1. CHAIN KoM – Rome, 13 December 2010
WP3 in CHAIN
CHAIN KoM – Rome, 13 December 2010

2. Outline The activity inside CHAIN WP3 in numbers & DoW Community
Objectives & Aim
Actions
Examples

3. Coordination & Harmonisation of Advanced eINfrastructures
WP3 inside a new project
Coordination & Harmonisation of Advanced eINfrastructures
CHAIN

4. WP in CHAIN CHAIN is an EC (260011) funded project Structured in
~ 1.9 M€
1 December 2010
Structured in
WP 1 Project Management
WP 2 Consolidation of existing state of the art
WP 3 Present and emerging needs of trans-continental scientific communities
WP 4 Modelling the cooperation of European e-Infrastructures with non-European ones
WP 5 Dissemination and Outreach

5. WP in CHAIN CHAIN is an EC (260011) funded project Structured in
~ 1.9 M€
1 December 2010
Structured in
WP 1 Project Management
WP 2 Consolidation of existing state of the art
WP 3 Present and emerging needs of trans-continental scientific communities
WP 4 Modelling the cooperation of European e-Infrastructures with non-European ones
WP 5 Dissemination and Outreach

6. WP3 in numbers 78 PM out of 281.50 (~28%)
For the whole lifetime of the project (24 PM)
Partners
INFN
CIEMAT
CESNET
UBUNTUNET
CLARA
IHEP
PSA
Third parties

7. WP3 in numbers 78 PM out of 281.50 (~28%)
For the whole lifetime of the project (24 PM)
Partners
INFN
CIEMAT
CESNET
UBUNTUNET
CLARA
IHEP
PSA
Third parties
Europe

8. WP3 in numbers INFN CIEMAT CESNET UBUNTUNET CLARA IHEP Europe PSA
Third parties
Europe
Africa

9. WP3 in numbers INFN CIEMAT CESNET UBUNTUNET CLARA IHEP PSA
Third parties
Africa
Latin America

10. WP3 in numbers INFN CIEMAT CESNET UBUNTUNET CLARA IHEP PSA
Third parties
Latin America
Asia

11. WP3 in numbers INFN CIEMAT CESNET UBUNTUNET CLARA IHEP PSA
Third parties
Asia

12. WP3 in DoW WP3 is a SUPPORT Activity
WP3 “Present and emerging needs of
trans-continental scientific communities”
Task 3.1 Scientific communities across the continents
(INFN)
Task 3.2 Proposed road-map of services for communities to be deployed on the e-Infrastructures
(CIEMAT)

13. WP3 in DoW WP3 list of Deliverables
D3.1 Trans-continental scientific and
technical communities (M06 – May 2011)
D3.2 Road-map of trans-continental e-infrastructures for virtual
communities (M12 – Nov 2011)
D3.3 Trans-continental scientific and technical communities Updated (M18 – May 2012)
D3.4 Road-map of trans-continental e-infrastructures for virtual
communities Updated (M23 – Oct 2012)
D3.5 Results of the validation of the reference communities (M24 – Nov 2012)

14. WP3 in DoW WP3 list of Milestones
MS5 Call for interest for reference communities
(M02 – Jan 2011 – Web page)
MS6 Shortlist of reference communities ready
(M04 – Mar 2011 – Web page)
MS7 Agreements with reference communities signed
(M09 – Aug 2011 – MoU)
…and of, course, two Reviews!!

15. WP3 community
But what is behind...?

16. WP3 community
WP3 actors…

17. Objectives & Aim
What must we do?

18. Objectives & Aim
To provide (limited) support to the existing and well experienced VRC (LHC, Biomed…)
To provide support for communities interested to widen their activities collaborating with other continents
To discover and attract new scientific communities or merging similar ones operating worldwide.

19. Objectives & Aim
And how…?

20. Objectives & Aim
Performing a large spectrum investigation on the existing and potential trans-continental communities (T3.1)
Looking for requirements, commonalities, challenges and possible synergies to be gathered and analysed
Then, the results will be used for feeding T3.2…

21. Objectives & Aim
Producing studies of the necessary steps for e-Infrastructures to fulfil the requirement of present and emerging VRC with trans- continental span (T3.2) based on
The existing plans of relevant organisations, projects and/or committees (ESFRI, e-IRG, EGI, PRACE…)
The feedbacks received during the thematic
workshops and high-level conferences

22. But to do it, being sustainable is a must!
Objectives & Aim
Thus, the final goal is to involve at least a couple of reference communities to validate the proposed model (services)
But to do it, being sustainable is a must!

23. Actions
Actions…

24. Actions: Definition VRC1 range VRC1 cover
from a group of researchers working together, sharing means to carry out common investigations, such as distributed resources: instruments, computing, storage and software tools
Up to large international well-structured collaborations
VRC1 cover
Small user communities (several groups)
With or without Grid knowledge
Large collaborations
Looking for more computing resources and/or advanced services
1 GISELA D3.1

25. Actions: WP3 point of view
EGI and continental/national Grid initiatives offer specific support
Which depends on the maturity of the VRC and the current Grid establishment
CHAIN can offer among their partners and “fathers”
Interaction
Coordination
Exchange of information
“Success stories”

26. Actions: WP3 point of view
CHAIN can offer to their partners the collaboration with other initiatives (Gateway)
WeNMR
DECIDE
DEGISCO
INDICATE/DC-NET
EMI
LHC
ESFRI …

27. Established initiatives
Actions: Steps
Settled VRC
Potential new VRC
Established initiatives

28. events Commonalities Actions: Steps
Direct contact with those VRC (LHC, Biomed)
Settled VRC
“Regional” surveys
Direct contact with those initiatives (EGI, ESFRI…)
Potential new VRC
Established initiatives
Commonalities
events

29. events Commonalities Proposed Model Actions: Steps
Direct contact with those VRC (LHC, Biomed)
“Regional” surveys
Direct contact with those initiatives (EGI, CLARA…)
Commonalities
Proposed Model
events

30. events Proposed Model Actions: Steps
Direct contact with those VRC (LHC, Biomed)
“Regional” surveys
Direct contact with those initiatives (EGI, CLARA…)
Proposed Model
events

31. Actions: Validation
Proposed Model

32. Actions: CHAIN events W1 Thematic Workshop Asia
Type
Venue/Region
Theme
Proposed
time W1
Thematic Workshop
Asia
Environment & Earth Sciences
M04 W2
Latin America
Bio-Medical & Health
M08 E1
High-Level Conference
Europe
Research Infrastructures
M12 W3
Mediterranean/
Africa
Earth Sciences & Environment
M16 W4
Computational Science
M20 E2
A World of Globalised Science
M24

33. Actions: Synergies
WP3 must perform a coordinated work with the rest of CHAIN WP

34. Actions: Internal road-map
The way we’ll work is defined by our milestones
MS5 Call for interest for reference communities (M02 )
MS6 Shortlist of reference communities ready (M04)
MS7 Agreements with reference communities signed (M09)
Lately, updates of the advances should be performed continuously
Redefine the road-map
Modify the list of proposed services
Add new communities

35. Examples
Some examples…

36. Examples CLARA opened a call for VRC in Latin America2: COMCLARA2010
Several conditions were mandatory for becoming accredited
9 out of 32 were selected
Luis for sure will show us the results 
EGI advances, “Regional” app DB
2 CLARA web site:

37. Examples GISELA conducted a survey among its partners (= CHAIN T3.1)
First contact with the representatives
Looking for good LA and EU candidates
Putting all together
NGI & e-Science Networks
They use to have a VRC oriented “WP”

38. Examples CHAIN could take those ideas as starting point
Bearing in mind that we cannot go so deep
The number of “supported” VRC might not be as big as those from these initiatives

39. Rafael Mayo (CIEMAT) - CHAIN WP3 Manager
Thank you!
Rafael Mayo (CIEMAT) - CHAIN WP3 Manager