1. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026024 [ Empowering e Science across the Mediterranean ] Grids and their role towards development F. Ruggieri – INFN (EUMEDGRID Project Manager) EGEE’07 Conference EUMEDGRID Workshop: Grids and their role in sustaining development Budapest, 1 October 2007 www.eumedgrid.eu

2. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026024 2 EGEE’07 – EUMEDGRID Workshop – Budapest 1 October 2007 Outline  Research Infrastructures and e-Infrastructures.  How can Grids help Science ?  Which is the potential impact of Grids ?  Conclusions

3. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026024 3 EGEE’07 – EUMEDGRID Workshop – Budapest 1 October 2007 … Research Infrastructures are at the core of the knowledge Triangle ResearchEducation Innovation Research infrastructures

4. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026024 4 EGEE’07 – EUMEDGRID Workshop – Budapest 1 October 2007 The European Vision  The Research Network infrastructure provides fast interconnection and advanced services among Research and Education institutes of different countries’ Projects: GEANT, SEEREN, EUMEDCONNECT, etc.  The Research Grid infrastructure provides a distributed environment for sharing computing power, storage, instruments and databases through the appropriate software (middleware) in order to solve complex application problems Projects: EGEE, SEE-GRID, EUMEDGRID etc.  This integrated networking & grid environment is called electronic infrastructure (eInfrastructure) allowing new methods of global collaborative research - often referred to as electronic science (eScience)  The creation of the eInfrastructure is a key objective of the European Research Area Network Infrastructure e-Science Collaborations Grid Infrastructure

5. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026024 5 EGEE’07 – EUMEDGRID Workshop – Budapest 1 October 2007 First Layer: EUMEDCONNECT Network

6. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026024 6 EGEE’07 – EUMEDGRID Workshop – Budapest 1 October 2007 Second Layer: The EUMEDGRID Grid Infrastructure MA-GRID INFN -Roma3 INFN -Catania INFN - CNAF ULAKBIM CYNET IUCC GRNET Un. of Tunis Un. of Malta ERI/EUN CERIST HIAST

7. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026024 7 EGEE’07 – EUMEDGRID Workshop – Budapest 1 October 2007 Third Layer: A large portfolio of applications  Simulation of seawater intrusion in the aquifers (CODESA-3D).  Archaelogical applications (ArchaeoGrid)  Biomedical applications (WISDOM, etc.)  … and many others. A large number of applications, in several fields has been already deployed on the Grid: Grids offer:  Sharing of resources (even unique ones).  Support to human networks (large international collaborations).  Facilitated workgroup activities in leading edge science.

8. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026024 8 EGEE’07 – EUMEDGRID Workshop – Budapest 1 October 2007 Digital Divide http://maps.maplecroft.com/

9. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI-031688 To change: View -> Header and Footer 9 The EGEE infrastructure

10. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026024 10 EGEE’07 – EUMEDGRID Workshop – Budapest 1 October 2007 The disparities  The panorama is still characterised by the gap between advanced countries (Europe, Japan, USA, etc.) and developing or emerging countries (North Africa, Middle- East, China, India, Korea, etc.).  Other countries in Africa and Asia are still at a very early stage: setting up good Network Connectivity.  Scientific groups of those countries can experiment severe limitations in the access to the recent instruments and facilities and eventually to their opportunities to make science.  Migration of Brains (Brain Drain) to the most advanced laboratories and universities in advanced countries is the traditional way of facing these limitations.  Digital Divide and Brain Drain can then be considered as strictly linked and no solution will be available for the latter until the former is mitigated or greatly reduced.

11. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026024 11 EGEE’07 – EUMEDGRID Workshop – Budapest 1 October 2007 EGEE and collaborating projects

12. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026024 12 EGEE’07 – EUMEDGRID Workshop – Budapest 1 October 2007 How to build a Grid infrastructure (the EUMEDGRID approach)  (TOP-DOWN) Foster the creation of National Grid Initiatives (NGIs) → promote the creation of sustainable national grid infrastructures with production quality level. Deploy first those applications which are already grid- enabled and/or easy to be ported (HEP, BIOMED).  (BOTTOM-UP) Discover and support New User Communities which will be the driving force of constant expansion and evolution of the Grid Infrastructures → stimulate new demanding application to be deployed and support NGI creation. Discover and support new applications which are relevant for the Region (Earth Science, Archaeology, etc.).

13. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026024 13 EGEE’07 – EUMEDGRID Workshop – Budapest 1 October 2007 Social Impact  e-Infrastructures support wide geographically distributed communities → enhance international collaboration of scientists → promote collaboration in other fields.  Grids and networks allow the access of many researchers to scientific resources (laboratories and data) → the brain drain can be reduced.  The e-Infrastructures promote the usage of network connectivity and stimulate scientific and technical development of countries → contribute to fight the digital divide.

14. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026024 14 EGEE’07 – EUMEDGRID Workshop – Budapest 1 October 2007

15. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026024 15 EGEE’07 – EUMEDGRID Workshop – Budapest 1 October 2007 Conclusions  Grids are part of the concept of e-Infrastructures.  Grids can, not only optimize the usage of resources, but increase their usability and accessibility.  Grids can be the a valid instrument for cooperation in Science and Education (human Network).  e-Infrastructures are fundamental for long term development and to mitigate phenomena like: the Digital Divide and the Brain Drain.  High bandwidth and Good Quality Communication Networks are a must for enabling the whole picture.

16. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026024 [ Empowering e Science across the Mediterranean ] Thank You !