1. Jorge Gasós Grid Technologies Unit European Commission The EU e Infrastructures Programme Grid@Asia Workshop, Beijing, 21-23 June 2005

2. Flexible control and sharing of distributed resources Promoting a new model of ICT infrastructures Developer view: abstraction, effective service creation Infrastructure-provider view: Integration, pervasive virtual organisations, streamlining and longer-term protection of investment End-user view: unlimited access to ICT-resources distributed world- wide, simplification Resources can be distributed world-wide

3. Vision - creating an e Infrastructure… e Infrastructure (Grids empowered) e Infrastructure (Grids empowered) security mobility semantic web. automatic management broadband learning business aeronautics genomics environment astronomy health science IPv6 Grid

4. eInfrastructure - set of persistent services and processes bringing the power of distributed ICT based resources to a virtual community Role of e Infrastructure in the innovation circle Basic research Applications Standardisation Pre-commercial deployment Market Testbeds

5. SEE-GRID A Grid infrastructure for SE-Europe Strategic building blocks of eInfrastructure today GÉANT. INFRASTRUCTURE GRID. INFRASTRUCTURE eInfrastructure EGEE production quality grid, 20000 CPUs, ~5PB storage, training, 27 countries, 71 partners, HEP, Biomed..., int. links (32 M - CERN) GÉANT Pan-European Research Network, IPv6 enabled (93 M - DANTE) DEISA grid of 6 supercomputers networked at 1 Gbps, focus on global filing systems,>40 Tflop/s, several user communit. (15M - CNRS).

6. Pan-European Grid infrastructure EGEE EGEE, led by CERN: capacity of over 20.000 CPU's, 5 PB of storage, federating 71 centers/27 countries mission critical for very demanding research communities (e.g. High Energy Physics, biomedics) / operational support to users research in security, AAA and middleware aspects structuring effect / largest international Grid infrastructure SEE-GRID, led by GRNet, expands EGEE to South Eastern Europe The EGEE project

7. Grid of supercomputers DEISA DEISA, led by CNRS: six major supercomputing centers / > 40 teraflops focus on Global Filing System distributed tera-scale supercomputing facility gigabit interconnection Serving user communities such as material sciences, plasma physics, cosmology, life science, etc… The DEISA project

8. 2005 calls on e Infrastructure and RN Testbeds Year 2006 Year 2005 Research Networking Test-beds Optical, Wireless, Security, Grids, other technologies. Real world settings / user involvement Technology & services interoperability / open source Open test-bed infrastructure Roadmaps, strategic guidance for eInfrastructure eInfrastructure – Grids initiatives Continue building advanced Grid-empowered infrastructures Emphasis on: Production quality & ready-to-use SW-infrastructures Address industry requirements Environments dynamically adaptable to user needs

9. Global perspective GÉANT and NRENs ALICE North America/Japan TEIN2

10. Main areas for collaboration: IPv6 Grid Infrastructures Direct Connectivity Putting these enabling infrastructures in place in the coming months will allow scientific communities like astronomers, high-energy physicists, advanced networking technologies and Grid research to strongly benefit from these new and re-enforced EU-China linking. EU-China co-operation on e Infrastructures

11. Providing direct Gigabit per second connectivity between GÉANT2 and China (CERNET and CSTNET) ORIENT Interconnect the Grid infrastructure (EGEE, DEISA, etc.) in Europe and China (CNGrid) for the benefit of eScience applications. Facilitate exchange and processing of scientific data with a pilot project that interconnects the Grid Infrastructures in Europe and in China. EUChinaGRID New e Infrastructures projects with China

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