1. Research Infrastructures for e-Science
Neil Geddes
e-Science Director, STFC

2. Overview A European vision for the future Networking and HPC
European Research Area
European Research Infrastructures
European e-Infrastructure
Networking and HPC
EGI and NGI
Rest of the World
Summary and conclusions

3. Research Infrastructures and the European Research Area
Lisbon 2000
 "the most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy in the world capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion, and respect for the environment by 2010“
Europe has a long tradition of excellence in research and innovation;
European teams continue to lead progress in many fields of science and technology;
However our centres of excellence often fail to reach critical mass in the absence of adequate networking and cooperation;
Need to bring resources together and build a research and innovation equivalent of the "common market".

4. European Research Area
ERA
scientific research programmes integrating the EUs scientific resources.
concentrated on multi-national co-operation
medical, environmental, industrial and socio-economic research
European Research council, research Infrastructures ...
The European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI)
Launched in April 2002
Commissioned to produce a forward look Roadmap
Brings together 27 MS, 5 AS, 1 EC member

5. ESFRI Roadmap European Strategic Forum for Research Infrastructures
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European Strategic Forum for Research Infrastructures
develop the scientific integration of Europe and strengthen its international outreach
Roadmap
identifies new Research Infrastructure (RI) of pan-European interest corresponding to the long term needs of the European research communities, covering all scientific areas, regardless of possible location.
Projects must be “open access” and genuinely Pan-European or Global
next 10 to 20 years
different degrees of maturity
supported by a relevant European partnership or
intergovernmental research organisations.
enhancement of the European Research Area

6. CESSDA - Council of European Social Science Data Archives
CLARIN = Common LAnguage Resource and Technology Infrastructure
DARIAH - Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities
ESS – European Social Survey
SHARE - Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe

7. Sweden + UK committed EBMRC – Marine Biology
INSTRUCT – Integrated Structural Biology Infrastructure for Europe
ECRIN - European Clinical Research Infrastructures Network
EU-Openscreen - European Infrastructure of Open Screening Platforms, integrates high- throughput screening platforms, chemical libraries, chemical resources for hit discovery and optimisation, bio- and cheminformatics.
INFRAFRONTIER - infrastructure large-scale phenotyping and archiving of mouse models
EATRIS - European Advanced Translational Research Infrastructure in Medicine
BLS4 – Bio Security Laboraties – level 4.
ELIXIR -  a sustainable infrastructure for biological information in Europe
Rueo-Bio-Imaging
Sweden + UK
committed

8. AURORA BOREALIS - Research icebreaker for deep drilling
EMSO - European multidisciplinary seafloor obervation (continuous monitoring system)
EUFAR , a Heavy-Payload fleet of airborne research in Environmental and Geo-Sciences
EURO-ARGO, a world wide in situ global ocean observing system based on autonomous profiling floats
IAGOS-ERI commercial passenger aircraft operated for a RI for regular observations of atmospheric composition
ICOS Integrated Carbon Observation System
LIFE WATCH, biodiversity RI brings together hardware, software and governance structures

9. Jules Horowitz Reactor - Research reactor for materials studies and novel fuel development. Cadarache (2014)
 International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility (IFMIF)
High Power laser for Energy Research (design study to 2012)
European Carbon dioxide Capture and Storage Experimental Laboratory

10. International treaty signed
Construction started
International treaty signed
Site selected
XFEL - Denmark, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Russia, the Slovak Republic, Sweden and Switzerland signed the “Convention concerning the Construction and Operation of a European X-ray Free-Electron Laser Facility” – as the official title of the English version of the convention reads. For internal reasons, France and Spain will sign the Convention a bit later. China and the United Kingdom plan to join within the next six months.
EMFL – European Magnetic Field Laboratory.
ESRF Upgrade - In 2008, the Council of the ESRF launched theESRF Upgrade Programme , an ambitious ten-year project serving a community of more than 10,000 scientists.
Funding for a first phase of the Upgrade (from 2009 to 2015) has been secured to deliver:
Eight new beamlines with capabilities unique in the world
Refurbishment of many existing beamlines to maintain them at world-class level
Continued world leadership for X-ray beam availability, stability and brilliance
Major new developments in synchrotron radiation instrumentation
Funded

11. ELI – Extreme Light Infrastruture
FAIR – Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research
SKA – Square Kilometer Array
ELT – Extremely Large Telescope.
PRINS
KM3Net – neutrino telescope – 1 km**3 water in mediteranean
SPIRAL2 – GANIL upgrade, French heavy ion research accelrator
CTA – Cerenkov Telescope Array

12. E-Infrastructures HPC Access Distributed activities Data deluge
Common ESFRI Issues
e-Infrastructure Reflection Group
Access
Distributed activities
Data deluge
Data processing
Data management
Data access
Lack of understanding
Requirements
Opportunities
Support the creation framework for electronic resources across Europe.
Political, technological and administrative
Cost effective, shared
Particular attention is directed towards grid computing, storage, and networking
Supporting research
HPC

13. E-IRG Roadmap 2005 and 2007 What is an e-Infrastructure? Networking
Middleware
Authentication and authorisation
Resources
Supercomputers, grids, storage …
Data handling
Scientific collaboration
Working together with industry

17. Networking: GEANT

18. HPC: PrACE  3-5 systems PRACE Creation in early 2010
Preparatory Phase:
Principal Partners
France
Germany
The Netherlands
Spain UK
General Partners
Austria
Finland
Greece
Italy
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Sweden
Switzerland
Additional General Partners
Bulgaria
Czech Republic
Cyprus
Ireland
Serbia
Turkey
There is not a lot that can be publicly said about UK participation -  we are working through the various aspects and will be having a discussion with EPSRC Council in December.
UK Position
EPSRC has been an active participant in the preparatory phase project along with colleagues from University of Edinburgh and Daresbury Laboratory. EPSRC has been the UK rep on the management board
PRACE Creation in early 2010
Interim Office in Lisbon
Open competition for final Seat
First machine likely to be German

19. Grid: EGI EGI.eu Office in Amsterdam (March)
Information catalogs, AAA,
Metadata/data catalogs,
File replication, file transfer
Job brokering
Interfaces and portals
...

20. UK NGI
NGS

22. Data:

23. Data:

24. Virtual Research Communities
INFRA : Virtual Research Communities
The main objective is to enable an ever increasing number of users from all science and engineering disciplines and beyond to access and effectively use e-Infrastructures in order to increase their participation in research of global relevance and/or to allow them to access and share facilities, instruments, software and data from wherever they are based [...] The deployment and further evolution of e-Infrastructures addressing the research infrastructures (and related scientific communities) of the ESFRI-roadmap is particularly encouraged.
Deployment of e-Infrastructures in scientific communities...
Deployment of new types of e-infrastructure services and tools ...
Training in the use of advanced information and communication tools and virtual research environments in order to enable researchers to use e-Infrastructures.
Addressing human, social and economic factors influencing the creation of sustainable virtual research communities as well as the take up/maintenance of e-Infrastructure services by communities.

25. DRAFT Proposed next steps
Use these contacts to build matrix for technical requirements & organisational aspects
requirement
CLARIN
DARIAH/ CESSDA
EISCAT3D
EPOS
LIFEWATCH
ELIXIR
XFEL
CTA
FAIR
SKA
Single
sign-on
Persistent storage
Global
workflows
Virt Org
stds
DRAFT
Bob Jones - EGEE09

26. UK e - Infrastructure HEIs HPCx + HECtoR Regional and Campus grids
Users
get common access, tools, information,
Nationally supported services, through NGS
HPCx +
HECtoR
Regional and
HEIs
Campus grids
Community Grids
Where we see ourselves fitting into the much bigger picture
Integrate internationally with other grid projects such as EGEE and Teragrid
Integrated
internationally
LHC
VRE, VLE, IE
ISIS TS2

27. Collaborating e-Infrastructures
CNGrid
Bob Jones - EGEE09

28. Summary
European Research Area driven by societal needs and world leading research
ICT infrastructure services fully integrated and central to enabling full exploitation and benefits from ERA infrastructures
Standards based coordination and integration essential to supporting the required multi and inter-disciplinary challenges of the 21st century
Data, PrACE, EGI, NGI’s, GEANT ...