1. www.egi.eu EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 EGI-InSPIRE www.egi.eu EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 EGI strategy and Grand Vision Ludek Matyska EGI Council Chair EGI InSPIRE review, 2-7-20141

2. www.egi.eu EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 EGI Grand Vision (1/2) Provide Enabling Services to Researchers –collaboration and partnership with researchers and research communities to the definition and development of requirements –support user-centric development Provide Flexible Virtual Research Environments –distributed computing and data infrastructure –service co-development – joint undertaking of researchers, service and technology providers EGI InSPIRE review, 2-7-20142

3. www.egi.eu EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 EGI Grand Vision (2/2) Operate an Unprecedented European Capability for High Throughput Data Analysis –distributed resource pool, resource allocation, federated cloud infrastructure Develop the human capital –NGI (resource providers) operations management, policy development, technical outreach, technology experts EGI InSPIRE review, 2-7-20143

4. www.egi.eu EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 EGI Vision in a nutshell EGI InSPIRE review, 2-7-20144 Services Open Data Knowledge researchers from all disciplines can easily connect to the most innovative ICT services, data, knowledge and expertise they need for performing collaborative excellent research

5. www.egi.eu EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 Evolution to 2020 By 2020, European researchers will be able to: Access a single point of contact for obtaining the necessary ICT services (integrated and interoperable) the related capacity and support from the various e- Infrastructures (including commercial providers) Connect to the best expert consultancy to understand the services they need or to support developing new solutions to perform their digital research Freely discover, share, use, re-use research outputs (publications, data, software, workflows, …) EGI InSPIRE review, 2-7-20145 Open Science Commons

6. www.egi.eu EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 EGI Mission RI 6 To be a core player of the “backbone” for federation- enabling services for compute, storage, data, communication, knowledge and expertise for the ERA complementing community specific capabilities EGI InSPIRE review, 2-7-2014

7. www.egi.eu EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 Open Science Commons E-Infrastructure Commons –a flexible and dynamic ecosystem providing integrated services through interoperable infrastructures Open Data Commons –observations, results, applications of scientific activities available for anyone to use and reuse Knowledge Commons –collaborations, communities and the shared ownership of knowledge to address challenges in education and research EGI InSPIRE review, 2-7-20147

8. www.egi.eu EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 Strategy for e-Infrastructure Commons A common backbone of federated services –strengthen the relationship between e-Infrastructures Joint capacity planning –policies, processes, access and business models Open integrated resource provisioning/access (marketplace) –includes commercial providers EGI InSPIRE review, 2-7-20148

9. www.egi.eu EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 Strategy for Open Data Commons Open data sharing, curation and long term preservation –expanded and new services Open access policy –sharing of current and future research outputs –easy access control OpenAIRE integration EGI InSPIRE review, 2-7-20149

10. www.egi.eu EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 Strategy for Knowledge Commons Distributed Competence Centers (DCC) –Strong user engagement –Different aspects of knowledge Connectivity, compute and data services Data management and planning Data archives certification … Collaboration with Centers of Excellence in HPC sector Facilitate knowledge transfer to private sector EGI InSPIRE review, 2-7-201410

11. www.egi.eu EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 EGI Solutions Portfolio 11 Federated Operations Federated Cloud Community Driven Innovations and Support High- Throughput Data Analysis Individual Researchers & Teams Research Communities & Institutions Resource Centres & Institutions http://www.egi.eu/solutions EGI InSPIRE review, 2-7-2014

12. www.egi.eu EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 EGI Strategic Actions EGI InSPIRE review, 2-7-201412 New governance model Innovation of the sustainability strategy and business model User engagement strategy

13. www.egi.eu EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 EGI InSPIRE review, 2-7-201413

14. www.egi.eu EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 Enabling services for R&D Data are the driver –Store & move –Process No “one size fits all” research communities Different approaches need specific solutions Higher involvement of user communities in the process of –Defining the e-infrastructure and its services –Pushing the evolution forward User-centric development model EGI InSPIRE review, 2-7-201414

15. www.egi.eu EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 Capability for high throughput data analysis Scientists need access to properly scaled e- infrastructure –Going from smaller through large to huge –Covering storage&network&computing –Resources at the “huge” end beyond scope of institutes or even single countries EGI operates the largest distributed e-infrastrustructure – both compute and data Cloud technology as the enabler –Federated cloud infrastructure –>10M cores & >1 Exabyte of storage EGI InSPIRE review, 2-7-201415

16. www.egi.eu EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 Flexible virtual environments A single service not sufficient –Combination of services (workflows) integrated in a proper supportive environment –Distributed –Combine all aspects Flexible virtual research environments –Emphasis on software co-development Development followed by the operation –Joint undertaking of researchers and IT/e- infrastructure experts and service providers EGI InSPIRE review, 2-7-201416

17. www.egi.eu EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 Human capital Experts the highest asset –EGEE/EGI helped to prepare at least one generation of IT/e-infrastructure experts Human networks –Between institutes/countries –Between scientific domains Virtual centers of excellence –Training –Application development –Consultancy EGI InSPIRE review, 2-7-201417

18. www.egi.eu EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 Impact – Researchers Access to the advanced and continuously evolving e-infrastructures –Data driven –Data analysis Partnership within human networks Collaboration potential Support for excellent science –Not slowed down due to unavailability of resources/environments EGI InSPIRE review, 2-7-201418

19. www.egi.eu EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 Impact – NGIs Organizational aspects Higher integration of individual aspects –Network –Compute –Data Distributed Research Infrastructure –NGIs as building stones –Closer collaboration with other e- infrastructure providers EGI InSPIRE review, 2-7-201419

20. www.egi.eu EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 Impact – Europe EGI currently 35 organizations –EGI.eu as a coordinator Similar number for NRENs –Dante & Terena A Distributed Open Computing and Data Infrastructure for Europe –Efficient use of public investment –High impact on European science –Coordination – lowers the overall cost EGI InSPIRE review, 2-7-201420

21. www.egi.eu EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 EGI role Long term operational experience Pan-European coverage –>35 countries –>21000 researchers using the infrastructure Innovative approaches –Federated clouds –Federated AAI Coordinating body and governance structure –EGI.eu Evolution –Towards DRI –Towards co-development EGI InSPIRE review, 2-7-201421

22. www.egi.eu EGI-InSPIRE RI-261323 Summary A single “e-infrastructure Commons” for knowledge, innovation and science, as a living ecosystem, which is open and accessible and continuously adapts to the changing requirements of research Evolving e-infrastructure that provides high throughput data analysis capability for European scientists EGI InSPIRE review, 2-7-201422