Co-ordination & Harmonisation of Advanced e-Infrastructures Research Infrastructures – Grant Agreement n CHAIN VRC oriented actions Rafael Mayo – Federico Ruggieri CHAIN-GISELA Workshop during EGI User Forum. Vilnius, 13 April 2011

EGI UF 2011 – Vilnius, 13 April Outline  The activity inside CHAIN  WP3 in numbers & DoW  Community  Objectives & Aim  Actions  Examples

EGI UF 2011 – Vilnius, 13 April A new project

EGI UF 2011 – Vilnius, 13 April CHAIN structure  CHAIN is an EC (260011) funded project  ~ 1.9 M€ (1.1 funded)  Started 1 December 2010 for 24 months duration  Structured in  WP 1 Project Management  WP 2 Consolidation of existing state of the art  WP 3 Present and emerging needs of trans-continental scientific communities  WP 4 Modelling the cooperation of European e-Infrastructures with non-European ones  WP 5 Dissemination and Outreach

EGI UF 2011 – Vilnius, 13 April Objectives & Aim  To provide (limited) support to the existing and well experienced VRC (LHC, Biomed…)  To provide support for communities interested to widen their activities collaborating with other continents  To discover and attract new scientific communities or merging similar ones operating worldwide.

EGI UF 2011 – Vilnius, 13 April Objectives & Aim  Performing a large spectrum investigation on the existing and potential trans-continental communities (T3.1)  Looking for requirements, commonalities, challenges and possible synergies to be gathered and analysed  Questions included in the survey for NGIs and Regional Infrastructures  Producing studies of the necessary steps for e-Infrastructures to fulfil the requirement of present and emerging VRC with trans- continental span (T3.2) based on  The existing plans of relevant organisations, projects and/or committees (ESFRI, e-IRG, EGI, PRACE…)  The feedbacks received during the thematic workshops and high-level conferences

EGI UF 2011 – Vilnius, 13 April Objectives & Aim  Thus, the final goal is to involve at least a couple of reference communities to validate the proposed model (services) But to do it, being sustainable is a must!

EGI UF 2011 – Vilnius, 13 April Actions: Definition  VRC 1 range  from a group of researchers working together, sharing means to carry out common investigations, such as distributed resources: instruments, computing, storage and software tools  Up to large international well-structured collaborations  VRC 1 cover  Small user communities (several groups)  With or without Grid knowledge  Large collaborations  Looking for more computing resources and/or advanced services 1 GISELA D3.1

EGI UF 2011 – Vilnius, 13 April What can CHAIN offer to VRCs  Worldwide adoption of the applications thanks to the large geographical coverage of the project: Africa, Asia, LA, Middle East  New distributed computing resources (also with different MW and services)  Facilitate the access to data repositories in other regions  Applications from other groups in other continents  Assessment of requirements for real intercontinental virtual research communities

EGI UF 2011 – Vilnius, 13 April CHAIN benefits  Feedback the experience to EGI, EGI-InSPIRE, EMI  Extend the collaboration beyond European borders  Coordinate advanced training for research groups in cooperation with other projects (e.g. EPIKH)  Dissemination of VRCs results and achievements in other continents

EGI UF 2011 – Vilnius, 13 April What CHAIN asks from VRCs  Availability to export their applications beyond the boundaries of their projects and to collaborate with similar groups of researchers in other regions  Provide information related to the groups and applications, contact points, etc.  Participate to a (limited) number of workshops where VRC’s requirements will be debated and assessed.  Extension of their second level User Support (if any)  Disseminate the information of the CHAIN findings inside their community  Advertise the collaboration with CHAIN on their web site.

EGI UF 2011 – Vilnius, 13 April Actions: Internal road-map  Our milestones  MS5 Call for interest for reference communities (January 11)  MS6 Shortlist of reference communities ready (March 11)  MS7 Agreements with reference communities signed (August 11)  In the meantime  Agreement with EGI/EGI-InSPIRE - MoU draft version ready  Continue the investigation on possible new VRCs also in the light of new projects being currently negotiated with EC.  Lately, updates of the advances should be performed continuously  Redefine the road-map  Modify the list of proposed services  Add new communities

EGI UF 2011 – Vilnius, 13 April Information collected by now  MS5 Call for interest for reference communities

EGI UF 2011 – Vilnius, 13 April Information collected by now (2)  MS5 Call for interest for reference communities

EGI UF 2011 – Vilnius, 13 April VRC Candidates  We-NMR (  Dr. Alexandre M.J.J Bonvin – Universiteit Utrecht  Structural biology, making use of NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance), SAXS (Small Angle X-ray Scattering), computational modelling or other related techniques to study biomolecules

EGI UF 2011 – Vilnius, 13 April VRC Candidates  We-NMR partners in red

EGI UF 2011 – Vilnius, 13 April VRC Candidates  WRF4G (  Dr. Antonio Cofiño – Universidad de Cantabria  Meteorology and other Earth Science related areas willing to enhance their forecasting techniques on Idealized simulations, Regional and global applications, Parameterization and Data assimilation or Forecast and hurricane research

EGI UF 2011 – Vilnius, 13 April VRC Candidates  WRF4G partners in red

EGI UF 2011 – Vilnius, 13 April VRC Candidates  jModelTest/ProtTest (  Dr. David Posada – Universidad de Vigo  Evolutionary Biology for the statistical selection of best-fit models of nucleotide substitution and amino acid replacement for given set of aligned sequences (molecular systematics, phylogenetics, phylogenomics, molecular evolution and/or bioinformatics)

EGI UF 2011 – Vilnius, 13 April VRC Candidates  jModelTest/ProtTest registered users  Modeltest ~  jModelTest ~  Prottest ~ 5.000

EGI UF 2011 – Vilnius, 13 April VRC Candidates  INDICATE / DC-NET (  Dr. Antonella Fresa – Promoter  These initiatives are working on coordinating policy and best practice regarding the use of e-Infrastructures for digital cultural heritage

EGI UF 2011 – Vilnius, 13 April VRC Candidates  INDICATE / DC-NET partners in red

EGI UF 2011 – Vilnius, 13 April VRC Candidates  DECIDE (  Dr. Laura Leone – GARR & Dr. Roberto Barbera – COMETA  Design, implement, and validate a GRID-based e-Infrastructure building upon neuGRID and relying on the Pan-European backbone GEANT and the NRENs. Over this e-Infrastructure, a service will be provided for the computer-aided extraction of diagnostic markers for Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia from medical images

EGI UF 2011 – Vilnius, 13 April VRC Candidates  DECIDE partners in red

EGI UF 2011 – Vilnius, 13 April Climate Change VRC  Worldwide community presently not structured as a VRC  CHAIN supports ‘Role of e-Infrastructures for Climate Change Research’ Conference  ICTP, Trieste, May 16th – 20th 2011  Visit:  In cooperation with:  ICTP  EU-IndiaGrid 2  EUMEDGRID-Support

Co-ordination & Harmonisation of Advanced e-Infrastructures Research Infrastructures – Grant Agreement n Thank you! Federico Ruggieri (INFN) – Project Coordinator