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Enabling Grids for E-sciencE

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Long-term Grid Sustainability

Dieter Kranzlmüller Project Deputy Director CERN

EGEE User Forum 1-3 March 2006

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EGEE Infrastructure

Scale

> 180 sites in 39 countries ~ 20 000 CPUs > 5 PB storage > 10 000 concurrent jobs per day > 60 Virtual Organisations

Country participating in EGEE

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Grids in Europe

• Great investment in developing Grid technology
• Sample of National Grid projects:

– Austrian Grid Initiative – DutchGrid – France: e-Toile; ACI Grid – Germany: D-Grid; Unicore – Greece: HellasGrid – Grid Ireland – Italy: INFNGrid; GRID.IT – NorduGrid – UK e-Science: National Grid Service; OMII; GridPP

• EGEE provides framework

for national, regional and thematic Grids

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EGEE as partner

• Ongoing collaborations

– with other European projects

GÉANT DEISA SEE-GRID

– with non-European projects

OSG: OpenScienceGrid (USA) NAREGI (Japan)

– with non EU partners in EGEE: US, Israel, Russia, Korea, Taiwan…

• EGEE as incubator

– >10 related projects have been created

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Related projects

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e-Infrastructure – Strategic building blocks

Mario Campolargo, 4th EGEE conference, October 2005

GÉANT . INFRASTRUCTURE GRID . INFRASTRUCTURE e-Infrastructure

GÉANT2 EGEE DEISA

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+ 18 proposals international, policies, user communities

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EGEE Applications

• >20 applications from 7 domains

– High Energy Physics – Biomedicine – Earth Sciences – Computational Chemistry – Astronomy – Geo-Physics – Financial Simulation

• Further applications in evaluation

Applications now moving from testing to routine and daily usage

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Toward EGEE-II

• EGEE-II proposal submitted to the EU

– On 8 September 2005 – Proposed start 1 April 2006

• Natural continuation of EGEE

– Emphasis on providing an infrastructure for e-Science

increased support for applications increased multidisciplinary Grid infrastructure more involvement from Industry

– Expanded consortium

> 90 partners in 32 countries (Non-European partners in USA, Korea and Taiwan) Related projects

world-wide Grid infrastructure increased international collaboration

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Sustainability: Beyond EGEE-II

• Need to prepare for permanent Grid infrastructure

– Maintain Europe’s leading position in global science Grids – Ensure a reliable and adaptive support for all sciences – Independent of project funding cycles – Modelled on success of GÉANT

Infrastructure managed centrally in collaboration with national bodies (in EGEE-II: JRUs)

Permanent Grid Infrastructure

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Grid Organization

Objectives

– Operate production Grid infrastructures for all sciences – Integrate, test, validate and package Grid middleware – Provide advice, training and support to new user communities

Permanent Grid Infrastructure

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Summary

• EGEE/EGEE-II marks the most significant move from

prototype testbeds to production grid environments

– Unprecedented scale of a world-wide grid infrastructure – Federated approach building on existing national grid initiatives – Proven working model for operations and deployment – …

• Next logical step: towards long-term sustainability

– Ensure that the grid infrastructure used for your work today will still be there tomorrow – Protect investments of application developers and users

• Basic requirement: a suitable funding mechanism and

instrument for ensuring sustainability

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Cooperation with e-IRG

e-Infrastructures Reflection Group: e-IRG Mission: … to 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 in Europe (focusing on Grid-computing, data storage, and networking resources) across technological, administrative and national domains. e-IRG Open Workshop: April 10-11, 2006, Linz, Austria Towards Sustainable e-Infrastructures