Europe and its Open Science Cloud:the Italian perspective

Luciano Gaido (gaido@to.infn.it)

Plan-E meeting, Poznan, April 27 2017

Background

Italy has a long-standing expertise and experience in the management of different types of e-infrastructures, dealingwith:

• Network

• High Throughput Computing (HTC)

• High Performance Computing (HPC)

• Distributed data

This has been carried out in the frame of various national, European and International projects and initiatives.

The main actors are CINECA, GARR and INFN but a number of other national research institutions are involved as well.

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The GARR network

• More that 15.000 km of GARR owned fibers

– ~9.000 Km of backbone

– ~6.000 Km of access links

• About 1000 user sites interconnected

• > 1 Tbps aggregated access capacity

• > 2 Tbps total backbone capacity

• 2x100 Gbps IP capacity to GÉANT

• Cross border fibers with ARNES (Slovenia), SWITCH (Switzerland).

• > 100 Gbps to General Internet and Internet Exchanges in Italy

• NOC and engineering are in-house, in Rome.

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HPC: CINECA

HTC: INFN, RECAS, ENEA, GARR, etc.

All sites connected to the GARR network with optical fibres and multiple 10 Gb links.

DATA, HPC & HTC Centres

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5 Sites for a totalof 8448 virtual

CPU and 10 PB di STORAGE

ICT & Cloud Infrastructure @ GARR

FederatedCloud

OpenStackbased

Computing & Data infrastructure @ INFN (+ReCaS)

PADOVA/LEGNAROTot Cores: 5200 (55 kHS06)Disk Space: 3000 TBNetw connectivity: 20 Gb/s

CNAF/BOLOGNATot Cores: 21250 (221 kHS06)Disk Space: 22765 TBTape Space: 42000 TB Netw connectivity: 80 Gb/s

TORINOTot Cores: 2500 (27 kHS06)Disk Space: 2500 TBNetw connectivity: 10 Gb/s

MILANOTot Cores: 2448 (23 kHS06)Disk Space: 1850 TBNetw connectivity: 10 Gb/s

PISATot Cores: 12000 (125 kHS06)Disk Space: 2000 TBNetw connectivity: 20 Gb/s

FRASCATITot Cores: 2000 (20 kHS06)Disk Space: 1350 TBNetw connectivity: 10 Gb/s

ROMATot Cores: 3172 (32 kHS06)Disk Space: 2160 TBNetw connectivity: 10 Gb/s

NAPOLI (INFN and UNINA)Tot Cores: 8440 (69 kHS06)Disk Space: 2805 TBNetw connectivity: 20 Gb/s

BARI (INFN and UNIBA)Tot Cores: 13000 (130 kHS06)Disk Space: 5000 TBNetw connectivity: 20 Gb/s

CATANIATot Cores: 3000 (30 kHS06)Disk Space: 1500 TBNetw connectivity: 20 Gb/s

COSENZATot Cores: 3500 (35 kHS06)Disk Space: 900 TBNetw connectivity: 10 Gb/s

Resources, Research and Projects @ INFN

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• Support to physics:

• LHC (ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, LHCb)

• AMS, BELLE II, KM3NET, OPERA

• ICARUS, VIRGO, ARGO, MAGIC

• Borexino, Xenon100 and more….

INFN Computing and Data infrastructureTotal cores: 76500 (765 kHS06)Disk Space: 46 PBTape Space: 42 PB

Main INFN projects related to Computing:• INDIGO-DataCloud• EGI-Engage• HNSCICloud• Open City Platform (OCP)

• PRISMA• ExaNeST

Current projects and synergies/1

Italy positioning in the leading edge projects and activities at European and International level:

- PRACE:- Building a world-class pan-European High

Performance Computing (HPC) Service

- CINECA is the Italian partner, hosting the a Tier-0 center

- EUDAT2020 (H2020 EINFRA-2014-1 call): - Sharing and preserving data across borders and

disciplines

- CINECA and INGV are the Italian partners

- WLCG/EGI infrastructures:- INFN is one of the main providers of data and

computing resources for Grid and Cloud (EGI FedCloud) infrastructures

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Current projects and synergies/2

- EGI_Engage (H2020 EINFRA-2014-1 call): - Accelerate the implementation of the Open Science

Commons by expanding the capabilities of a European backbone of federated services for compute, storage, data, communication, knowledge and expertise, complementing community-specific capabilities

- INFN is one of the main contributors and leads a Joint Research Unit (with INAF and INGV); CNR is also contributing

- OpenAIRE2020 (H2020 EINFRA-2014-1 call):- promote open scholarship and substantially improve

discoverability and reusability of research publications and data

- CNR and CINECA are the Italian partners

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Current projects and synergies/3

- INDIGO-DataCloud

(H2020 EINFRA-2014-1 call):- aims at developing a data and computing platform to fill the existing gaps

in PaaS and SaaS services, deployable on multiple hardware and provisioned over hybrid (private or public) e-infrastructures.

- INFN is the project coordinator; many Italian partners are involved: CNR, INAF, INGV, Reply, CIRMMP, CMCC, ICCU

- IPCEI-HPC-BDA (Important Project of Common European Interest on HPC and Big Data Enabled Applications):- Ensure a European industrial sovereignty on key HPC technologies

(necessary in terms of safety and security);

- Support the development of new usages of HPC by the industry;

- Grant access to world-class HPC facilities for public and private research.

- CNR, CINECA, ENEA, GARR and INFN are the Italian partners

- And many other projects......10

Towards the EOSC/1

- EOSCpilot project (H2020 INFRADEV-04-2016 call):- a first step towards the development of the

European Open Science Cloud

- main goals:

- design and trial a stakeholder-driven governance framework;

- develop demonstrators of integrated services and infrastructures in a number of scientific domains, showcasing interoperability and its benefits

- CNR and INFN are actively participating. INFN coordinates the interoperability pilots task.

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Towards the EOSC/2

- EOSC-hub proposal (H2020 EINFRA-12-2017):- Joint EGI, EUDAT and INDIGO-DataCloud proposal

- Main goals:

- consolidate digital infrastructures by expanding capacities and capabilities, improving discoverability, access, interoperability and sharing, across research communities and countries

- Extend access to integrated compute, storage, data and software to new user groups including high-education and industry, increase the user base

- Aims at providing the first EOSC implementation, through the EOSC-hub service catalogue

- INFN is the second main partner; CINECA, CIRMMP, CMCC, CNR and INGV are participating

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Plans at national level/1

- The successful collaboration among the Italian main actors, in the framework of both national and European projects, led to the creation of the Italian Grid Infrastructure

- The is no national Cloud infrastructure, yet

- However almost all research institutions are involved in projects related to Cloud or have built/are building their own Cloud infrastructure

- The National Programme for the Research Infrastructures (PNIR) for 2014-2020 has selected 56 Research Infrastructures (out of 97) to be sustained by various national funding streams, which should be complemented by European funds

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Plans at national level/2

- The goal is to build a federated and interoperable Cloud national infrastructure based on:

- the available tools (developed by INDIGO-Datacloud and other projects)

- the existing collaboration and synergies among the main Italian Research Institutions and Agencies

- This is for the benefit of the Italian Research Communities (ranging from well structured ones up to the Long Tail of Science) and of their participation to International projects and initiatives (incuding ESFRIs)

- It will also be an important contribution to the shaping of the European Open Science Cloud

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