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EGEE: an international Grid infrastructure project. By Fabrizio Gagliardi EGEE Project Director CERN Geneva Switzerland. What is EGEE?. 70 leading institutions in 27 countries, federated in regional Grids 32 M € EU contribution in 2004-5 to a total budget in the order of 100 M €
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EGEE: an international Grid infrastructure project By Fabrizio Gagliardi EGEE Project Director CERN Geneva Switzerland
What is EGEE? • 70 leading institutions in 27 countries, federated in regional Grids • 32 M € EU contribution in 2004-5 to a total budget in the order of 100 M € • Aiming for a combined capacity of over 20’000 CPUs (one of the largest international Grid infrastructures ever assembled) • ~ 300 dedicated staff More info on EGEE project: www.eu-egee.org Brussels - IST-FP6 Grid Projects Launch and Concertation
EGEE Activities • Emphasis on operating a production grid and supporting several scientific communities • 48 % service activities (Grid Operations, Support and Management, Network Services) • 24 % middleware re-engineering (Quality Assurance, Security, Network Services Development) • 28 % networking (Management, Dissemination and Outreach, User Training and Education, Application Identification and Support, Policy and International Cooperation) Brussels - IST-FP6 Grid Projects Launch and Concertation
EGEE pilot applications: HEP & Biomedical HEP: • Large Hydron Collider (CERN) experiments: • large scale data challenges (DCs) • thousands of processors world-wide • generating Perabytes (PB) of data • The 4 LHC experiments and other current HEP experiments already use grid technology (LCG) Biomedics: • Bioinformatics (gene/proteome databases distributions) • Medical applications (screening, epidemiology, image databases distribution, etc.) • Interactive application (human supervision or simulation) Brussels - IST-FP6 Grid Projects Launch and Concertation
Generic Application Support • Getting new scientific/industrial communities interested and committed to use the EGEE grid infrastructure is key to the success of the project • EGEE Generic Applications Advisory Panel established • Selected applications: • Astrophysics (EVO and Planck satellite) • Earth Observation (ozone maps, seismology, climate) • Digital Libraries (DILIGENT Project) • Grid Search Engines (GRACE Project) • Industrial applications (SIMDAT Project) • Interest shown: Computational Chemistry (Italy/Czech Republic), Civil Engineering (Spain), and Geophysics (Switzerland/France) communities Brussels - IST-FP6 Grid Projects Launch and Concertation
EGEE and LCG • EGEE builds on the work of LCG and previous Grid projects (EU DataGrid, US VDT) to establish a grid operations service • LCG (LHC Computing Grid) - Building and operating the LHC Grid • A collaboration between: • Physicists and computing specialists from the LHC experiment • European & US projects that develop Grid middleware • Regional and national computing centres that provide resources for LHC • HEP-LCG testbed LCG-2/EGEE-0: • more than 70 sites worldwide • 7000 CPUs • 4 PB of storage Brussels - IST-FP6 Grid Projects Launch and Concertation
User training and induction • Training material and courses from introductory to advanced level developed at NeSC in UK • Train a wide variety of users both internal to the EGEE consortium and external groups from around the world • 12 courses/presentations already held, many more planned in the future • Experience with GENIUS portal and GILDA testbed (provided by INFN) • Major participation to second International Grid school in Italy Brussels - IST-FP6 Grid Projects Launch and Concertation
Expected results and benefits • A production infrastructure for academic applications (open to industrial and socio-economic world as well) • O(3000) users after year 2 from at least 5 disciplines • Large and affordable on-demand computing for the benefit of the international scientific community • Industrial take-up by industry expected Application domains and timelines are for illustration only Brussels - IST-FP6 Grid Projects Launch and Concertation