Co-ordination & Harmonisation of Advanced e-Infrastructures Research Infrastructures – Grant Agreement n Infrastrutture di Calcolo Regionali, Stato e Prospettive Federico Ruggieri, INFN CCR INFN LNF, 25 Ottobre 2012

Outline  Regional e-Infrastructures  The CHAIN project  agINFRA Project  Digital Cultural Heritage  CHAIN-REDS  Conclusions 2

Why ? The e-Infrastructures promote the usage of network connectivity and stimulate scientific and technical development of countries contribute to fight the digital divide and brain drain. e-Infrastructures support wide geographically distributed communities enhance international collaboration of scientists promote collaboration in other fields. Grids and networks allow the access of many researchers to scientific resources (laboratories and data) Disparity can be reduced and larger participation and contributions to high quality research. 3

Regional Grid infrastructures CNGrid NKN & Garuda EUAsiaGrid SAGrid & SANREN GISELA 4

Operational Sites UoM CYNET TUBITAK ULAKBIM JUNET HIAST ERI EUN INFN RM3 NARSS 39 sites (30 in production) in 16 countries CERIST INFN LNS (UAE) In progress / Maintenance IUGAZA INFN BA OBSPM ANKABUT CCK INFN TS CNRST INFN PI SNS PISA IN2P3 LPSC IN2P3 IRES Univ.Bordeaux IN2P3 CPPM 5 ECTP GARR INFN CT COMETA Mediterranean Grid (EUMEDGRID) 5

Africa & Arabia Regional Operation Centre 6

China  HPC Systems  Two 100 Tflops  3 PFlops  Grid Software: CNGrid GOS  CNGrid Environment  14 sites  One OP Centers  Some domain app. Grids  Applications  Research  Resource & Environment  Manufacturing  Services  ChinaGrid for Education (Globus)  Sites with gLite/EMI (IHEP, PKU) in WLCG CNGrid 7

India National Knowledge Network  A state-of-the-art multi- gigabit pan-India network for providing a unified high speed network backbone for all knowledge related institutions in the country  An ultra-high speed CORE (multiples of 10 Gbps), with a distribution layer at speeds of 1 Gbps or higher. 8

GARUDA &  GARUDA is the Grid Computing initiative of the C-DAC to allow access for scientific and academic institutions to the aggregation of High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters from various C-DAC centres and partners, comprising now over 6000 CPUs (~ 70 teraflops) and terabytes of mass storage to provide distributed data.  The GARUDA Grid is now powered by the NKN - a highly reliable and secure national backbone. 9

Latin America  Red CLARA connects almost all the countries in Latin America and is managed by CLARA  CLARA is going to coordinate also the Regional Grid Infrastructure in LA 10

11 15 Countries (11 in Latin America) 19 Partners (14 in Latin America) 12 Third Parties (9 in Latin America) GISELA Project

CHAIN: global coverage 12

Project information  Grant Agreement for a total EC contribution of 1.1 M€  Total cost: about 1.9 M€  Start Date: 1st December Duration 24 Months  Partners: 1) INFN (Italy - Coordinator) 2) CESNET (Czech Rep.) 3) CIEMAT (Spain) 4) GRNET (Greece) 5) IHEP (China) 6) UBUNTUNET (Africa) 7) CLARA (Latin America) 8) PSA (India) 9) ASREN (Med./Middle East/Gulf) Since 1 August

Project objectives 14 Define a strategy and a model for external collaboration, in close collaboration with EGI.eu which will enable operational and organisation interfacing of EGI and external eInfrastructures Validate this model, as a proof-of-principle, by supporting the extension and consolidation of worldwide Virtual Research Communities Explore and propose concrete steps forward towards the coordination with other projects and initiatives (e.g. EGI.eu, NKN & Garuda, CNGrid etc.)

Knowledge base (WP2, WP5) 15

Country view 16

Worldwide Interoperability Demo 17

FP 7-INFRASTRUCTURES programme agINFRA The agINFRA project A data infrastructure to support agricultural scientific communities. Promoting data sharing and development of trust in agricultural sciences - RI – agINFRA will design and develop a scientific data infrastructure for agricultural sciences – agINFRA will deploy services that will promote sharing of data among agricultural scientist 18

FP 7-INFRASTRUCTURES programme agINFRA The project numbers 19 Project title: A data infrastructure to support agricultural scientific communities Promoting data sharing and development of trust in agricultural sciences Funded by: FP7 – Research Infrastructures, Capacities Programme Objective INFRA : Data infrastructures for e-Science Duration:36 months Starting15/10/2011 Ending14/10/2014 Overall budget € Community funding €

FP 7-INFRASTRUCTURES programme agINFRA The partners 20 University of Alcala (UAH) – Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) – National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) - Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft (SRFG) – Institute of Physics, Belgrade (IPB) Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (SZTAKI) – Agro-Know Technologies (AK) c Consultancy (21c) - Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) - The Open University (OU) - Indian Statistical Institute -

FP 7-INFRASTRUCTURES programme agINFRA 21

FP 7-INFRASTRUCTURES programme agINFRA Italian Soil Information System 22

FP 7-INFRASTRUCTURES programme agINFRA Prototype 23 Harvester ARIADNE Web Crawler NUTCH Keyphrase extraction KEA/MAUI Triple Store Metadata Catalog AMGA Vocabulary AGROVOC Web resources Web Services Translators Data Infrastructure

Digital Cultural Heritage Progetti DC-NET e INDICATE

DC-NET outcomes –A list of service priorities and best practices validated by representatives of the DCH sector and e-infrastructure providers –A Joint Activities Plan to support this implementation –A wide Network of Common Interest including experts from the humanities, ICT, e-infrastructures, memory institutions, programme managers –A set of Memorandum of Understanding and Cooperation Agreements to be exploited to continue the work beyond the EC funding period 25

Services priority ordering A prioritised list of the most immediately important services has been agreed: 1.Long-term preservation 2.Persistent identifiers 3.Interoperability and Aggregation 4.Advanced search 5.Data resource set-up 6.User authentication and access control 7.IPR and digital rights management

INDICATE expected outcomes 27 –Three concrete case studies on: Long term digital preservation, virtual exhibitions Geo-coded cultural content –Two Pilots on: semantic enrichment using cloud computing distributed cultural repositories using the grid –Strategies and future plans for the continuation of the initiative

eCulture Science Gateway 28 easy-to-use web interface and single sign-on mechanism to access digital archives of Cultural Heritage based on the Liferay portlet to interface gLibrary (the framework developed by INFN and COMETA to create and manage digital repositories on the Grid) AAI supports Federations of Identity Providers enabled by Shibboleth configured as a Service Provider of IDEM and CARSI

DCH-RP Project Digital Cultural Heritage Roadmap for Preservation The main objective to be achieved by DCH-RP is to design a sound Roadmap for the implementation of an e-Infrastructure for preservation of DCH content, as part of a more general vision towards and Open Science Infrastructure for DCH in EC contribution € Started 1 October 2012

From CHAIN to CHAIN-REDS  A new project:  Co-ordination & Harmonisation of Advanced e- Infrastructures for Research and Education Data Sharing  Research Infrastructures – Support Action  Grant Agreement n  Total Costs of € 2.3 M  Max. EC contribution: € 1.52 M  Start date: 1 December 2012  Duration: 30 Months 30

CHAIN-REDS Objectives  Extend and consolidate international cooperation of Europe with other regions of the world in the domain of e-Infrastructures for Research and Education  Promote, coordinate and support the effort of a critical mass of non-European e- Infrastructures for R&E to collaborate with Europe addressing interoperability and interoperation of Grids and other DCIs  Study the opportunities of data sharing across different e-Infrastructures and continents widening the scope of the existing CHAIN Knowledge Base to Data Infrastructures and Cloud implementations  Promote trust building towards open Scientific Data infrastructures across the world regions, including organisational, operational and technical aspects  Demonstrate the relevance of intercontinental cooperation in several scientific data fields addressing existing and emerging VRCs and propose pragmatic approaches that could impact the everyday work of the single researcher, even if not structured in a VRC  Provide guidance and recommendations for roadmaps for long-term global collaboration in e-Infrastructures and harmonization of existing polices 31

Partners and roles 32  INFN (IT) – Coordinator  CIEMAT (ES) – WP4 Leader  GRNET (GR) – WP3 Leader  CESNET (CZ) – WP5 Leader  UBUNTUNET (MW) – Africa  CLARA (UR) – Latin America  IHEP (CN) – China  ASREN (DE) – Arab States  SIGMA-ORIONIS (FR) – WP2 Leader  [PSA (IN) – India]

Action lines 33 Intercontinental Collaboration DCI Provide ongoing support of the DCI road-map for intercontinental DCI collaboration, specified within the CHAIN project Regional Operation Centres ROC Support stability of existing and emerging Regional Operation Centres. Cooperate with other projects & initiatives (e.g. AfricaConnect, TEIN3) to support the development of eInfrastructures and key VRCs in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle-east For Research and Education Cloud Support for coordination of Cloud developments for Research & Education with other regions (e.g. China, India, Latin America) Infrastructures and Repositories Data Extend the CHAIN Knowledge Base with information on Data Infrastructures: collecting issues, best practices and identifying data repositories of direct interest for VRCs Support the study of data infrastructures for a target subset of VRCs (e.g. Climate Change, HEP-SuperB, Genomics, etc.) Science Gateways SG Promote the usage of Science Gateways as a means for attracting new communities and promote the use of eInfrastructures for every researcher Federations of Identity Providers IDF Foster the creation of Identity Federations in cooperation with Certification Authorities; promote and coordinate their usage. Support integration of different AA approaches

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Conclusioni  Il Progetto CHAIN ha raccolto l’eredità e le attività dei precedenti progetti regionali.  CHAIN ha fatto raccomandazioni riguardo le scelte tecniche e le strategie di sostenibilità delle Grid Infrastructures.  L’approccio basato sugli Science Gateways, promosso da CHAIN è stato adotattato da altri progetti: EUMEDGRID- Support, GISELA, INDICATE, DECIDE.  agINFRA sta sviluppando una infrastruttura a disposizione della ricerca in Agricoltura.  Il nuovo progetto CHAIN-REDS inizierà a Dicembre ed estenderà il lavoro di CHAIN alle Clouds e alle infrastrutture Dati. 35