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Co-ordination & Harmonisation of Advanced e-Infrastructures The CHAIN Project: Technical Achievements Federico Ruggieri, INFN Project Director NKN Annual Conference 2012 Mumbai, 1 November 2012 Research Infrastructures Grant
Co-ordination & Harmonisation of Advanced e-Infrastructures Research Infrastructures – Grant Agreement n. 260011
Federico Ruggieri, INFN – Project Director
NKN Annual Conference 2012 Mumbai, 1 November 2012
Reasons behind e-Infrastructures and benefits Regional e-Infrastructures The need for a project like CHAIN General information about CHAIN Technical Achievements Conclusions
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Many research challenges require community effort
Fundamental properties of matter Genomics Climate change Medical diagnostics
Research is increasingly digital,
Computation ever more demanding Example: experimental science uses ever more
Huge amounts of data Serves user communities around the world International collaborations
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The High Speed Communication Network The High Performance Computing for highly
The Grid for High Throughput Computing and
The Clouds for elastic resource provisioning Data Infrastructures with several issues such as:
The Human Network: researchers working
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The e-Infrastructures promote the usage of network connectivity and stimulate scientific and technical development of countries
contribute to fight the digital divide and brain drain.
e- Infrastructures support wide geographically distributed communities enhance international collaboration of scientists promote collaboration in
Grids and networks allow the access of many researchers to scientific resources (laboratories and data)
Disparity can be reduced and larger participation and contributions to high quality research.
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CNGrid
NKN & Garuda
EUAsiaGrid
SAGrid & SANREN
GISELA
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Grant Agreement for a total EC contribution of 1.1 M€ Total cost: about 1.9 M€ Start Date: 1st December 2010 - Duration 24 Months Partners:
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INFN (Italy - Coordinator)
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CESNET (Czech Rep.)
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CIEMAT (Spain)
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GRNET (Greece)
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IHEP (China)
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UBUNTUNET (Africa)
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CLARA (Latin America)
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PSA (India)
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ASREN (Med./Middle East/Gulf) Since 1 August 2011
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Define a strategy and a model for external collaboration, in close collaboration with EGI.eu which will enable operational and organisation interfacing of EGI and external eInfrastructures Validate this model, as a proof-of-principle, by supporting the extension and consolidation of worldwide Virtual Research Communities Explore and propose concrete steps forward towards the coordination with other projects and initiatives (e.g. EGI.eu, NKN & Garuda, CNGrid etc.)
Disseminate (WP5)
State of the Art Assessment (WP2) Analyse the different Regional Approaches (WP2, WP4) Make Recommendations (WP2, WP3, WP4) Involve the VRCs (WP3) Propose a Road-Map and Intermediate solutions (WP4, WP3) Demonstrate the usefulness of interoperation (WP3, WP4)
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Analysis of existing NGI literature and related questionnaires Creation of the regional and NGI questionnaires Questionnaires being implemented and published online Collection of contact points from all
Questionnaire is kept open and
Questionnaire data provided
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www.chain-project/knowledge-base
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Nuber of sites and number of CPU - Mediterranean
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Number of Grid sites / clusters: Number of CPU cores:
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Nuber of sites and number of CPU - Latin America
10 20 30 40 50 60 Brazil Ecuador Colombia Argentina Panamá Paraguay Mexico Cuba Venezuela Costa Rica Guatemala Peru Sites 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 6000 CPU cores
Number of Grid sites / clusters: Number of CPU cores:
Nuber of sites and number of CPU - Asia Pacific
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Indonesia Singapore Vietnam New Zealand Taiwan Sites 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 6000 7000 CPU cores
Number of Grid sites / clusters: Number of CPU cores:
74 Detailed recommendations classified by:
Short (1 year), Medium (3 years) and Long term (5 years) High, Medium, Low priority National Grid Initiatives (9):
General (5); Regional (4)
Interoperations (14):
General (1), ROC (3), User Support (1), Monitoring (3), Security (2),
Core Services (2); Middleware (2)
Interoperability (2): General (1), Input/Output (1) Virtual Research Communities’ perspective: General (2) Regional planning (47):
Africa (9), Asia Pacific (6), Central Asia (5), China (7), India (4), Latin
America (5), Mediterranean & Arab Countries (11)
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Agreements with reference communities signed
WeNMR 21/09/2011 WRF4G 19/09/2011 jModelTest 21/02/2012 LSGC 27/03/2012 INDICATE 28/03/2012 DECIDE 13/04/2012 SuperB (on the way) Earth Science (ICTP) (on the way)
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Science Gateway
Embedded Applications Administrator Power User Basic User Users from different
having different roles and privileges
Standard-based middleware-independent Grid Engine
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science-gateway.chain-project.eu
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Grid has been conceived as a resource sharing
Grids provide High Throuput Computing that fits many
Clouds have a clear business model that allowed
Virtualisation and elastic computing are needed by several
Clouds and Grids can cohexist in the Research &
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Cloud infrastructure for R&E should be based on Open SW
Financial:
Public institutions are frequently receiving projects’ driven funding.
Technical:
Resource sharing is an issue if institutions get services from
Long term preservation of data has still many issues to be
Requirements of scientists evolve and new technical challenges
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The CHAIN project has gathered the experience and knowledge of
regional Grid infrastructures around the world
CHAIN has made useful recommendations on several aspects of
regional e-Infrastructures and specifically to their sustainability
CHAIN has successfully agreed with other projects (EUMEDGRID-
Support, GISELA, INDICATE, DECIDE) on the SG approach
The first usage of SG in these projects has been very encouraging An Interoperability demo has been demonstrated at the EGI TF 2012 in
Prague and is still available (R. Barbera talk in the CHAIN WS of 2 November here at the NKN 2012 Conference in Mumbai)
A Road-Map for the interaction between EGI and other regional
infrastructures is being finalised
New activities will be performed in the CHAIN-REDS project (talk in
the CHAIN WS)
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Co-ordination & Harmonisation of Advanced e-Infrastructures Research Infrastructures – Grant Agreement n. 260011