1. Long-term Grid Sustainability
Dieter Kranzlmüller
Project Deputy Director
CERN
EGEE User Forum 1-3 March 2006

2. Country participating in EGEE
EGEE Infrastructure
Country participating in EGEE
Scale
> 180 sites in 39 countries
~ CPUs
> 5 PB storage
> concurrent jobs per day
> 60 Virtual Organisations
At Feb review:
100 sites, 10K CPUs
1st gLite release foreseen for March’05
6 domains and
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3. Grids in Europe Great investment in developing Grid technology
Sample of National Grid projects:
Austrian Grid Initiative
DutchGrid
France: e-Toile; ACI Grid
Germany: D-Grid; Unicore
Greece: HellasGrid
Grid Ireland
Italy: INFNGrid; GRID.IT
NorduGrid
UK e-Science: National Grid Service; OMII; GridPP
EGEE provides framework for national, regional and thematic Grids
Average of 180 M€ per year since 2002 (national + EC)
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4. EGEE as partner Ongoing collaborations EGEE as incubator
with other European projects
GÉANT
DEISA
SEE-GRID
with non-European projects
OSG: OpenScienceGrid (USA)
NAREGI (Japan)
with non EU partners in EGEE: US, Israel, Russia, Korea, Taiwan…
EGEE as incubator
>10 related projects have been created
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5. Related projects
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6. EGEE Applications >20 applications from 7 domains
High Energy Physics
Biomedicine
Earth Sciences
Computational Chemistry
Astronomy
Geo-Physics
Financial Simulation
Further applications in evaluation
At Feb review:
100 sites, 10K CPUs
1st gLite release foreseen for March’05
6 domains and
Applications now moving from testing to routine and daily usage
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7. Toward EGEE-II EGEE-II proposal submitted to the EU
On 8 September 2005
Proposed start 1 April 2006
Natural continuation of EGEE
Emphasis on providing an infrastructure for e-Science
 increased support for applications
 increased multidisciplinary Grid infrastructure
 more involvement from Industry
Expanded consortium
> 90 partners in 32 countries (Non-European partners in USA, Korea and Taiwan)
Related projects
world-wide Grid infrastructure
increased international collaboration
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8. Sustainability: Beyond EGEE-II
Need to prepare for permanent Grid infrastructure
Maintain Europe’s leading position in global science Grids
Ensure a reliable and adaptive support for all sciences
Independent of project funding cycles
Modelled on success of GÉANT
Infrastructure managed centrally in collaboration with national bodies (in EGEE-II: JRUs)
Permanent Grid Infrastructure
Expand the idea and problems of the JRU
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9. Grid Organization Objectives
Operate production Grid infrastructures for all sciences
Integrate, test, validate and package Grid middleware
Provide advice, training and support to new user communities
Permanent Grid Infrastructure
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10. Summary
EGEE/EGEE-II marks the most significant move from prototype testbeds to production grid environments
Unprecedented scale of a world-wide grid infrastructure
Federated approach building on existing national grid initiatives
Proven working model for operations and deployment …
Next logical step: towards long-term sustainability
Ensure that the grid infrastructure used for your work today will still be there tomorrow
Protect investments of application developers and users
Basic requirement: a suitable funding mechanism and instrument for ensuring sustainability
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11. Cooperation with e-IRG
e-Infrastructures Reflection Group:
e-IRG Mission: … to support on the political, advisory and monitoring level, the creation of a policy and administrative framework for the easy and cost-effective shared use of electronic resources in Europe (focusing on Grid-computing, data storage, and networking resources) across technological, administrative and national domains.
e-IRG Open Workshop:
April 10-11, 2006, Linz, Austria
 Towards Sustainable e-Infrastructures
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