Workshop, EELA e-Infrastructure (from the Technical Annex)

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Trieste, GRID Workshop, EELA Pilot 2 e-Infrastructure (NOW! - from GridICE) UFF+UFRJ CIEMAT INFN-CT

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Trieste, GRID Workshop, EELA ROC (managed by UFRJ) (

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Trieste, GRID Workshop, EELA GridICE (managed by CIEMAT) ( 60% of T.A, ! (even if not completely dedicated to EELA) 10% of T.A, !

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Trieste, GRID Workshop, EELA GOC Statistics (GStat) (

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Trieste, GRID Workshop, Usage of Pilot 2 (2 nd Jan 2006 – 29 th Jan 2006) Biomed VO Lhcb VO

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Trieste, GRID Workshop, EELA VOMS (managed by LIP) ( New registrations at:

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Trieste, GRID Workshop, WP3: Identification and support of Grid enhanced applications –Manager: CIEMAT –Identifies, selects and customizes relevant applications and tools suitable for the Grid dissemination process in Biomedical, High Energy Physics, Climate and e-Education –Contributes to the definition of a common application interface with other research fields to encourage and help scientific and technology communities to easily migrate their applications to the EELA e-Infrastructure Task 3.1 – Biomedical Applications Task 3.2 – HEP Applications Task 3.3 – Additional applications (e-Education and Climate) WORK PACKAGE 3

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Trieste, GRID Workshop, EELA Applications Biomed (already EGEE pilot applications) –CDSS –GATE HEP (already EGEE pilot applications) –ALICE –LHCb Additional (EELA specific) –Climate in the Grid Environment –Education in the Grid Environment (to be “gridified” in Trieste in the next two weeks) New (not foreseen in the T.A.) –Questionnaire for evaluation by technical staff

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Trieste, GRID Workshop, WP4: Dissemination activities –Manager: INFN –INFN GILDA as strategic tool, already used in EGEE –Introduce state of the art grid technologies and services to international community of users –Bring more LA and EU groups into EELA Task 4.1 – Dissemination Task 4.2 – Knowledge Dissemination WORK PACKAGE 4

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Trieste, GRID Workshop, EELA Conferences and Workshops EELA Conferences –Chile (10/2006) –Brasil (03/2007, in conjunction with GGF ?) –Spain (09-10/2007) EELA Workshops –Venezuela (24-28 April 2006) –Spain (01-02/2007, before the first EELA Review) –Mexico, Peru, Italy, Cuba, Portugal, Chile, Argentina

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Trieste, GRID Workshop, EELA Tutorials (to be discussed and agreed at the KoM) A = for Site Administrators U = for Users

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Trieste, GRID Workshop, EELA First Tutorial Location: Madrid (Spain) Date: February 2006 Home page: Agenda:

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Trieste, GRID Workshop, Other important training events ICTP Grid School –Trieste, 6-17 February 2006 – EGEE User Forum –CERN, 1-3 March 2006 – Forum/index.htmlhttp://egee-intranet.web.cern.ch/egee-intranet/User- Forum/index.html International Grid School –Ischia, 9-21 July 2006 –

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Trieste, GRID Workshop, MAIN METRICS –Web portal –Study and adoption of policies –Evaluation of new possible areas of collaboration –Certification Authorities in LA –Pilot installations from a middleware repository (at least 100 installations at the end of the 1 st year) –Pilot e-Infrastructure (at least 3 sites) –Virtual Organisation setting up (at least 4 VOs at the end of 1 st year) –Network support (# of requests handled; end-to-end connections for demos, tutorials,courses; statistics of network use) OBLIGATIONS

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Trieste, GRID Workshop, MAIN METRICS –Number of enhanced applications demonstrated in the pilot e-infrastructure or in the GILDA Testbed (at least 4 after the 1 st year and 8 after the 2 nd year) –Number of new applications (at least 1 per year) –Number of conferences (at least 3 in 2 years), workshops (at least 3 per year), and tutorials (at least 6 in the first year and 4 in the second) –Press releases, radio and TV references (at least 20 per year) –Hits in WEB portal (at least 300,000 per year) OBLIGATIONS

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Trieste, GRID Workshop, MAIN METRICS –Participation in relevant fora of EELA members (at least 10 per year) –Meetings with scientific policy authorities (at least 10 per year) –Participation in advisory committees and standardization bodies (at least 2 per year) –Collaboration agreements with other projects, institutions and research communities (at least 2 per year) –Resource Centre candidates (at least 3 in LA and 3 in EU) OBLIGATIONS

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Trieste, GRID Workshop, PRESENT STATUS Approved by EC on December, 20, 2005 Official starting date: January, 01, 2006 Public and Private Web pages released ( Mailing lists ready Pilot-Pilot Testbed working Project Office created

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Trieste, GRID Workshop, Conclusions and outlook The progress made by EELA in such a short amount of time is quite impressive –the sentence written in the EELA press release “By means of the action of a group of very skilled and highly motivated people…” is in fact very true! However, many challenges are still in front of us: –extension of the pilot testbed –setting-up of ROC and User Support –setting-up of Certification Authorities in Latin America –porting of additional and new applications –the first deliverables (to be due already in february !) –create the EELA “brand” and the “team spirit” A chinese proverb says: “A long journey begins with a single step”. The EELA KoM was our first step.

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Trieste, GRID Workshop, If you want to know more You can find the Press Release and other useful information in EELA public website: