1. EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 Enabling Grids for E-sciencE www.eu-egee.org EGEE and gLite are registered trademarks Why Grids Matter to Europe Bob Jones EGEE project director CERN

2. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 2 Why Grids Matter to Europe - Bob Jones - Research Connections 2009 ~280 sites 45 countries >80,000 CPUs >20 PetaBytes >14,000 users >250,000 jobs/day

3. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 Why Grids Matter to Europe - Bob Jones - Research Connections 2009 3 EGEE Achievements - Applications >260 VOs from several scientific domains –Astronomy & Astrophysics –Civil Protection –Computational Chemistry –Comp. Fluid Dynamics –Computer Science/Tools –Condensed Matter Physics –Earth Sciences –Fusion –High Energy Physics –Life Sciences Further applications under evaluation Applications have moved from testing to routine and daily usage ~80-95% efficiency

4. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 The LHC Computing Challenge 4 Signal/Noise: 10 -9 Data volume High rate * large number of channels * 4 experiments 15 PetaBytes of new data each year Compute power Event complexity * Nb. events * thousands users 100 k of (today's) fastest CPUs 45 PB of disk storage Worldwide analysis & funding Computing funding locally in major regions & countries Efficient analysis everywhere GRID technology

5. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 LHC @ CERN: Data Acquisition, Processing, Storage & Distribution 5 1.25 GB/sec (ions)

6. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 Tier 0 – Tier 1 – Tier 2 Tier-0 (CERN): Data recording Initial data reconstruction Data distribution Tier-1 (11 centres): Permanent storage Re-processing Analysis Tier-2 (~130 centres): Simulation End-user analysis

7. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 Earth Sciences 7 Seismology Atmospheric modeling Meteorology Flood forecasting Pollution … EGEODE the Expanding GEosciences On-DEmand Open Virtual Organization provides a suite of Grid computing services designed to meet the needs of Oil & Gas research FOOTPRINT (EU project): identify the dominant pathways and sources of pesticide contamination in the agricultural landscape.

8. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 Astronomy & Astrophysics LOFAR large distributed radio telescope AUGER & ARGO Cosmic Ray Observatories 8

9. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 Fusion 9 Ion Kinetic Transport Massive Ray Tracing Stellarator Optimization Commercial exploitation of fusion energy still needs to solve several outstanding problems requiring exceptional computing facilities including supercomputers and cluster-based grids

10. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 Life Sciences Medical Imaging - ThIS (Therapeutic Irradiation Simulator) Monte-Carlo simulation of irradiations of living tissues with photons, protons or light ions beams for cancer therapy Bioinformatics - Grid Protein Sequence Analysis 10

11. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 11 In silico drug discovery Diseases such as HIV/AIDS, SRAS, Bird Flu, Malaria etc. are a threat to public health due to world wide exchanges and circulation of persons Grids open new perspectives to in silico drug discovery –Reduced cost and adding an accelerating factor in the search for new drugs Avian influenza: bird casualties International collaboration is required for: Early detection Epidemiological watch Prevention Search for new drugs Search for vaccines

12. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667 12 Collaborating e-Infrastructures

13. Goal: Long-term sustainability of grid infrastructures in Europe Approach: Establish a federated model bringing together National Grid Infrastructures (NGIs) to build the European Grid Infrastructure (EGI) EGI Organisation: 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 13