enabling research without geographical boundaries via collaborative research infrastructures
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Sandra Gesing
Center for Research Compu6ng [email protected]
14 December 2016
Enabling Research without Geographical Boundaries via Collabora6ve Research
Infrastructures
State of the Art
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Data-‐ and compute-‐ intensive problems
Research Infrastructures
NO geographical boundaries
Geographical boundaries
State of the Art
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Increased complexity of • research
ques6ons • hardware • soLware • instruments • data volume • data formats
The need for end-‐to-‐end solu6ons for accessing data,
soLware, compu6ng services, and
equipment specific to the needs of a
science or engineering discipline
Science Gateways
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Increased complexity of • research
ques6ons • hardware • soLware • instruments • data volume • data formats
The need for end-‐to-‐end solu6ons for accessing data,
soLware, compu6ng services, and
equipment specific to the needs of a
science or engineering discipline
Science Gateways!
Science Gateways
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Early adopters
Publicity
Wider adop6on
Funding ends
Scien6sts disillusioned
New project
prototype
A typical life cycle of a science gateway if • funding runs out • PhD student has
finished PhD work • the person in charge
leaves the project
Science Gateways Community Ins6tute
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• Diverse exper6se on demand • Longer term support engagements • SoLware and visibility for gateways • Informa6on exchange in a community
environment • Student opportuni6es and more stable
career paths
hYp://sciencegateways.org/
Science Gateways Community Ins6tute
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• Get advice (sustainability, usability, cybersecurity, other) on your exis6ng gateway
• Work with SGCI to build a gateway for you • Find a working gateway or gateway
development soLware in the catalog • Learn how to set up a gateway group on
your campus • Keep up to date on gateway developments
• webinar series, gateways in the news, google scholar feed, case studies, annual conference, blog posts
• Enroll a student in an internship program to learn gateway development
• Partner with SGCI on your own projects, technologies and events hYp://sciencegateways.org/
ICSG
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Partners: Science Gateways Community Ins6tute (USA) NeCTAR (Australia) NESI (New Zealand) Sci-‐GaIA (Africa) Academia Sinica Grid Compu6ng Center (Taiwan) SoLware Sustainability Ins6tute (UK) VRE4E1C (Europe) IWSG (Europe) CANARIE (Canada) Research Data Canada (Canada) IEEE Technical Area on Science Gateways (Interna6onal)
The Interna6onal Coali6on on Science Gateways aims to provide an interna6onal forum for the science gateways community to: • Provide leadership on future direc6ons for
science gateways • Facilitate awareness and interna6onal,
regional and na6onal developments in science gateways
• Iden6fy and share best prac6ce in the field hYp://www.icsciencegateways.org/
RDA VRE IG
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Virtual Research Environment Interest Group
Increasingly researchers who are not co-‐located are seeking to work dynamically together at various scales from the local to the interna6onal. These researchers want to share data, models, workflows, best prac6ce etc. to address either local challenges which are also poten6ally of direct relevance to researchers in other geographical areas, or they have a shared interest in addressing a common issue such as the grand challenges currently being faced by society on a global scale e.g. climate change. … … bring together those ini6a6ves ac6vely developing VREs, virtual laboratories and science gateways, along with the representa6ves of the common infrastructure services and the researchers seeking to make use of these technologies in an effort to iden6fy the necessary technical aspects, governance issues and best prac6ce required to support a more coordinated approach to the development of VREs. hYps://www.rd-‐alliance.org/groups/vre-‐ig.html
VRE4EIC
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• Workshops • User surveys • Recommenda6ons on policies and technologies for research environments • Many partner projects…
ENVRIplus
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ENVRIplus is a Horizon 2020 project bringing together Environmental and Earth System Research Infrastructures, projects and networks together with technical specialist partners to create a more coherent, interdisciplinary and interoperable cluster of Environmental Research Infrastructures across Europe.
Recommenda6ons in report for the vision of a world-‐wide research infrastructure: 1. Improving interdisciplinary collabora6on 2. Leading the forma6on of a gloabal environmental sounding board 3. Combining both sta6s6cal and mathema6cal methods 4. Sharing computa6onally expensive results 5. Data-‐intensive Federa6on support 6. SoLware sustainability 7. Promo6ng ICT harmonisa6on 8. Decision making for ICT
Next Steps
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• Collabora6on, collabora6on, collabora6on… • The AGU Fall Mee6ng is a great example! • Working groups (a few examples in this presenta6on)
• Integra6on of instruments with research infrastructures
• Sustainable science gateways • Openly sharing of data • Advancing searchability of data
• Processing of data • Reports/recommenda6ons to RIs and funding bodies on policies
