•••1European Commission ­ DG INFSOUnit “GÉANT and e­Infrastructures”

e­Infrastructures

fostering the building of Global

Virtual Research Communities

e­IRG Workshop

Zurich, 24­25 April 2008

Kyriakos BaxevanidisDeputy Head of Unit

European CommissionDG INFSO

kyriakos.baxevanidis@ec.europa.eu

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Political context

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EU Council Spring 2008 –economic outlook

Fundamentals of EU economy sound:public deficits more than halved since 2005public debt declined to just under 60%.Economic growth reached 2,9% in 2007 (but likely to be

lower this year)6,5 million jobs created in the last two years

However, global economic outlook deteriorated recently(slowdown economic activity in US, higher oil & commodityprices, ongoing turbulence on financial markets)

Essential for EU to sustain reform efforts:complete and deepen internal marketEconomic & financial policies to be geared towards ensuring

macro­economic stability; further improve supervisory &

regulatory environment at national, EU & global levelAddress challenges like ageing populations, climate change

and energy

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EU Council Spring 2008 ­ political agenda

Launching of 2008­2010 cycle of Lisbon Strategy for growthand jobs ­ four priority areas:

investing in people and modernising labour markets;unlocking business potential;investing in knowledge and innovation;energy and climate change

Focus on implementation measures on:“Fifth freedom”–removing barriers to free movement of

knowledgeSmall Business ActFlexicurity, lifelong learningClimate and energy: unbundling internal energy market,

greenhouse gas reductions, new emissions tradingscheme, renewable energies

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Science, Technology & Innovation system

In the long run,economicperformance ofcountries isstronglydetermined byknowledge­relatedfactors, inparticular, R&Dand technologicalinnovation…

Science Technology /Innovation

Industrystructure

Education/Training

Science­Technology­Industry

Human resources&Labour markets Financial system

Sustainablegrowth,competitiveness,and job­creation

RI

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References to RI/e­Infrastructure

EU Council, Spring 2008Scientific e­infrastructure and high­speed internet usage mustbe significantly increasedParticular attention should be given to further initiatives forjoint programming of research, mutually complementaryinternational S&T cooperation strategies and the strengtheningof research infrastructure of pan­European interest

EU Council, Dec 2007CALLS on Member States to engage more actively in theimplementation of pan­European research infrastructures

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References to RI/e­Infrastructure

EU Competitiveness Council, Nov 2007

INVITES Member States to encourage public and privateresearch institutions to make full use of the emergingdistributed forms of research activity (namely eScience) basedupon international research networks made possible by theavailability and world­class unique quality of distributedEuropean network infrastructures like GEANT and GRID

INVITES co­funding of research infrastructures, in particularby linking digital repositories at European level and co­fundingresearch on digital preservation within FP7; supportingexperiments with open access with a clear cross­border addedvalue

INVITES Member States, with support from the Commissionwhere appropriate, to develop and strengthen their nationalroadmaps and strategies on RI taking into account a long­termvision of European science and the work undertaken by theESFRI and considering, when appropriate, an efficient use ofthe structural funds to this objective

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e­Infrastructure ­Drivers and Vision

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Science in 21st century

Global challenges with high societal impact ­ importantrole of collaboration/globalisation in research

Data deluge…

Need of new scientific process ­ enabling role of technology

Cross­disciplinarity, distributed versus centralised,virtual­labs versus wet­labs

Building of global virtual research communities

networkinggridsinstrumentationcomputingdata curation…

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ResearchCommunity­2

Humaninteraction

Workspace

Labs

Scientific Data

Computing,Grid

Network

Global Virtual Research Communities

ResearchCommunity­1

Humaninteraction

Workspace

Labs

Scientific Data

Computing,Grid

Network

ResearchCommunity­3

Humaninteraction

Workspace

Labs

Scientific Data

Computing,Grid

Network

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VirtualCommunity

Humaninteraction

Workspace

Virtual Labs

Scientific Data

Grid

Network

Global Virtual Research Communities

VirtualCommunity

Humaninteraction

Workspace

Virtual Labs

Scientific Data

Grid

Network

VirtualCommunity

Humaninteraction

Workspace

Virtual Labs

Scientific Data

Grid

Network

Scientific Data

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ICT for Science: e­Infrastructures­ main concepts and principles ­

Linking at the speed of the lightLinking at the speed of the light

Sharing computers, instruments and applicationsSharing computers, instruments and applications

Sharing and federating scientific dataSharing and federating scientific data

. . . . . . .

Astrophysics

community

Connecting the finest mindsSharing and federating the best scientific resources

Building global virtual communities

Biomedics

community

WeatherForecast

community

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e­Infrastructures in FP7

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Framework Programme 7 (2007­13)

Capacities4097 M€

JRC1751 M€

Ideas7510 M€

Euratom4062 M€

People4750 M€

Cooperation32413 M€

Dev. of policiesINCO

Sciencein Society

Research Infrastructures42% ­ 1715 M€

SMEsResearch Potential

Regions of Knowledge

e­Infrastructures(ICT for Science)

572 M€

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Network layer

Middleware layer

Data layer

Virtual LabsUser Communities

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e­Infrastructure: main building blocks

Computing facilities

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Relevant policy bodies

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e­Infrastructure: evolving approach

FP7

FP5

GÉANT

2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

FP6

GÉANT2

Grid infrastructures

Supercomputer grid

New users

… upgrade

… upgrade

… reinforce

Repositories

Org, policy, intern

Data infrastruct.

… upgrade

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Examples of e­Infrastructureinitiatives

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GÉANT: connecting Europe

Pan­Europeancoverage(40+ countries /3900universities / 30+million students)

Hybrid architecture:

connectivity at 10Gb/s (aggregatedtraffic)

dark fiberwavelengths(demandingcommunities)

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GÉANT: global reach

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EGEE: large multi­science grids

>240 sites>37 000 CPUs, 15 Pbyte of storage~100 000 jobs successfully completed per day200 Virtual Organisations>2000 registered users, representing  1000s of scientists

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EGEE: promoting interoperability

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DEISA: virtual HPC services

11 sites in 7 countries connectedat 10 Gb/s

Over 22,000 CPUs sporting 200TFlop

Running larger parallelapplications in individual sites

Enabling workflow applicationswith grid technologies

Providing a global datamanagement service

Extreme Computing Initiative

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new “petaflop”supercomputers

Local

EU

PRACEpetaflop supercomputers

National

DEISAvirtual supercomputer

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new resource­provisioning model

Pool of

Grid­based

Resources

and Services

User

Service entry point for basicservices provided by a

national entity called NationalGrid Initiative (NGI)

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new resource­provisioning model

NGI­E NGI­I

NGI­Nordic States

NGI­DNGI­F

NGI­UKNGI­IRL

NGI­GR

NGI­P

NGI­CZNGI­A

NGI­NLNGI­PONGI­B

NGI­SK

Coordinatingentity (EGI)

Key elements of new scheme:One­stop­shop service (including training) to users whowant to access grid­based and data resourcesService provisioning beyond project cyclesMore efficient use of resources on the national/regionallevelBetter planning of new investments, economies of scale

EGI_DS (Design study)

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Project space

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Multidimensional evolution

e­Infrastructurecore

Policy Support Actions,Design Studies

New technology /services

New ApplicationsGeographicalextension ofcollaboration

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Eastern Europe, NIS, Caucasus,Baltic States, Mediterranean,

South­Eastern Europe,North & Latin America,

Asia (China, India, SE Asia etc),

Pan­European Research& Education Network,

Experimental facility for newInternet architectures & protocols

Network layer

Support Actions,Design Studies:

Geographicalextension:

End­to­End QoS,Wireless data Test­beds on GÉANT

New technology /services:

Synergy, Outreach,Policy support,

Deployment of IPv6,Virtual Conference Service

Coreprojects:

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GÉANT,FEDERICA

Support Actions,Design Studies:

OCCASION, Porta Optica Study,BSI, EUMedConnect, SEEREN­2

ALICE, AUGERACCESS,EVALSO,

TEIN2, EC­GIN, Orient, 6CHOICE

Geographicalextension:

Phosphorus, WEIRDNew technology /services:

BELIEF­II, e­IRGSP2,6DISS, 6DEPLOY,

GLOBAL

Network layer

Coreprojects:

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Eastern Europe, NIS,Baltic States, Mediterranean,

South­Eastern Europe,North & Latin America,

Asia (China, India. SE Asia etc)

Middleware layer

Support Actions,Design Studies:

Synergy, Outreach, Training,Policy support, Sustainable

service provisioning,Support to Standards

Geographicalextension:

Security, SW­interoperability,SW­test­facility, Interactive service,

workflow­centric service, quasi­supercomputing service, remote

instruments control, Desktop Grids

New technology /services:European Grid infrastructurefor support of the ERA,

Supercomputing Gridinfrastructure

Petaflop Supercomputingfacility

Coreprojects: Computing facilities

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EUMedGrid, SEEGRID­SCI,LinkSCEEM, BalticGrid­II, EELA­

2, EUChinaGrid, EC­GIN,EUIndiaGrid, EUAsiaGrid

Middleware layer

Support Actions,Design Studies:

BELIEF­II, GridTalk, ICEAGE,e­IRGSP2, EGI_DS,

OGF­EUROPE

Geographicalextension:

ISSeG, OMII­Europe, ETICS2,int.eu.grid, KnowARC,

Chemomentum, QosCosGrid,GridCC, RINGrid, EDGeS

New technology /services:EGEE­III, DEISA2,PRACE

Coreprojects: Computing facilities

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USA, Russia,NIS, Israel, South

Africa

Data layer

European Infrastructure ofDigital Repositories,

European Digital LibrariesService

Coreprojects, common technology /services:

Support Actions,Design Studies:Synergy, Outreach,

Policy support, Access torecords of Science

New Applications:Life sciences –Biology,

Astronomy, Earth sciences,Space, Climate

Geographicalextension:

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Data layer

DRIVER­II, D4Science

Coreprojects, generic technology /services:

Support Actions,Design Studies:BELIEF­II, e­IRGSP2,

PARSE.Insight

New Applications:IMPACT, EuroVO­AIDA,

GENESI­DR, NMDB,METAFOR

METAFOR,NMDB, IMPACT

Geographicalextension:

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Virtual LabsUser Communities

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Physics, Molecular, Chemical, Medical ­Clinical, Bioinformatics, Life sciences –

Biology, Fisheries, Civil protection,Astronomy, Environment, Earth

sciences, Space, Climate, Industrialapplications, Applications on IPv6

New Applications:

Synergy, Outreach, Policy supportSupport Actions, Design Studies:

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Virtual LabsUser Communities

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EUFORIA, ETSF, ITHANET, neuGRID,BioInfoGrid, IMPACT, PESI, D4Science, e­NMR, CYCLOPS, EuroVO­DCA, Euro­VO­AIDA, EXPRES, DEGREE, DORII, GENESI­

DR, NMDB, METAFOR, Chemomentum,SIMDAT, Go4IT

New Applications:

Support Actions, Design Studies:BELIEF­II, e­IRGSP2

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Calls in FP7

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Network layer

Middleware layer

Data layer

e­Infrastructure Call 1 (May 2007, €58m)

Virtual LabsUser Communities

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Deployment ofe­Infrastructure

for scientificcommunities

Scientific DigitalRepositories

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Network layer

Middleware layer

Data layer

e­Infrastructure Call 2 (Sep 2007, €64m)

Virtual LabsUser Communities

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e­Science gridInfrastructure

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Network layer

Middleware layer

Data layer

e­Infrastructure Call 4 ­ CURRENT CALL! ­(Sep 2008, €113m)

Virtual LabsUser Communities

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Scientific DataInfrastructure

GÉANT

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Network layer

Middleware layer

Data layer

e­Infrastructure Call 4 ­ CURRENT CALL! ­(Sep 2008, €113m)

Virtual LabsUser Communities

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Scientific DataInfrastructure

GÉANT

Deployment of a broad European multidisciplinary scientific datainfrastructure able to be easily federated with other knowledgeinfrastructures in other parts of the world, building upon the

achievements of network and grid infrastructures and opening itsbenefits to other potential research areas such as e­health, e­learning

and others

Further deployment and evolutionof the pan­European high­

capacity and high­performancecommunication network

(GÉANT), in close articulationwith the (NRENs), building upon

the current world leadershipand addressing the ever growing

requirements of advancedscientific communities

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Network layer

Middleware layer

Data layer

e­Infrastructure Call 5 ­ DRAFT! –(Mar 2009, €8m)

Virtual LabsUser Communities

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Scientific InfoRepository

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Network layer

Middleware layer

Data layer

e­Infrastructure Call 5 ­ DRAFT! –(Mar 2009, €8m)

Virtual LabsUser Communities

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Scientific InfoRepository

for FP7

Establishment and operation of atechnical infrastructure ofdigital repositories, with

European footprint, to depositand access scientific articles

produced in the context of theFP7 Research, Technological

development andDemonstration activities, as well

as those of the EuropeanResearch Council (ERC)

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Promotion of international interoperation between the e­Infrastructureand similar infrastructures from other regions (e.g. USA, China, India,

Mediterranean etc) with the aim of reinforcing the global relevanceand impact of European e­Infrastructures

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further information

www.cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/e­infrastructure/

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Electrons in a metal)

ClosureExploitability model of R&D, role of RI

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R&D Results

: Number of R&D results

: Energy

: Potential barrier

: Reduction of Potential Barrier

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­Tax incentives

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Slide courtesy: Dr. Spyros Konidaris (talk on Innovation and relation to R&D)

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Thank you!