1. EGI: Ready for new horizons
Steven Newhouse
EGI-InSPIRE Project Director
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Lyon was a long time ago
The last 6 months
Changes and achievements
The next decade
Evolving EGI for new Horizons in 2020
EGI Community Forum
Highlights from this week
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3. European Grid Infrastructure (March 2012 and increase from Apr 2011)
Logical CPUs (cores)
271,000 EGI (+13%)
400,000 All
122 PB disk and 128 PB tape
Resource Centres
323 EGI-InSPIRE & EGI
352 All
108 supporting MPI (+12.5%)
Countries
42 EGI-InSPIRE & EGI
56 All
Operations Centres
27 National Operations Centres
9 Federations
1 EIRO (CERN)
Availability/Reliability (PQ7): 94.8%/95.6%
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Users and Usage
VO Members: 21,126 (+13.5 from April 2011)
1,264,922 jobs/day (+32% from April 2011)
3.6M Non HEP jobs/month % from April 2011
232 VOs
25 High Activity VOs (from a total of 111 international VOs)
MoU signed with EGI
Technical Evolution Groups engaged with EGI
New effort starting in common analysis tools
Fewer grid service problems and faster resolution
Earth System Grid Federation (ESG)
Use ESG data for EGI based climate studies
GeoQair OSSE (Observing System Simulation Experiments)
Instrument devoted to air quality survey in the lower troposphere
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Technology
3 UMD releases with 70+ products updates
Tested with 56 Early Adopters
3 rejected, 99 tests in total
170+ quality criteria covering all 27 capabilities
3000+ product downloads
50+ issues solved by DMSU
200+ tickets handled in total
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6. Website and Social Media
New EGI website launched at the Community Forum
Includes new case studies, quick links for researchers, public, press, policy makers
News and events more prominent
Launch of new social media channels on YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter
Follow news, tech/ops, policy and community individually
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7. “Stories from the Grid”
New series of YouTube videos launched: “Stories from the Grid”
First video on WeNMR, more being filmed!
Lots more case studies on the website at
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8. NGI International Liaisons
Contact point for non-operations activity in the NGI
Kick off meeting in November with DoW change
Used to engage NGI staff in Virtual Team Projects
NGI Virtual Team activity across 12 projects:
ES, UK, IE, IT, CH, CZ, FR, PT, DE, GR
HU, SK, LT
NL, BE, FI, MD, RS, IL, HR, PL
SE, TR,
TW, DK, GE, LV, RO, RU
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Virtual Teams
Completed
Ongoing
Intelligence Collection and Analysis
MPI within EGI
Federated Identity Providers
ESFRI Contacts within a country
EGI presence at the EGU General Assembly 2012
EGI Compendium
Digital Cultural Heritage Integration with EGI
NGI Content for the new website
Fire and Smoke Simulation
Inter NGI Usage Report
SPEEch on the Grid
Producing an NGI User Report
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10. Client Relationship Management System
To record leads to new user communities
Projects (incl. ESFRI)
Institutes
Persons
To record conversations with new user communities
To build up European wide picture
Provided by Ibergrid:
(Login needed)
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What will EGI be in 2020?
I want a single and open European digital space, a digital European Research Area, where researchers can get leading-edge, ubiquitous and reliable services for networking and computing. And where they can get seamless and open access to resources and services. Neelie Kroes, ICRI, March 2012
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12. EGI Strategy Discussions
What are the strengths of our community?
Where should our focus be for 2020?
What can we offer to research communities?
How do we relate to a digital European Research Area with 2.8M researchers?
EGI Strategy Paper
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13. Community & Coordination
Supporting Community Events
Bringing different communities together
Scientific Workflows, Budapest, Feb 2012
HealthGrid/IWSG-Life, Amsterdam, May 2012
Understanding our own community better
EGI Compendium & Requirements Gathering
Science Gateways & Technologies
Consolidating our role in e-Infrastructures
Collaboration with: e.nventory, ERINA+, OSIRIS
MoUs with: EDGI, SHIWA, WLCG
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14. Operational Infrastructure
Know how to operate a federated infrastructure
Key building block needed within RIs
Monitoring of other technologies
gLite, ARC, UNICORE and Globus5
Coming soon: DesktopGrids
Monitoring central services
Top BDII, EGI Global Services
Future integration with OLAs
Integration of other infrastructures
Ukraine & South Africa (in addition to Latin America)
Updates to the Operations Tools
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15. Federated Private Clouds
Community Driven
60 individuals
23 institutions
13 countries
Diverse Stakeholders
15 Resource Providers
7 Technology Providers
4 User Communities
3 Liaisons
Multiple Technologies
7 OpenNebula
3 StratusLab
3 OpenStack
1 Okeanos
1 WNoDeS
Accounting screenshot
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16. Research Environments
Software environments for researchers
Unique to each research community
Reuse high quality software components
Flexible deployment model across Europe
On demand through a federated cloud
Directly onto hardware if required
Provided centrally – Software as a Service
Enable domain specific environments
to be deployed
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EGI Community Forum
170 submissions accepted for 5 tracks
Users and communities
Software services for users and communities
Middleware services
Operational services and infrastructure
Coordination and Communication
Conference4me from PSNC
Android Market and iTunes App Store
Use the QR code in your programme
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20. Do not forget to vote!
Voting slips are in your conference bags
Ballot box at the reception desk
Voting closes at 5pm on Thursday

21. Best poster & demo prizes
Professor Horst Zuse
“History of Computing”
 Herbert Cornelius
“Intel HPC in the Cloud”

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After the Conference...
Peer-reviewed papers in the Proceedings of Science
ISSN-DOI
Submission through lead authors
Permanent free read-access, quotable, indexed
Key dates for authors:
Paper submission deadline: 16 April 2012
Author's notification: 15 May 2012
Final paper submission: 30 June 2012
Contact:
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Follow EGI live online
Read the conference blog at
Follow EGI on at twitter.com/europeangrid (#egicf12)
Photos will appear on our stream at  (egicf12 tag for your own photos)
“Stories from the Grid” on at
Read the EGI blog at
Announcements & competitions on at
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