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[Empowering eScience across the Mediterranean]
EUMEDGRID Project Status
Roberto Barbera, Univ. of Catania and INFNEGAAP Meeting - CERN, 03.03.2006
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Outline
Objectives Partners Workplan Organization Status Conclusions & Outlook
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Objectives (1/2)
[O1] Stimulate the formation of National Grid Infrastructures (NGI) in the Mediterranean Countries, thus contributing to the creation of a “virtual Grid-based research space” (“horizontal action” of the project). It is expected that in the majority of the third countries a National Grid event will take place.
[O2] Promote awareness in the region regarding Grid developments through the organization of a number of dissemination and outreach events, which will promote the project results to the private and public sector, ultimately reaching the general public.
[O3] Establish a dialogue regarding policy developments for research and education networking and provide input to the agenda of national funding bodies and if possible governments. This is to be done as part of NGI establishment (O1) as well as in a form of dedicated policy workshop.
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Objectives (2/2) [O4] Capture local eScience user requirements in terms of resources needed, Grid services,
and application software. [O5] Provide guidelines and technical cookbooks to guide regional integration in the Euro-
Mediterranean infrastructures. [O6] Carry out the regional integration in the Euro-Mediterranean infrastructures by
supporting the establishment of pilot Grid resource centres at each country in the region. Adapt and implement the operational and organisational management techniques of the existing production Grids and bring the region up to speed with production-level operations. Pilot Grid Resource Centres are intended to be the major vehicle of this process, becoming the seeds of National Grid Infrastructures in the Mediterranean Countries.
[O7] Build upon and exploit the infrastructure provided by the Gigabit Pan-European Research & Education Network (GEANT) and the Mediterranean Research and Education Networking (EUMEDCONNECT) initiative in the region. The coordination of NGI into a Regional (Mediterranean) infrastructure will take advantage from the existing human network created within the EUMEDCONNNECT project; on the other hand, such human network will be a trigger towards the creation of a physical backbone connecting directly all EUMEDGRID actors, to maximize the effectiveness of the pilot grid infrastructure, which in a first phase will mainly build upon Gèant2 network and the EUMEDCONNECT links towards the Mediterranean
[O8] As a proof of principle, support the deployment of EGEE applications (High Energy Physics, BioMed) and other Grid applications of regional interest on the pilot infrastructure, with the involvement of local user community; actively encourage new user communities to join the EUMEDGRID community and deploy their own applications on the Pilot infrastructure.
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PartnersPartic.
Role*Partic.
No.Participant name
Participant short name
CountryDate enter
project **
Date exit projec
t **
CO 1 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare INFN Italy M1 M24
CR 2 European Organisation for Nuclear Research CERN Switzerland M1 M24
CR 3 Cyprus Research and Academic Network CYNET Cyprus M1 M24
CR 4 Delivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe
DANTE UK M1 M24
CR 5 Consortium GARR GARR Italy M1 M24
CR 6 Greek Research and Technology Network GRNET Greece M1 M24
CR 7 Entidad Pública Empresarial RED.ES RED.ES Spain M1 M24
CR 8 University of Malta UOM Malta M1 M24
CR 9 Centre de Recherche sur l’Iformation Scientifique et Technique CERIST Algeria M1 M24
CR 10 Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique CNRST Morocco M1 M24
CR 11 Egyptian Universities Network EUN Egypt M1 M24
CR 12 Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology
HIAST Syria M1 M24
CR 13 Ministry of Scientific Research, Technology and Competency Development
MSRTDC Tunisia M1 M24
CR 14 The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey TUBITAK Turkey M1 M24
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Third Parties
Third Party PartnerRelevant
WP’s
Università di Messina – Dipartimento di Matematica INFN WP4
Dipartimento di Fisica – Università di RomaTre INFN WP4, WP5
CRS4 GARR WP4
ICTP INFN WP4
IUCC (Inter University Computing Center) - ISRAEL GARR WP4, WP5
Laboratoire CRISTAL - Ecole Nationale des Sciences de l'Informatique
MRSTDC WP4, WP5
Research Unit of Technologies of Information and Communication – University of Tunis
MRSTDC WP4, WP5
Bilkent University TUBITAK WP4
JUNet, Jordan GRNET WP5
PADI2, Palestine GRNET WP5
Institute of Communication and Computer Systems, Athens, Greece
GRNET WP3
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Workplan
Work-package
No
Work-package title Lead contractor No
Person-months
Startmonth
Endmonth
WP1Project administrative and technical management
1 (INFN)37.4 (25.4)
M1 M24
WP2Requirement capture and analysis
8 (UoM)42
(36.4)M1 M7
WP3Pilot infrastructure operational support
6 (GRNET)144.9
(123.6)M6 M24
WP4 Applications support 1 (INFN)103.7 (82.5)
M6 M24
WP5Dissemination and Outreach
5 (GARR)152.6
(123.8)M1 M24
TOTAL480.6
(391.7)
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Commitment
37.4
25.4
4236.4
144.9
123.6
103.7
82.5
152.6
123.8
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
160
WP1 WP2 WP3 WP4 WP5
Funded
Unfunded
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Project management structure
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Project executives
Project Manager: Federico Ruggieri (INFN) Technical Manager: Roberto Barbera (Univ. of
Catania and INFN) WP2 Manager: Kevin Vella (UoM) WP3 Manager: Ognjen Prnjat (GRNET) WP4 Manager: Giuseppe Andronico (INFN) WP5 Manager: Federica Tanlongo (GARR)
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Work already done
WP1: Project Administrative and Technical Management
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The Project website(http://www.eumedgrid.org)
Both in English and French.
Soon in Arabic!
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Work already done
WP2: Requirements Capture and Analysis
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The EUMEDGRID Questionnaire
A questionnaire to gather information from partners has been finalized and is online at the URL:• https://secure.um.edu.mt/eumedgrid/questionnaire/
The survey closes on the 16th of March and the results will be available soon after.
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Work already done
WP3: Pilot Infrastructure Operational Support
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The EUMEDCONNECT Network
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The EUMEDGRID e-Infrastructure(from the Technical Annex)
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The EUMEDGRID e-Infrastructure(NOW! - from GridICE)
INFN-CT
INFN-RM3
GRNETINFN-CNAF
TUBITAK
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The EUMEDGRID GridICE(http://eumed-gridice.cnaf.infn.it:50080/g
ridice)
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The EUMEDGRID GStat and SFT(http://goc.grid.sinica.edu.tw/gstat/eumed/)
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Certification Authorities
INFN Certification Authority has accepted to act as a “catch-all” CA for the first months of the Project to ease and speed up the start-up of users.
4 out of 7 needed Registration Authorities have already been setup at:• CNRST, Morocco (Redouane Merrouch)• Research and Academic Network, Cyprus (Christos
Koutsioupis)• HIAST, Syria (Maher Suleiman)• RicerkaNet, Malta (Charles Mifsud, Simon Portelli )
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The “eumed” VOMS(https://voms2.cnaf.infn.it:8443/voms/eu
med/)
New registrations at: https://voms2.cnaf.infn.it:8443/voms/eumed/webui/request/user/create
Grid Acceptable User Policy already defined
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The User Support System(http://support.eumedgrid.org)
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Work already done
WP4: Application Support
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Grid Applications
Biomed applications (already EGEE pilot applications)
HEP applications (already EGEE pilot applications) New candidates:
• Earth science (hydrology, see presentation later)• e-Learning (multi-media content on-demand)
Others to be selected by WP2
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Aim: estimate sustainable extraction scheme - improve management
CODESA-3D: Density-dependent 3D coupled groundwater flow and transport simulations
Data requirement• Geology• Topography• Meteorology• Water extraction by the
farmer• Aquifer properties• Soil maps• Land use
6.60E+05 6.70E+05 6.80E+05
4.04E+06
4.05E+06
4.06E+06
4.07E+06
H [m.a.s.l]
1601208040201050
-2
N
One simulated map of water levels
Hydrology
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Work already done
WP5: Dissemination and Outreach
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The first Project’s information
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•19 sites in 3 continents•> 3000 certificates issued, >15% renewed at least once•> 100 tutorials and demos perfor-med in 23 months•> 1,000,000 hits (> 50,000 unique visits) on (of) the web site from 10’s of different countries •> 0.6 TB of training material downloaded from the web site
The GILDA t-Infrastructure
(https://gilda.ct.infn.it)
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Preliminary time schedule of tutorials
Where When Who
Greece (Athens) 27-28 March 2006 SysAdmins
Turkey (Istanbul) 3-7 July 2006 SysAdmins and Users
Tunisia (Tunis) Autumn 2006 SysAdmins and Users
Algeria (Algiers) June 2007 Users
Israel (Tel Aviv) July 2007 Users
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Conclusions and Outlook
The progress made by EUMEDGRID since its beginning is very good and promising.
The kernel of the pilot infrastructure is already set up and will grow rapidly.
Some applications have already been defined and many more will come thanks to the survey done inside WP2.
So, more news very soon !