•••1European Commission DG INFSOUnit “GÉANT and eInfrastructures”
eInfrastructures
fostering the building of Global
Virtual Research Communities
eIRG Workshop
Zurich, 2425 April 2008
Kyriakos BaxevanidisDeputy Head of Unit
European CommissionDG INFSO
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Political context
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EU Council Spring 2008 –economic outlook
Fundamentals of EU economy sound:public deficits more than halved since 2005public debt declined to just under 60%.Economic growth reached 2,9% in 2007 (but likely to be
lower this year)6,5 million jobs created in the last two years
However, global economic outlook deteriorated recently(slowdown economic activity in US, higher oil & commodityprices, ongoing turbulence on financial markets)
Essential for EU to sustain reform efforts:complete and deepen internal marketEconomic & financial policies to be geared towards ensuring
macroeconomic stability; further improve supervisory &
regulatory environment at national, EU & global levelAddress challenges like ageing populations, climate change
and energy
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EU Council Spring 2008 political agenda
Launching of 20082010 cycle of Lisbon Strategy for growthand jobs four priority areas:
investing in people and modernising labour markets;unlocking business potential;investing in knowledge and innovation;energy and climate change
Focus on implementation measures on:“Fifth freedom”–removing barriers to free movement of
knowledgeSmall Business ActFlexicurity, lifelong learningClimate and energy: unbundling internal energy market,
greenhouse gas reductions, new emissions tradingscheme, renewable energies
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Science, Technology & Innovation system
In the long run,economicperformance ofcountries isstronglydetermined byknowledgerelatedfactors, inparticular, R&Dand technologicalinnovation…
Science Technology /Innovation
Industrystructure
Education/Training
ScienceTechnologyIndustry
Human resources&Labour markets Financial system
Sustainablegrowth,competitiveness,and jobcreation
RI
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References to RI/eInfrastructure
EU Council, Spring 2008Scientific einfrastructure and highspeed internet usage mustbe significantly increasedParticular attention should be given to further initiatives forjoint programming of research, mutually complementaryinternational S&T cooperation strategies and the strengtheningof research infrastructure of panEuropean interest
EU Council, Dec 2007CALLS on Member States to engage more actively in theimplementation of panEuropean research infrastructures
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References to RI/eInfrastructure
EU Competitiveness Council, Nov 2007
INVITES Member States to encourage public and privateresearch institutions to make full use of the emergingdistributed forms of research activity (namely eScience) basedupon international research networks made possible by theavailability and worldclass unique quality of distributedEuropean network infrastructures like GEANT and GRID
INVITES cofunding of research infrastructures, in particularby linking digital repositories at European level and cofundingresearch on digital preservation within FP7; supportingexperiments with open access with a clear crossborder addedvalue
INVITES Member States, with support from the Commissionwhere appropriate, to develop and strengthen their nationalroadmaps and strategies on RI taking into account a longtermvision of European science and the work undertaken by theESFRI and considering, when appropriate, an efficient use ofthe structural funds to this objective
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eInfrastructure Drivers and Vision
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Science in 21st century
Global challenges with high societal impact importantrole of collaboration/globalisation in research
Data deluge…
Need of new scientific process enabling role of technology
Crossdisciplinarity, distributed versus centralised,virtuallabs versus wetlabs
Building of global virtual research communities
networkinggridsinstrumentationcomputingdata curation…
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ResearchCommunity2
Humaninteraction
Workspace
Labs
Scientific Data
Computing,Grid
Network
Global Virtual Research Communities
ResearchCommunity1
Humaninteraction
Workspace
Labs
Scientific Data
Computing,Grid
Network
ResearchCommunity3
Humaninteraction
Workspace
Labs
Scientific Data
Computing,Grid
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VirtualCommunity
Humaninteraction
Workspace
Virtual Labs
Scientific Data
Grid
Network
Global Virtual Research Communities
VirtualCommunity
Humaninteraction
Workspace
Virtual Labs
Scientific Data
Grid
Network
VirtualCommunity
Humaninteraction
Workspace
Virtual Labs
Scientific Data
Grid
Network
Scientific Data
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ICT for Science: eInfrastructures main concepts and principles
Linking at the speed of the lightLinking at the speed of the light
Sharing computers, instruments and applicationsSharing computers, instruments and applications
Sharing and federating scientific dataSharing and federating scientific data
. . . . . . .
Astrophysics
community
Connecting the finest mindsSharing and federating the best scientific resources
Building global virtual communities
Biomedics
community
WeatherForecast
community
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eInfrastructures in FP7
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Framework Programme 7 (200713)
Capacities4097 M€
JRC1751 M€
Ideas7510 M€
Euratom4062 M€
People4750 M€
Cooperation32413 M€
Dev. of policiesINCO
Sciencein Society
Research Infrastructures42% 1715 M€
SMEsResearch Potential
Regions of Knowledge
eInfrastructures(ICT for Science)
572 M€
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Network layer
Middleware layer
Data layer
Virtual LabsUser Communities
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eInfrastructure: main building blocks
Computing facilities
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Relevant policy bodies
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eInfrastructure: evolving approach
FP7
FP5
GÉANT
2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
FP6
GÉANT2
Grid infrastructures
Supercomputer grid
New users
… upgrade
… upgrade
… reinforce
Repositories
Org, policy, intern
Data infrastruct.
… upgrade
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Examples of eInfrastructureinitiatives
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GÉANT: connecting Europe
PanEuropeancoverage(40+ countries /3900universities / 30+million students)
Hybrid architecture:
connectivity at 10Gb/s (aggregatedtraffic)
dark fiberwavelengths(demandingcommunities)
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GÉANT: global reach
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EGEE: large multiscience grids
>240 sites>37 000 CPUs, 15 Pbyte of storage~100 000 jobs successfully completed per day200 Virtual Organisations>2000 registered users, representing 1000s of scientists
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EGEE: promoting interoperability
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DEISA: virtual HPC services
11 sites in 7 countries connectedat 10 Gb/s
Over 22,000 CPUs sporting 200TFlop
Running larger parallelapplications in individual sites
Enabling workflow applicationswith grid technologies
Providing a global datamanagement service
Extreme Computing Initiative
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new “petaflop”supercomputers
Local
EU
PRACEpetaflop supercomputers
National
DEISAvirtual supercomputer
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new resourceprovisioning model
Pool of
Gridbased
Resources
and Services
User
Service entry point for basicservices provided by a
national entity called NationalGrid Initiative (NGI)
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new resourceprovisioning model
NGIE NGII
NGINordic States
NGIDNGIF
NGIUKNGIIRL
NGIGR
NGIP
NGICZNGIA
NGINLNGIPONGIB
NGISK
Coordinatingentity (EGI)
Key elements of new scheme:Onestopshop service (including training) to users whowant to access gridbased and data resourcesService provisioning beyond project cyclesMore efficient use of resources on the national/regionallevelBetter planning of new investments, economies of scale
EGI_DS (Design study)
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Project space
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Multidimensional evolution
eInfrastructurecore
Policy Support Actions,Design Studies
New technology /services
New ApplicationsGeographicalextension ofcollaboration
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Eastern Europe, NIS, Caucasus,Baltic States, Mediterranean,
SouthEastern Europe,North & Latin America,
Asia (China, India, SE Asia etc),
PanEuropean Research& Education Network,
Experimental facility for newInternet architectures & protocols
Network layer
Support Actions,Design Studies:
Geographicalextension:
EndtoEnd QoS,Wireless data Testbeds on GÉANT
New technology /services:
Synergy, Outreach,Policy support,
Deployment of IPv6,Virtual Conference Service
Coreprojects:
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GÉANT,FEDERICA
Support Actions,Design Studies:
OCCASION, Porta Optica Study,BSI, EUMedConnect, SEEREN2
ALICE, AUGERACCESS,EVALSO,
TEIN2, ECGIN, Orient, 6CHOICE
Geographicalextension:
Phosphorus, WEIRDNew technology /services:
BELIEFII, eIRGSP2,6DISS, 6DEPLOY,
GLOBAL
Network layer
Coreprojects:
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Eastern Europe, NIS,Baltic States, Mediterranean,
SouthEastern Europe,North & Latin America,
Asia (China, India. SE Asia etc)
Middleware layer
Support Actions,Design Studies:
Synergy, Outreach, Training,Policy support, Sustainable
service provisioning,Support to Standards
Geographicalextension:
Security, SWinteroperability,SWtestfacility, Interactive service,
workflowcentric service, quasisupercomputing service, remote
instruments control, Desktop Grids
New technology /services:European Grid infrastructurefor support of the ERA,
Supercomputing Gridinfrastructure
Petaflop Supercomputingfacility
Coreprojects: Computing facilities
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EUMedGrid, SEEGRIDSCI,LinkSCEEM, BalticGridII, EELA
2, EUChinaGrid, ECGIN,EUIndiaGrid, EUAsiaGrid
Middleware layer
Support Actions,Design Studies:
BELIEFII, GridTalk, ICEAGE,eIRGSP2, EGI_DS,
OGFEUROPE
Geographicalextension:
ISSeG, OMIIEurope, ETICS2,int.eu.grid, KnowARC,
Chemomentum, QosCosGrid,GridCC, RINGrid, EDGeS
New technology /services:EGEEIII, DEISA2,PRACE
Coreprojects: Computing facilities
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USA, Russia,NIS, Israel, South
Africa
Data layer
European Infrastructure ofDigital Repositories,
European Digital LibrariesService
Coreprojects, common technology /services:
Support Actions,Design Studies:Synergy, Outreach,
Policy support, Access torecords of Science
New Applications:Life sciences –Biology,
Astronomy, Earth sciences,Space, Climate
Geographicalextension:
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Data layer
DRIVERII, D4Science
Coreprojects, generic technology /services:
Support Actions,Design Studies:BELIEFII, eIRGSP2,
PARSE.Insight
New Applications:IMPACT, EuroVOAIDA,
GENESIDR, NMDB,METAFOR
METAFOR,NMDB, IMPACT
Geographicalextension:
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Virtual LabsUser Communities
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Physics, Molecular, Chemical, Medical Clinical, Bioinformatics, Life sciences –
Biology, Fisheries, Civil protection,Astronomy, Environment, Earth
sciences, Space, Climate, Industrialapplications, Applications on IPv6
New Applications:
Synergy, Outreach, Policy supportSupport Actions, Design Studies:
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Virtual LabsUser Communities
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EUFORIA, ETSF, ITHANET, neuGRID,BioInfoGrid, IMPACT, PESI, D4Science, eNMR, CYCLOPS, EuroVODCA, EuroVOAIDA, EXPRES, DEGREE, DORII, GENESI
DR, NMDB, METAFOR, Chemomentum,SIMDAT, Go4IT
New Applications:
Support Actions, Design Studies:BELIEFII, eIRGSP2
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Calls in FP7
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Network layer
Middleware layer
Data layer
eInfrastructure Call 1 (May 2007, €58m)
Virtual LabsUser Communities
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Deployment ofeInfrastructure
for scientificcommunities
Scientific DigitalRepositories
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Network layer
Middleware layer
Data layer
eInfrastructure Call 2 (Sep 2007, €64m)
Virtual LabsUser Communities
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eScience gridInfrastructure
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Network layer
Middleware layer
Data layer
eInfrastructure Call 4 CURRENT CALL! (Sep 2008, €113m)
Virtual LabsUser Communities
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Scientific DataInfrastructure
GÉANT
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Network layer
Middleware layer
Data layer
eInfrastructure Call 4 CURRENT CALL! (Sep 2008, €113m)
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Scientific DataInfrastructure
GÉANT
Deployment of a broad European multidisciplinary scientific datainfrastructure able to be easily federated with other knowledgeinfrastructures in other parts of the world, building upon the
achievements of network and grid infrastructures and opening itsbenefits to other potential research areas such as ehealth, elearning
and others
Further deployment and evolutionof the panEuropean high
capacity and highperformancecommunication network
(GÉANT), in close articulationwith the (NRENs), building upon
the current world leadershipand addressing the ever growing
requirements of advancedscientific communities
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Network layer
Middleware layer
Data layer
eInfrastructure Call 5 DRAFT! –(Mar 2009, €8m)
Virtual LabsUser Communities
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Scientific InfoRepository
for FP7
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Network layer
Middleware layer
Data layer
eInfrastructure Call 5 DRAFT! –(Mar 2009, €8m)
Virtual LabsUser Communities
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Scientific InfoRepository
for FP7
Establishment and operation of atechnical infrastructure ofdigital repositories, with
European footprint, to depositand access scientific articles
produced in the context of theFP7 Research, Technological
development andDemonstration activities, as well
as those of the EuropeanResearch Council (ERC)
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Promotion of international interoperation between the eInfrastructureand similar infrastructures from other regions (e.g. USA, China, India,
Mediterranean etc) with the aim of reinforcing the global relevanceand impact of European eInfrastructures
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further information
www.cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/einfrastructure/
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(Sommerfeld model,1900,
Electrons in a metal)
ClosureExploitability model of R&D, role of RI
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R&D Results
: Number of R&D results
: Energy
: Potential barrier
: Reduction of Potential Barrier
Venture capital
Tax incentives
Reinforcing,catalytic role of RI
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Slide courtesy: Dr. Spyros Konidaris (talk on Innovation and relation to R&D)
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Thank you!