1. Sergio Andreozzi Strategy and Policy Manager (EGI.eu)
Adapting OpenAIRE Services to Federated Infrastructures: the EGI Use Case
Sergio Andreozzi
Strategy and Policy Manager (EGI.eu)
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2. Outline European Grid Infrastructure (EGI)
Federated ICT resources providing large-scale computing to Virtual Research Communities
Barriers to accurate tracking/sharing of scientific output
Collaboration with OpenAIRE
A win-win strategy
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3. EGI: Accelerating Digital Research
Extracting Knowledge from the Data Deluge
Life Science
Structural Biology: provide data analysis
Structural Modeling: tools for NMR and SAXS techniques
High-Energy Physics
Large Hadron Collider: World’s largest particle accelerator
Supports 8,000 researchers
1 billion CPU hours in the last 12 months
15PB of data created annually
Health-care
Diagnostic tools for the medical community
E.g.: to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease in its early stages and track the progress of the symptoms over time
See:
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4. EGI Participants European Grid Infrastructure EGI.eu @ Amsterdam
Over 35 countries
Grid
Secure sharing
Infrastructure
Computers
Disk and tapes
Data Archives ….
Amsterdam
Dedicated organisation
Coordination for Europe
26 staff
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5. Delivering services to individual communities
EGI Layers
Virtual Research Communities
(Users)
Delivering services to individual communities
EGI.eu Coordination
Software
Core Services
Support
Community
Platforms
gLite
UNICORE
dCache
ARC
Globus
Infrastructure
NGI
EIRO
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6. EGI: Moving to the Cloud
Individual communities get the environments they require
gLite
UNICORE
dCache
ARC
Globus
Community Platform
Community Services
Community specific
service platforms
EGI.eu Coordination
Core Software & Support
NGI
EIRO
Commercial
Federated Virtual Machine Managers
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7. History: From Pilot to Sustainable Infrastructure
EDG Proof of Concept
EGEE-I/II/III From prototype to production
EGI Design Study Sustainability Model
EGI-InSPIRE Transition towards a sustainable infrastructure
Long-term infrastructure
May change name over its life
Supported by different EC/national funding programs
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8. Asia Pacific (9 partners)
EGI-InSPIRE Project
Integrated Sustainable Pan-European Infrastructure for Researchers in Europe
A 4 year project with €25M EC contribution
Project cost €72M
Total Effort ~€330M
Effort: 9261PMs
Project Partners (50)
EGI.eu, 38 NGIs, 2 EIROs
Asia Pacific (9 partners)
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9. EGI’s Contribution to the Europe 2020 strategy
EGI for the Digital Agenda for Europe
Supports single digital market
Stimulates competitiveness and interoperability
Improves efficient spending
Addresses grand challenges
EGI for the Innovation Union
Enables the digital European Research Area (ERA)
Promotes skill development
Enables worldwide collaboration
EU2020
Digital Agenda for Europe
Innovation Union
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10. How to Open Up the Scientific Output of EGI?
Federated Infrastructure
Resource Providers: 351 centres federated into NGIs
Resources: 470,000 logical CPUs, 143PB disk, 138PB Tape
Resource centre autonomy in resource allocation to VOs
Distributed research communities
Users: 21,714 grouped into 233 Virtual Organisations (VOs)
With EGI, today, researchers can easily share ICT resources, data, applications, VREs, training material.
What about Scientific Output?
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11. Tracking Scientific Publications that Used EGI
Current Approach
NGIs collect and periodically communicate to EGI.eu
Partial results due to different level of maturity in the NGI established processes
EGI Needs
A sustainable long-term infrastructure needs more mature polices, processes and tools that ensure tracking of all publications for better demonstrating and opening the scientific output
A dedicated task force investigated the matter during Jun-Oct and proposed recommendations
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12. Barriers to Better Scientific Publications Tracking in EGI
Lack of Awareness
Researchers accessing EGI through dedicated science gateways may be not aware that they are using EGI
Lack of Engagement
Researchers aware of using EGI may not appreciate the importance of acknowledging EGI
Lack of Services
Lack of efficient/effective services for the manual/automatic tracking of scientific publications from distributed autonomous research communities
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13. 3. Establish appropriate services
Proposed Actions
1. Increase Awareness
Develop a “Cite EGI campaign”
Liaise with science gateway developers to link to it
2. Stimulate engagement
Reinforce the value added of EGI
Mandate to mention EGI in publications through AUP
Prize/review of citing papers
3. Establish appropriate services
Should minimise human intervention
Should be easy to use
Should track e-infrastructure specific information
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14. Action 3: Establish Appropriate Services
Manual ingestion of publication metadata (by DOI)
Manual deposit of publications: file and metadata
Enabling inference of publications (by full-text mining) using/referring EGI
Supporting enriched metadata:
Infrastructure(s) that was used for the work
Virtual Organisation(s) of the authors
EGI scientific discipline(s) related to the work
Support federated authentication
Data curation from privileged users
Statistics
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15. The OpenAIRE Opportunity
A well-established infrastructure:
To promote Open Access
To aggregate and link articles, datasets, projects, funding schemes
To measure impact
Why not adapt OpenAIRE
to the needs of EGI?
And of the e-infrastructures/research
infrastructures in general?
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16. EGI Requirements vs. OpenAIRE
Manual ingestion of publication metadata (by DOI)
Manual deposit of publications: file and metadata
Enabling inference of publications (by full-text mining) using/referring EGI
Supporting enriched metadata:
Infrastructure(s) that was used for the work
EGI scientific discipline(s) related to the work
Virtual Organisation(s) of the authors
Support federated authentication
Data curation from privileged users
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17. Benefits A single access point to scientific publications
Accelerate the discovery, access and re-use
Minimise burden on researchers
Enables to demonstrate the scientific impact of:
Infrastructures
Virtual research collaborations
Provides personalised aggregations and key statistics to understand the publications relevance
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18. Conclusion EGI Barriers Vision
sharing ICT resources and problem solving tools to accelerate the digital research of distributed virtual research collaborations and the ERA
Barriers
hinder the accurate tracking and sharing of scientific output
Vision
an augmented OpenAIRE personalized for an infrastructure as a key enabler for the access, use and re-use of scientific output
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19. Further information: www.egi.eu Contact: sergio.andreozzi AT egi.eu
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