1. Towards a National Grid Infrastructure - The European View Dieter Kranzlmüller (GUP, Joh. Kepler University Linz) contact@eu-egi.org

2. Chile Structuring Workshop www.eu-egi.eu2 Stakeholders in Europe National Funding Agency 1 National Funding Agency 2 National Funding Agency n … International Scientific and Research Collaboration European Commission on Grids

3. Chile Structuring Workshop www.eu-egi.eu3 Stakeholders in Europe European Commission National Funding Agency 1 National Funding Agency 2 National Funding Agency n … National Grid Project Regional Grid Institution … Local Grid Community European Grid Projects International Scientific and Research Collaboration

4. Chile Structuring Workshop www.eu-egi.eu4 Stakeholders in Europe European Commission National Funding Agency 1 National Funding Agency 2 National Funding Agency n … National Grid Project Regional Grid Institution … Local Grid Community European Grid Projects International Scientific and Research Collaboration

5. Chile Structuring Workshop www.eu-egi.eu5 Univ. Linz - March 2008 5 250 Sites 48 Countries 50,000 CPUs 13 PBytes >5000 Users >200 VOs >140,000 Jobs/Day Archeology Astronomy Astrophysics Civil Protection Comp. Chemistry Earth Sciences Finance Fusion Geophysics High Energy Physics Life Sciences Multimedia Material Sciences … 32%

6. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI-031688 www.eu-egi.eu 6 The EGEE Series of Projects EGEE –01 April 2004 – 31 March 2006 –71 Partners, 27 Countries –EC Contribution: 32 Mio € EGEE-II –01 April 2006 – 30 April 2008 –91 Partners (11 JRU – 48 partners), 32 Countries –EC Contribution: 36 Mio € EGEE-III –01 May 2008 – 30 April 2010 –42 Partners (mostly JRUs) –EC Contribution: 32 Mio € INFRA-2007-1.2.3: e-Science Grid Infrastructures Indicative budget: 50 Mio € EGEE-III > 60 %

7. Chile Structuring Workshop www.eu-egi.eu7 The Need for a Permanent, Common Grid Infrastructure Production Grids are reality today, but … Dependency: Some application domains depend on grids already today by using them for production runs Protection of Investment: Investment in grids, both from funding organizations and from users, need to be protected Perspective: Today’s grid users are grid enthusiasts, tomorrows grid users ask for a longer term perspective

8. Chile Structuring Workshop www.eu-egi.eu8 Stakeholders in Europe European Commission National Funding Agency 1 National Funding Agency 2 National Funding Agency n … National Grid Project Regional Grid Institution … Local Grid Community European Grid Projects International Scientific and Research Collaboration e-Infrastructure Reflection Group (e-IRG)

9. Chile Structuring Workshop www.eu-egi.eu9 e-IRG Delegates Meeting, London, 12/2005 Recommendation: “The e-IRG recognises that the current project-based financing model of grids (e.g., EGEE, DEISA) presents continuity and interoperability problems, and that new financing and governance models need to be explored – taking into account the role of national grid initiatives as recommended in the Luxembourg e-IRG meeting.”

10. Chile Structuring Workshop www.eu-egi.eu10 Grids in Europe www.eu-egi.eu

11. Chile Structuring Workshop www.eu-egi.eu11 Characteristics of NGIs Each NGI … should be a recognized national body with a single point-of-contact … should mobilize national funding and resources … should ensure the operation of a national e- Infrastructure … should support user communities (application independent, and open to new user communities and resource providers) … should contribute and adhere to international standards and policies Available soon: Guidelines for NGIs – Prepared by EGI_DS

12. Chile Structuring Workshop www.eu-egi.eu12 e-IRG Recommendations on Sustainable e-Infrastructures I:governments and the Commission should develop policies and mechanisms to encourage increased investment in a more coherent and interoperable way across Europe II: the existing e-Infrastructure projects must be superseded by integrated sustainable services at national and European levels III: e-Infrastructures must be application-neutral and open to all user communities and resource providers. National funding agencies should be encouraged to fund multi- disciplinary and inclusive infrastructures rather than disciplinary-specific alternatives

13. Chile Structuring Workshop www.eu-egi.eu13 e-IRG Recommendations on Sustainable e-Infrastructures IV: e-Infrastructures must inter-operate and adopt international standard services and protocols in order to qualify for funding V: the Commission should, within the seventh Framework Programme, develop a pan-European e-Infrastructure which explicitly encourages the further integration of national e-Infrastructure initiatives e-IRG Task Force on Sustainable e-Infrastructures (SeI) http://www.e-irg.org/publ/2006-Report_e-IRG_TF-SEI.pdf

14. Chile Structuring Workshop www.eu-egi.eu14 European Commission “…for Grids we would like to see the move towards long-term sustainable initiatives less dependent upon EU-funded project cycles” Viviane Reding, Commissioner, European Commission, at the EGEE’06 Conference, September 25, 2006

15. Chile Structuring Workshop www.eu-egi.eu15 Slide courtesy of Kyriakos Baxevanidis, EC 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

16. Chile Structuring Workshop www.eu-egi.eu16 Slide courtesy of Kyriakos Baxevanidis, EC The first e-Infrastructure Call in FP7 Year 2009 Year 2008 Year 2007 1.e-Science Grid Infrastructures 2.Scientific Digital Repositories 3.Deployment of e-Infrastructures for new Scientific Communities 4.New Research Infrastructures – Design studies 5.New Research Infrastructures – Preparatory phase 6.Support measures (studies, policy initiatives, international co-operation,…) Publication: early 2007 Closure: spring 2007 Support conceptual design studies for new RI (or major upgrades of existing ones) of clear European dimension and interest; such studies will help to assess technical and financial feasibility of proposed new RI Action should also foster emergence of new organisational models to consolidate a sustainable approach to e-Infrastructures, in particular in the domain of grids and data repositories New service provisioning schemes to be more neutral and open to all user communities and resource providers

17. Chile Structuring Workshop www.eu-egi.eu17 Evolution Testbeds Utility Service Routine Usage National Global European e-Infrastructure

18. Chile Structuring Workshop www.eu-egi.eu18 Stakeholders in Europe European Commission National Funding Agency 1 National Funding Agency 2 National Funding Agency n … National Grid Project Regional Grid Institution … Local Grid Community European Grid Projects International Scientific and Research Collaboration e-Infrastructure Reflection Group (e-IRG) National Grid Initiative 1 National Grid Initiative 2 … National Grid Initiative n

19. Chile Structuring Workshop www.eu-egi.eu19 European Grid Initiative Goal: Ensure the long-term sustainability of grid infrastructures in Europe by establishing a new federated model bringing together NGIs to build the EGI Organization Objectives: Ensure the long-term sustainability of the European e- infrastructure Coordinate the integration and interaction between National Grid Infrastructures Operate the European level of the production Grid infrastructure for a wide range of scientific disciplines to link National Grid Infrastructures

20. Chile Structuring Workshop www.eu-egi.eu20 Ensure the long-term sustainability of the European e-infrastructure Coordinate the integration and interaction between National Grid Infrastructures Operate the European level of the production Grid infrastructure for a wide range of scientific disciplines to link National Grid Infrastructures Provide global services and support that complement and/or coordinate national services (Authentication, VO-support, security, etc); Coordinate middleware development and standardization to enhance the infrastructure by soliciting targeted developments from leading EU and National Grid middleware development projects; Advise National and European Funding Agencies in establishing their programmes for future software developments based on agreed user needs and development standards; Integrate, test, validate and package software from leading Grid middleware development projects and make it widely available; Provide documentation and training material for the middleware and operations. (NGIs may wish to make the material available in turn in their local language); Take into account developments made by national e-science projects which were aimed at supporting diverse communities. Link the European infrastructure with similar infrastructures elsewhere; Promote Grid interface standards based on practical experience gained from Grid operations and middleware integration activities, in consultation with relevant standards organizations; Collaborate closely with industry as technology and service providers, as well as Grid users, to promote the rapid and successful uptake of Grid technology by European industry. EGI Vision Paper http://www.eu-egi.eu/vision.pdf

21. Chile Structuring Workshop www.eu-egi.eu21 38 European NGIs + Asia, US, Latin America + OGF-Europe + PRACE + …

22. Chile Structuring Workshop www.eu-egi.eu22 EGI Design Study Project funded by the European Commission within FP7- INFRASTRUCTURES-2007-1, 1.2.1 Design Studies Goal: Conceptual setup and operation of a new organizational model of a sustainable pan-European grid infrastructure EGI Organization: Coordination and operation of a common multi-national, multi-disciplinary Grid infrastructure –To enable and support international Grid-based collaboration –To provide support and added value to NGIs –To liaise with corresponding infrastructures outside Europe

23. Chile Structuring Workshop www.eu-egi.eu23 EGI Webpage www.eu-egi.eu

24. Chile Structuring Workshop www.eu-egi.eu24 EGI Design Study Project funded by the European Commission within FP7- INFRASTRUCTURES-2007-1, 1.2.1 Design Studies Goal: Conceptual setup and operation of a new organizational model of a sustainable pan-European grid infrastructure Consortium: 9 Partners  EGI Preparation Team

25. Chile Structuring Workshop www.eu-egi.eu25 EGI Preparation Team Members: Johannes Kepler Universität Linz (GUP) Greek Research and Technology Network S.A. (GRNET) Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) CSC - Scientific Computing Ltd. (CSC) CESNET, z.s.p.o. (CESNET) European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) Verein zur Förderung eines Deutschen Forschungsnetzes - DFN-Verein (DFN) Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC) Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique(CNRS)

26. Chile Structuring Workshop www.eu-egi.eu26 EGI Design Study Project funded by the European Commission within FP7- INFRASTRUCTURES-2007-1, 1.2.1 Design Studies Goal: Conceptual setup and operation of a new organizational model of a sustainable pan-European grid infrastructure Consortium: 9 Partners  EGI Preparation Team NGI Representatives  EGI Advisory Board

27. Chile Structuring Workshop www.eu-egi.eu27 EGI Advisory Board

28. Chile Structuring Workshop www.eu-egi.eu28 EGI Design Study Project funded by the European Commission within FP7- INFRASTRUCTURES-2007-1, 1.2.1 Design Studies Goal: Conceptual setup and operation of a new organizational model of a sustainable pan-European grid infrastructure Consortium: 9 Partners  EGI Preparation Team NGI Representatives  EGI Advisory Board Person months: ~300 Duration: 1 Sept 2007 – 30 Nov 2009 (27 Months)

29. Chile Structuring Workshop www.eu-egi.eu29 Work Distribution WP2: EGI Requirements Consolidation (Fotis Karayannis, GRNET) WP3: EGI functionality definition (Laura Perini, INFN) WP4: Study of EGI legal and organisational options (Beatrice Merlin, CNRS) WP5: Establishment of EGI (Jürgen Knobloch, CERN) WP6: EGI Promotion and Links with Other Initiatives (Per Öster, CSC)

30. Chile Structuring Workshop www.eu-egi.eu30 EGI Knowledge Base - Main NGI Representatives to provide their input and update their local information http://knowledge.eu-egi.eu

31. Chile Structuring Workshop www.eu-egi.eu31 EGI Knowledge Base Austria

32. Chile Structuring Workshop www.eu-egi.eu32 EGI Knowledge Base

33. Chile Structuring Workshop www.eu-egi.eu33 EGI Functionality Overview Management, Outreach & Dissemination, Representation of European Grid Efforts, Industry take-up Operations & Resource Provisioning & Security Middleware Coordination: Build & Test, Component Selection & Validation & Deployment, Standardization & Policies Application Support, User Support & Training

34. Chile Structuring Workshop www.eu-egi.eu34 Industrial Involvement Roles in EGI: –Customer using the EGI Grid for daily work –Provider offering services on the EGI Grid Actions for Industry: –Define requirements for industry to use EGI –Evaluate and support the definition of the EGI functionality –Collaborate on the development of business models for Grids –Develop future services to be provided on EGI, e.g. in the domain of security

35. Chile Structuring Workshop www.eu-egi.eu35 e-IRG Recommendations on Industrial Uptake Recommendation 1: Coordination between EC funded projects with business related objectives has to be improved. Recommendation 2: To aid entrepreneurship, public organisations employing researchers should be encouraged to define employment conditions that permit individuals to continue their research while developing business opportunities in parallel. Recommendation 3: Pre-commercial procurement can be geared to contribute directly to the development of important new lead markets for innovative products and services and thereby to the creation of growth and jobs in Europe. Executive Summary of e-IRG Open Workshop, Heidelberg, Germany, 19-20 April 2007 http://e-irg.eu/workshopGermany/summary.pdf

36. High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart Michael M. Resch e-IRG Workshop April 20 2007 36 Science or Industry Goal –Breakthrough or best solution Purpose of HPC –Object of investigation or tool Technical Issues –Interesting or irrelevant Legal issues –Irrelevant or basis of business Economic issues –Relevant or key to success Mode of collaboration –Cooperation or competition from e-IRG Workshop, Heidelberg, 2007

37. High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart Michael M. Resch e-IRG Workshop April 20 2007 37 Recomm. for HPC – Grids - Industry 1.It is necessary to identify mutual interests of HPC@science and HPC@industry 2.It is necessary to identify a working business model by addressing the legal issues and economic issues of a mixed usage model 3.It is necessary to identify the required technical solutions to deliver the requested high level service and not CPU cycles from e-IRG Workshop, Heidelberg, 2007

38. Chile Structuring Workshop www.eu-egi.eu38 EGI – European Grid Initiative EGI Grid Infrastructure should –be a large-scale, production Grid infrastructure –built on national grids that interoperate seamlessly at many levels, –offering reliable and predictable services to a wide range of applications The Future EGI Organization represents the “Glue” between various grid communities in Europe and beyond EGI_DS defines required mechanisms and functionalities of the EGI Organization

39. Chile Structuring Workshop www.eu-egi.eu39 http://www.eu-egi.org contact@eu-egi.org