e-Infrastructures for e-Sciencethe EU Policy

Presentation at the DRIVER Confederation Summit, 20 October 2009

"The views expressed in this presentation are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission"

Wim JansenINFSO F3

European Commission GEANT and eInfrastructure

Scientific advances more important than ever‐ Global challenges with high societal impact

‐ Innovation, research and economic development

‐ The Fifth Freedom (Free movement of Knowledge)

Adoption of ICT changes the scientific discovery process

‐ Computing, simulation and data: ‘virtualisation of experiments’

‐ Tackling the very small, the very big and the very complex

‐ Cost efficiency

‐ Open, cross-border and cross-discipline collaboration

Science and ICT

Highlighting the importance of embracing the e-Science paradigm shift

Highlighting the strategic role of e-Infrastructures as a crucial asset underpinning European research and innovation policies

Calling on Member States and the scientific communities, in cooperation with the European Commission, for a reinforced and coordinated effort to further develop world class e-Infrastructures

ICT infrastructures for e-Science: a Communication to European Institutions

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Scientific facilities

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Linking at the speed of the lightLinking at the speed of the light

Sharing computers, software and instrumentsSharing computers, software and instruments

Sharing and federating scientific dataSharing and federating scientific data

e-Infrastructures for science…ubiquitous research environments for accessing and

sharing resources and tools…

Connecting the finest mindsSharing and federating the best scientific resources

Building global virtual communities

Three vectors of a renewed European Research strategy 2020:

ICT infrastructures for e-ScienceCOM(2009) 108

e-Infrastructure

Europe as hub of

excellence ine-Science

Sustainable and continuous services of

production quality 24/7

Innovation by exploiting know-

how beyond Science (Health, Learning, large

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Highlight strategic importance of e-Infrastructures; key to overcome fragmentation and digital divide

Member States to consider e-Infrastructures in their national roadmaps

Commission to ensure:

sustainability

global connectivity and interoperability

unimpeded use

Conclusions by Competitiveness Council of 29 May 2009

Linking at the speed of the light: GÉANT

Accessing knowledge: scientific data

Innovating the scientific process: global virtual research communities

Experimenting in silico: simulation and visualisation

Sharing the best computational resources: e-Science grid, supercomputing

e-Infrastructures in action today

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Examples of projects

network infrastructure, GÉANT

distributed computing/software infrastructure

Scientific Data Infrastructure

scientific data infrastructure

Fostering Global Virtual Research Communities

Scientific Communities

•Geographically spread•Culture heterogeneity•Problem Complexity•Volumes of information•Quality of information• Incentives to share•Organisational barriers

e-Infrastructures

• Connectivity• Collaboration• Processing, Simulation• Repositories of data• Curation/Review• Trust• Knowledge advantage

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Call for proposals: FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-2

WP2010 (e-Infastructures)Publication: 30/07/2009 / Deadline: 24/11/2009

Support to existing research infrastructuresINFRASTRUCTURES-2010-1.2.1Distributed Computing Infrastructure

50 M€

INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-1.2.2Simulation softwares & services

12 M€

INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-1.2.3Virtual Research Communities

23 M€

Support to new research infrastructuresINFRASTRUCTURES-2010-2.3.1Construction of new infrastructures (PRACE first phase)

20 M€

INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-3.3Support to policy development and programme implementation

10 M€

• General objectives:– Enable an increasing number of users from all disciplines to access, share and use

e-Infrastructures (facilities, instruments, software data

– Remove constraints of distance, access and usability, as well as barriers between disciplines for a more effective scientific collaboration and innovation

• More specifically:– Deployment of e-Infrastructures in research communities to enable multi-

disciplinary collaboration

– Deployment of end-to-end e-infrastructure services and tools for integrating and increasing research capacities

– Build user-configured virtual research facilities and test-beds from collection of diverse resources

– Address human, social and economic factors to facilitate the creation, take up/maintenance of e-Infrastructure services

– Integrate and link regional e-Infrastructures

Expected impact: Increased effectiveness of European research through the broader use of e-

Infrastructures by research communities; the emergence of virtual research communities of European and international dimension that cannot be achieved by national initiatives alone;

INFRA-2010-1.2.3: Virtual Research Communities

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Call for ProposalsPublication: 30/07/2009 / Deadline: 24/11/2009

Information

Management of Repositories

Management of Access

Processing, Computation

Physical infrastructure

Repository services

Adapted from e-SciDR study

Orchestration within the e-Infrastructure:

need for coordination all the elements and layers

In the Communication to the Council and EP, the Commission asks the involvement of Member States and key stakeholders to build robust, dynamic and innovative e-Infrastructures for scientific data

This cooperation started already by launching 15 projects, including the FP7 Open Access Pilot (40 Mio Euro)

There is still a long way to go...

Information

Management of Repositories

Libraries in the value chain between data and preservation

Processing, Computation

Physical infrastructure

Repository services

Adapted from e-SciDR study

eInfrastructure Community buildingneed for coordination all the elements and layers

- The changing role of Repositories in future visions of scholarlycommunications:

- Repository activity needs to be joined up more closely withVirtual Research Community developments in eScience, datasharing, preservation anddistributed Computinginfrastructure

- From a Repositories perspective via the enhanced publicationsconcept towards a thematic based scientific dataeInfrastructure.

Scientific Data - Looking ahead

“Big, complex data-intensive science" of global dimension is here to stay; hence the increasing value of observational and experimental data in virtually all fields of science

Europe pays particular attention to the aspects of accessibility to scientific information, its quality assurance and preservation

Developing an ecosystem of European Digital Repositories, federating and adding value to national or discipline-based repositories will be necessary

Multi-disciplinary approaches, new participative paradigms and global research communities are an essential part and driver of the strategy

…but organisational, governance and financing models need reconsideration, informed by sociological, political and cultural considerations

Upcoming Calls of e-Infrastructures programme to provide support to the e-Science transition

We need to exploit the growing sensor/effector layer to make the world itself a real-time database.

(from the creativity machine, V. Vinge)

For further information

www.cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/e-infrastructure/

Thank you