1. 1 e-Infrastructures and Virtualisation, Remote Instrumentation “The views expressed in this presentation are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission” Remote Engineering & Virtual Instrumentation REV 2010 conference Ioannis Sagias European Commission - DG INFSO GEANT & e-Infrastructures

2. 2 Key element of the Lund declaration adopted on 8 July 09 Essential for researchers to stay at the forefront of research Key component for “ frontier ” research Key Challenges: - Overcoming fragmentation - Coping with increasing costs / complexity - Improving efficiency of (and access to) research services Research Infrastructures = Large scale facilities + e-Infrastructures

3. 3 Scientific advances more important than ever ‐ Global challenges with high societal impact ‐ Innovation and economic development Adoption of ICT changes the scientific discovery process ‐ Computing, simulation and data ‐ Tackling the very small, very big and very complex ‐ Cost efficiency ‐ Open, cross-border & cross-discipline collaboration Science and ICT

4. 4 Three vectors of a renewed European strategy: ICT infrastructures for e-Science COM(2009) 108 e-Infrastructure Europe as hub of excellence in e-Science Sustainable and continuous services of production quality 24/7 Innovation by exploiting know-how beyond science (public services, large scale experimentation,…) e-IRG

5. 5 Support given by FP7 Research Infrastructures action Evolving infrastructures Design studies e-infrastructures New infrastructures Construction e-infrastructures Integrating activities e-Infrastructures ESFRI Roadmap Policy development / Programme implementation e-IRG

6. 6 Scientific facilities....... Linking at the speed of the light Sharing computers, software and instruments Sharing and federating scientific data …ubiquitous research environments for accessing and sharing resources and tools…

7. 7 Linking at the speed of the light: GÉANT Accessing knowledge: scientific data Innovating the scientific process: global virtual research communities Experimenting in silico: simulation and visualisation Sharing the best computational resources: e-Science grid, supercomputing

8. 8 GÉANT Global Connectivity

9. 9 Collaborating Grids

10. 10 Remote instrumentation infrastructures – DORII project

11. 11 Remote instrumentation infrastructures – DORII project Earthquake community –Network-centric seismic simulations –Earthquake early warning system Environment community with selected applications –Mediterranean Ocean Observing Network –Oceanographic and coastal observation and modelling using imaging Experimental science community –On-line data analysis - synchrotron and free electron lasers –Reference installation mentioned by ESFRI Enhancing the work done in RINGrid (Remote Instrumentation In Next Generation Grids)

12. 12 Remote instrumentation infrastructures – DORII project OGF RISGE-RG Open Grid Forum Remote Instrumentation Services in Grid Environment Research Group bring together various existing approaches in defining remote access interfaces to sophisticated laboratory equipment integrate scientific instruments with the Grid ARI-WG: Access to Remote Instrumentation in Grid environment Working Group

13. 13 Remote instrumentation infrastructures – NEXPReS project further improve the astronomy technique of electronic Very Long Baseline Interferometry (e-VLBI) with the objective of incorporating it into every experiment conducted by the European VLBI Network (EVN) From the Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) to the Electronic VLBI (e-VLBI) “Best of both worlds” data archiving and reprocessing afforded by traditional VLBI speed and flexibility of e-VLBI Novel EXplorations Pushing Robust e-VLBI Services

14. 14 Remote instrumentation infrastructures – NEXPReS project Better data quality: more telescopes delivering good, error-free data More efficient use of telescope infrastructure  more time available for observations e-VLBI in Europe is formally recognised as a pathfinder technology for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), an ESFRI project

15. 15 Remote instrumentation infrastructures – EVALSO project The project aims at creating a physical infrastructure (and the tools to exploit it) to efficiently connect the ESO Very Large Telescope VLT at Cerro Paranal and the RUB OCA Observatories at Cerro Armazones to Europe Build on GEANT and RedCLARA Enabling Virtual Access to Latin-American Southern Observatories

16. 16 Remote instrumentation infrastructures – EVALSO project

17. 17 Remote instrumentation infrastructures – AugerAccess project The project aims at improving the access capabilities of European research groups working on the Pierre Auger Observatory. Located in a remote place in the Pampa Amarilla in Argentina Build on GEANT and RedCLARA upgrading of the connectivity to allow rapid access to the data collected at the Observatory thus enhancing the potential of the European groups in data processing and analysis Integrating Auger Observatory and European Research Institutions into a worldwide grid

18. 18 INFRA-2011-1.2.1: e-Science environments INFRA-2011-1.2.2: Data Infrastructures for e-Science INFRA-2011-2.3.5: Second implementation phase fo PRACE INFRA-2011-3.4: Coordination actions, conferences, studies, int. cooperation for e-Infra INFRA-2011-3.5: Trans-National cooperation among NCPs Planned Call 9 (closing 23.11.10, €95m)

19. 19 Network layer Data layer User Communities biologyspaceclimatologyastronomygeosciencesphysicsfusionenvironmentspectroscopymedicalICT… Support actions €4M Simulation software & services layer €43M Computing layer: Distributed Computing & PRACE PRACE €20M eScience Environment €27M NCPs €1M Planned Call 9 (closing 23.11.10, €95m)

20. 20 Epilogue  “corner-stone” of the European Research Area  “spear-head” of the European Digital Agenda  “integrator” of National Infrastructures  “instrument” for International Cooperation  “facilitate” EIT, cohesion, cooperation, standards, industry, poverty reduction, etc … e-Infrastructures are THE Enabler

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