1. Co-ordination & Harmonisation of Advanced e-Infrastructures for Research and Education Data Sharing Research Infrastructures Grant Agreement n. 306819 CHAIN-REDS Project Overview Federico Ruggieri, INFN (Coordinator) e-AGE 2012 – Dubai 12-13 December 2012

2. The many faces of eInfrastructures  The High Speed Communication Network  The High Performance Computing for highly parallel applications  The Grid for High Throughput Computing and resource sharing  The Clouds for elastic resource provisioning  Data Infrastructures with several issues such as: Large data volumes, Curation, Access, High Availability, etc.  The Human Network: researchers working together sharing motivations, objectives, tools and resources 2

3. Why ? The e-Infrastructures promote the usage of network connectivity and stimulate scientific and technical development of countries contribute to fight the digital divide and brain drain. 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) Disparity can be reduced and larger participation and contributions to high quality research.

4. Regional Grid infrastructures CNGrid NKN & Garuda EUAsiaGrid SAGrid & SANREN GISELA 4

5. Status  Co-ordination & Harmonisation of Advanced e-Infrastructures for Research and Education Data Sharing  Research Infrastructures – Support Action  Grant Agreement n. 306819  Total Costs of € 2.3 M  Max. EC contribution: € 1.52 M  Start date: 1 December 2012  Duration: 30 Months 5

6. Partners and roles 6  INFN (IT) – Coordinator  CIEMAT (ES) – WP4 Leader  GRNET (GR) – WP3 Leader  CESNET (CZ) – WP5 Leader  UBUNTUNET (MW) – Africa  CLARA (UR) – Latin America  IHEP (CN) – China  ASREN (DE) – Arab States  SIGMA-ORIONIS (FR) – WP2 Leader  [PSA (IN) – India]

7. CHAIN-REDS Objectives  Extend and consolidate international cooperation of Europe with other regions of the world in the domain of e-Infrastructures for Research and Education  Promote, coordinate and support the effort of a critical mass of non-European e-Infrastructures for R&E to collaborate with Europe addressing interoperability and interoperation of Grids and other DCIs  Study the opportunities of data sharing across different e-Infrastructures and continents widening the scope of the existing CHAIN Knowledge Base to Data Infrastructures and Cloud implementations  Promote trust building towards open Scientific Data infrastructures across the world regions, including organisational, operational and technical aspects  Demonstrate the relevance of intercontinental cooperation in several scientific data fields addressing existing and emerging VRCs and propose pragmatic approaches that could impact the everyday work of the single researcher, even if not structured in a VRC  Provide guidance and recommendations for roadmaps for long-term global collaboration in e-Infrastructures and harmonization of existing polices 7

8. Work-plan 8 Data Infrastructures (WP4) MoUs with VRCs Support to small groups and emerging communities (WP5) Dissemination, Training and Outreach WP2 Interoperation & Coordination of eInfrastructures (WP3) ROCs Federations & Clouds CHAIN Knowledge Base Science Gateways Identity Federations Collaboration with other projects Recommendations

9. Extend Knowledge Base to Data 9 www.chain-project/knowledge-base

10. Support Regional Operation Centres http://roc.africa-grid.org 10

11. ....... Science Gateway Science Gateway App. 1 App. 2 App. N Embedded Applications Administrator Power User Basic User Users from different organisations having different roles and privileges Promote the Science Gateway model Standard-based middleware-independent Grid Engine Standard-based middleware-independent Grid Engine 11 Europe, Africa, Asia Pacific, Latin America Brasil China India

12. Worldwide Interoperability Demo 12

13. 13 science-gateway.chain-project.eu

14. Other objectives/activities 14 for Research and Education Cloud Support for coordination of Cloud developments for Research & Education with other regions (e.g. China, India, Latin America) Federations of Identity Providers IDF Foster the creation of Identity Federations in cooperation with Certification Authorities; promote and coordinate their usage. Support integration of different AA approaches

15. Considerations for the Arab Region  Capacity building:  new professional skills are needed  high qualified training is fundamental  Community building:  Scientists and users have to be involved and supported  New communites should be created  National Organisation:  National Research and Education Networks are key for community building  National Grid Initiatives create the necessary Distributed Computing Infrastructure  Regional Organisation (ASREN):  Extend the organisation with new shareholders  Create a group of technical people to support the community  Provide services to the community 15

16. www.chain-project.eu 16

17. Kick-Off Meeting in Dubai 14 December 2012 co-located with e-AGE 2012 17 Thank you !