Research Infrastructures for

e-ScienceNeil Geddes

e-Science Director, STFC

Overview

• A European vision for the future• European Research Area• European Research Infrastructures• European e-Infrastructure

• Networking and HPC• EGI and NGI• Rest of the World• Summary and conclusions

Research Infrastructures and the European Research Area

• Lisbon 2000–  "the most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy

in the world capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion, and respect for the environment by 2010“

– Europe has a long tradition of excellence in research and innovation;

– European teams continue to lead progress in many fields of science and technology;

– However our centres of excellence often fail to reach critical mass in the absence of adequate networking and cooperation;

– Need to bring resources together and build a research and innovation equivalent of the "common market".

ESFRI Roadmap• European Strategic Forum for Research Infrastructures

– develop the scientific integration of Europe and strengthen its international outreach

• Roadmap– identifies new Research Infrastructure (RI) of pan-European interest

corresponding to the long term needs of the European research communities, covering all scientific areas, regardless of possible location.

• Projects must be “open access” and genuinely Pan-European or Global

– next 10 to 20 years– different degrees of maturity – supported by a relevant European partnership or

intergovernmental research organisations.– enhancement of the European Research Area

ESFRI

Sweden + UK committed

Construction startedInternational treaty signed

Site selectedFunded 2009-15

E-Infrastructures

Common ESFRI Issues

– Access– Distributed activities– Data deluge

• Data processing• Data management• Data access

– Lack of understanding• Requirements• Opportunities

e-Infrastructure Reflection Group– Support the creation

framework for electronic resources across Europe. • Political, technological

and administrative• Cost effective, shared

– Particular attention is directed towards grid computing, storage, and networking• Supporting research

HPC

E-IRG Roadmap• 2005 and 2007• What is an e-Infrastructure? • Networking• Middleware• Authentication and authorisation • Resources

– Supercomputers, grids, storage …

• Data handling• Scientific collaboration• Working together with industry

Networking: GEANT

HPC: PrACEPreparatory Phase:• Principal Partners• France• Germany• The Netherlands• Spain• UK• General Partners• Austria• Finland• Greece• Italy• Norway• Poland• Portugal• Sweden• Switzerland• Additional General Partners • Bulgaria• Czech Republic• Cyprus• Ireland• Serbia• Turkey

3-5 systems

PRACE Creation in early 2010Interim Office in LisbonOpen competition for final SeatFirst machine likely to be German

Grid: EGI

EGI.eu Office in Amsterdam (March)Information catalogs, AAA, Metadata/data catalogs,File replication, file transferJob brokeringInterfaces and portals ...

UK NGI

NGS

Data:

Data:

Virtual Research Communities

INFRA-2010-1.2.3: Virtual Research Communities

• The main objective is to enable an ever increasing number of users from all science and engineering disciplines and beyond to access and effectively use e-Infrastructures in order to increase their participation in research of global relevance and/or to allow them to access and share facilities, instruments, software and data from wherever they are based [...] The deployment and further evolution of e-Infrastructures addressing the research infrastructures (and related scientific communities) of the ESFRI-roadmap is particularly encouraged.

– Deployment of e-Infrastructures in scientific communities... – Deployment of new types of e-infrastructure services and tools ...– Training in the use of advanced information and communication tools and virtual research

environments in order to enable researchers to use e-Infrastructures. – Addressing human, social and economic factors influencing the creation of sustainable

virtual research communities as well as the take up/maintenance of e-Infrastructure services by communities.

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE

EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667

Proposed next steps

• Use these contacts to build matrix for technical requirements & organisational aspects

Bob Jones - EGEE09 25

requirement CLARIN DARIAH/CESSDA

EISCAT3D

EPOS LIFEWATCH

ELIXIR XFEL CTA FAIR SKA

Singlesign-on

Persistent storage

Global

workflows

Virt Org

stds

UK e-Infrastructure

LHC

ISIS TS2

HPCx+ HECtoR

Usersget common access, tools, information, Nationally supported services, through NGS

Integratedinternationally

VRE, VLE, IE

Regional and Campus grids

Community Grids

HEIs

Bob Jones - EGEE09

Collaborating e-Infrastructures

CNGrid

Summary• European Research Area driven by societal

needs and world leading research• ICT infrastructure services fully integrated

and central to enabling full exploitation and benefits from ERA infrastructures

• Standards based coordination and integration essential to supporting the required multi and inter-disciplinary challenges of the 21st century– Data, PrACE, EGI, NGI’s, GEANT ...