FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America EELA: THE FIRST EIGHT MONTHS Bernard M. Maréchal EELA Deputy Project Manager Jesus Casado EELA Project Manager 1 st EELA Conference - Santiago de Chile, 04/09/06

1 st EELA Conference - Santiago de Chile - 04/09/06 FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America 2 OUTLINE AIMS OBJECTIVES PARTNERS MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE MONEY MATTERS ALREADY DONE STILL TO BE DONE ISSUES CONCLUSIONS The mine:

1 st EELA Conference - Santiago de Chile - 04/09/06 FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America 3 AIMS REINFORCE COLLABORATION BETWEEN LATIN AMERICA AND EUROPE BUILD A BRIDGE BETWEEN CONSOLIDATED e- INFRASTRUCTURE INITIATIVES IN EUROPE AND EMERGING ONES IN LATIN AMERICA

1 st EELA Conference - Santiago de Chile - 04/09/06 FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America 4 OBJECTIVES ESTABLISH A HUMAN COLLABORATION NETWORK –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 SET A PILOT e-INFRASTRUCTURE IN LATIN AMERICA –Implementing basic mechanisms for an interoperable e-Infrastructure  Adoption of a security policy  Establishment of Certification Authorities  Definition of basic tools and middleware that will be used –Setting up a Pilot Testbed  Establishment of Virtual Organizations  Support for application developers and users –Supporting advanced network services

1 st EELA Conference - Santiago de Chile - 04/09/06 FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America 5 OBJECTIVES IDENTIFY AND PROMOTE A SUSTAINABLE FRAMEWORK FOR e-SCIENCE –Identifying research communities and applications –Supporting dissemination efforts –Encouraging a coordinated participation in possible new projects –Defining a map for a future consolidated e-Infrastructure in Latin America

1 st EELA Conference - Santiago de Chile - 04/09/06 FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America 6 PARTNERS IN EUROPE –Italy:INFN –Portugal:LIP –Spain:CIEMAT(Coordinator), CSIC, RED.ES, UC, UPV INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS –CERN and CLARA IN LATIN AMERICA –Argentine:UNLP Brazil:CECIERJ/CEDERJ, RNP, UFF, UFRJ Chile:REUNA, UDEC, UTFSM Cuba:CUBAENERGIA Mexico:UNAM Peru:SENAMHI Venezuela:ULA

1 st EELA Conference - Santiago de Chile - 04/09/06 FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America 7 MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE 4 WORK PACKAGES SUBDIVIDED IN TASKS –WP1: PROJECT ADMINISTRATIVE AND TECHNICAL MANAGEMENT –WP2: PILOT TESTBED AND SUPPORT  Task 2.1: Coordination of e-Infrastructure (Operation Management team)  Task 2.2: Certification Authorities and Virtual Organizations  Task 2.3: Pilot Testbed Operations  Task 2.4: Network Support and Operation

1 st EELA Conference - Santiago de Chile - 04/09/06 FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America 8 MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE –WP3: IDENTIFICATION AND SUPPORT OF GRID ENHANCED APPLICATIONS  Task 3.1:Biomedical Applications  Task 3.2:High Energy Physics Applications  Task 3.3:Additional Applications (Education and Climate in the Grid Environment) –WP4: DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES  Task 4.1:Dissemination  Task 4.2:Knowledge Dissemination

1 st EELA Conference - Santiago de Chile - 04/09/06 FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America 9 MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE

1 st EELA Conference - Santiago de Chile - 04/09/06 FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America 10 MONEY MATTERS EELA FUNDING –EC funds –CIEMAT funds for Latin American Partners (400 K€) –Participants Contribution AVERAGE SPENDING OF EC FUNDS (30/06/06) –95.7 % of the First Installment

1 st EELA Conference - Santiago de Chile - 04/09/06 FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America 11 MONEY MATTERS PERCENTAGES OF THE EC FUNDS –MANAGEMENT (WP1): 6.6 % –TECHNICAL ACTIVITIES:93.4 %  WP2:31.9 %  WP3:22.9 %  WP4:38.6 % –EUROPE: 66.1 % –LA:33.9 %

1 st EELA Conference - Santiago de Chile - 04/09/06 FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America 12 ALREADY DONE Deliverable D1.4.1 “Periodic Project Highlights” available at

1 st EELA Conference - Santiago de Chile - 04/09/06 FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America 13 ALREADY DONE WP1: –Contract Signature (20/12/2005) –Kick-Off Meeting - KoM (30/01 to 02/02/2006) –External Advisory Committee established –Mailing lists created –Private EELA Web Site online –Event agenda (INDICO) created –Support System created –Events Organization finalized –Participation in Conferences, Workshops,etc. –EC Funds distribution among partners (tough job!) –MoUs with BELIEF (signed), EGEE-2, SEEGRID-2 (signed) –2 milestones(100%) met on time –2 Deliverables (100%) submitted to EC on time

1 st EELA Conference - Santiago de Chile - 04/09/06 FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America 14 ALREADY DONE WP2: –EELA GOC (equivalent to EGEE ROC) web site hosted at UFRJ (BRAZIL) –EELA Acceptable Use Policy defined (see D1.3) –3 EELA mini data challenges (KoM - Madrid, EU-LAC Summit - Lisbon and 1 st EELA Conference - Santiago de Chile) –Authorisation to operate over TELECOM black fibres used by RNP's experimental advanced network. –11 Internal Presentations (KoM, 1 st and 2 nd EELA Workshops) –5 Accredited LA Certification Authorities –2 VOMS servers deployed (LIP-PORTUGAL and UFRJ-BRAZIL) –7 Resource Centres integrated (the goal was 3 RC) –58% of the Committed Computing Power already available in 9 institutions –3 Milestones (100%) met on time –2 Deliverables (100%) submitted to EC on time –Participation in several Conferences, Workshops, etc.

1 st EELA Conference - Santiago de Chile - 04/09/06 FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America 15 ALREADY DONE WP3: –Selection of applications:  BIOMEDICAL GATE, WISDOM, BiG already deployed on EELA Infrastructure Phylogenesis foreseen  HEP ALICE and LHCb installed on the EELA infrastructure ATLAS, CMS and PIERRE AUGER Observatory willing to be integrated  E-Learning (Identified candidates) SATyrus, VoD-RemoteLab, ACADIA, ParallelInductive Logic Programming, LEMDist  Climate (Identified Candidates) Global and Regional Climate Simulations Distributed access to Climate Datasets Development of Data Mining Applications

1 st EELA Conference - Santiago de Chile - 04/09/06 FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America 16 ALREADY DONE WP3: –EELA Questionnaire for New Applications (see EELA WEB Site) –Participation to relevant events  BIOMEDICAL EELA KoM, 1 st and 2 nd EELA Workshops, HealthGRID2006, ICT2006, NETTAB2006  HEP EELA KoM, 2 nd EELA Workshop  E-Education and Climate Interactive European Grid Project KoM, 2 nd EELA Workshop –1 Milestone (100%) met on time –2 Deliverables (100%) submitted to EC on time

1 st EELA Conference - Santiago de Chile - 04/09/06 FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America 17 ALREADY DONE WP4: –EELA Questionnaire for New Communities ( see EELA WEB Site) –2 WORKSHOPS  Merida - Venezuela(60 participants)  Itacuruçá - Brazil(46 participants) –1 CONFERENCE (Santiago de Chile - 4 and 5 September 2006)  14 countries represented 5 “non EELA countries”: Colombia, Ecuador, France, Germany, USA  126 participants (61 from Chile) 64 EELA members 62 non EELA members

1 st EELA Conference - Santiago de Chile - 04/09/06 FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America 18 ALREADY DONE WP4: –2 Milestones (100%) met on time –5 Deliverables (100%) submitted to EC on time –5 TUTORIALS: More than 575 participants x days delivered so far !  For grid users (total # of participants: 145) Madrid - Spain(20-22 February 2006) Merida - Venezuela(27-29 April 2006) Itacuruçá - Brazil(26-28 June 2006) Mexico City - Mexico(28-30 August 2006) Santiago de Chile(6-7 September 2006)  For grid system administrators (total # of participants: 72) Madrid - Spain(20-24 February 2006) Itacuruçá - Brazil(26-30 June 2006) Mexico City - Mexico(28 August - 01 September 2006)

1 st EELA Conference - Santiago de Chile - 04/09/06 FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America 19 ALREADY DONE WP4: –EELA WEB Site –DISSEMINATION: 2 brochures, 2 posters, 16 press releases

1 st EELA Conference - Santiago de Chile - 04/09/06 FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America 20 STILL TO BE DONE WP1 –EELA WEB Site upgrade (in progress) –Timesheets final implementation (NEW TOOL in progress) –Strengthening of collaborations with sister projects –Improvement of administrative and financial follow up –Improvement of communication mechanisms among partners –Fostering of close collaboration between EELA work packages

1 st EELA Conference - Santiago de Chile - 04/09/06 FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America 21 STILL TO BE DONE WP2 –Improvement of communication mechanisms between tasks –Focussing on training in LA –Searching new middleware options –Looking for interoperability

1 st EELA Conference - Santiago de Chile - 04/09/06 FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America 22 STILL TO BE DONE WP3 –Selection and deployment of applications (Education and Climate) on the EELA infrastructure –Submission of Deliverables D3.1.2 (Selection Report) and D3.3.1 (Impact on Dissemination Report) in October and November 2006 respectively –Search for new applications (eg. ATLAS, CMS, PIERRE AUGER) and partners, inside and outside EELA (eg. LA Climate community) –Strengthening of collaboration among EELA partners

1 st EELA Conference - Santiago de Chile - 04/09/06 FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America 23 STILL TO BE DONE WP4 –DISSEMINATION  Start producing the first EELA Bulletins and enlarge the number of distribution channels;  Analyze the Questionnaire for New Communities and follow up the results to foster the spread of information about EELA, its goals, and its results in LA. First results of the questionnaire will be presented later in this session.  Organization of the Third EELA Workshop (Lima - Peru)

1 st EELA Conference - Santiago de Chile - 04/09/06 FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America 24 STILL TO BE DONE WP4 –KNOWLEDGE DISSEMINATION  Run the 6th EELA Tutorial for Users and System Administrators (Madrid - Spain - 16 to 20 October 2006)  Run tutorials in “non-EELA” countries and complete the formation of LA training teams.  Set up and run the First EELA Grid School (EGRIS-1) in Rio de Janeiro (04 to 15 December 2006)

1 st EELA Conference - Santiago de Chile - 04/09/06 FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America 25 ISSUES WP1 –Most of the partners do not have any previous knowledge of procedures within an EC funded project. It is, then, mandatory to provide non-experienced partners with all relevant information in order to allow them to correctly report manpower activities and claim related costs –The EELA management internal communication has been an important issue (eg. several time zones between EU and western LA countries).

1 st EELA Conference - Santiago de Chile - 04/09/06 FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America 26 ISSUES WP2 –Some Latin American partners could not be integrated into the Pilot Testbed due to network connectivity and communication issues; –Several Latin American partners do not have enough grid trained personnel; –Some partners, such as CEDERJ (Brazil), need CPU scavenging and opportunistic scheduler algorithms in order to be fully integrated. The current EELA middleware does not present those features. –The operation of the Pilot Testbed unveiled that it was not necessary to keep two separate web sites for a Grid Operation and Regional Operation Centres. The two websites will soon be merged. –The communication between WP2 and WP3, which mutually need each other, is still weak.

1 st EELA Conference - Santiago de Chile - 04/09/06 FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America 27 ISSUES WP3 –Partner commitment should be more effective. –Reports stating the time involved in developing and porting the applications to the EELA infrastructure should be sent regularly to both WP3 Manager and Task Leaders. –The EELA community should keep in mind that applications should effectively be running on Month 15 of the project (March 2007) WP4 –The most important issue that has been identified in the first eight months of the project concerns the unclear/uneasy identification of people working in WP4 and their fraction of FTE. This is going to be addressed

1 st EELA Conference - Santiago de Chile - 04/09/06 FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America 28 CONCLUSIONS EELA Project has tried hard to pursue its objectives. Objective 1 –EELA has held two Project’s Workshops in the reporting period where people of other grid projects in Latin America (both academic and industrial) have been invited; special care has been taken to stimulate collaborations in view of the creation of National Grid Initiatives (NGI) –The EELA Technical Coordinator has attended the e-IRG Workshop that took place in Vienna in April 2006 –The EELA Questionnaire for New Communities has been conceived, published and the results will soon be analyzed

1 st EELA Conference - Santiago de Chile - 04/09/06 FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America 29 CONCLUSIONS Objective 2 –Big efforts have been made by WP2 to set-up a fully functional Pilot Testbed with Virtual Organizations authorized to run on it –A huge effort has been made to set-up as quickly as possible Certification Authorities in all LA EELA beneficiary countries and a few of them are already members of the TAGPMA –Network quality has been considered as essential since the first moment. Network requirements have been collected through a specific questionnaire that has been merged with the EELA Questionnaire for New Applications

1 st EELA Conference - Santiago de Chile - 04/09/06 FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America 30 CONCLUSIONS Objective 3 –An aggressive training plan has been conceived and it is being executed. More than 575 participants · days have been delivered in the first reporting period –Local training teams are being established in all EELA beneficiary countries to improve the effectiveness of knowledge dissemination –The EELA Questionnaire for New Communities will help to identify new research communities and applications that will be enhanced thanks to the use of a shared e-Infrastructure

1 st EELA Conference - Santiago de Chile - 04/09/06 FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America 31 AND FINALLY THE EELA BOAT IS SAILING AND IT IS ON ROUTE FOR THE LONG TRIP TO THE EELA-2 ISLAND