Research Infrastructures for e-Science

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

2. Overview • A European vision for the future • 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. ESFRI E urope an S trate gy F orum o n Research Infrastructures ESFRI Roadmap • 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. Sweden + UK committed

9. Construction started International treaty signed Site selected Funded 2009-15

11. E-Infrastructures Common ESFRI Issues e-Infrastructure Reflection Group 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 • Access • Distributed activities • Data deluge • Data processing • Data management • Data access • Lack of understanding • Requirements • Opportunities HPC

12. 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

15. Networking: GEANT

16. HPC: PrACE  3-5 systems 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 PRACE Creation in early 2010 Interim Office in Lisbon Open competition for final Seat First machine likely to be German

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

18. UK NGI NGS

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22. Virtual Research Communities INFRA-2010-1.2.3: 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.

23. Proposed next steps DRAFT • Use these contacts to build matrix for technical requirements & organisational aspects Bob Jones - EGEE09

24. UK e - Infrastructure get common access, tools, information, Users Nationally supported services, through NGS HPCx + HECtoR Regional and HEIs Campus grids Community Grids Integrated internationally LHC VRE, VLE, IE ISIS TS2

25. Collaborating e-Infrastructures CNGrid Bob Jones - EGEE09

26. 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 ...