European Perspective on Distributed Computing Luis C. Busquets Pérez European Commission - DG CONNECT eInfrastructures 17 September 2013

Robert Schumann Declaration 9 May 1950 Salon de l'Horloge Paris

The European Union today 28 Member States citizens km 2 The € € The Galileo World-class RI Brussels

Industrial & Engineering Weather, Climate & Earth Sciences Fundamental sciences: Physics, Chemistry, Material Sciences, Astrophysics Bio/Life Sciences New applications e.g. Health, Big data

Distributed Computing projects

Distributed Computing in FP7 calls CallzTotal FundingTotal Costs FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES ,3% FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES ,9% FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES ,7% FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES ,4% FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES ,2% FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES ,0% Grand Total %

Research Infrastructures in Horizon 2020

Scientific facilities, research communities Linking at the speed of the light Sharing computers, software and instruments Sharing and federating scientific data e-Infrastructures Vision: to make every researcher digital, through the development and deployment of e- infrastructures – achieve the digital ERA

…in order to make every European researcher digital

network infrastructure, GÉANT distributed computing/software infrastructure scientific data infrastructure e-infrastructure: bridging islands bridges

Retained IP proposals: DEEP-ER – Addresses system resilience and the gap in I/O bandwidth and compute speed (Builds on DEEP) Mont-Blanc 2 – Deployment of small clusters based on ARM with 64-bit support (Builds on Mont-Blanc) Retained STREP proposals EXA2CT - revolutionary approach to exa-scale solvers and programming models EPiGRAM - efficient communication libraries/layers for scaling to millions of cores/processing elements NUMEXAS - next generation of numerical methods to be run under exa-scale computing architectures ICT Call 10: Topic 12.1 Exa-scale

New research methods Big data management and analysis Simulations, remote instrumentation Open access to research OA to publications and underlying data Transparency of research processes Collaboration in research Data sharing based collaboration Crowdsourcing, social media in research Engagement of society Engaging citizens into scientific processes Society included in scientific discussions New disciplines, new research topics Transparent replicable research Democratization of research Symbiosis of science, society and policy

Future actions on e-Infrastructures  HORIZON 2020 Main action  WP on European Research Infrastructures E-infrastructures topics  unit mission Expected Budget under discussion Meeting with Member States: 2 October 2013

RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE Draft Work Programme CALL 1 Developing new world class infrastructures CALL 2 Integrating and opening research infrastructures of pan-European interest CALL 3 e-Infrastructures CALL 4 Innovation potential of research infrastructures and human resources CALL 5 Policy measures and international cooperation for research infarstructures Design Studies Support to Preparatory Phase of ESFRI projects + Support to the individual implementation and operation of ESFRI projects + Support to the implementation of cross- cutting infrastructure services and solutions for cluster of ESFRI and other rilevant Reserach Infrastructure initiatives in a given thematic area + Integrating and opening existing national and reagional research infrastructures of pan-Eutropean interest Managing, preserving and computing with big reserach data e-Infrastructures for Open Access + Towards global data e-infrastructures Research Data Alliance + Pan-European High Performance Computing infrastructure and services + Centres of Excellence for Computing applications Network of HPC Competence Centres for SMEs + Provision of core services across e-Infrastructures + Research and Education networking – GEANT + + e-Infrastructures for virtual research environments (VRE) + Innovation support measures Innovative procurement pilot action in the field of scientific instrumentation + Strengthening the human capital of research infrastructures + New professions and skills for e-Infarstructures + Policy measures for Research Infrastructures International Cooperation + Focus on e-Infrastructure policy development and international cooperation + Network of National Contact Points +

Draft WP2014: Managing, preserving and computing with big research data Target: Development and deployment of integrated, secure, permanent, on-demand service-driven and sustainable e-infrastructures for scientific computing and data. Activities: 1. Data e-infrastructures establishment 2. Data e-infrastructures quality assurance 3. Data e-infrastructures data management and curation tools 4. Large virtualisation for on-demand computing capacity 5. Computing platform to supply PaaS on different e-infrastructures 6. Supporting the evolution of the EGI 7. Prototypes for extremely large or highly heterogeneous data sets scaling to zetabytes and trillion of objects 8. Platform and infrastructure for mining text aggregated from different sources/publishers

Draft WP2014: Core services Kinds: Those that ensure interoperation Those that are needed across a broad range of e- infrastructures Examples: Digital Identifier e-infrastructure Identity federation Accounting services Main impact: Reduction of the duplication of efforts

Draft WP2014: e-Infrastructures for virtual research environments (VRE) Objective: Capacity building in interdisciplinary research through community-led development and deployment of service-driven digital environments for large-scale multidisciplinary research collaboration. Scope: -Integrate resources across all layers of the e-infrastructure (networking, computing, data, software, user interfaces) and foster cross-disciplinary data interoperability -Build on requirements from real use cases ie.: integrate heterogeneous data from multiple resources and re-use tools and services from existing infrastructures. -Targeting one or more areas of Science and Technology, including Social Sciences and Humanities.

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