INFSO-RI Enabling Grids for E-sciencE The EGEE Project Owen Appleton EGEE Dissemination Officer CERN, Switzerland Danish Grid Forum visit, CERN, 13 September 2005

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI The EGEE Project - Owen Appleton - Sept 05 2 Presentation Overview What is EGEE –Structure –Rationale State of the project –Applications running –Industrial involvement Toward EGEE-II –Changes foreseen –A new model for Industrial involvement

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI The EGEE Project - Owen Appleton - Sept 05 3 What is EGEE EGEE is the Enabling Grid for E-SciencE project –Funded by the EU through the Information Society Infrastructures programme  Conceived as first 24 months of a 48 month programme  ~32M€ funding EGEE Objectives: –Consistent, robust and secure service grid infrastructure –Improving and maintaining the middleware –Attracting new resources and users from industry as well as science –Spread knowledge of Grid Technology across the European Research Area and beyond

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI The EGEE Project - Owen Appleton - Sept 05 4 Project structure EGEE is an international consortium –More than 70 partners in 27 countries organised into 12 federations  Includes links to US and Asian countries (to be partners in EGEE II) –Infrastructure almost all shared with LCG (as well as some key staff) –Supports and benefits from a large range of related projects and National Grid initiatives

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI The EGEE Project - Owen Appleton - Sept 05 5 Project Rationale The LCG project is being built due to need from High Energy Physics for large scale computing power –Processing 15 petabytes of data per year from LHC experiments EGEE will make the LCG/EGEE infrastructure available to researchers from all scientific fields –Two pilot applications (HEP & Biomed), several other applications Provide end-to-end service for users –Help them find out about the grid, port their applications and teach them how to submit jobs to the infrastructure

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI The EGEE Project - Owen Appleton - Sept 05 6 State of the Project We are 18 months into a 24 month project (started 1 st April 2004) Have already exceeded some targets for the end of year two! –180 sites (50 expected) –5PB storage (500TB expected)

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI The EGEE Project - Owen Appleton - Sept 05 7 EGEE Sites Status 25 July 2005 In collaboration with LCG NorduGrid Grid3/OSG Site Map

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI The EGEE Project - Owen Appleton - Sept 05 8 EGEE Activities 48 % service activities –Grid Operations, Support and Management, Network Resource Provision) 24 % joint research activities –Middleware re-engineering, Quality Assurance, Security, Network Services Development 28 % networking activities –Management, Dissemination and Outreach, User Training and Education, Application Identification and Support, Policy and International Cooperation Emphasis in EGEE is on operating a production grid and supporting the end-users

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI The EGEE Project - Owen Appleton - Sept 05 9 Applications Running Two pilot application domains –High Energy Physics –Biomedicine Four other domains joined during EGEE –ESR (Earth Sciences) –Computational chemistry –Magic (Astronomy) –EGEODE (Geo-Physics) Industrial Application!

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI The EGEE Project - Owen Appleton - Sept Pilot Application Domains High Energy Physics –The 4 LHC experiments via LCG  ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, LHCb  LHC data challenges have used ~1000 CPU years –Other international physics experiments  D0, CDF, Zeus and Babar Biomedicine –12 applications in 18 research institutes  Protein sequence analysis, medical imaging, Malaria Drug Discovery and many others –Recent Drug Discovery Data challenge used ~40 CPU years in under 2 months Mont Blanc (4810 m) Downtown Geneva

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI The EGEE Project - Owen Appleton - Sept Industrial Involvement Industrial involvement at all levels –Contracted partners, such as CS-SI (France) and Datamat SpA (Italy) –Resources Providers, such as Hewlett Packard (USA) –Users such as Compagnie General de Geophysique (France) Active Industry Forum –Give advice on direction of project and learn about project results Commitment to transferring knowledge and results to European Industry

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI The EGEE Project - Owen Appleton - Sept Toward EGEE-II EGEE-II proposal submitted to the EU on 8 th September, proposed start 1 st April 2006 Continuation of EGEE, second two years of a four year programme Expanded consortium, more than 90 partners in 32 countries with further expansion through related projects Non-European partners in USA, Korea and Taiwan

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI The EGEE Project - Owen Appleton - Sept Changes from EGEE Changed focus of work –Reduced efforts in Middleware re-engineering (Joint Research Activities)  Plans to integrate software from other projects and sources –Increased funding for operations (Service Activities)  Commitment to working, production-quality infrastructure –Increased funding For Dissemination, Training and Application Support (Networking Activities)  Further spread knowledge of Grids and provide expanded support for new users

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI The EGEE Project - Owen Appleton - Sept Incubator for Related Projects

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI The EGEE Project - Owen Appleton - Sept New model for industrial involvement Provide end-to-end model for involvement –Engage industry through targeted dissemination activities  Special events, targeted dissemination material –Further Involvement through Industry Forum  Open Up two way exchange of information on Grid computing –Option of technical involvement through CERN openlab  Proven model for industrial- academic collaboration

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI The EGEE Project - Owen Appleton - Sept Looking beyond EGEE-II Provide an Infrastructure capable of being used on a daily basis by a large range of disciplines Develop SLAs and support emerging standards to allow all groups to easily join the European Grid infrastructure Pave the way for sustainable use of the Infrastructure beyond two-year time-scale of EGEE-II Prepare ground for a European Grid Organisation

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI The EGEE Project - Owen Appleton - Sept Conclusions Grid computing has been chosen by CERN and HEP as the most cost effective computing model Several other applications are already benefiting from Grid technologies through EGEE (biomedicine is a good example) Collaboration across national and international programmes is very important: –Grids are above all about collaboration at a large scale –Science is international and therefore requires an international computing infrastructure Europe is strong in the development of Grids thanks to the success of EGEE and related projects EGEE is interested in discussing possible future new collaborations from academia or industry