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Grid Initiatives for e-Science virtual communities in Europe and Latin America

GISELA Achievements & Legacy (A vision into the future)

Roberto Barbera(Univ. of Catania and INFN- Italy)

Final Project Review

Brussels, 11.10.2012

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Outline

• Looking back to the past

• The Latin America AAI: state of the art and future activities

• Adaptability of the GISELA Science Gateway to present and future challenges

• Once more about sustainability: the Science Gateway market place

• Summary and conclusions

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Looking back to the past 7 years…

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EELA(A test-

bed)

EELA-2(A production

Infrastruc-ture)

GISELA(A sustaina-ble service)

4/2008-3/2010

1/2006-12/2007

9/2010 – 8/2012


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Size of the consortia

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EELA 10 countries21 partners

EELA-216 countries 18 partners

60 third parties

GISELA15 countries19 partners

12 third parties

4/2008-3/2010

1/2006-12/2007

9/2010 – 8/2012


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GISELA Partners

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www.gisela-grid.eu Brussels, Second EELA Annual Review, 25.02.2008

– At least 8 applications in year 2 (4 in year 1)• In 2006, 13 were identified, but not ported…

• 6 Biomedical, 3 HEP, 5 e-Learning, 4 Climate applications 18 applications in total!

– At least 2 new applications considered (1 in 2006)• 9 in 2006

• Out of the 18 applications, 13 are new!

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Dec 2007

QUALITY METRICS - APPLICATIONS

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As presented atthe First Review

After 2ndGrid School

Today

Fully deployed on theproduction infrastructure

Gridified but running onanother gLite-based Grid

Ready for standalone use,running locally

Deployed on the prod. infrastructure, but in testing phase

Mar 2010

Supported Applications’ status

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WP3 Applications Portfolio – End of 1st year

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• 70 legacy grid applications inherited from EELA & EELA-2

• 34 of them are in a production stage– Not all of them running on regular basis, but…– Can be provided at anytime upon users request in LA

• MoU signed with EGI-InSPIRE (M08) enables…

– VRC members in Europe exploit GISELA resources– VRC members in LA exploit EGI resources (most usual)– EGI/GISELA to coordinate VRC support in every EGI forum– Publishing GISELA applications in http://appdb.egi.eu/

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Dec 2007


Mar 2010

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WP4 Numbers – End of 1st year

• Cumulative GISELA contribution per site (normalised CPU hours)

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– At least 100 researchers after 2007 (50 after 2006) that have tested an enhanced application

• 61 EELA VO members at the end of 2006

• 114 EELA VO members at the end of 2007 (not counting ALICE VO and tutorials’ generic users)

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QUALITY METRICS - USERS

Dec 2007

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saturation

decrease

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Mar 2010


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Quality Metric Current status Y2

Q1

Expected outcome Y2

Number of Active Users in the catch-all VO (prod.vo.eu-eela.eu)

36 100

Number of Active Users in the VRC-driven Science Gateway

26 100

Number of Applications in production status on the e-Infrastructure 42 40

Number of Applications integrated in VRC-driven Science Gateways 4 15

Number of specialized Science Gateway for VRC 2 2

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Almost as many users in the Science Gateway in 2 months as in the production VO in 15 months


Path to technology uptake

The Rogers “bell-shape” curve - Rogers, E. M. (1962), “Diffusion of Innovations”, Glencoe: Free Press.

Development of the GISELA SG



– the GISELA Grid

Davis, F. D. (1989), "Perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, and user acceptance of information technology", MIS Quarterly 13(3): 319–340

Development of the GISELA

Science Gateway

Requirement for sustainability

Achieved!


IT acceptance model

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The «Catania» Science Gateway model

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....... Science

Gatew

ay

App. 1

App. 2

App. N

Embedded Applications AdministratorPower UserBasic User

Users from different

organisations having different

roles and privileges

Standard-based (SAGA) middleware-independent

Grid Engine

Middleware currently available in LatAm


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AuthN & AuthZ Schema

AuthorisationGISELA Science Gateway

GrIDP

(“catch-all”)

IDPCT(“catch-all”)

IDP_y

LDA

P

....

.....

1. Register to a Service

2. Sign in

Authentication

Social Networks’ Bridge IdP

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Official Identity Federations supported by GISELA Science Gateway

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To be created on 26-30 November 2012


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Training Material to create Federated Identity Services

VirtualAppliancesincluded

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Especially developed in the context of GISELA



Creation of Federated Identity Services in LA

• IdF Mexico (managed by UNAM)– Done in cooperation between GISELA and EPIKH– 2 persons came to Catania in July 2012 to learn and install the

services– By end of November 2012, the Mexican federation will comprise:

UNAM Universidad de Colima (UCOL) Dirección General de Institutos Tecnológicos (DGIT) CUDI ... for a total of about 500,000 students and researchers !

• Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama– A training event to create federated identity services will take place in

Bucaramanga on 26-30 November (fully paid by RENATA a nice example of sustainability and commitment)

• Future:– INFN will continue to assist and support LA countries to create

federated identity services until the ELCIRA project will take over (ELCIRA started on the 1st of June 2012)


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eduGAIN(www.edugain.org)

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GISELA Science Gateway is also

registered as Service Provider of eduGAIN


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The Grid IDentity Pool (GrIDP)(http://gridp.ct.infn.it)

This is an “open” Identity Federation

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The Grid IDentity Pool (GrIDP)(http://gridp.ct.infn.it)

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While Identity Federation are being established in LA, single users

as well as Identity Providers are welcome to join GrIDP to access

and use the GISELA Science Gateway

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First set of considerations – Interoperability

• Interoperability is a property referring to the ability of diverse systems and organizations to work together (inter-operate). The term is often used in a technical systems engineering sense, or alternatively in a broad sense, taking into account social, political, and organizational factors that impact system to system performance;

• According to ISO/IEC 2382-01 (Information Technology Vocabulary, Fundamental Terms), interoperability is "The capability to communicate, execute programs, or transfer data among various functional units in a manner that requires the user to have little or no knowledge of the unique characteristics of those units".


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The «Catania» Grid Engine

Grid Engine

UsersTracking

DB

Science GW Interface

SAGA/JSAGA API

Job EngineData Engine UsersTrack &Monit.

GISELA SG

ScienceGW 2

ScienceGW 3

Grid MWs

Liferay Portlets

eTokenServer

Newby WP6

Modified New Modified

Mid

dle

ware

cu

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tly a

vailab

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LatA

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The CHAIN Worldwide Interoperability Demo

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GISELA contributions(WP3, 4 & 6)



1. e-Infrastructures can be made interoperable at user/application level using standards

2. Both general purpose and VRC-specific applications can be submitted from anywhere and run everywhere

The demo “in action”



The demo “in action”

1. The GISELA Science Gateway is completely «agnostic» w.r.t. the middleware deployed in LA

2. No more technical (and political) barriers for a much wider adoption of the e-Infrastructure paradigm


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Second set of considerations – Social Networks

• About 1 billion people have accounts on the existing Social Networks (many of the researchers we are targeting with e-Infrastructures are among them)

• Web-based social networking accounts for more than 10-15% of the total time spent online in the whole world

• Social Networks’ are by far the most used (liked) virtual environments in the world


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“Social” Science Gateways(www.facebook.com/pages/Catania-Science-Gateways/220075701389624)


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GISELA “social” Science Gateway(The Science Gateway as a Facebook app)

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SSO possible through the Social Networks’ Bridge IdP


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Third set of considerations – Mobile Access

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• More than 25% of mobile phones in the world are smartphones and the number of people connected through mobile appliances increases every year

• Social networking amounts to 91% of mobile internet access, compared to 79% on desktops, and it is expected that by 2014 mobile internet should take over desktop internet usage(*)

• So, mobile access to “everything” is not any more an option; it is a must and e-Infrastructures shouldn’t/won’t be an exception

(*) http://www.biztechday.com/mobile-stats-2011-91-use-mobile-phones-to-socialize


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The “mobile” Authentication Procedure(REST API access to the GISELA Science Gateway)


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Big challenges are in front of us…

• Now that many users can potentially access and use the GISELA Science Gateway, a new training and communication strategy is needed as well as a portfolio of appealing applications to attract them

• How all this is feasible and sustainable in the future the least possible cost ?


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The Science Gateway market place

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1. 2.

3.

4.

5.

Users/VRCs SG Dev.

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Survey to propose new applications(http://gisela-gw.ct.infn.it/integre-una-nueva-aplicacion-al-sg)

39GISELA - Final Project Review - Brussels - 11/10/2012The survey is also available in english

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Training for GISELA Science Gateway developers

• New training material

• New training tools:

• New training events:– http://agenda.ct.infn.it/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=783 – http://agenda.ct.infn.it/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=784


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GISELA Science Gateway developers task force

• Composition:– Argentina: 1– Brazil: 1– Colombia: 9– Ecuador: 2– Italy: ~10– Mexico: 6– Spain: 2– Uruguay: 1– Venezuela: 7

• A tutorial for developers will take place in Bucaramanga (Colombia) on 26-30 November (fully paid by RENATA a nice example of sustainability and commitment)


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Uptake of «Catania» Science Gateways

184 Organisations from 43 Countries

GISELA Science Gateway figures:• 174 users (~700% increase since Dec 2011; about twice the current number of members of the VO and steadily increasing)• 75 Organisations• 18 countries


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Summary and conclusions (1/2)

• GISELA legacy builds on four pillars: standard adoption, simplicity, easiness of use and re-usability

• e-Infrastructures can be very useful platforms for many VRCs, provided that they are really easy to use and GISELA has demonstrated that this is not only feasible but also sustainable

• The federated identity based AAI services promoted/fostered/ established by GISELA will bring Latin American countries to the state of the art and will help CLARA and the NRENs in creating new services across the whole continent , shared with Europe and other regions of the world

• The GISELA Science Gateway, with its support for Identity Federations, Social Networks, and mobile access is changing the way the LA Grid infrastructure is used, hugely widening its potential user base, especially non-IT experts and the “citizen scientist”, yet keeping the required level of security

• The adoption of standards (JSR 286, SAGA, SAML, etc.) was a concrete investment towards sustainability and allowed worldwide interoperability at user application level and re-usability of applications at the Science Gateway level


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Summary and conclusions (2/2)

• “We now have clear ideas and goals, the (standard-based) tools and a roadmap to achieve them, and the strength of choices largely shared and supported by other projects” (from GISELA 2nd review, 8/12/2011)

• In the last 10 months ideas were turned into reality and all goals have been achieved but…

• …we have done much more than this: we now have a vision for the future of e-Infrastructure in Latin America which is shared and financially sustained by the most important stakeholders in the region (i.e., CLARA and the NRENs)


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