1. www.egi.eu EGI-InSPIRE www.egi.eu EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 EGI strategy towards the Open Science Commons Tiziana Ferrari EGI-InSPIRE Director at EGI.eu

2. www.egi.eu Outline Status Strategy 2015-2018 EGI Conference, Amsterdam, 24-26 September 20142

3. www.egi.eu EGI today A world-wide federated infrastructure of compute, storage and data providers and national/international user communities –490,000 cores, 280 PB of disk storage, 57 countries –62 M CPU hours for new VOs in the last 4 years, > 2000 scientific publications enabled by EGI, > 250 registered applications ported –MoUs with research communities/projects and partnerships with e- Infrastructures in Europe, Asia-Pacific, Africa-Arabia, North America (OSG, XSEDE) and the APARSEN CoE –Emerging collaborations with SMEs and industry (supply/demand) –Established governance –New business models being explores –Services for the international federation (the “EGI backbone”) fully supported by the EGI.eu participants as of May 2014 –High Throughput Data Analysis and federated cloud IaaS EGI Conference, Amsterdam, 24-26 September 20143

4. www.egi.eu Challenges and opportunities Co-development of solutions and innovation –Secure and trusted solutions tailored to the needs of the research community, sustainability –More user engagement and technical support: from the EGI distributed competence centre to a network of CoEs for HTC, HPC, cloud, data Differentiation of target groups –Improvement of support to long-tail of research, RIs, SMEs and Industry, education Persistency of e-Infrastructures/RIs Commercial exploitation –Service market place, p4u, collaboration with commercial partners –Big data open value chain Open Science EGI Conference, Amsterdam, 24-26 September 20144

5. www.egi.eu Co-development and innovation 1/4 Network of international Competence Centres with the participation of user communities, technology providers and NGIs, as well as by partners from US and the Asia-Pacific region –adoption of state-of-the-art services –technical evolution of existing services and co- development –BBMRI, DARIAH, EISCAT_3D, ELIXIR, EPOS, INSTRUCT and structural biology, LifeWatch, climate and disaster recovery more competence centres needed EGI Conference, Amsterdam, 24-26 September 20145

6. www.egi.eu Co-development and innovation 2/4 OBJECTIVES BBMRI: data and compute infrastructure that will allow a biobank federation for the storage of big data, parallel data analysis (EGI/EUDAT pilot) DARIAH: federated cloud storage for high availability of data exploitation EISCAT_3D: archiving and processing of data (joint EGI/EUDAT pilot) ELIXIR: enable a federated data analysis infrastructure EPOS: AAI, IaaS/PaaS/SaaS federated cloud services for data exploitation Structural biology/INSTRUCT: computation services for big data LifeWatch: Processing tools for biodiversity data, depositing of citizen scientist data, on demand virtual laboratories in the federated cloud EGI Conference, Amsterdam, 24-26 September 20146

7. www.egi.eu Co-development and innovation 3/4 Invest on training and technical user support –Integrated training programme delivered by the competence centres –Collaboration with other European e-Infrastructures in technical user support and training EUDAT, PRACE, TERENA/DANTE, OpenAIRE –User engagement together with partners in Asia Pacific and the US Collaboration with external projects for requirements gathering, exploitation, rolling to production and promotion of their technical developments EGI Conference, Amsterdam, 24-26 September 20147

8. www.egi.eu Co-development and innovation 4/4 Development of the EGI Core Infrastructure Platform (the EGI backbone) –AAI  wider adoption of federated IDM Requirements, policy, experimentation, adoption –Permanent ID infrastructure for discoverability of registered data –Service Registry and Marketplace  discoverability of services and data archives –Accounting, monitoring –Evolution of security operations for new trust models Federation of resources for accelerated computing EGI Conference, Amsterdam, 24-26 September 20148

9. www.egi.eu Target groups RIs (through the competence centres) Long-tail of science –Simplified access policies, user management tools –Customized platform for access to compute, storage, data –Infrastructure for depositing open data SMEs and industry –Prototype an integrated European data and cloud infrastructure capable of hosting open data to host demonstrators  open data value chain Market analysis of open data in various sectors, SME engagement Open data access policies and legal interoperability (biodiversity, earth science, agriculture) Data discoverability, caching, use and re-use Education EGI Conference, Amsterdam, 24-26 September 20149

10. www.egi.eu Persistency of e-infrastructures Analysis/Harmonization of access policies across EGI and beyond Integration of European e-Infrastructures –Technical interoperability through pilots and use cases –Joint e-Infrastructure calls for new use cases –Access policies, harmonization of operations Collaboration with D4Science, EUDAT Development of different sustainability paths –Federation of RIs –Transnational access and open access –Cross-border procurement EGI Conference, Amsterdam, 24-26 September 201410

11. www.egi.eu Commercial exploitation A EGI marketplace of services will be established –pay-for-use business model and its supporting tools for accounting and billing –SLA management Cross-border procurement Engagement with SMEs and industry for the big data value chain Participation to the HNX Required legal framework EGI Conference, Amsterdam, 24-26 September 201411

12. www.egi.eu Open Science Need for an open data platform for the management of the data cycle to provide a solution for –Open data publishing, discovery, use and reuse of data –Co-locating and federating open data and higher-level services on cloud –Discovery of existing open data in EGI  federation of distributed data certified repositories –Services for repetition of science results –Data preservation Different e-Infrastructures will need to collaborate to provide a single solution EGI Conference, Amsterdam, 24-26 September 201412

13. www.egi.eu Projects EGI-Engage –EINFRA-1 sub-topic 6 e4ERA –INFRASUPP-7 –E-Infrastructures policy development e-IRG EGI, ESFRI, EUDAT, OpenAIRE, PRACE, TERENA/DANTE DPinfra –EINFRA-1 sub-topic 1 –Services for knowledge and data preservation Technology projects for EINFRA-1 sub-topic 4, 5 EGI Conference, Amsterdam, 24-26 September 201413

14. www.egi.eu EGI Vision The Open Science Commons Researchers from all disciplines have easy and open access to the innovative digital services, data, knowledge and expertise they need for performing collaborative excellent research EGI Conference, Amsterdam, 24-26 September 201414

15. www.egi.eu EGI Mission EGI Conference, Amsterdam, 24-26 September 201415 Accelerate the implementation of the Open Science Commons by expanding the capabilities of a European backbone of federated services for compute, storage, data, communication, knowledge and expertise, complementing community- specific capabilities