This work has been funded by the EGEE project European Grid Initiative Towards a Sustainable Production Grid Infrastructure NGI Status Report Diana Cresti, INFN EGI Workshop Munich, February 2007

Munich, Feb 2007 EGI Workshop - NGI Status Report 2 Introduction Countries reported on the state of their NGI & views of an EGI NGI questionnaire conducted during summer 2006 These are preliminary findings, and cannot replace interactive exchange of information 30 countries replied; near unanimity on forming an EGI Full report is being published now: v3.doc

Munich, Feb 2007 EGI Workshop - NGI Status Report 3 The status of the NGI in each European country

Munich, Feb 2007 EGI Workshop - NGI Status Report 4 Current coverage Part A

Munich, Feb 2007 EGI Workshop - NGI Status Report 5 Is there an NGI in your Country? Part A Yes: 25 No: 5

Munich, Feb 2007 EGI Workshop - NGI Status Report 6 Is there a National Grid Project in your Country? Part B Yes: 21 No: 9

Munich, Feb 2007 EGI Workshop - NGI Status Report 7 What Form does your NGI have? A funded national project: 12 An entity appointed by an official authority: 9 A memorandum of understanding: 5 An informal group that meets frequently: 4 Part A Aus Cro CzR Fr DE Gr Lit NL Nor Pt Swe UK Bel Est Fin DE Gr Isr Pol Rus Ukr Bul Gr Ser Tk Ukr Est Fr Nor Ukr

Munich, Feb 2007 EGI Workshop - NGI Status Report 8 NGI recognised by a Gov ministry? Yes: 20 No, but plan to get recognition: 3 No; no plan to get recognition: 2 Part A

Munich, Feb 2007 EGI Workshop - NGI Status Report 9 Is NGI Separate Legal Entity? Part A National Institute: 7 National Research and Education Network (NREN): 5 Association / Consortium: 5 Supercomputing Centre (SCC): 2 University: 2 NREN / SCC: 3 University / SCC: 3 Bulgaria Yes; Italy under negotiation; Germany – not a legal entity but a Project Others are not separate legal entities, but are part of:  See handout Table 2 

Munich, Feb 2007 EGI Workshop - NGI Status Report 10 National Grid Project – Target Areas Part B Grid Infrastructures (computing, storage,…): 19 Grid Applications: 17 Grid Middleware: 15 Dissemination: 15 Training: 12 Operations, Professional service provisioning: 2 Grid Helpdesk and user board: 1 Building a community: 1 Cooperation with industry: 1

Munich, Feb 2007 EGI Workshop - NGI Status Report 11 Caution: please check data ahead… Online tool was not interactive, but this workshop is Some ambiguity in questions  opportunity here to clarify NGI status evolving rapidly  most data from July 2006, and not updated since then These data are invaluable, well worth “getting it right”

Munich, Feb 2007 EGI Workshop - NGI Status Report 12 NGI Financial Status Have you guaranteed sustainable funding for the NGI? Yes: 8 No: 13 No reply: 4 Any additional sources of funding for the NGI? EGEE: 6 Other EC project: 4 Other national funding: 7 Regional support European Structural Funds Special grants for infrastructure provision Part C

Munich, Feb 2007 EGI Workshop - NGI Status Report 13 NGI Financial Status How many people does the NGI employ (or is expected to employ)? 19 responses, ranging from 0 to 200+ Mean 32, Median 10 Some examples: Czech Republic: ~15 (but part time) Germany: about 200, and 200 more in 2007 Greece: Around 80 all over the country (expected 100) Ireland: 4.5 FTE in Operations Centre Serbia: 0 - it is not expected to employ personnel Part C If sustainable funding has not been guaranteed, why:  See handout Table 3 

Munich, Feb 2007 EGI Workshop - NGI Status Report 14 NGI Financial Status What is the total amount of local financing up to now (in M€)? 19 responses, ranging from 0.1 to 20+ Mean 3.96, Median 1.00 Some examples: Bulgaria (NGI since Sep ‘02): < 1 Million Netherlands (NGI in steps, since ‘02): 1 going to >30 Portugal (NGI since Apr ‘06): 3.5 M€, till now, plus 5M€ for the next 3 years What is the annual budget (in M€ / year)? 9 responses, ranging from 0.3 to 16+ Mean 4.56, Median 1.50 Some examples: Finland: over 16 M€ turnover (excluding investments) Sweden: 1 Part C

Munich, Feb 2007 EGI Workshop - NGI Status Report 15 Users and Resources : Number of Users with valid Grid Certificate (501 – 1000) > 1000 N / A Mean:293 Median:100 Part B

Munich, Feb 2007 EGI Workshop - NGI Status Report N / A Users and Resources : Number of Sites (resource centres) Mean:11 Median:6 Part B

Munich, Feb 2007 EGI Workshop - NGI Status Report > 3000 N / A Users and Resources : Number of Available CPUs Mean:1022 Median:500 Part B

Munich, Feb 2007 EGI Workshop - NGI Status Report > 1000 N / A Users and Resources : Available Storage Space (TBs) Mean:361.3 Median:32.5 Part B

Munich, Feb 2007 EGI Workshop - NGI Status Report 19 NGI Operational Information: Application Areas High Energy Physics: 15 Physics of Natural Phenomena, Marine Science Bioinformatics: 13 Energy Chemistry: 12 Computational Mechanics Earth Sciences: 9 Virtual laboratory – Support for labour equipment App Independent / All Apps: 8 Engineering Astronomy, Cosmology, Astrophysics, Space Res.: 6 Materials (Bio)medicine, Health Sciences Nanotechnology Fusion Robotics Graphic Modeling; Modeling, Simulation & Optimisation Knowledge Representation Optimisation of Traffic Routing Web Search Engine Geophysics Humanities Part C

Munich, Feb 2007 EGI Workshop - NGI Status Report 20 What NGIs would like to see in an EGI

Munich, Feb 2007 EGI Workshop - NGI Status Report 21 Proposed Functions of EGI Very Important Quite Important No Opinion Not Important Unhelpful

Munich, Feb 2007 EGI Workshop - NGI Status Report 22 Proposed Functions of EGI Coordination of infrastructure operations Very Important Quite Important No Opinion Not Important Unhelpful Part A

Munich, Feb 2007 EGI Workshop - NGI Status Report 23 Proposed Functions of EGI Coordination of infrastructure operations Very Important Quite Important No Opinion Not Important Unhelpful Part A

Munich, Feb 2007 EGI Workshop - NGI Status Report 24 Very Important Quite Important No Opinion Not Important Unhelpful Testing, cert and validation service including middleware Part A Proposed Functions of EGI

Munich, Feb 2007 EGI Workshop - NGI Status Report 25 Very Important Quite Important No Opinion Not Important Unhelpful Testing, cert and validation service including middleware Part A Proposed Functions of EGI

Munich, Feb 2007 EGI Workshop - NGI Status Report 26 Managed resource ctrs initial resources new user communities Very Important Quite Important No Opinion Not Important Unhelpful Part A Proposed Functions of EGI

Munich, Feb 2007 EGI Workshop - NGI Status Report 27 Managed resource ctrs initial resources new user communities Very Important Quite Important No Opinion Not Important Unhelpful Part A Proposed Functions of EGI

Munich, Feb 2007 EGI Workshop - NGI Status Report 28 Coordination of user and application support Very Important Quite Important No Opinion Not Important Unhelpful Part A Proposed Functions of EGI

Munich, Feb 2007 EGI Workshop - NGI Status Report 29 Coordination of user and application support Very Important Quite Important No Opinion Not Important Unhelpful Part A Proposed Functions of EGI

Munich, Feb 2007 EGI Workshop - NGI Status Report 30 Coordination of dissemination and training efforts Very Important Quite Important No Opinion Not Important Unhelpful Part A Proposed Functions of EGI

Munich, Feb 2007 EGI Workshop - NGI Status Report 31 Coordination of dissemination and training efforts Very Important Quite Important No Opinion Not Important Unhelpful Part A Proposed Functions of EGI

Munich, Feb 2007 EGI Workshop - NGI Status Report 32 Rep European Grid efforts on standards bodies Very Important Quite Important No Opinion Not Important Unhelpful Part A Proposed Functions of EGI

Munich, Feb 2007 EGI Workshop - NGI Status Report 33 Rep European Grid efforts on standards bodies Very Important Quite Important No Opinion Not Important Unhelpful Part A Proposed Functions of EGI

Munich, Feb 2007 EGI Workshop - NGI Status Report 34 Rep European Grid efforts with similar bodies from other continents Very Important Quite Important No Opinion Not Important Unhelpful Part A Proposed Functions of EGI

Munich, Feb 2007 EGI Workshop - NGI Status Report 35 Rep European Grid efforts with similar bodies from other continents Very Important Quite Important No Opinion Not Important Unhelpful Part A Proposed Functions of EGI

Munich, Feb 2007 EGI Workshop - NGI Status Report 36 Other Functions / Stakeholders Other proposed functions of EGI - some brief quotes: Cross country efforts / collaboration between NGIs; Service for major new infrastructures (ESFRI); Relationship with e.g. GEANT/DANTE; Provision of guidelines / specification of cleaner & more atomic interfaces Political support for NGIs / unified interface to EU bodies; Establish a “business” scheme (tokens to use facilities);  See handout Table 4  Other stakeholders besides proposed set (NGIs, user communities, EC) - some brief quotes: The research community; e-IRG; possibly CERN; National funding agencies / Ministries  See handout Table 5  Part A

Munich, Feb 2007 EGI Workshop - NGI Status Report 37 Conclusions & Next Steps Commonality of vision with respect to EGI Move beyond questionnaire format  Interactive knowledge base NGI definition vs. actual status Sustainability: a work in progress 22 application areas (at least) NGIs are coming together as we speak  the time is right for EGI

Munich, Feb 2007 EGI Workshop - NGI Status Report 38 Thank you! Please contact me for corrections and follow up: Diana Cresti Tel: Fax: