WHAT SURF DOES FOR RESEARCH SURF’s Science Engagement TNC15 June 18, 2015 Sylvia Kuijpers (SURFnet)

SURFnet7: connection the institutions More than km dark fiber, to the institutions Congestion-free connectivity 1/10 Gbit/s IPv4 and IPv6 Unicast and multicast Lightpaths, 1/10/100 Gbit/s Cross Border Fibers, GEANT, NetherLight, AMS-IX, upstream

SURFnet’s connected institutions

Changing research environment

Enlighten Your Research

Happy Few or.. the SURF Value Chain # RESEARCHERS Appliances for the happy few Lot of support needed Tailor made implementations Long tail Generic/minimal Support Commodity

Happy Few or.. the SURF Value Chain # RESEARCHERS Appliances for the happy few Lot of support needed Tailor made implementations Blueprints & Good practices Training ICT staff Long tail Generic/minimal Support Commodity

Support4research Program Better facilitate data-intensive research and further integration of our national research infrastructure Collaboration of SURF operating companies and Dutch Research Institutions and NWO/ZonMw/etc. Better showcase and lower the threshold to (our) ICT solutions Train local ICT support staff

SURF Support4research Outreach Best Practices and documentation -Research service portfolio On-site events for ICT support staff and researchers Community engagement -ICT staff – researchers -ICT staff – ICT staff -Research SIGs Collaboration with national science funding agencies (ICT chapter in funding proposals) Support S4R training program Collaboration with local research (ICT) support teams Coordination between NREN, national supercomputer and eScience centers One address for questions and support for all national infrastructure

What SURF can do for Research

What are the questions of researchers? And what do the institutions want? ? LOG IN WITH MY INSTITUTIONAL ACCOUNT PERFORM MY CALCULATIONS IN 1 DAY INSTEAD OF 3 MONTHS PERFORM PARALLEL CALCULATIONS SECURELY STORE MY DATA OBTAIN MORE INSIGHT IN MY DATA, UNRAVEL COMPLEX PATTERNS LINK DIFFERENT DATA SOURCES TRANSFER MY DATA FAST AND SECURE TO COLLEAGUES ELSEWHERE

? LOG IN WITH MY INSTITUTIONAL ACCOUNT PERFORM MY CALCULATIONS IN 1 DAY INSTEAD OF 3 MONTHS PERFORM PARALLEL CALCULATIONS SECURELY STORE MY DATA OBTAIN MORE INSIGHT IN MY DATA, UNRAVEL COMPLEX PATTERNS LINK DIFFERENT DATA SOURCES TRANSFER MY DATA FAST AND SECURE TO COLLEAGUES ELSEWHERE COMPUTE ICT dept. ICT dept. What are the questions of researchers? And what do the institutions want?

The data life cycle giving access to data ingest, store, preserve, share data transfer data processing data visualize data integrate data

Mastering the data life cycle with SURF services giving access to data ingest, store, preserve, share data transfer data processing data visualize data integrate data Light Paths Bandwidth on Demand NetherLight Long/Short term, Disk/Tape Trusted Digital Repository Beehub/SURFdrive B2SAFE/B2SHARE/PID services (EUDAT) DANS/3TU datacentrum Communities eScience center: Integration support Remote clusters & GPU Collaboratorium Support Authentication Authorization (3rd party) collaboration tools Supers GRID HPC HADOOP Supporting the Research Data Life Cycle

SURF-research service portfolio Overview COMPUTE: high-end solutions 1000 times more powerful than your PC DATA SERVICES: easily accessible storage on disk or tape VISUALIZE: advanced solutions and support to create visualisations CONNECTIVITY: fast end-to-end connections tailored to your research needs COLLABORATION INFRA: single sign-on access to many services INTEGRATION SUPPORT: dedicated integration support by experienced scientists MARKET: reseller of content, cloud solutions, software and hardware (via partnershops)

Results to date SURF operating companies are committing Dutch Research Institutions want to collaborate with S4R Research collaborations are finding us for support -ALS project -O 2 building project -Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions -And more!

To summarize Offer an integrated solution Collaboration is key! Communicate; Make sure you understand the researcher’s problem, before you start with the implementation Get everyone around the table (and keep everyone around the table) Manage expectations Make clear what you want from the researchers

Forward looking goals for S4R Continue: Collaboration with SURF operating companies Collaboration with institutions (incl. institution visits) and research projects Collaboration with Dutch Research Funding Agencies Publish Best Practices on surf.nl/support4research Improve integration SURF-research service portfolio on (institution) websites SURF services for research workshop – September Improve S4R-training program

Future opportunities? Problems: scalability, continuity, sustainability, costs etc. Can we be more efficient by joining forces (globally)? Is Support4research Global a possibility (or is it a must)? -If yes, how should we go about this? What is needed? -NSF plus “European Science Foundation” plus other “NSF’s”? What do we need to be able to ask from our CEO’s to make this happen? -Time, money, support etc? Can we do this with only the NRENs? Or should we include our national HPC centers?

Future opportunities? What about setting up a mailing-list for science engagers of NRENs in the world? -What are your initiatives? What can we learn from you? What about making MOOCs together about what eInfrastructure can do for Science?

Thank you!Questions? Support4research: Enlighten Your Research Global Support4research: Enlighten Your Research Global