e-infrastructures as a key enabler for virtual research communities
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Pesentation given at DECIDE project Launch EventTRANSCRIPT
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e-Infrastructures as a key enabler for virtual research communities
DECIDE Public Launch Event and KoM
Rome, 23 September 2010
Carmela ASEROEuropean Commission - DG INFSO
GÉANT & e-Infrastructure Unit
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EGEE Grid attacks Avian Flu
During April 2006, a collaboration of Asian and EU laboratories has analysed 300,000 possible drug components against the
avian flu virus H5N1 using the EGEE Grid infrastructure (for thedocking of 300,000 compounds against 8 different target
structures of Influenza A neuraminidases, 2000 computers were used during 4 weeks – the equivalent of 100 years on a single
computer)
N1H5
Credit: Y-T Wu
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e-Infrastructures: fundamental aspect of all Roadmap RI..
Three groups of facilities distinguished: • Those which fundamentally are e-Infrastructure -
based (e.g. all Social Sciences & Humanities, ELIXIR, EPOS) - therefore e-Infrastructure aspects key to address
• Distributed facilities, which need e-Infrastructures to work (e.g. interlink their parts)
• Those for which e-Infrastructures will be important at least for data acquisition, processing & distribution to users
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BIOBANKS-BBMRI
INFRAFRONTIER
EBI-ELIXIREATRIS
INSTRUCT
EMBRC
EU-Openscreen
ECRIN
Euro-Bio-imagingRoadmap 2008
10 ProjectsBLS4
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Update on e-Infrastructures:- overview, evolution in FP6, FP7
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network infrastructure (GÉANT)
computing infrastructure (EGI, PRACE/DEISA)
scientific data infrastructure
biology data
astronomy data
clinical data
LHCdata
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Virtual research communities
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network infrastructure (GÉANT)
computing infrastructure (EGI, PRACE/DEISA)
scientific data infrastructure
biology data
astronomy data
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Virtual research communitiesGEANT Pan-European coverage
(40+ countries /3900 universities / 30+ million students)
Hybrid architecture:
connectivity at 10 Gb/s(aggregated traffic)
dark fiber wavelengths(demanding communities)
International links
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network infrastructure (GÉANT)
computing infrastructure (EGI, PRACE/DEISA)
scientific data infrastructure
biology data
astronomy data
clinical data
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Virtual research communitiesEGI: 10000 users
243020 LCPUs (cores)
40Pb disk, 39Pb tape
15 million jobs/month
317 sites
52 countries
175 VOs, 29 active VOs
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network infrastructure (GÉANT)
computing infrastructure (EGI, PRACE/DEISA)
scientific data infrastructure
biology data
astronomy data
clinical data
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DEISA: 1PFlop aggregated peak performance
11 sites/7 countries connected at 10Gbit/s
Workflow applications with grid-technologies
Global data management system
Extreme Computing Initiative
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network infrastructure (GÉANT)
computing infrastructure (EGI, PRACE/DEISA)
scientific data infrastructure
biology data
astronomy data
clinical data
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PRACE: European PFlop machines
Ecosystem of HPC resources
Partnership of 20 EU countries
First Access Call released (open to all scientists)
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Capacities
4.1 b€
JRC
1.75 b€
Ideas
7.5 b€
Euratom
4.1 b€
People
4.75 b€
Cooperation
32.4 b€
e-Infrastructures0.6 b€
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Update on e-Infrastructures:- snapshot of work on BMS
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Medical research related project
Transatlantic cooperation toward one unique worldwide facility for studies of neurodegenerative diseases.
e-Infrastructure-based global virtual research community for structural biology in the life sciences
Building upon neuGRID and GÉANT for extraction of diagnostic markers for Alzheimer’s disease and schizophrenia
Grid for European neuroscientists working in the field of imaging of Alzheimer’s disease
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Improve protein annotation viacoordination & integration of databases; data faster to public
Enhance building the Catalogue of Life (taxonomy of world’s plants, animals, fungi, microbes..)
Deploy grids for faster and better bio-NMR data analysis
Deploy e-Infrastructure services to enhance functionality & use of EuropeanTheoretical Spectroscopy Facility
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Update on e-Infrastructures:- next plans
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Three vectors of a renewed European strategy:
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e-Infrastructure
Europe as hub of excellence in
e-Science
Sustainable and continuous servicesof production quality
24/7
Innovation by exploiting know-how
beyond science (public services,
large scale experimentation,…)
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• Addressing the data deluge, heterogeneity
• Integrated e-Science environments
• Strengthen service and user orientation
• Some key users: ESFRI-roadmap projects, Future Internet experimentation platform, public services (eHealth etc)
• Open to innovation, new concepts (from grids to clouds etc..)
• Reflect on governance, ensure sustainability
GEANT, EGI, PRACE,…
• Global dimension
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Simulation software & services layer
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Computing layer: Distributed Computing & PRACE
PRACE €20M
eScienceEnvironment
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Looking ahead:new political landscape
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An overarching policy framework that aims at delivering sustainable economic and
social benefits from a digital single market based on fast and ultra fast Internet and
interoperable applications
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/digital-agenda/documents/digital-agenda-communication-en.pdf
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1. Fragmented digital markets2. Lack of interoperability3. Rising cybercrime and risk of low trust in
networks4. Lack of investment in networks5. Insufficient research and innovation efforts6. Lack of digital literacy and skills7. Missed opportunities in addressing societal
challenges
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Action under Research & Innovation:
“ensure sufficient financial support to joint ICT RI and innovation clusters,
develop further e-Infrastructures and establish EU strategy for cloud
computing, notably for government and science”
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e-Health in DAEThe Commission will work with Member States competent authorities and all interested stakeholders to:
• Key Action 13: Undertake pilot actions to equip Europeans with secure online access to their medical health data by 2015 and to achieve by 2020 widespread deployment of telemedicine services;
• Key Action 14: Propose a recommendation defining a minimum common set of patient data for interoperability of patient records to be accessed or exchanged electronically across Member States by 2012 in line with data protection requirements.
Other actions:• Foster EU-wide standards, interoperability testing and
certification of eHealth systems by 2015 through stakeholder dialogue;
• Reinforce the AmbientAssisted Living (AAL) Joint Programmeto allow older people and persons with disabilities to live independently and be active in society.
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• Grand challenges (like Health) calling for new orientations of our research policies if we want to sustain our living standards & world position
• RI are playing a central role in supporting the knowledge triangle (research-education-innovation)
• Transition to e-Science (e-Infrastructure enabled) will accelerate over the next years
• A new Digital Agenda for Europe
www.cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/e-infrastructure/
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THANK YOU!