research infrastructures for e-science neil geddes e-science director, stfc
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Research Infrastructures for
e-ScienceNeil Geddes
e-Science Director, STFC
Overview
• A European vision for the future• European Research Area• European Research Infrastructures• European e-Infrastructure
• Networking and HPC• EGI and NGI• Rest of the World• Summary and conclusions
Research Infrastructures and the European Research Area
• Lisbon 2000– "the most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy
in the world capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion, and respect for the environment by 2010“
– Europe has a long tradition of excellence in research and innovation;
– European teams continue to lead progress in many fields of science and technology;
– However our centres of excellence often fail to reach critical mass in the absence of adequate networking and cooperation;
– Need to bring resources together and build a research and innovation equivalent of the "common market".
ESFRI Roadmap• European Strategic Forum for Research Infrastructures
– develop the scientific integration of Europe and strengthen its international outreach
• Roadmap– identifies new Research Infrastructure (RI) of pan-European interest
corresponding to the long term needs of the European research communities, covering all scientific areas, regardless of possible location.
• Projects must be “open access” and genuinely Pan-European or Global
– next 10 to 20 years– different degrees of maturity – supported by a relevant European partnership or
intergovernmental research organisations.– enhancement of the European Research Area
ESFRI
Sweden + UK committed
Construction startedInternational treaty signed
Site selectedFunded 2009-15
E-Infrastructures
Common ESFRI Issues
– Access– Distributed activities– Data deluge
• Data processing• Data management• Data access
– Lack of understanding• Requirements• Opportunities
e-Infrastructure Reflection Group– Support the creation
framework for electronic resources across Europe. • Political, technological
and administrative• Cost effective, shared
– Particular attention is directed towards grid computing, storage, and networking• Supporting research
HPC
E-IRG Roadmap• 2005 and 2007• What is an e-Infrastructure? • Networking• Middleware• Authentication and authorisation • Resources
– Supercomputers, grids, storage …
• Data handling• Scientific collaboration• Working together with industry
Networking: GEANT
HPC: PrACEPreparatory Phase:• Principal Partners• France• Germany• The Netherlands• Spain• UK• General Partners• Austria• Finland• Greece• Italy• Norway• Poland• Portugal• Sweden• Switzerland• Additional General Partners • Bulgaria• Czech Republic• Cyprus• Ireland• Serbia• Turkey
3-5 systems
PRACE Creation in early 2010Interim Office in LisbonOpen competition for final SeatFirst machine likely to be German
Grid: EGI
EGI.eu Office in Amsterdam (March)Information catalogs, AAA, Metadata/data catalogs,File replication, file transferJob brokeringInterfaces and portals ...
UK NGI
NGS
Data:
Data:
Virtual Research Communities
INFRA-2010-1.2.3: Virtual Research Communities
• The main objective is to enable an ever increasing number of users from all science and engineering disciplines and beyond to access and effectively use e-Infrastructures in order to increase their participation in research of global relevance and/or to allow them to access and share facilities, instruments, software and data from wherever they are based [...] The deployment and further evolution of e-Infrastructures addressing the research infrastructures (and related scientific communities) of the ESFRI-roadmap is particularly encouraged.
– Deployment of e-Infrastructures in scientific communities... – Deployment of new types of e-infrastructure services and tools ...– Training in the use of advanced information and communication tools and virtual research
environments in order to enable researchers to use e-Infrastructures. – Addressing human, social and economic factors influencing the creation of sustainable
virtual research communities as well as the take up/maintenance of e-Infrastructure services by communities.
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
EGEE-III INFSO-RI-222667
Proposed next steps
• Use these contacts to build matrix for technical requirements & organisational aspects
Bob Jones - EGEE09 25
requirement CLARIN DARIAH/CESSDA
EISCAT3D
EPOS LIFEWATCH
ELIXIR XFEL CTA FAIR SKA
Singlesign-on
Persistent storage
Global
workflows
Virt Org
stds
UK e-Infrastructure
LHC
ISIS TS2
HPCx+ HECtoR
Usersget common access, tools, information, Nationally supported services, through NGS
Integratedinternationally
VRE, VLE, IE
Regional and Campus grids
Community Grids
HEIs
Summary• European Research Area driven by societal
needs and world leading research• ICT infrastructure services fully integrated
and central to enabling full exploitation and benefits from ERA infrastructures
• Standards based coordination and integration essential to supporting the required multi and inter-disciplinary challenges of the 21st century– Data, PrACE, EGI, NGI’s, GEANT ...