Luis Rodríguez-Roselló

Director a.i.

Directorate “Emerging Technologies and Infrastructures. Applications”

European Commission, DG INFSO

eInfrastructures (9-10 December 2003, Rome)eInfrastructures (9-10 December 2003, Rome)

Progressing towards an EU eInfrastructure:

developments, technological research, strategies

Progressing towards an EU eInfrastructure:

developments, technological research, strategies

ContentsContents

The context of European RTD on Grids, Networking

The eInfrastructure and Grid Research vision

DG INFSO: current achievements and future plans

Policy aspects of eInfrastructures

Context of international co-operation

Conclusions

Context overviewContext overview

Ambitious strategic goal for Europe Lisbon 2000: A strategy towards the Knowledge Economy

and Society

Specific strategic actions: eEurope:

A major instrument to attain the Lisbon objective providing consolidation in Member States

European Research Area (ERA): A major initiative to ensure Europe’s long term competitiveness

Growth initiative: Broadband for all Mobile Communications Research Networking

eEurope: part of an EU co-ordinated action on ISeEurope: part of an EU co-ordinated action on IS

Green booksLiberalisation

New Regulatory FrameworkDirectivesNational RegulatoryEntities

Telecommunications policy

Multinational projects

Accompanying Measures

DemonstrationsIntegrated Projects

Networks of Excellence

Research and Development

Electronic eCommerce

eContent eEurope

eLearningBroadband

Security

eEurope,applications and contents

Achievements eEurope 2002

Speeding up EU decision making

Co-ordination of EU policies

Monitoring national progress

Internet on top of political agenda

New Telecom framework

Achievements eEurope 2002

Speeding up EU decision making

Co-ordination of EU policies

Monitoring national progress

Internet on top of political agenda

New Telecom framework

New priorities for eEurope 2005

Stimulate demand to:

Promote content, services and applications

Provide interactive public services on-line

Achieve digital inclusiveness

eGovernment, eHealth, eLearning and eBusiness environments

Boost enabling technologies to:

Promote broadband access

Ensure trust and confidence in cyberspace

New priorities for eEurope 2005

Stimulate demand to:

Promote content, services and applications

Provide interactive public services on-line

Achieve digital inclusiveness

eGovernment, eHealth, eLearning and eBusiness environments

Boost enabling technologies to:

Promote broadband access

Ensure trust and confidence in cyberspace

eEurope: from 2002 to 2005 Action PlaneEurope: from 2002 to 2005 Action Plan

From an increasing connectivity to an increasing effective use of Internet

European R&D: a fragmented landscape European R&D: a fragmented landscape

Frameworkprogramme

Only 4% of the total

civil research budget

of the EU

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CERN, EMBL, ESA, ESO and

other internationalorganisations

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Candidate and associated

countries

Enterprises, universities and research centres

ERA - fostering an EU internal knowledge market

Moving to a European level Research policy Strengthen co-operation between National and EU Activities Improve links between National and EU policies and schemes Take into account enlargement Development of a “shared vision” on European RTD Potential for co-funding arrangements

Realising ERA will require New thinking: more strategic and goal oriented New approach: integration, concentration, critical mass and flexibility New scope: taking account of the international dimension of RTD (greater

awareness of who’s doing what) New instruments: Integrated Projects (IPs) & Networks of Excellence (NoEs),

Integrated Infrastructure Initiatives (I3)

ERA - a new context for EU supported RTDERA - a new context for EU supported RTD

eInfrastructures as a foundation for ERA:

integrated communication and information processing service to the researcher/user

integrating distributed resources (instrumentation, tools, computers, data, humans...)

unprecedented levels of computational, data transfer and storage capacity

knowledge sharing environments for science and engineering

eInfrastructures: empowering the usereInfrastructures: empowering the user

Connectivity services (GÉANT & the NREN)

Computing- & data-resource sharing services (Grids...)

eInfrastructures

“One stop shop” ICT-service to researchers/users

eInfrastructures: the next generation ICT-infrastructureseInfrastructures: the next generation ICT-infrastructures

DG INFSO: addressing Grids-networks in a coherent wayDirectorate on Emerging Technologies & Infrastructures, Applications

DG INFSO: addressing Grids-networks in a coherent wayDirectorate on Emerging Technologies & Infrastructures, Applications

•Future and emerging technologies (FET)

•Grid-technology/middleware

for complex problem solving

•eInclusion

•New working environments

Applied Research

Infrastructure & Testbeds

Research at the Frontier of knowledge

•Grid & IPv6 Testbeds

•Research Infrastructure

Technology Development

Mastering Complexity - Empowering User - Sharing knowledge

Research Infrastructures: eInfrastructures for Research Research Infrastructures: eInfrastructures for Research

Deployment of Grids-empowered infrastructures to the Research Community in all scientific disciplines

further deployment of GÉANT

deployment of a second layer with widespread Grid features, able to openly provide services to a large set of application communities

… moving from experimental pilots to stable provision of services

Indicative budget in FP6 - GÉANT infrastructure:100 M€

- Grid infrastructure:100 M€

- Test-beds: 50 M€

Strategic objective: Grid empowered eInfrastructure for research

GÉANT (+NRENs)operating at 10 Gbps, 33+ countries, 3500 Universities,

supporting Grid test-beds, QoS

Grid test-bedsOptical, IPv6... test-beds

eInfrastructures: building on current achievementseInfrastructures: building on current achievements

Continue to provide connectivity to all NRENs - yearly growth 2x to 3x

Serve new user communities (education, cultural heritage...) Geographical extension (Balkans, NIS etc) Provide high BW for special applications (e.g. Grids) End-to End QoS, Security, Mobility Deployment of a European wide AAA scheme IPv6 all the way; deployment of new underlying switched

transport network (lambda-based)

New GN2 network 1Q 2005

Next generation of GÉANT and the NRENsNext generation of GÉANT and the NRENs

pan-european gridsupercomputers

research results from IST (e.g.

networking & Grid research)

specific services

operational supportfederating NI

trainingnetworking

joint research activitie

s

global file systemmiddleware

AAA

(international dimension to be taken from the start - e.g. cyberinfrastructure/Teragrid)

Next generation Grid RINext generation Grid RI

GÉANT (+NRENs)operating at 10 Gbps, 33 countries, 3100 Universities,

supporting PoC and Grid test-beds, QoS

Grid test-bedsOptical, IPv6... test-beds

eInfrastructures: role of researcheInfrastructures: role of research

Research on new technologies

(Grids, Security, Networking etc)

Vision of EU Grid ResearchThe Challenges

Moving Grids from e-Science to Industry

Vision of EU Grid ResearchThe Challenges

Moving Grids from e-Science to Industry

Promote Grid research to Solve complex problems with high

economic and societal impact

Exploit the potential of Grids beyond e-Science

Ease access and use of Grids

Moving towards Next Generation Grids

e-Science

Industry & Business

Grids

Total indicative budget in FP6: 125 M€

Next Generation Grid(s): 3-fold visionNext Generation Grid(s): 3-fold vision

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• Societal behaviour (millions of self-organising nodes)• Computational semantics, ontologies, meta-descriptions• Pervasive virtual organisations Virtualization

NextGeneration

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ision Software vision

Architectural Vision

Simplification Abstraction

• Continuously changing requirements

• Grid services development environm

ents

Next Generation Grid(s): Identified Research ThemesNext Generation Grid(s): Identified Research Themes

Research Themes

OpenReliable Scalable

Persistent Transparent

Person-centricPervasive

Secure / trusted Standards-based

User Interface Grid Economies Business models

Properties

Facilities ModelsVirtual Organisation Systems Management

Co-ord. and orchestrationInformation representation

NextGeneration

Grid(s)

“corner-stone” of European Research Area

enabling sharing of information/knowledge

“integrator” of National Infrastructures

“spear-head” of an “eEurope infrastructure” (e.g. broadband ++)

can potentially be a key element of the GROWTH initiative

cohesion, co-operation across Europe

key element for international co-operation

eInfrastructures: supporting important EU policieseInfrastructures: supporting important EU policies

eInfrastructures: motivation for new policy initiativeseInfrastructures: motivation for new policy initiatives

Breaking barriers:

New organizational policies

Resource sharing attitude

Common policies of accessing computing & data storage resources across institutions, application domains, national boundaries

The harmonization of such policies is a major challenge!

eInfrastructures: new policy initiativeseInfrastructures: new policy initiatives

MS and AS and the EC work together to harmonize such policies in Europe

Building on the experience of GÉANT & NRENs

eInfrastructures Reflection Group A monitoring and advisory role

To broaden the user basis through common policies

Links to ESFRI, TERENA etc

…for e-Science and beyond...

eInfrastructures: forging international co-operationeInfrastructures: forging international co-operation

GÉANT: linking European NRENs to all big world RNs DATATAG: building a cross-Atlantic Test-bed link International participation in EC funded projects

GRIDLAB: funds for partnership with US technology development centres EGEE: US and Russian partners (project still in negotiations) Test-beds: IPv6 (US, Japan, Canada …) etc

Context for new initiatives on more harmonised international policies on the access and use of ICT-resources (notably computing, data storage…)

Challenge: closer links and synergies between the eInfrastructure - Cyberinfrastructure - other similar concepts of the AP and of other world regions

ConclusionsConclusions

European commitment to ...

Spearheading of European eInfrastructure for research (e.g.

broadband+) fully connected to the world

Broadening user basis through common policies

From E-Science to Industry and all users

Collaboration (ERA, policies…)

Growth within cohesion

Fostering international co-operation