First NKN Annual WORKSHOP “The e-Infrastructure of India”

NIC & IIT Bombay

Alberto Masoni

INFN – National Institute of Nuclear Physics - Italy

EU-IndiaGrid & EU-IndiaGrid2 Project Manager

The India-Europe cooperation

on e-Infrastructures

EU-IndiaGrid & EU-IndiaGrid2 Projects

EU-IndiaGrid

A Bridge across European and Indian Grids 2006 – 2009

EU-IndiaGrid2 Sustainable e-infrastructures across Europe and India

2010-2012

CHAIN Coordination and Harmonisation of Advanced e-INfrastructures

2010-2012

CHAIN-REDS Coordination and Harmonisation of Advanced e-INfrastructures for

Research & Education Data Sharing 2012-2015

European Commission Projects

EU-IndiaGrid Kick-Off end 2006 in coincidence with WLCG Workshop

TIFR Mumbai Announcement of GÉANT-ERNET link 45 mb/s soon afterwards 0.3-1.0 Gb/s link TIFR-CERN

EU-IndiaGrid2 Kick-Off Jan 2010 in coincidence with India-EU Workshop on

Research Infrastructures TEIN3 link 2.5 Gb/s & NKN Phase 1

Project Highlights

Full Involvement in Indian main e-Infrastructures Development

– Establishment of an Internationally Recognised Indian Grid Certification Authority: Worldwide grids access • established by CDAC

– GARUDA NGI entered foundation phase • Closer cooperation on interoperability and use of glite middleware • S. Chattopadhyay is GARUDA2 Chief Investigator

– Creation of a multi-gigabit research network: National Knowledge Network Plan • P.S. Dhekne is chair of the NKN Grid Committee

– Improvement of international connectivity: • GÉANT –ERNET link upgraded from 45 to 100 Mbit/s

• Dedicated link TIFR-CERN at 1 Gbit/s for LHC - now peered to GEANT • Decisive role of BARC, ERNET, TIFR with GARR & INFN • Involvement of India in TEIN3 – • D. Singh Representative of India

e-Infrastructures across Europe and India

Foreword by Mario Campolargo Director, Emerging Technologies & Infrastructures

Information Society and Media Directorate-General

• From the very beginning international cooperation has been at the core of the European Union e-Infrastructures strategy. Therefore, creating bridges between the e-Infrastructures in Europe and similar infrastructures in India has become an essential element in our approach to increase mutual scientific collaborations.

• EU-IndiaGrid, one of the projects co-funded by the European Commission, is significantly improving the interoperability between Indian and European Grid infrastructures. Its contribution is bringing forward EU-Indian collaboration in e-Science and effectively mobilising actors on both sides, with clear benefits in a variety of scientific disciplines. I expect that this renewed and reinforced synergy with the Indian research infrastructures will become, together with other successful international cooperation projects, an important building block for future global virtual research communities.

e-Infrastructures across Europe and India

The Indian National Grid: the Need and the Purpose by Dr. R. Chidambaran

Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India

• The EU-IndiaGrid project is playing a key role in fostering the cooperation between the GARUDA and regional WLCG Projects and EGEE, the major European Grid Initiative, and has achieved significant progress so far

• This “bridging” role between European and Indian grid infrastructure has now the opportunity to improve, thanks to the recently approved plan for a multi-gigabit, low latency, e-Infrastructure:

National Knowledge Network (NKN). The NKN project will

represent a major step forward setting up the layer for an ICT-based infrastructure interconnecting the major laboratories and research centers across India.

EUROPE

INFN - The Italian National Institute of

Nuclear Physics (project coordinator)

TRUST-IT

Italian Academic and Research Network (GARR)

CEA - Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique - France

INTERNATIONAL

Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics

EU-IndiaGrid2 Consortium INDIA

Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai Centre for Development of Advanced Computing

Indian Education and Research Network

Indian Institute of Science Indian Institute of Technology Delhi National Informatics Centre University of Pune

SAHA Institute of Nuclear Physics

TATA Institute for Fundamental Research,

& National Centre for Biological Sciences

Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre (VECC)

Building on EU-IndiaGrid Achievements

EU-IndiaGrid2 Sustainable e-Infrastructures across

Europe & India

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Project Approach

The Vision

“an excellent example of EU India

collaboration underpinning all

areas of science”.

(Dr Chidambaram, Principal

Scientific Advisor to the

Government of India and member

of Government Cabinet, referring to

EU-IndiaGrid in his opening talk at

India-EU Workshop on Research

Infrastructures)

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Cooperation with Global Virtual Research Communities

through high impact projects like LHC Grid & EU-IndiaGrid

gave India much needed impetus for creating an e-

infrastructure within India

Dr R. Chidambaram Principal Scientific Adviser to the

Government of India, Dr Shailesh Nayak, Secretary

Ministry of Earth Sciences & P.S.Dhekne, Scientific

Consultant, Office of Principal Scientific Adviser to the

Government of India, from Contribution at the CHAIN-

EU-IndiaGrid2 Confrence on e-Infrastructures for

Climate Change, ICTP, May 2011

Through my interactions with academic and research

colleagues, I get the impression that Indian participation in

the EU-IndiaGrid project had a significant impact on a

variety of scientific disciplines such as biology, earth

science, material science, and the Indian collaboration in

Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In particular, remote control

& operation of ESRF facility at Grenoble, France using

Trans-Eurasia Information Network (TEIN3) connectivity,

has become folklore!

Professor S.V. Raghavan, Scientific Secretary, Office of

the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of

India, letter to Alberto Masoni, EU-IndiaGrid2 Project

Coordinator, November 2011

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Consolidate & enhance cooperation between European

and Indian e-Infrastructures

• Excellent cooperation established with:

• GARUDA National Grid Initiative

– Bridging with European Grid Initiative

• NKN Project

– Bridging with GÉANT through TEIN

• Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG)

– Bridging regional WLCG with CERN and worldwide

• Establishing TEIN 3 - high speed connectivity between NKN, India & Europe

• Bridging with NKN and Migrating Grid applications on NKN

• Operating Grid Certification Authority in India

• Bridging regional WLCG and GARUDA to EGI e-infrastructure

Consolidate & enhance cooperation between European and Indian e-Infrastructures

Specific activity supported by the Project:

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IMPACT

an excellent example of EU India collaboration underpinning all

areas of science

Dr R. Chidambaram, Principal Scientific Advisor

to the Government of India and member of Government

Cabinet, referring to EU-IndiaGrid in his opening talk at India-

EU Workshop on Research Infrastructures, January 2010

EU-IndiaGrid2 is instrumental in creating an e-Infrastructure

across Europe and India for the benefit of scientists and society

Kostas Glinos, Head of Unit, ‘GÉANT and

e-Infrastructures’, European Commission, DG Information

and Society, foreword to the publication e-Infrastructures

across Europe and India, February 2011

Sinergy with NKN

Sinergy with NKN

Cooperation with Global Virtual Research

Communities through high impact projects like

LHC Grid & EU-IndiaGrid gave India much

needed impetus for creating an e-

infrastructure within India

Dr R. Chidambaram Principal Scientific Adviser to the

Government of India, Dr Shailesh Nayak, Secretary

Ministry of Earth Sciences and P.S.Dhekne, Scientific

Consultant, Office of Principal Scientific Adviser to the

Government of India, Contribution at the CHAIN-EU-IndiaGrid2 Conference on e-Infrastructures for

Climate Change, ICTP, May 2011

Neuroscience outGRID High Level Workshop

How e-Science Can Help to Solve Pressing

Societal Challenges: Fostering A Global Effort to Develop a Worldwide e-

Infrastructure for Computational Neuroscientists to Fight

Alzheimer’s Disease

Geneva, International Telecommunication Union (ITU),

United Nations February 20-21, 2012

Indian Delegates:

Dr. Subrata Sinha Director, National Brain Research Centre

(Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and

Technology, Government of India), Manesar,

Dr. Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath, Professor and Chairperson,

Centre for Neurosciences, Indian Institute of Science,

Bangalore

Support specific user communities: Biology

Smoldyn model of an Escherichia

coli cell with all molecules of the

chemotaxis pathway protein folding on the egrid

Support specific user communities: Material Science

• quantitative predictions of material properties

Successful applications using Grid leading to High

quality PublicationsI.

Support specific user communities: Climate Change

RegCM3

ROMS

Exp-0 Exp-15

Climate Change

prediction of the Indian summer

monsoon

Support specific user communities: Remotely Operated Experiments at the European Synchrotron Research facility

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Exploiting NKN-TEIN3-GEANT interconnection for crystallography experiments

with the remote access & control of experimental facility (a beamline within the

ESRF Synchrotron) in Grenoble, France directly from Mumbai, India

Drug-resistant HIV-1 protease enzyme

Support specific user communities:

High Energy Physics @ CERN Large Hadron Collider

• Long standing collaboration with Worldwide LHC Computing Grid Project

• ALICE & CMS Experiments

ALICE & CMS images, courtesy of CERN

Collaboration of paramount importance for Europe & India

…India is effectively participating in the major international experimental programmes in Europe such as LHC, ITER, and others. DAE scientists have a major role in these programmes from the Indian side. We would therefore like to support consolidation of accomplishments so far and their further enlargement through a mature cooperation on Grid interoperability and middleware developments between Europe and India. From a Letter of Dr. Anil Kakodkar (Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission &

Secretary of the Department of Atomic Energy) to Ms Viviane Reding (European

Commissioner, Information Society and Media), 25 February 2008

We are happy to acknowledge the good collaboration between India and Europe in the field of Scientific Research in general and in the ICT domain in particular. Europe has some unique science and research facilities to share: from sub-atomic particles in the Large Hadron Collider to looking into the deepest universe with the EXPReS project to the EU-IndiaGrid project supporting a common, interoperable grid infrastructure between India and Europe. From a Letter of Head of Cabinet of Ms Viviane Reding (European Commissioner,

Information Society and Media) to Dr. Anil Kakodkar (Chairman of the Atomic Energy

Commission & Secretary of the Department of Atomic Energy)- April 2008

BREAKING NEWS OF THIS YEAR: The Higgs Particle Discovery

@ CERN LHC

• “a milestone in our understanding of nature”

• The grid (WLCG) quoted among the key elements for success by CERN Director General in its conclusive slide

Higgs candidate in CMS detector -courtesy of CERN

BEYOND EU-IndiaGrid & EU-IndiaGrid2

• EU-IndiaGrid projects paved the way towards sustainable e-Infrastructure cooperation across Europe & India

• This include Network, grid computing, supercomputing and related applications.

• Other projects are continuing this process

• CHAIN, CHAIN-REDS India-Italy S&T cooperation on e-Infrastructures…

India-Italy Cooperation on S&T • India-Italy cooperation on e-Infrastructure

support for High Energy Physics applications

• one of the six Significant research projects within the frame of the Executive Programme of Scientific and Technological Cooperation between the Italian Republic and the Republic of India for the years 2012-2014

• Leading Partners: INFN – & Office of Principal Scientific Adviser to Government of India

India – European Union / Member States Conference

The Indo-European Research and Innovation Partnership

Brussels

31 May – 1 June 2012

Indian Ministerial Delegates:

Mr. Vilasrao Deshmukh, Minister for

Science and Technology and Earth

Sciences, India

Dr. R.A. Mashelkar, Member Science

Advisory Committee to Prime Minister of

India &President Global Research

Alliance

Mr. Amarendra Sinha, The

Development Commissioner, Ministry of

Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises,

India

Mr. Santosh Jha, Chargé d'Affaires, a.i.,

Embassy of India to Belgium,

Luxembourg and the European Union

European Ministerial Delegates:

Ms. Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, The EU

Commissioner for Research, Innovation and

Science

Mr. Morten Østergaard, the Danish Minister for

Science, Innovation and Higher Education

(representing the current EU Presidency)

Ms. Barbara Kudrycka, the Polish Minister of

Science and Higher Education, (representing the

past EU Presidency) [tbc]

Mr. Stavros Malas, Minister of Health of the

Republic of Cyprus (representing the incoming

EU Presidency)

Ms. Anneli Pauli, Deputy Director General for

Research and Innovation, European

Commission

THANK YOU

EU-IndiaGrid played a bridging role between European

and Indian e-Infrastructure

&

Thanks to the leading role in the e-Infrastructures

development by EU-IndiaGrid Indian partners,

the project had the opportunity to play an active role at

the core of the impressive evolution of Indian e-

Infrastructures in the last two years.

EU-IndiaGrid Conclusion