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E-Infrastructures @ science

Tom Vissere-Science consultantSARAtom.visser@sara.nl

Today

##ContextResearch

Who is SARA

Who am I

What is BiG Grid

Why is BiG Grid##Funding structures

National

International

Partnerships

##Us @ work

## Problems and challenges

SARA

Since 1971

Supporting research

Providing servicesNetwork,

HTC computing

HPC computing

Data-services & mass storage

Support and development; optimization, projects-support.

Being a partner

Huygens National Super IBM Power 6, 3328 cores, 15.25 TB of memory, 700 TB of disk space, 60 TFlop/s

LISA National Compute Cluster Dell cluster 4480 cores, 12 TB of memory, 20 TFlop/s

Grid Rerouces 2376 Cores, 3408 TB of disk, 2000 TB tape 12 BioInfo Sites Life Science Grid High Energy Physics, Astronomy, Bio Info Visualization

Tiled Panel Display Remote Visualization

NetworkSURFnet 6AMSixNetherlight

Innovative Infrastructures Cloud GPU Hadoop Beehub

About ME

MA Social Informatics @ UvA

Online scientific Collaboration in european project

2 years IBED

3 years @ SARA working for BiG Grid projectE-science and cloud services

Guardian angel

Community communicator

Account management

(Inter)National scientific communities

BiG Grid project proposalBoth a problem and opportunity; combine data-set, colloborate on analysis, share the maintenance and curation best practices

We need; reliable archiving, secure and easy access, retrieval facilities (discovery / search), communication about the data (now you access it)

BiG Grid project

NIKHEF, NCF, NBIC

Providing a world class e-science infrastructure

Part of the larger european grid

> 6000 compute cores

> 10 PB disk

Tape storage

Support and development

E-Infrastructure NL

WURLife Science Grid16 Grid cores18 TB diskRUNLife Science Grid32 Grid cores18 TB diskUMCGLife Science Grid32 Grid cores18 TB diskKeygeneLife Science Grid32 Grid cores18 TB diskErasmus MCLife Science Grid32 Grid cores18 TB diskLUMCLife Science Grid32 Grid cores18 TB diskUULife Science Grid32 Grid cores18 TB diskSARACentral Facillity2400 cores3450 TB disk4000 TB tape128 Cloud coresNikhefCentral Facillity2500 Grid cores1350 TB diskPhilips Research Central Facillity1648 Grid cores20 TB diskRUGCentral Facillity294 Grid cores34 TB diskAMCLife Science Grid32 Grid cores18 TB diskNKILife Science Grid32 Grid cores18 TB diskSARAHuygens SuperLisa ClusterVisualizationHadoopTUDLife Science Grid32 Grid cores18 TB disk

Data explosion

BiG Grid project proposalBoth a problem and opportunity; combine data-set, colloborate on analysis, share the maintenance and curation best practices

We need; reliable archiving, secure and easy access, retrieval facilities (discovery / search), communication about the data (now you access it)

e-science

1999 term

computation

collaboration

lots of data

Shift of paradigm

Google paper:The unreasonable effectiveness of data

Funding

It's all about the money?

NationalFES

OCW (NWO)

ELI

European, big ESFRI programmes

Companies

Us @ work

Data ingest service (sneakernet)

Harddrives coming from Hong Kong (BGI)

Are you serious?

Fast network; end-to-end

Backpack with drives

Couriers with drives

Set up experimental ingest

March 2012 in production

From problem to result

Definition of own role & contribution

Realistic objectives

Trustworthy knowledgeable partnerAdapting to pace and needs of scientific project

Education

Support

Development

Funding dedicated programmers

Experimental technologies

Keeping it all operational

Types of problems

Data intensive information intensive

Memory; IO; data-locality

Easy scalable complex integrated pipelines

Legacy; you never start from scratch

Licensing / privacy

Local policies

Who decides

EbioGrid platform

Create a national support basis for e-BioScience to both expert bioinformaticians and expert life scientists.

Exploit BIG Grid infrastructure in the life science R&D

Create functional Problem Solving Environments (PSEs) for the selected technology areas that deal with high demand in computing resources

Connect with the NBIC-BioAssist and BiG Grid programs.

e-BioScience

Life Science Research

ResearchSupport

BioAssist Engineering Team

Genomics

Bio-interpret.

Biobanking

Proteomics

Short cooperative projects

Task force

Tools

TA project

PSEs

NGS

MAS

MAT

NCS

BBC

BiG Grid

BioAssist

Support &Development Team

OperationsTeam

Cooperative projects

Analysis, design & implementationof software environment

Infrastructure

Installation and running of thecompute and storage systems

e-Core

e-BioGrid

Bioinformaticstools oriented

ICT Infrastructureoriented

Problems and challenges

Inspire and motivate

Keeping all stakeholders happyInfrastructure needs money

Funding implies overhead

Can't do everything, making choices

Sain development

Invisibility of infrastructure

Collaboration can bite individual excellence

Loose coupling or tight integration

Keeping up with fast changes

Conclusion

We have a collaborative challenge

NL/EU is very well positionedGreat potential of the network

Governments recognize importance

Keeping up with fast technology changes

Trans-disciplinarity and integration are key

Strong community is keyKnowledge, skills and technology

Will e-science become science again?

References / credits

http://www.biggrid.nl

http://www.e-biogrid.nl

http://www.sara.nl

http://www.nwo.nl

BBMRI image NY times: http://goo.gl/I130Q

http://www.bbmri.nl

http://www.egi.eu

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