1. Co-ordination & Harmonisation of Advanced e-Infrastructures Research Infrastructures – Grant Agreement n. 260011 The CHAIN Project Federico Ruggieri, INFN – Project Director EGI Technical Forum 2012 Prague, 19 September 2012

2. Outline  General information and CHAIN vision  Workplan  State of the art analysis  Data analysis and recommendations  Virtual Research Communities  Interoperation & Interoperability  The demo  The new project  Conclusions 2 CHAIN Workshop – EGI TF 2012

3. Regional Grid infrastructures CNGrid NKN & Garuda EUAsiaGrid SAGrid & SANREN GISELA 3 CHAIN Workshop – EGI TF 2012

4. CHAIN: global coverage 4 CHAIN Workshop – EGI TF 2012

5. Project objectives  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, EUMEDGRID-Support, EUIndiaGrid2, LinkSCEEM2, NKN & Garuda, etc.) 5 CHAIN Workshop – EGI TF 2012

6. Project information  Grant Agreement for a total EC contribution of 1.1 M€  Total cost: about 1.9 M€  Start Date: 1st December 2010 - 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 2011 6 CHAIN Workshop – EGI TF 2012

7. Project strategic vision  A world-wide Distributed Computing Infrastructure can address big scientific challenges that are not manageable with departmental computing systems  Virtual Research Communities can transparently access different kind of resources: scientific applications and tools, Data Repositories, down to CPUs and Disks. The vision is that of VRCs sharing resources ubiquitously across different administrative domains  Regional e-Infrastructures should be made interoperable among each other. CHAIN is committed to promote and validate a proof-of-concept that addresses this 7 CHAIN Workshop – EGI TF 2012

8. Disseminate (WP5) Project workplan State of the Art Assessment (WP2) Analyse the different Regional Approaches (WP2, WP4) Make Recommendations (WP2, WP3, WP4) Involve the VRCs (WP3) Propose a Road-Map and Intermediate solutions (WP4, WP3) Demonstrate the usefulness of interoperation (WP3, WP4) 8 CHAIN Workshop – EGI TF 2012

9. State of the art analysis (WP2)  Analysis of existing NGI literature and related questionnaires  Creation of the regional and NGI questionnaires  Questionnaires being implemented and published online  Collection of contact points from all continents  Questionnaire is kept open and collection of contact points from all continents is continued  Questionnaire data provided through the CHAIN Knowledge Base 9 CHAIN Workshop – EGI TF 2012

10. Knowledge base (WP2, WP5) 10 CHAIN Workshop – EGI TF 2012 www.chain-project/knowledge-base

11. Country view 11 CHAIN Workshop – EGI TF 2012

12. Data analysis (WP4, WP2) Number of sites and number of CPUs 12 CHAIN Workshop – EGI TF 2012

13. WP2 Recommendations  74 Detailed recommendations classified by:  Short (1 year), Medium (3 years) and Long term (5 years)  High, Medium, Low priority  National Grid Initiatives (9):  General (5); Regional (4)  Interoperations (14):  General (1), ROC (3), User Support (1), Monitoring (3), Security (2), Core Services (2); Middleware (2)  Interoperability (2): General (1), Input/Output (1)  Virtual Research Communities’ perspective: General (2)  Regional planning (47):  Africa (9), Asia Pacific (6), Central Asia (5), China (7), India (4), Latin America (5), Mediterranean & Arab Countries (11) 13 CHAIN Workshop – EGI TF 2012

14. Africa & Arabia ROC (WP2, WP4) 14 CHAIN Workshop – EGI TF 2012 http://roc.africa-grid.org

15. VRCs (WP3)  Agreements with reference communities signed  WeNMR 21/09/2011  WRF4G 19/09/2011  jModelTest 21/02/2012  LSGC 27/03/2012  INDICATE 28/03/2012  DECIDE 13/04/2012  SuperB (on the way)  Earth Science (ICTP) (on the way)

16. CHAIN Workshop – EGI TF 2012 16

17. ....... Science Gateway Science Gateway App. 1 App. 2 App. N Embedded Applications Administrator Power User Basic User Users from different organisations having different roles and privileges Access: the Science Gateway model (WP3, WP4) Standard-based middleware-independent Grid Engine Standard-based middleware-independent Grid Engine 17 CHAIN Workshop – EGI TF 2012

18. www.chain-project.eu CHAIN Workshop – EGI TF 2012 18

19. CHAIN Workshop at IEEE Cluster 2012 – Beijing 28 September 2012 CHAIN Workshop – EGI TF 2012 19

20. NKN Conference – Mumbai 31 Oct. – 2 Nov. 2012 CHAIN Workshop – EGI TF 2012 20

21. 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. 306819  Total Costs of € 2.3 M  Max. EC contribution: € 1.52 M  Start date: 1 December 2012  Duration: 30 Months 21 CHAIN Workshop – EGI TF 2012

22. 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 22 CHAIN Workshop – EGI TF 2012

23. e-AGE 2012 – Dubai 12-13 December 2012 23

24. Conclusions  The CHAIN project has gathered the experience and knowledge of regional Grid infrastructures around the world  CHAIN has made useful recommendations on several aspects of regional e-Infrastructures and specifically to their sustainability  CHAIN has successfully agreed with other regional projects (EUMEDGRID-Support, GISELA) on the SG approach  The first usage of SG in these projects has been very encouraging  An Interoperability demo is now available at the EGI TF 2012 in Prague and will be demonstrated in other events that will follow during the year: IEEE Cluster 2012 in Beijing, NKN 2012 Conference in Mumbai, eAGE 2012 Conference in Dubai  A Road-Map on is being finalised  A new project CHAIN-REDS will take the legacy, expand the activities and address new challenges 24 CHAIN Workshop – EGI TF 2012

25. Co-ordination & Harmonisation of Advanced e-Infrastructures Research Infrastructures – Grant Agreement n. 260011 Thank you