1. www.egi.euEGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 www.egi.eu EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 Astronomy and Astrophysics Dr. Giuliano Taffoni Dr. Claudio Vuerli

2. www.egi.euEGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 A&A Community Study the physics of the Universe; Observation and simulations; Heterogeneous, distributed, wide community Computing (HTC but also HPC) Demanding in terms of data

3. www.egi.euEGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 A&A Challenges A&A infrastructures –Virtual Observatory: Astronomical data and service infrastructure –Project-oriented / community-oriented federations Integrating infrastructures Smart technologies: hide complexity of the infrastructures and allow end users to focus on scientific aspects eScience approach Data sharing, federated (virtual) research environments and computational resources

4. www.egi.euEGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 The State of the art MAGIC and Planck experiments The A&A VOs (10 with about 500 users) A light weight coordination The A&A Heavy User Community Partnership in EGI-InSPIRE to develop and maintain services and tools (WP SA3, Task 5) and prepare their long term sustainability –Visualization tools –Interoperability of different DCIs –Interoperability of DCIs and DDIs

5. www.egi.euEGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 The role of EGI for A&A Interoperability Technology Support High level services Resources Networking EGI

6. www.egi.euEGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 The Fall-Out Science gateways as a framework to integrate Applications and services for A&A (8 SGW) –SCI-BUS / Science Gateways –ER-flow / User Communities Applications –AstroGrid-PL: InSilicoLab for Astrophysics Benefits for the big (ESFRI) A&A Projects –CTA / Virtual Team / focus on SSO and Science Gateways for Cherenkov Telescope Array Trans-national federations and initiatives –STARnet / Trans-national Federation of thematic astronomical Science Gateways Interoperability between eInfrastructures: EuroVO data and services cloud.

7. www.egi.euEGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 The EGI HUB EGI CTA SCI-BUS ER-Flow A&A experiments StarNET

8. www.egi.euEGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 On going activities CTA portal: prototype by Cyfronet and INAF SKA pathfinder: Evolutionary Map of the Universe a deep survey of the sky (10mJy/beam) to be carried out at 1.4 GHz with the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP). STARnet Federation A&A services: e.g. AstroGrid-PL or BaSTI Engagement of A&A Data Centers: science gateways for data services Interoperability with International Virtual Observatory: –Canadian Data Center federated Cloud for Astronomy –IVOA Grid and Web Services working group Astro-WG and Astro-CG in OGF –Astro-CG as an international forum where the astro communities and projects Meet and bring their experiences and advances Learn about technology advances –Liaison with the Virtual Observatory

9. www.egi.euEGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 Closing activities Planck ESA satellite mission: measure the CMB. The workflows are used to develop a web application of the Planck simulation software based on SSP. Execute large number of simulations (parameter-sweep) Estimate the Cosmological Parameters correcting instrumental and observational systematics. Planck VO: ~50 users, ~ 20000 Cores, 15TB

10. www.egi.euEGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 A&A in 2015 and beyond In the last year there was an increase of 20% of users in A&A VOs Dedicated computing and storage will increase in 2015 (800 cores and 100TB storage, cloud, national funding) Provide an integrated virtual research environment –solutions for data sharing, visual analytics, data mining and for supporting collaborations Integrated solutions for data and computing (EGI fed cloud and IVOA cloud)