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Grid Initiatives for e-Science virtual communities in Europe and Latin America
A Sustainable future is in the hands of CLARA and the Latin American NRENs
Roberto Barbera (Univ. of Catania and INFN)
on behalf of Luis Nuñez (RedCLARA)
ISGC’ 2012, 26th February to 02nd March 2012 Taipei (Taiwan)
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Outline
• Latin America/CLARA Specificities
• The GISELA business strategy
• Actions
• Conclusions
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Latin America/CLARA Specificities
• A non-profit organisation with 15 National Research and Education Networks (NRENs)
• With diversity of technical skills and maturity of local scientific communities of its members
• The Brazilian and Venezuelan NRENs are the only ones that have structural governmental support
• The rest of the LA countries have built their NRENs with the support of their members, charging them for operations and services
• For the rest of LA countries several different organisational schemes can be found, sometimes involving also the private sector
• Mature
• Developing
• Starting
CLARA has to find the most efficient way to operate infrastructures with a minimum budget and a maximum benefit for its members
Gov. Supported
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GISELA 34 production applications inherited from EELA / EELA-2 represent potential communities
• 18 Resources Centres provide skilful personnel to support and develop services in the region
• 435 trained users / 73 inst.• 1794 cores platform• Operation 24/7 EELA
--01/01/2006
--31/12/2007
GISELA
--31/08/2012
--01/09/2010
EELA-2
--01/04/2008
--31/03/2010
e-Infrastructure
inherited from EELA and EELA2 projects
The evolution …
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Current CLARA Services : Connectivity + Communication+ Content
GISELA triggered the first Advanced
Computing Service !
• Webconference (VCEspresso)• Videoconference (SIVIC)• Content Management (DSpace)• E-Learning System (Moodle)• Video on Demand (CLARAVe)• Web 2.0: Wikis, Blogs• Researchers/Funding
opportunities/Partner search• News, Agenda, etc
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Generic business models…
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… and the GISELA implementation
Competitiveness w.r.t.
commercial providers
CLARA
NRENs
Resource
Centres (RC)
International
dimension
Domain
specific
applications
e-Research
e-Infrastruc-
ture and
applications
as a service
SGs
and
IdFs
Fostering
e-Science
Knowledge
Dissemi-
nation
User supp.EU and LA
research
groups
e-Infrastructure pay per use
back to the RCs
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Sustainability Recipe
• Take a look around and identify all products you can offer. Thinking out of the box, exploits those services based on your most competitive skills
• Wrap out all your products in a incremental model• Simplify the service deliver methodology– Aiming to the widest group of users– Making • Do your math to evaluate your cost and to explain
the way you did your math• Be competitive but also solidary leaving spaces
for those who can not afford the services• Workout a marketing plan to reach users
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Grid Services Replicating Networking Services
• In CLARA’s network activities a Regional Network Operation Centre (RNOC) catches the functions of the countries that have no domestic NOC
• When domestic network infrastructures grow, the NRENs are going to be able to install their own NOC
• Once this happens, the RNOC will transfer the domestic networking functions to the NOC that has been installed
• CLARA auctions, among its members NRENs the operation of the regional NOC every four years
• The Grid pioneer Infrastructure could follow the same model
• Those countries that can support the creation of a GOC (Grid Operation Centre) will have one, and those who cannot afford it or are not mature enough to create one, can use the Regional Grid Operation Centre (GSC)
• Domestic GOCs are responsible for their domestic services and interact with the ROC when services have a regional scope
• Those countries without a GOC, will use the ROC for domestic functions in their country.
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CLARA Advanced Computing Services
• Adv. Comp. (AC) Expertise Transfer. Technical Consulting to assist in house applications– Customising an existing application to profit the existing Adv. Comp. e-Infrastructure– Developing in house new applications required by the customer organisation
(Research, Industry or NREN)
• SDK/SourceFourge Training To increase the awareness on the AC environments
• Wizard for basic applications. Allows the less expert users and/or NREN to install their applications
• Federated Authentication Resources. Grant authorized access to use the federated resources at a continental scale
• Application Shelf Service: Application Shelf Allows users, industrial partner and/or NREN to contract computing resources
• Virtual Resources Grid Allocation. Virtual services e-Infrastructure, such as:– Allocation of AC resources allowing the member institutions to configure AC environments
(cores/storage/network provisioning) and elements needed to execute their applications– Running Services records, tracking the processes submitted to the e-infrastructure
• Data Preservation Services. Offer the possibility to store their data for a period of time
• Training and Capacity Building Service. To increases the usage and the culture of Advanced Computing Services by providing people the information and the skills needed to access the AC Services
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CLARA Grid VRC Organisational Model
NOC
Regional NOC+NOC
NOC
NETWORK MANAGER (NSC)
CLARA
Country LA–1
REUNA
Country LA–2
Country LA–N
GOC
GOC
Regional GOC+GOC
NGI or EDGS
NGI or EDGS
NGI or EDGS
APPLICATIONS MANAGER
Grid Community Coordinator
Complex Model
Cooperative Broker Model
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A Regional Cooperative Solution Offers
User
Grid
ScienceGatewa
y
Authentication
Cloud
Virtual Instruments
Virtual Servers
Commercial
Providers
• On demand resources (Hardware, Software & Manware) from the research groups to the research groups
• High bandwidth and low latency from the Experimental academic advanced Networks
• Replicating other services in the RedCLARA Operational Structure
• Added value to the existent infrastructure
• Better use of the existent computational infrastructure and expertise from different countries
• Promoting local middleware solutions better suited for the region
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Science Gateway Service Centric Model
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VRC Check Service
Description
RedCLARA
RC
Submit
Service
Request
Consult the
Advance Computing
Resources Available
Find the
Suitable
Resources
Send the VR
availability
Shows Budget
Login &
Send Data
Data
Processing
Accept
Budget
OUT
Elaborates
contract
Register
and login
Virtual Resource on demand
2
Yes
Data
Storage
Consult
Data
Read
Data
Display
Basic View
Grid
ScienceGateway
Developer
Administrator
Autentication
User
Cloud
Virtual Instruments
Virtual Servers
CLARA Grid-VRC Support ModelScience Gateway Centric Model
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Regional Competitive Solution
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Business Model Parameters RC Profit Margin % 300%RedCLARA Profit Margin 60%% RedCLARA Capacity 30%Max-Cores- GISELA Capacity 1794MAX-Cores-RedCLARA Capacity 538Max Num days/year (80% UpTime) 292Hours per day 24 RedCLARA Price € 0.17
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Two Examples of RC Costs (€)
RC costs (736 Cores – UFRJ - Brazil)
Computing Power; Monthly power consumption: 2,737
Storage; Monthly power consumption: 115.
Air conditioning Monthly power consumption: 555
Manpower (1 FTE) 2,100
Depreciation by month (based on 20% of the value of the equipment in 5 years) 4,666
Maintenance (after the warranty period) 4% of the total hardware value (wild guess) estimated per year to be spent on hardware maintenance 933
Grand total for 736 core per month 11,106
Total cost per Core . Month 15
Total cost per Core . Day 0.63
Total cost per Core . Hour 0.03
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Operation Evolution
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SERVUCTION & Operational Profit
• First and Second year of operation after GISELA end (31/08/2012 →)
• ½ FTE for administrative purposes as contracts, bills and expenditures
• ½ FTE for technical support
• 1 FTE fore marketing and sales
• Third year (1 FTE - Administrative, 1 FTE - Technical, and 1 FTE – sales) Fix
ed
Costs
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Business Model Supported by 3 Actions
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Science Gateway Technical Capacities
Funding sources
from S&T Agencies
Marketing towards VRC/User
Communties
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Action Plan (1/3)
Raise awareness, sensitize and inform on the different opportunities of the Advanced Services• Sensitizing and informing research communities of the opportunities
that Advanced Services could bring to their environment– Organize Virtual Days on Technology and the Community– Organize courses and competencies for students who have applications
of general use– Document the existing applications of the GISElA Science Gateway, by
creating tutorials to ease the use and appropriation.• Raise awareness, sensitize and inform the decision makers of S & T
and the Directors of the National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) on the opportunities that Advanced Computing Services could bring to Science and Technology– Interviews with Latin American high authorities of decision makers in
Science and Technology. CLARA’s Academic Manager is coordinating interviews with decision makers (Ministers, Directors and General Secretaries) of S&T in the LA region
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Action Plan(2/3)
Identify the real needs of Advanced Computing Services by research communities. It is necessary to understand real needs of advanced computing services in the LA region. The communities need to produce a positive social impact in their research results in order to attract the S&T decision makers’ and NRENs Directors’ attention• Identify communities that produce research results with high positive social
impact as potential users of advanced computing services• Identify “ambassadors” of each community to conduct a series of actions to
first understand the communities’ needs and then to induce the communities into advanced computing services
Increase technical potentialities and capacities of the GISELA Science Gateway to provide an easy and friendly interface that can be used to access different web services through different platforms
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Action Plan (3/3)
Train research communities so they adopt the GISELA Science Gateway into their daily research. Communities need to be able to build and maintain their own portals and include all the applications they need to develop research projects• Creation of a Task Force (in collaboration with EPIKH) to implement and give technical
support to applications running in the GISELA Science Gateway environment.– Deploy applications of communities with social impact: seismology and climate– Install Identity Federation Systems in at least two countries of the Latin American region– Document extensively the processes of adaptation and configuration of the GISELA
Science Gateway– Redefine the web interface and usability of the portal
• Create on line and detailed technical documentation to have a permanent reference for the Task Force professionals and local technical representatives of the different institutions involved in the e-infrastructure and resource centers.
• Create a AuthN &AuthZ Infrastructure (AAI) in Latin America based on federated indentity services, "cloning & adapting" the existing "catch all" services developed at INFN Catania
• Update of the CP/CPS documents of the Certification Authorities established in Latin America to allow them issue "robot certificates" that are necessary for the GISELA Science Gateway
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Conclusions (1/2)
• The service architecture based on GISELA SG centric model includes all possible services to be offered by RedCLARA
• The cooperative shared cost broker model is economically viable and competitive with the present commercial offer
• It has been validated with the
– Directors on NRENs at the RedCLARA Assembly (Oct 27th, 2011) Need to be explained to the S&T Agencies Need to be aligned with National Initiatives Good idea: 30% National capacity to be share regional + Funds for RC Need to be related with other EU projects (RISC, CHAIN, ProIdeal)
– Application Committee (Nov 18th, 2011) Need to allow the possibility to “credit cores” for research projects Need to allow possibility to offer 5% financed resources for good
proposals with no funding opportunities
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Conclusions (2/2)
• RedCLARA Assembly (Nov 10th, 2011) and RedCLARA Board Meeting (Dec 2nd , 2011) recommended to:
– Evaluate the cost/performance of the GISELA e-Infrastructure– Convince two or three candidates to start/test the model– Look for funding for the test period (~2 years)
• Develop a LA Call for a Science Gateway Task Force
– Training at LA and EU technical people from VE, CO, PE, MX, EC– F2F meeting and workshop at the Joint GISELA-CHAIN Conference
• Aggressive plan to interact with LA Science & Technology Agencies (AR, CL, MX, PE, EC, CO, VE)
• Marketing strategy aiming to VRC and ComCLARA Communities
• CLARA Market Study for Cloud Services for standard computing services
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