1. Candidate VRCs for a world-wide demonstration
ISGC 2012 – Taipei, 27 Mar 2012

2. Outline The VRC WP inside CHAIN Milestones (identifying VRCs)
List of VRCs
Next actions
First version of the road-map of services

3. WP in CHAIN CHAIN is an EC (260011) funded project Structured in
~ 1.9 M€
Started on December 1st 2010 for 2 years
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

4. WP3 in numbers 78 PM out of 281.50 (~28%) Partners INFN CIEMAT CESNET
UBUNTUNET
CLARA
IHEP
PSA
ASREN
Third parties

5. WP3 in numbers 78 PM out of 281.50 (~28%) Partners INFN CIEMAT CESNET
UBUNTUNET
CLARA
IHEP
PSA
ASREN
Third parties
Europe

6. WP3 in numbers INFN CIEMAT CESNET UBUNTUNET CLARA Europe IHEP PSA
ASREN
Third parties
Europe
Africa

7. WP3 in numbers INFN CIEMAT CESNET UBUNTUNET CLARA IHEP PSA ASREN
Third parties
Africa
Latin America

8. WP3 in numbers INFN CIEMAT CESNET UBUNTUNET CLARA IHEP PSA ASREN
Third parties
Latin America
Asia

9. WP3 in numbers INFN CIEMAT CESNET UBUNTUNET CLARA IHEP PSA ASREN
Third parties
Asia
Middle East

10. WP3 in numbers INFN CIEMAT CESNET UBUNTUNET CLARA IHEP PSA ASREN
Third parties
Middle East

11. WP3 in DoW WP3 is a SUPPORT Activity
WP3 “Present and emerging needs of
trans-continental scientific communities”
Task 3.1 Scientific communities across the continents
(INFN)
Task 3.2 Proposed road-map of services for communities to be deployed on the e-Infrastructures
(CIEMAT)

12. 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.

13. 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
Then, the results will be used for feeding T3.2…

14. WP3 milestones MS5 Call for interest for reference communities
It briefly described WP3 aims and objectives
It showed a couple of identified VRC candidates
Based on EGI monitoring systems (CESGA), it provided some info about VO usage for Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America (Feb 2011)

15. WP3 milestones MS6 Shortlist of reference communities ready
It reports on identified VRC candidates
Initiative coordinators agreed on it
All of them with (potential) impact in CHAIN regions

16. WP3 milestones MS7 Agreements with reference communities signed
MoUs already signed
WeNMR 21/09/2011
WRF4G 19/09/2011
jModelTest 21/02/2012

17. Actions: Definition VRC1 range VRC1 cover
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
VRC1 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

18. Identified VRC
Identified VRC

19. Identified VRC We-NMR (http://www.wenmr.eu)
Coordinator: 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

20. Identified VRC
We-NMR partners in red, collaborations in orange

21. Identified VRC We-NMR MoU signed on 21/09/2011
New contacts (WP2 survey)
Burundi
Costa Rica

22. Identified VRC WRF4G (http://www.meteo.unican.es/es/software/wrf4g)
Coordinator: 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
Dissemination within CORDEX project

23. Identified VRC
WRF4G partners in red, collaborations in orange

24. Identified VRC WRF4G MoU signed on 19/09/2011
New contacts (WP2 survey)
Burundi
China
Costa Rica
Cuba

25. Identified VRC jModelTest & ProtTest (http://darwin.uvigo.es/)
Coordinator: 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)

26. Identified VRC jModelTest & ProtTest registered users

27. Identified VRC jModelTest & ProtTest MoU signed on 21/02/2012
New sequential and distributed computing versions available on SG and being tested
New contacts (WP2 survey)
Burundi
Costa Rica
Democratic Republic of Congo
Ethiopia
Nigeria
Panama
Sudan
Taiwan

28. Identified VRC INDICATE / DC-NET (http://www.indicate-project.org/ -
Coordinator: Dr. Antonella Fresa – Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali
These initiatives are working on coordinating policy and best practice regarding the use of e-Infrastructures for digital cultural heritage

29. Identified VRC INDICATE / DC-NET partners in red,
collaborations in orange

30. Identified VRC DECIDE (http://www.eu-decide.eu)
Coordinator: Dr. Fulvio Galeazzi - GARR
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

31. Identified VRC
DECIDE partners in red

32. Identified VRC Climate Change
Conf. Role of e-Infrastructures in Climate Change
List of interested people and projects
4 projects identified
20 contacts
WRF4G is being promoted inside the VRC
New development: CAM4G  Strategy to be also used in other models
Seismology groups identified in LA, India and Italy

33. Identified VRC
SuperB
SuperB will be a heavy flavour accelerator that will provide complementary information to LHC, looking at rare decays with a very high luminosity electron-positron asymmetric collider
Potential contacts world-wide by means of LHC collaborations

34. Identified VRC LSGC Very well known VRC
One of the biggest Grid users, HEP excluded

35. Next actions Next VRCs related ‘milestones’ are: To sign new MoUs
To test the proposed model of services (road-map)
Science Gateways
To update such a road-map (services and commonalities)

36. Road-map of services First version of the road-map of services
Complete version in D3.2 (
Brief summary in the CHAIN Wiki page ( project.eu/wiki/-/wiki/WIKI+Page/WP3)
Study of the current status of DCIs in what VRCs concerns
48 Recommendations for existing and emerging e-Infrastructures for Virtual Research Communities
Technical
Training, administration and use
Collaborative scenario

37. Road-map of services Workshops to profit from
CHAIN/GISELA workshop as part of EGI CF 2012
Munich (Germany), March 29th 2012
GISELA/CHAIN Conference
Mexico DF (Mexico), June 27th-29th 2012
CHAIN workshop as part of CLARA/ALICE2 meeting
Lima (Peru), July 2nd-6th 2012
EGI TF 2012
Prague (Czech Republic), September 2012
Grid 2012 Conference
Beijing (China), September 2012

38. Road-map of services Workshops to profit from
And of course, this CHAIN/GISELA workshop that is being held by now as part of ISGC 2012
Let’s discuss about it !!!

39. Manuel Rodríguez-Pascual (CIEMAT)
Thank you!
Manuel Rodríguez-Pascual (CIEMAT)