1. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026409 www.eu-eela.org E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America Grid projects in Europe Giuseppe Andronico INFN Sezione di Catania 1° EELA Workshop, 24.04.2006

2. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026409 E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America 1° EELA Workshop, Merida, 20.04.2006 The Grid “ecosystem”... LCG 2004 2001 EGEE Used in USA EU NextGrid DEISA GridCC Future grids EDG GlobusMyProxyCondor... VDT DataTAG CrossGrid... OSG, … SRM …

3. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026409 E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America 1° EELA Workshop, Merida, 20.04.2006 EGEE and EGEE-II Aim of EGEE: “to establish a seamless European Grid infrastructure for the support of the European Research Area (ERA)” Achievements of EGEE: –Exceeding almost all final goals –Scope expanded beyond Europe Transition EGEE  EGEE-II –EGEE conceived as first two years of four-year plan –Services continuously available EGEE-II start:  Full capacity from day one  Large-scale, production-quality infrastructure  Supporting a wide range of applications  Staff with extensive knowledge of Grid technology

4. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026409 E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America 1° EELA Workshop, Merida, 20.04.2006 EGEE Infrastructure Some 200 Sites connected to EGEE Infrastructure Compare to now over 90 Partners

5. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026409 E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America 1° EELA Workshop, Merida, 20.04.2006 EGEE Relations Different kinds of relations: Partners of EU Project EGEE / EGEE-II (Voluntary) Contributors to the EGEE Infrastructure Independent EGEE Infrastructure Providers National/Regional Grid Projects building on or connecting to EGEE

6. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026409 E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America 1° EELA Workshop, Merida, 20.04.2006 National Grids Great investment in developing Grid technology Sample of National Grid projects: –Austrian Grid Initiative –DutchGrid –France: Grid’5000; 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

7. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026409 E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America 1° EELA Workshop, Merida, 20.04.2006 EGEE Relations Different kinds of relations: Partners of EU Project EGEE / EGEE-II (Voluntary) Contributors to the EGEE Infrastructure Independent EGEE Infrastructure Providers National/Regional Grid Projects building on or connecting to EGEE Independent Grid Infrastructure Projects Related Projects: –Infrastructure Projects –Application Projects –Support Projects

8. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026409 E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America 1° EELA Workshop, Merida, 20.04.2006 Related Projects

9. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026409 E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America 1° EELA Workshop, Merida, 20.04.2006 Related Projects

10. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026409 E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America 1° EELA Workshop, Merida, 20.04.2006 EGEE Related Projects Infrastructure Projects –DEISA, SEEGRID –New: BalticGrid, EELA, EUChinaGrid, EUMedGrid, …

11. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026409 E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America 1° EELA Workshop, Merida, 20.04.2006 Infrastructure Projects BalticGrid To extend European Grid in Baltic States DEISA To deploy and operate a persistent, production quality, distributed supercomputing environment with continental scope EELA To create a human network and a grid infrastructure between Europe and Latino America EUChinaGrid To extend European GRID infrastructure for e-Science to China EUMEDGRID To extend European GRID infrastructure in the Mediterranean SEE-GRID To extend European GRID infrastructure to the South East Europe

12. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026409 E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America 1° EELA Workshop, Merida, 20.04.2006 Support Projects BELIEF To facilitate knowledge-exchange on eInfrastructures eIRGSP To support the creation of a framework for the easy and cost-effective shared use of distributed electronic resources across Europe ETICS To improve the quality of Grid and distributed software by offering a practical quality assurance process to software projects ICEAGE To catalyze infrastructure and skills for a more effective contribute to ERA ISSeG To contribute to the consolidation of the European Grid infrastructure in the field of computer security OMII – Europe To harvest open-source, WebServices-based, grid software from across Europe and to supply these key grid services in a form that will allow them to interoperate across heterogeneous infrastructures

13. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026409 E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America 1° EELA Workshop, Merida, 20.04.2006 Application Projects BIOINFOGRID To make research in the fields of Genomics, Proteomics, Transcriptomics and applications in Molecular Dynamics much easier using Grid Infrastructures DILIGENT To build a test-bed by integrating Grid and Digital Library GRIDCC To extend usual Grid to include access to and control of distributed instrumentation Health-e-Child An integrated platform for European paediatrics based on a Grid-enabled network of leading clinical centres

14. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026409 E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America 1° EELA Workshop, Merida, 20.04.2006 EGEE Related Projects Application Projects –DILIGENT –New: BIOINFOGRID, Health-e-Child, … Support Projects –New: BELIEF, ETICS, eIRGSP, ICEAGE, ISSeG, …

15. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026409 E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America 1° EELA Workshop, Merida, 20.04.2006 Synergies between Projects Cooperation between projects is important –To detect and exploit synergies –To interoperate in different areas (expertise, services, …) –To best serve science in Europe and World-wide Possible areas of cooperation with EGEE –Infrastructure related  exchanging or using facilities such as computing, storage, networks, …  other areas such as operations, user support, … –Middleware –Applications –Training –Dissemination and Policies.

16. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026409 E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America 1° EELA Workshop, Merida, 20.04.2006 EGEE and Related Projects EGEE NA5 – Policy and International Cooperation eConcertation Events Contributions to eIRG Workshops and White Papers Dedicated Meetings at EGEE Conferences

17. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026409 E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America 1° EELA Workshop, Merida, 20.04.2006 EGEE’06 Conference EGEE’06 – Capitalising on e-infrastructures –Demos –Related Projects –Industry –International community (UN organisations in Geneva etc.) 25-29 September 2006 Geneva, Switzerland http://www.cern.ch/egee-intranet/conferences/EGEE06

18. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026409 E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America 1° EELA Workshop, Merida, 20.04.2006 Time Scales

19. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026409 E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America 1° EELA Workshop, Merida, 20.04.2006 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

20. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026409 E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America 1° EELA Workshop, Merida, 20.04.2006 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

21. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026409 E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America 1° EELA Workshop, Merida, 20.04.2006 EGEE as Incubator EGEE is taking its role as “Incubator” very seriously EGEE understands and accepts its responsibility and tries hard to live up to these expectations

22. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026409 E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America 1° EELA Workshop, Merida, 20.04.2006 EGEE Uptake

23. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026409 E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America 1° EELA Workshop, Merida, 20.04.2006 EGEE Uptake

24. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026409 E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America 1° EELA Workshop, Merida, 20.04.2006 EGEE Acceptance? EGEE is being accepted as robust, reliable grid infrastructure and as a matter of course

25. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026409 E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America 1° EELA Workshop, Merida, 20.04.2006 EGEE as Incubator EGEE is taking its role as “Incubator” very seriously EGEE understands and accepts its responsibility and tries hard to live up to these expectations EGEE profits from: ideas, input and feedback for better cooperation and to further exploit synergies Cooperation is difficult Success is mandatory in order to build the future environment for serving and advancing European and world-wide Science Synergies and cooperation is key for all of us

26. FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026409 E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America 1° EELA Workshop, Merida, 20.04.2006 EGEE Relations Grid is about people working together!