FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA [ Empowering e Science across the Mediterranean ] EUMEDGRID Project Status Roberto Barbera, Univ. of Catania and INFN EGAAP Meeting - CERN,

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA EGAAP Meeting, CERN, Outline  Objectives  Partners  Workplan  Organization  Status  Conclusions & Outlook

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA EGAAP Meeting, CERN, Objectives (1/2)  [O1] Stimulate the formation of National Grid Infrastructures (NGI) in the Mediterranean Countries, thus contributing to the creation of a “virtual Grid-based research space” (“horizontal action” of the project). It is expected that in the majority of the third countries a National Grid event will take place.  [O2] Promote awareness in the region regarding Grid developments through the organization of a number of dissemination and outreach events, which will promote the project results to the private and public sector, ultimately reaching the general public.  [O3] Establish a dialogue regarding policy developments for research and education networking and provide input to the agenda of national funding bodies and if possible governments. This is to be done as part of NGI establishment (O1) as well as in a form of dedicated policy workshop.

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA EGAAP Meeting, CERN, Objectives (2/2)  [O4] Capture local eScience user requirements in terms of resources needed, Grid services, and application software.  [O5] Provide guidelines and technical cookbooks to guide regional integration in the Euro-Mediterranean infrastructures.  [O6] Carry out the regional integration in the Euro-Mediterranean infrastructures by supporting the establishment of pilot Grid resource centres at each country in the region. Adapt and implement the operational and organisational management techniques of the existing production Grids and bring the region up to speed with production-level operations. Pilot Grid Resource Centres are intended to be the major vehicle of this process, becoming the seeds of National Grid Infrastructures in the Mediterranean Countries.  [O7] Build upon and exploit the infrastructure provided by the Gigabit Pan- European Research & Education Network (GEANT) and the Mediterranean Research and Education Networking (EUMEDCONNECT) initiative in the region. The coordination of NGI into a Regional (Mediterranean) infrastructure will take advantage from the existing human network created within the EUMEDCONNNECT project; on the other hand, such human network will be a trigger towards the creation of a physical backbone connecting directly all EUMEDGRID actors, to maximize the effectiveness of the pilot grid infrastructure, which in a first phase will mainly build upon Gèant2 network and the EUMEDCONNECT links towards the Mediterranean  [O8] As a proof of principle, support the deployment of EGEE applications (High Energy Physics, BioMed) and other Grid applications of regional interest on the pilot infrastructure, with the involvement of local user community; actively encourage new user communities to join the EUMEDGRID community and deploy their own applications on the Pilot infrastructure.

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA EGAAP Meeting, CERN, Partners Partic. Role* Partic. No. Participant name Participant short name Country Date enter proje ct ** Date exit projec t ** CO1 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare INFNItaly M1M24 CR2 European Organisation for Nuclear Research CERNSwitzerland M1M24 CR3 Cyprus Research and Academic Network CYNETCyprus M1M24 CR4 Delivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe DANTEUK M1M24 CR5 Consortium GARR GARRItaly M1M24 CR6 Greek Research and Technology Network GRNETGreece M1M24 CR7 Entidad Pública Empresarial RED.ES RED.ESSpain M1M24 CR8 University of Malta UOMMalta M1M24 CR9 Centre de Recherche sur l’Iformation Scientifique et Technique CERISTAlgeria M1M24 CR10 Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique CNRSTMorocco M1M24 CR11 Egyptian Universities Network EUNEgypt M1M24 CR12 Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology HIASTSyria M1M24 CR13 Ministry of Scientific Research, Technology and Competency Development MSRTDCTunisia M1M24 CR14 The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey TUBITAKTurkey M1M24

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA EGAAP Meeting, CERN, Third Parties Third PartyPartner Relevant WP’s Università di Messina – Dipartimento di Matematica INFNWP4 Dipartimento di Fisica – Università di RomaTre INFNWP4, WP5 CRS4 GARRWP4 ICTP INFNWP4 IUCC (Inter University Computing Center) - ISRAEL GARRWP4, WP5 Laboratoire CRISTAL - Ecole Nationale des Sciences de l'Informatique MRSTDCWP4, WP5 Research Unit of Technologies of Information and Communication – University of Tunis MRSTDCWP4, WP5 Bilkent University TUBITAKWP4 JUNet, Jordan GRNETWP5 PADI2, Palestine GRNETWP5 Institute of Communication and Computer Systems, Athens, Greece GRNETWP3

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA EGAAP Meeting, CERN, Workplan Work- package No Work-package titleLead contractor No Person- months Start month End month WP1 Project administrative and technical management 1 (INFN) 37.4 (25.4) M1M24 WP2 Requirement capture and analysis 8 (UoM) 42 (36.4) M1M7 WP3 Pilot infrastructure operational support 6 (GRNET) (123.6) M6M24 WP4Applications support1 (INFN) (82.5) M6M24 WP5 Dissemination and Outreach 5 (GARR) (123.8) M1M24 TOTAL (391.7)

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA EGAAP Meeting, CERN, Commitment

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA EGAAP Meeting, CERN, Project management structure

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA EGAAP Meeting, CERN, Project executives  Project Manager: Federico Ruggieri (INFN)  Technical Manager: Roberto Barbera (Univ. of Catania and INFN)  WP2 Manager: Kevin Vella (UoM)  WP3 Manager: Ognjen Prnjat (GRNET)  WP4 Manager: Giuseppe Andronico (INFN)  WP5 Manager: Federica Tanlongo (GARR)

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA EGAAP Meeting, CERN, Work already done WP1: Project Administrative and Technical Management

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA EGAAP Meeting, CERN, The Project website ( Both in English and French. Soon in Arabic!

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA EGAAP Meeting, CERN, Work already done WP2: Requirements Capture and Analysis

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA EGAAP Meeting, CERN, The EUMEDGRID Questionnaire  A questionnaire to gather information from partners has been finalized and is online at the URL:  The survey closes on the 16 th of March and the results will be available soon after.

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA EGAAP Meeting, CERN, Work already done WP3: Pilot Infrastructure Operational Support

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA EGAAP Meeting, CERN, The EUMEDCONNECT Network

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA EGAAP Meeting, CERN, The EUMEDGRID e-Infrastructure (from the Technical Annex)

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA EGAAP Meeting, CERN, The EUMEDGRID e-Infrastructure (NOW! - from GridICE) INFN-CT INFN-RM3 GRNET INFN-CNAF TUBITAK

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA EGAAP Meeting, CERN, The EUMEDGRID GridICE (

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA EGAAP Meeting, CERN, The EUMEDGRID GStat and SFT (

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA EGAAP Meeting, CERN, Certification Authorities  INFN Certification Authority has accepted to act as a “catch-all” CA for the first months of the Project to ease and speed up the start-up of users.  4 out of 7 needed Registration Authorities have already been setup at: CNRST, Morocco (Redouane Merrouch) Research and Academic Network, Cyprus (Christos Koutsioupis) HIAST, Syria (Maher Suleiman) RicerkaNet, Malta (Charles Mifsud, Simon Portelli )

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA EGAAP Meeting, CERN, The “eumed” VOMS ( New registrations at: Grid Acceptable User Policy already defined

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA EGAAP Meeting, CERN, The User Support System (

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA EGAAP Meeting, CERN, Work already done WP4: Application Support

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA EGAAP Meeting, CERN, Grid Applications  Biomed applications (already EGEE pilot applications)  HEP applications (already EGEE pilot applications)  New candidates: Earth science (hydrology, see presentation later) e-Learning (multi-media content on-demand)  Others to be selected by WP2

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA EGAAP Meeting, CERN,  Aim: estimate sustainable extraction scheme - improve management  CODESA-3D: Density- dependent 3D coupled groundwater flow and transport simulations  Data requirement Geology Topography Meteorology Water extraction by the farmer Aquifer properties Soil maps Land use One simulated map of water levels Hydrology

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA EGAAP Meeting, CERN, Work already done WP5: Dissemination and Outreach

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA EGAAP Meeting, CERN, The first Project’s information

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA EGAAP Meeting, CERN, sites in 3 continents > 3000 certificates issued, >15% renewed at least once > 100 tutorials and demos perfor- med in 23 months > 1,000,000 hits (> 50,000 unique visits) on (of) the web site from 10’s of different countries > 0.6 TB of training material downloaded from the web site The GILDA t-Infrastructure (

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA EGAAP Meeting, CERN, Preliminary time schedule of tutorials WhereWhenWho Greece (Athens)27-28 March 2006SysAdmins Turkey (Istanbul)3-7 July 2006SysAdmins and Users Tunisia (Tunis)Autumn 2006SysAdmins and Users Algeria (Algiers)June 2007Users Israel (Tel Aviv)July 2007Users

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA EGAAP Meeting, CERN, Conclusions and Outlook  The progress made by EUMEDGRID since its beginning is very good and promising.  The kernel of the pilot infrastructure is already set up and will grow rapidly.  Some applications have already been defined and many more will come thanks to the survey done inside WP2.  So, more news very soon !