1. The EPIKH Project Roberto Barbera (roberto.barbera@ct.infn.it)
University of Catania and INFN
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2. Outline Background and concepts The EPIKH project
The GILDA t-Infrastructure
Educational formats and services
EPIKH training activities with GILDA
Conclusions
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3. Computationally intensive research
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4. Computationally intensive research
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5. e-Science Virtual Organisations e-Infrastructure Applications Data
Instruments
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6. World digital inclusion (www.maplecroft.com)
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7. The Global Network
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8. The Global Grid TeraGrid EGEE OSG EELA SEE-Grid BalticGrid DEISA
NAREGI
EUMedGrid
BalticGrid
SEE-Grid
EUIndiaGrid
EUAsiaGrid
EUChinaGrid
DEISA
EGEE
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9. The Triangle of Knowledge
Research & Development
t-Infrastructure
e-Infrastructure
Education
& Training
Innovation
Building e-Infrastructures is a waste if we
don’t “build”, at the same time, their users.
Along with e-Infrastructures,
t-Infrastructures and training programmes are also needed.
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10. The EPIKH Project (www.epikh.eu)
“Exchange Programme to advance e-Infrastructure Know-How” (EPIKH)
EU FP7- Marie Curie Actions – People - International Research Staff Exchange Scheme (IRSES)
Consortium “numbers”:
23 partners;
18 countries;
4 continents (Africa, Latin America, Asia, Europe);
115 persons involved;
>650 researcher-months;
>500 secondments;
Duration: March, 1, 2009 – February, 28, 2013 (48 months)
EC contribution: 1,188,000 €
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11. Partners in common with EUMEDGRID-Support
The EPIKH Partners
Partners in common with EUMEDGRID-Support
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12. The EPIKH goals Strategic aims: Specific actions:
Reinforce the impact of e-Infrastructures in scientific research defining and delivering stimulating programme of educational events, including Grid Schools and High Performance Computing courses;
Broaden the engagement in e-Science activities and collaborations both geographically and across disciplines.
Specific actions:
Spreading the knowledge about the “Grid Paradigm” to all potential users: both system administrators and application developers through an extensive training programme;
Easing the access of the trained people to the e-Infrastructures existing in the areas of action of the project;
Fostering the establishment of scientific collaborations among the countries/continents involved in the project.
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13. EPIKH secondments’ programme
1st Phase:
Non-EU → EU
(selected)
Res. Programs
2nd Phase:
EU → Non-EU
Grid Schools
(with 1st phase tutors)
Workshops
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14. EPIKH Quality & Certification Programme
All seconded people must be officially selected against their CVs;
All Non-EU→EU secondments must have a Research Program agreed between “sending” and “accepting” organisations;
All secondments must have final reports both from the seconded person and the “accepting” organisation
If both reports will be successfull the seconded person will be provided with an official certificate
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15. EPIKH on the web
wiki.epikh.eu
documents.epikh.eu
agenda.epikh.eu
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16. Grants and applications (wiki.epikh.eu)
The call for applications is already open !
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17. GILDA: the “de facto” standard EPIKH t-Infrastructure
GILDA: Grid INFN Laboratory for Dissemination Activities
GILDA is a complete Grid production quality infrastructure fully devoted to demonstrate/disseminate Grid computing
GILDA is an international effort funded by multiple sources
GILDA is adopted by several Grid projects worldwide
It runs the latest version of the gLite middleware and support other middleware such as Condor, Globus, OurGrid, UNICORE, etc.
Using GILDA is free of charge
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18. The GILDA “island” on GridMap (gridmap. cern
The GILDA “island” on GridMap (gridmap.cern.ch/gm/#topo=gilda&layout=tc&vo=OPS&serv=Site&sitenames)
GILDA sites are part of the EGEE
production infrastructure and
are monitored by the same tools
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19. The GILDA formats and services (https://gilda.ct.infn.it)
Training on Grid
Tutorial for Users
Tutorial for Site Admin
Grid Schools
Tutorial for Trainers/Customized events
University courses (Degree, Ms.C, Ph.D, etc.)
Training materials: Wiki pages, Printable Documentation, Demos, Videos, etc.
Grid Application development
Support to Grid application development
Deployment of the applications into the GENIUS and P-GRADE grid portals
GILDA Ticketing support system
Infrastructure
GILDA CA
GILDA VOMS
Creation of pilot test-beds: EELA, EUMED, EUCHINA, EUINDIA, SAGRID, etc.
Testing and development on new available gLite services
Dedicated Software repository/Virtual services (INFN Grid)
Monitoring (GStat, SAM, GridMap, etc. )
Remote site installation
Successfully tested in Mexico and Malaysia
We’ll do it in Cairo in May 2010
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20. Users’ assistance provided by GILDA
Training material
Wiki page
Video tutorials
Step by step instructions
Support system
GILDA Forge
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21. GILDA “numbers” so far >14,000 certificates issued since 2004.
>1000 users registered
in the GILDA VO
>14,000 certificates issued since 2004.
More than 30% renewed at least once.
>410 tutorials in 56
countries since 2004.
Up to 6 at the same time! 1 2 3 4 5 6
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22. Grid Training done in Africa with GILDA (in the last 2 years)
EELA-2 Grid tutorial
Lilongwe (Malawi) –
2nd SAGrid Workshop & Tutorial
Durban –
HP/UNESCO/EGEE Grid tutorial
Johannesburg –
1st SAGrid Workshop & Tutorial
Cape Town –
About 120 people trained on e-Infrastructure
from Algeria, Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi,
Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania,
Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Zambia, and Zimbabwe
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23. EPIKH training activities with GILDA (1/2)
1-week tutorials for site administrators (with remote installations)
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24. EPIKH training activities with GILDA (2/2)
Grid Schools
2 entire weeks devoted to applications’ “gridification”
call for applications widely open
Eight 1-month Grid & HPC schools
and related thematic workshops
foreseen in Africa in the period !
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25. Applications’ “virtuous cycle”
Dissemination
Training events
“Gridification”
Deployment on large
Infrastructures and inclusion in the portfolio of demonstrative applications
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26. Examples of GILDA “demonstrative” applications
RASTER-3D
DEM-2-VRML
GATE
ASTRA
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27. EPIKH and EUMEDGRID-Support
EUMEDGRID-Support Applications Lifecycle
EPIKH and EUMEDGRID-Support have 6 Partners in common
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28. Conclusions
EUMEDGRID-Support scientific communities can greatly benefit from EPIKH and use GILDA to “gridify” and run applications of local interest;
EPIKH can represents for young brilliant scientists and technologists a unique occasion to learn and adopt the Grid paradigm through stimulating research programmes;
Thanks to EPIKH activities, EUMED Organisations can setup “clones” of GILDA locally to implement campus grids or even nation-wide e-infrastructures (good examples are already existing both in South Africa and Cuba);
EPIKH/GILDA can offer free technical support for anyone willing to organize local training events on Grid computing:
It can be undergraduate courses, M.Sc. courses, Ph.D. curricula, tutorials, Grid Schools, etc.
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29. Thank you very much ! Any questions ?
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30. http://www.epikh.eu https://gilda.ct.infn.it Useful bookmarks
EPIKH home page
GILDA home page
GILDA Support System
GILDA Form for tutorial bookings
GILDA Repository of Training Material
ICEAGE Library
GILDA Virtual Services
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