1. The Italian Grid Infrastructure (And how it can support Archaeology) F. Ruggieri – INFN Cyberinfrastructures and Archaeology San Miniato – 16 October 2008

2. Outline The Italian Grid Infrastructure 4 projects in the South of Italy The European Vision to share What can Grid do for Archaeology ? Conclusions

3. The Italian Grid Infrastructure Italian Grid Infrastructure (IGI) – EU Joint Research Unit – Based on a MoU signed by all the partners in December 2007 and open to new partners and contributors. – Recognised and supported by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR) – Recognised by the European Commission – The Italian Interface vs the EU Grid Infrastructure (EGEE & EGI) – First step for a common governance of the Italian e- Infrastructure by all the Public Entities involved

4. Partners of IGI Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Ente per le Nuove tecnologie, l’Energia e l’Ambiente (ENEA) Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II Università degli Studi della Calabria Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A. (ELETTRA) Consorzio COMETA Consorzio COSMOLAB Consorzio SPACI Consortium GARR L’Universita’ di Perugia L’Universita’ del Piemonte Orientale

5. Italian Grid 44 Resource Centres (>28 sites are also part of the EGEE/LCG Grid infrastructure) > 10.000 CPUs > 2 PBytes Disk Storage

6. Accounting of all VOs N. Jobs per VO CPU/Wall time (January – May 2008) > 45.000 CPU h/day Total > 11.000 CPU h/day of non LHC VOs

7. The Italian Regional Operation Centre (ROC) 10 ROCs in EGEE Operations Coordination Centre (OCC) –Management, oversight of all operational and support activities Regional Operations Centres (ROC) –providing the core of the support infrastructure, each supporting a number of resource centres within its region Grid Operator on Duty Grid User Support (GGUS) –At FZK, coordination and management of user support, single point of contact for users

8. National Operative Program (PON) CRESCO –ENEA CYBERSAR –Consorzio COSMOLAB PI2S2 –Consorzio COMETA SCOPE –Universita’ Federico II Napoli

9. 4 Projects in the South University Federico II ENEA Consorzio COMETA Consorzio COSMOLAB 40 M€ in Personnel & Infrastructures > 8000 Core Processors > 500 TB Disk space

10. CRESCO project Università di Salerno Università di Catania Università di Lecce Università di Palermo Università Campus Biomedico Università del Piemonte Orientale Università di Roma “Tor Vergata” Università di Roma “La Sapienza” Consorzio Interuniversitario ECONA Consorzio Interuniversitario CASPUR Consorzio CRIAI Consorzio CETMA Centro di ricerca CERI Parco Scientifico e Tecnologico della Sicilia Soc. Ylichron (spin-off ENEA)

11. CYBERSAR Dedicated Infrastructure to support Scientific and Technological Research in Sardinia. Integrated with the Italian Grid Infrastructure. Grid based makes use of high speed network links to interconnect: –The main research centres and hospitals in Sardinia –4 main computing infrastructures Network core based on dark fibres ( - Grid) Direct Economical support of the Autonomous Region of Sardinia

12. COSMOLAB Consortium - Università degli Studi di Cagliari - Università degli Studi di Sassari - INAF- Istituto Nazionale Astrofisica - INFN- Istituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare - CRS4 - NICE srl - TISCALI Italia srl

13. ~11.3 M€ in 3 years >270 persons ~2000 CPU ~3.2 MSI2k ~250 TB PI2S2 the Grid Infrastructure in Sicily

14. COMETA Consortium (http://www.consorzio-cometa.it)

15. SCOPE in Naples CAMPUS-GRID MEDICINE CSI ENGINEERING ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY Optic Fiber Already Connected Work in Progress

16. Interoperability and Sharing of Resources and Applications GARR Other Organisations

17. Next Steps Formal approval of MIUR of a plan for long term sustainability of IGI as “The” National Grid Infrastructure. Contribute to the evolution from EGEE to the European Grid Infrastructure. Enlarge the number of Scientific Domains involved. Push the participation and involvement of Industries and major players. Continue to “export” the Grid technology to other countries with specific initiatives for the Mediterranean.

18. The European Vision The Research Network infrastructure provides fast interconnection and advanced services among Research and Education institutes of different countries’ –Projects: GEANT, SEEREN, EUMEDCONNECT, etc. The Research Grid infrastructure provides a distributed environment for sharing computing power, storage, instruments and databases through the appropriate software (middleware) in order to solve complex application problems –Projects: EGEE, SEE-GRID, EUMEDGRID etc. This integrated networking & grid environment is called electronic infrastructure (eInfrastructure) allowing new methods of global collaborative research - often referred to as electronic science (eScience) The creation of the eInfrastructure is a key objective of the European Research Area Network Infrastructure e-Science Collaborations Grid Infrastructure

19. Research Infrastructures are at the core of the knowledge Triangle ResearchEducation Innovation Research infrastructures

20. Broad scale test-beds Production quality facilities Sustainable e-Infrastructures (utility model) Sustainable grid/data-based e- Infrastructures (utility model) Towards sustainable grid-empowered e- Infrastructures 2002-2006 2007-2013 1997-2001

21. A large portfolio of applications Simulation of seawater intrusion in the aquifers (CODESA-3D). Archaelogical applications (ArchaeoGrid)Archaelogical applications (ArchaeoGrid) Biomedical applications (WISDOM, etc.) Ab-initio protein structure simulation (Rosetta, Early/Late). … and many others. A large number of applications, in several fields has been already deployed on the Grid:

22. Archaeology & Grid: Opportunities General benefits: –Opportunistic use of shared resources → More Efficient and complete usage of available resources (Some) Specific benefits/opportunities: –New approaches with simulation methods: Paleoclimate, 3D visualisation of relics, Refined (and Computing Intensive) “social” behaving simulation in ancient (virtual) environment and much more. –Consolidation of Data from different sources and creation of a “knowledge base” accessible worldwide. –ICT tools applied to Cultural Heritage and Archaeology: Workflows and cooperative applications Large scale information discovery and specialised data mining Standardisation of Digital Objects

23. Archaeology & Grid: The Privilege Italy has more than 60% of World Cultural Heritage. Such a huge heritage is invaluable, even from the touristic point of view. Preservation, on the other hand, is receiving a modest investment. Accessibility to such large amount of monuments, relics and artefacts is quite limited, not only for tourists but even for researchers.

24. Archaeology & Grid: The Perspective A large use of ICT in Archaeology is presently an indisputable reality. A Grid Infrastructure can offer: - a large amount of computing resources to attack large scale simulation and computational problems; - the access to Sensors and large Data Repositories; - the possibility of setting up large Virtual Libraries driven by the specific requirements of the community; - the tools to support the creation and cooperation of a Virtual Organisation dedicated to Archaeologists and Cultural Heritage operators. Storage Element Element Computing InstrumentElement WorkgroupMultimediaVirtualLibraries

25. The JITCNGRID project The project aims at designing and experimenting a novel research infrastructure for Cultural Heritage preservation based on grid and high speed networks, interconnecting and evolving existing grid infrastructures in Italy and China. Submitted to the IT call of Nov. 2007 based on bilateral IT (MIUR) - CN (MoST) agreement. Excellent evaluation from IT Reviewers is presently under evaluation of the Chinese MoST.

26. Conclusions Grid Infrastructures are a mature reality not only in Italy but also in Europe and Worldwide. The Grids, originally sponsored by the HEP scientists involved in LHC, are now heavily used by many other Scientific Domains. Cultural Heritage Preservation and Archaeology can benefit for the “traditional work”, and, more interestingly, develop new approaches and applications. Governmental and European Commission contributions are needed to address the long term sustainability. New projects to be submitted.