1. www.eu-eela.eu E-science grid facility for Europe and Latin America Long-term sustainability of e- Infrastructures in LA: the EELA-2 model Bernard Marechal (CETA-CIEMAT & UFRJ - Spain & Brazil) Philippe Gavillet (CETA-CIEMAT & CERN) Roberto Barbera (University of Catania and INFN - Italy) CCICT 2009 Conference Kingston - Jamaica, 16.03.2009

2. www.eu-eela.eu Kingston, CCICT 2009, 16.03.2009 2 SCIENCE & e-SCIENCE Science is what I can teach to my son e-Science is what he can teach me

3. www.eu-eela.eu Kingston, CCICT 2009, 16.03.2009 3 OUTLINE EELA and EELA-2: a short review The EELA-2 model

4. www.eu-eela.eu Kingston, CCICT 2009, 16.03.2009 4 PROJECT OBJECTIVES EELA (E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America) under FP6 www.eu-eela.org/first-phase.php www.eu-eela.org/first-phase.php –Bridge consolidated e-Infrastructures in Europe and emerging ones in Latin America –Create and operate a transcontinental Grid infrastructure –Address cost-effectively regional problems –Enhance Research in developing counties EELA-2 (E-science grid facility for Europe and Latin America) under FP7 www.eu-eela.eu www.eu-eela.eu –Set up a high capacity, production quality, scalable Grid Facility –Ensure round-the-clock, worldwide access to distributed computing and storage resources –Support a wide spectrum of applications for both European and Latin American scientific communities

5. www.eu-eela.eu Kingston, CCICT 2009, 16.03.2009 5 RESEARCH APPROACH EELA –Establish scientific network –Enlarge and train (hands-on workshops) communities –Establish a pilot Grid supporting proof-of-concept applications –Close collaboration with other EC funded projects –Grid Cluster deployment, definition and enforcement of operational schemes and policies EELA-2 –Expand the current EELA infrastructure –Provide the full set of Grid Services needed by all types of applications –Collaborate with NRENs and create Regional Operation Centres –Support actively the creation of National Grid Initiatives (NGI)

6. www.eu-eela.eu Kingston, CCICT 2009, 16.03.2009 6 MAJOR OUTCOMES / RESULTS EELA –Provide European researchers early access to a new, well-supported e-Infrastructure and enable them to speed up the processing of scientific data –Strengthen scientific communities in Europe and Latin America –Successful building of a reliable and almost “production quality” e- Infrastructure in Latin America –Grid technology skills acquired to autonomously support the Latin American Grid on the long term –Entrance and consolidation of Latin American communities in worldwide collaborations –Amplification of the e-Infrastructures relevance, blazing the trail towards Latin American e-Science initiatives and/or NGIs

7. www.eu-eela.eu Kingston, CCICT 2009, 16.03.2009 7 EELA-2 IN NUMBERS –16 JRU-type partners (6 from Europe, 9 from LA and 1 International Institution CLARA) in 14 countries (5 from Europe, 9 from Latin America) –53 institutions, most of them clustered in 9 Joint Research Units (JRU) –EC support of about 2.1 MEuro (+ 300 KEuro from CIEMAT) –6 Activities (Management, Dissemination and training; Application support; Infrastructures services; Network resource provision; Development of services for applications and infrastructure) –30 Resource Centres; 3000 computing nodes; 700 TB of storage –Foreseen growth over the project duration: 20 % in computing and 15% in storage –About 50 applications selected (Biomedical, High Energy Physics, Earth Sciences, Climate, e-Learning, e-Government, e-Industry)

8. www.eu-eela.eu Kingston, CCICT 2009, 16.03.2009 8 EELA-2 COUNTRIES / RESOURCES France Ireland Italy Portugal Spain Argentina Brazil Chile Colombia CLARA (International) Cuba Ecuador Mexico Peru Venezuela 14 Countries 16 Partners (9 JRUs) 53 Members

9. www.eu-eela.eu Kingston, CCICT 2009, 16.03.2009 9 GLOSSARY Key words DCI Distributed Computing Infrastructure = HPC + Grid Local –RCResource Centre Country –NGINational Grid Initiative –GridNGINational Grid Infrastructure, supervised by NGI –GOCGridNGI Operation Centre –NRENNational Research & Education Network –NOCNREN - Network Operations Centre International –LGILatin American Grid Initiative –GridLGILatin American Grid Infrastructure, supervised by LGI –GSCGridLGI Support Centre –CLARACooperación Latino Americana de Redes Avanzadas –RedCLARALatin American regional backbone network, operated by CLARA –NSCRedCLARA - Network Support Centre Europe –EGIEuropean Grid Initiative –EGI_DSEGI_Design Study Project

10. www.eu-eela.eu Kingston, CCICT 2009, 16.03.2009 10 Some concepts… Environmental protection: is the process of making sure current processes of interaction with the environment are pursued with the idea of keeping the environment as pristine as naturally possible. Economic development: is made of three building blocks, i.e. information, integration, and participation. Pillars of World Sustainable Development Social development: also known as social change, refers to: change in social structure: the nature, the social institutions, the social behaviour or the social relations of a society, community of people, and so on; any event or action that affects a group of individuals that have shared values or characteristics.

11. www.eu-eela.eu Kingston, CCICT 2009, 16.03.2009 11 Real world Social Environment Economic e-Infrastructures Virtual Organizations Resource Centres + Service Provi- ders → National Grid Initiatives Middleware services, Application support, and Training Key analogy : Grids are complex “ecosystems” of services “sold” and “bought” by virtual communities. VOs NGIs M/W, Supp., Training Sustain. e-Infra. e-Infrastructures’ Sustainable Development …and analogies

12. www.eu-eela.eu Kingston, CCICT 2009, 16.03.2009 12 Other analogies… (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society and links therein) Bands Tribes Chiefdoms States Univs. Orgs. NGIs Large Grid Initiatives JRUs

13. www.eu-eela.eu Kingston, CCICT 2009, 16.03.2009 13 Jürgen Knobloch/CERN Slide 13 GRID 3 EGEE 1 LCG 1 EU DataGrid GriPhyN, iVDGL, PPDG EGEE 2 OSG LCG 2 EGEE 3 199419951996199719981999200020012002200320042005200620072008 WLCG Inter- operation Timeline of EU and US Grids

14. www.eu-eela.eu Kingston, CCICT 2009, 16.03.2009 14 Testbed s Utility Service Routine Usage National Global Ref.: D. Kranzlmüller presemtation at EGEE’08 The system becomes sustainable only if a social change occurs. By analogy, this means a change in the way we consider and support VOs Grid Ecosystem’ evolution in EU

15. www.eu-eela.eu Kingston, CCICT 2009, 16.03.2009 15 …and in Latin America ? EELA EELA-2 ? 4/2008-3/2010 1/2006-12/2007 4/2010 →

16. www.eu-eela.eu Kingston, CCICT 2009, 16.03.2009 16 The Latin American Grid Initiative (LGI) (http://documents.eu-eela.org/record/1119/files/)

17. www.eu-eela.eu Kingston, CCICT 2009, 16.03.2009 17 LGI Management

18. www.eu-eela.eu Kingston, CCICT 2009, 16.03.2009 18 A possible structure of a NGI in LA A strong liaison with the NREN must be established. Local conditions permitting, NGI and NREN can merge into a single entity.

19. www.eu-eela.eu Kingston, CCICT 2009, 16.03.2009 19 Strategy and Lines of Action Well-defined strategy needed to address all subjects and all stakeholders, in parallel. Mandatory interconnected lines of actions with well- defined actors and targeted people: –Define the conditions of a sustainable e-Science Infrastructure –Collect the largest support from the User communities –Get full support from Decision Makers (DM) at all levels –DCI being international by essence, develop actions in common with DCI-related projects with the same objective of long-term support.

20. www.eu-eela.eu Kingston, CCICT 2009, 16.03.2009 20 Conditions of a sustainable GridLGI Establish the conditions of a sustainable GridLGI by: –Adopting a suitable architecture model; –Anticipating its implementation and evolution; –Deriving the Manpower Effort to operate and support it; –Preparing a transition strategy from EELA-2 to GridLGI. Status –Actions  LGI: Several contacts with CLARA –Actors  EELA-2 Management –Targeted people  EELA-2 Members, DMs, other DCI projects –Backup documentation  DSA1.3: “The Long-Term Latin American Grid Initiative: Model and Operation Cost Estimate”  WNA1.1: “Strategy towards Long-Term sustainability”

21. www.eu-eela.eu Kingston, CCICT 2009, 16.03.2009 21 Interaction with User Communities (1) Interaction with User Communities to: –Progress in the dissemination of DCI need / usefulness  Use extensively the EELA-2 Infrastructure;  Look for (more) Applications of interest and potential impact;  Increase the amount of people promoting Grid computing;  Get new Partners / Members joining EELA-2. –Progress in the creation of NGIs  50 Members in EELA-2 but Institutions / country.  → Need support from the whole DCI community when discussing with the Decision Makers of a given country  Get a wide consensus on all beneficial aspects of Grid computing and support to sustainable Grid Infrastructures; –Get unanimous agreement on the LGI model

22. www.eu-eela.eu Kingston, CCICT 2009, 16.03.2009 22 Interaction with User Communities (2) Status –Actions  JRU / NGI status In place in Spain, Ireland, France, Italy, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Venezuela, Colombia, Portugal, Brazil; Ongoing creation in Mexico, Ecuador; Missing: Cuba; New Partners: Panama (JRU), Uruguay (Single partner).  Initiative of a “User survey to collect Statements of Interests” Structured in 6 blocks of questions oTell us about yourself oYour experience about DCI in your own Research work oYour perception of Distributed Computing Infrastructures (DCI) oTell us your opinion about DCI impacts oYour perception of the need and usefulness of National Grid Initiative (NGI) oYour perception of the need and usefulness of International Grid Initiatives (IGI) Status: Under discussion in EGI_DS  This meeting –Actors  EELA-2, Belief, DCI projects –Targeted people  “Worldwide” DCI project Members, EGI_DS, e-Science communities → DMs –Document  Draft v0.1 available (WNA1.2 after EGI_DS feedback)

23. www.eu-eela.eu Kingston, CCICT 2009, 16.03.2009 23 Interaction with Decision Makers (1) Interact with Decision Makers to: –Disseminate the use & uselfuness of DCI technology at all levels of Decision making processes –Eventually convince Decision Makers that:  e-Science is the natural evolution of today’s research  DCIs are useful but even more, indispensable in many fields  DCIs impact goes beyond e-Science up to the social and industry sectors  DCIs operation support, as proposed, is affordable –Present the sustainability approach via the NGI / GridLGI architecture model and the operation costing; –Work out optimized implementation scenarii in local context.  Road map with precise objectives and progressive funding

24. www.eu-eela.eu Kingston, CCICT 2009, 16.03.2009 24 Interaction with Decision Makers (2) Status: –Actions  Decision Makers Days already held: KoM: Trujillo (Spain), 20-23th Apr. 2008 Monterrey (Mexico), 6-8th Oct. 2008 Quito (Ecuador), 8th Dec. 2008 Bogotá (Colombia), 24th Feb. 2009  In depth discussions (EELA-2 presentation, e-Science status in the country, prospectives,..)  Production of dissemination materials (Posters, Flyers,..)  Initiative of customized fact sheets for Decision Makers Days –Actors  EELA-2 (NA1, NA2), GridTalk, DCI projects –Targeted people  DCI projects → DMs

25. www.eu-eela.eu Kingston, CCICT 2009, 16.03.2009 25 Collaboration with Grid-related Projects (1) Collaboration with Grid-related projects for common actions towards sustainability: –Coordination of Grid-related projects: EGEE-III, EUAsiaGrid, EUMedGrid, EUChinaGrid, EUIndiaGrid, EELA-2, BalticGrid-2 and SEE-GRID-SCI for actions towards:  Top level: EC, EGI_DS,… LGI  Ground level: User communities –Maintain permanent concertation through regular meetings and direct contacts; –Discussing initiatives of common interest. –Launch, follow up agreed actions

26. www.eu-eela.eu Kingston, CCICT 2009, 16.03.2009 26 Collaboration with Grid-related Projects (2) Status –Actions:  Concertation meetings at EGEE’08 and ICT’08 (Belief)  Follow up via mail exchanges, ICT’08 Web site comment form –Outcomes:  Comments to EC on the “Key themes for the 2010-2011 programme, in particular the transition from the on-going projects to a proposed sustainable model for pan-European grid infrastructure”  Comments to EGI_DS on the proposed sustainable model for pan- European grid infrastructure, called EGI  Initiative of a “User survey to collect Statements of Interests”  Initiative of a “Customized Fact sheets for Decision Makers Days”  “Guide for NGI creation & and metrics of progress assessment” (SEE- GRID- SCI) –Actors  Collaborative projects, Belief, GridTalk –Targeted people  All stakeholders from ground to top level

27. www.eu-eela.eu Kingston, CCICT 2009, 16.03.2009 27 Conclusions EELA-2 is striving to take all measures to prepare the long-term future of its Infrastructure –In all aspects concerned; –With all relevant partners; –In collaboration with all similar projects. Sustainability require that some conditions MUST be fulfilled i.e.: –The usefulness of DCI (i.e. EELA-2) has to de demonstrated by the Users communities themselves; –A cost effective architecture model (NGI, LGI-based) is needed; –Existing JRUs should play a crucial role in NGI creation –A realistic operation costing is needed; –The transition phase to a sustainable model is to be worked out; –User communities at large must provide full support to all initiatives, taking every occasion to discuss with local DMs; –With an open minded attitude a road map towards sustainability should be defined with the parts concerned (User Communities ↔ DMs). These conditions being met, the EC 2010-2011 programme foresees SSA projects to help in the transition phase. The Caribbean could / should interact with us (EELA-2)

28. www.eu-eela.eu Kingston, CCICT 2009, 16.03.2009 28 Operation Manpower Effort

29. www.eu-eela.eu Kingston, CCICT 2009, 16.03.2009 29 LAST BUT NOT LEAST RESEARCH IS NOT A COST….. RATHER AN INVESTMENT