1. EARNEST WS, 23-24.05.20061 EARNEST and the e-IRG Lajos BÁLINT

2. EARNEST WS, 23-24.05.20062 About this presentation Basic goal: input to the EARNEST study wrt. e-IRG from RN viewpoint basic issues rather than history somewhat subjective (provoking?) advise EARNEST directly (+ e-IRG indirectly) Why e-IRG? influential advisory role assumed ! ( + coordination ? )

3. EARNEST WS, 23-24.05.20063 Outline EARNEST background what is e-IRG e-IRG coverage e-IRG and EARNEST corollaries / suggestions

4. EARNEST WS, 23-24.05.20064 EARNEST – considerable background SERENATE (NRENs / TERENA) GN2 JRA1...5 (NRENs / Consortium + DANTE) ENPG (delegated govt. + NREN representatives) e-IRG (delegated govt. + NREN + project reps.) others (EC invites NREN + project reps./individuals) (ESFRI – the wider embedding [served by e-IRG]) Common goal: e-Infrastructures  e-Science  ERA Briefly outlined here:

5. EARNEST WS, 23-24.05.20065 Parallel efforts – different roles EARNEST:a project within GN2 for investigating research networking and preparing the next RN generation (  NRENs,...) - bottom-up, more technical-organisational - looking mainly for what is possible e-IRG:an advisory body in the area of building the future e-Infrastructure (  EC,...) - top-down, more political-strategic - looking mainly for what is desirable EARNEST + e-IRG: possibilities vs. desires  realities (?) Practice: work is/will be done by the NRENs + DANTE (NGIs +...)! Role of the EC (priorities): catalysis + orchestration + balancing

6. EARNEST WS, 23-24.05.20066 What is e-IRG? Definition (web, 2005): High level coordination of e-Infrastructure development for eScience Mission (10 December 2003, Rome): Monitoring & advising (political/administrative) in shared use of e-resources Objectives: –identification of resources –recommendation of policies –focusing on applications (users / domains) –increasing awareness of opportunities –addressing governance issues in resource deployment –drawing on NREN community experiences

7. EARNEST WS, 23-24.05.20067 What is e-IRG? (cont’d) ”... support on the political, advisory, and monitoring level, the creation of a policy and administrative framework for the easy and cost-effective shared use of electronic resources” ”... develop a roadmap for the e-Infrastructures for FP7 and beyond and support the ESFRI in the process of the development of a priority list and a roadmap for new Research Infrastructures” Structure / operation: –Delegated members – troika –Closed meetings and open workshops –White papers – Opportunities lists – Roadmaps + Sustainability...

8. EARNEST WS, 23-24.05.20068 The e-IRG coverage –Past: emphasis on grids (coordination...) –Present: widening scope (network – Grid – archives) –Future: balanced coverage of e-Infrastructure issues (?)

9. EARNEST WS, 23-24.05.20069 The e-IRG coverage (cont’d) Covered topics (revisit?): –The network: national/European/global (connectivity – QoS IP & BoD) –The e-Infrastructure resources (availability, accessibility + coord/mgmt) [sense – process/compute (incl.HPC) – store – actuate ( + data)] –Applications and users (technical / admin / usage support / ease of use) [grids (Grid framework) – coord/mgmt – helping/advising/training] –Federated AAAI (security for dependability + accountability for fairness) –AUP (acceptability of use – key of integrated/shared usage) –Virtual repositories – digital archives (collections of curated resources) –An organisation (?) (oriented to the application framework?) (consortium + coord/QoS operational unit?) [NGIs vs. NRENs...?] –Involvement of the industry (integrated user & partner) + Sustainability (political – legal – technical – financial – operational...)

10. EARNEST WS, 23-24.05.200610 The e-IRG Roadmap EC request (2004): Strategic Roadmap for e-Infrastructure (10-20 years) Goal: e-Infrastructure to well support the ERA (in parallel: ESFRI Roadmaps) Method: Opportunities List  Roadmap 2005 (2006/07) e-IRG Roadmap v0.9: main points (RN + MW + resources + co-op): global end to end hybrid networking supercomputers ----------------------------------------------------- storage facilities AAI data for the grid middleware repositories sensors SW life cycle management grid-enabled instruments open standards new technologies training and support -------------------------------------------------- grid resource provision collaboration tools ----------------------------------------------------- co-operation with industry

11. EARNEST WS, 23-24.05.200611 e-IRG as related to EARNEST Different role / framework Overlapping coverage Possibility of separating the coverage + co-operating: –EARNEST: – e-IRG: network technology e-resources network architecture repositories/archives geographic coverage disciplinary coverage org.structure (network) org.structure (applications) network user communities appl.user communities application demand analysis network supply analysis involvement of telcos involvement of industry sustainability (network level) sustainability (appl.level)

12. EARNEST WS, 23-24.05.200612 The dilemmas for both EARNEST and e-IRG Several failed earlier foresights (X.25, ATM, early 100 Gbps...) Timeframe of foresight / roadmapping (vs. FP7 calendar) Widening spectrum of options (technology, architecture...) Revolution (new gen.) vs. evolution (consolidation) periods Sustainability (multiple conditions – digital divide) EC (FP7) budget (late decisions – how to adapt) Necessity of EC support (motivating co-operation and national funding) Different views on EC financing (arguments for both minor and major increase) FP6 RN budget: 0,5 % of total FP6 budget goes to GN2 – what in FP7? (cf. 50% rule + rule of only international connectivity)

13. EARNEST WS, 23-24.05.200613 The timeframe Timings of the RNs 6,7,8. generations (GEANT-1,2,3): GEANT-1 GEANT-2 GEANT-3 Preparing GN-i starts: early 99 late 02 fall 06 (?) Proposal submitted: late 99 fall 03 fall 07 (?) Tendering starts: early 00 early 04 early 07 (?) Project officially starts: fall 00 fall 04 fall 08 (?) New network completed: fall 01 mid-06 late 10 (??) Full time from start to finish: 2,5 years 3,5 years 4,5 years (?) –Final e-IRG Roadmap is due in 2007 (?) –EARNEST final report is due in 2007 (late Summer)

14. EARNEST WS, 23-24.05.200614 EARNEST and e-IRG: a summary Lessons learnt: –overlapping requires co-operation (coverage to be agreed) –lack of integrating the efforts  lower efficiency (efforts to be joined) –lack of matching approaches  mess of messages (approaches to be harmonised) –lack of balanced emphasis  distorted view of needs (balanced view to be attained) –lack of elevated EC funding (FP7 wrt. FP6)  losing impetus (annual FP7 funds to be considerably elevated) Sustainability is a common key goal!

15. EARNEST WS, 23-24.05.200615 EARNEST and e-IRG: a summary (cont’d) EC funding (FP6  FP7): some important aspects: new topics in e-Infrastructure (RN, Grid, testbeds, libraries, research...) general political importance of the field increases seamless pan-European end-to-end connectivity needed geographical coverage of the pan-European network widening digital divide to be narrowed testing, piloting and introducing new technologies/services needed access and campus networks to be developed development of global connectivity to be intensified increase of national funding to be motivated by the level of EC support cohesive role of EU funding to be kept/strengthened

16. EARNEST WS, 23-24.05.200616 EARNEST and e-IRG: a summary (cont’d) Summary – suggestions to EARNEST: (also a message to e-IRG + a model for other EARNEST ”backgrounds”) –Complementarity and collaboration (+ Competition?) (keep contact, exchange ideas, share coverage + keep key role) –Different roles: deliver differently:- EARNEST  NRENs (+ EC) - e-IRG  EC (+ NRENs) –Don’t waste time – deliver asap! –Put emphasis on: - role of NRENs / TERENA / DANTE (NIGs /...) - importance of demand-supply balance - necessity of bidirectional flow of information - significance of handling complex sustainability –Increase of annual EC (FP7) support (>50%  ) to be well reasoned!