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EGI – Organisation overview and outreach
Catherine Gater
EGI.eu
Netherlands
What is EGI?
• Why build a European Grid Infrastructure?
“Infrastructure is the basic physical and organisational structures needed for the operation of a society or
enterprise, or the services and facilities necessary for an economy to function” (Wikipedia)
The Enterprise is the European Research Area
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What is a grid?
• A grid consists of distributed resources, controlled by separate organisations.
• These resources can be used systematically and securely by users external to that organisation.
• Resources can include:– Commodity or HPC clusters– Disk or tape storage– Instruments– Data Archives or Digital Libraries
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What does a grid look like?
ArcheologyAstronomyAstrophysicsCivil ProtectionComp. ChemistryEarth SciencesFinanceFusionGeophysicsHigh Energy PhysicsLife SciencesMultimediaMaterial Sciences…
What does a grid do?
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What does a grid do?
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EGI Collaboration
NGI
NGI
NGI
NGI
ResearchCommunity
ResearchCommunity
ResearchCommunity
ResearchCommunity
EIRO
EIRO
EGI.eu
ResearchCommunity
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EGI.eu
• EGI = European Grid Infrastructure• EGI.eu = Stichting European Grid Initiative
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• EGI.eu– 21 members of staff– Based on the Science Park– Director is Steven Newhouse– Governed by an Executive Board
day-to-day– Overseen by a larger Council with
representatives from 33 countries / EIROs
– Celebrated our first birthday on 8th February!
EGI-InSPIRE
Integrated Sustainable Pan-European Infrastructure for Researchers in Europe
• A 4 year project with €25M EC contribution– Project cost €72M– Total Effort ~€330M– Effort: 9261PMs
Project Partners (47)
EGI.eu, 37 NGIs, 2 EIROs
Asia Pacific (8 partners)
Funded
Un-Funded
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Aims of the project
• Continue towards a sustainable production infrastructure– With infrastructure providers in Europe and around
the world – With new Distributed Computing Infrastructure
technologies as they mature
• Provide support to current structured international research communities– Sustain current domain specific services – Attract new user communities (e.g. ESFRI)
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EGI means innovation• Deploy Technology Innovation
– Distributed Computing continues to evolve• To include: Grids, Desktops, Virtualisation,
Clouds, …• Enable Software Innovation
– Provide reliable persistent technology platform• Tools built on gLite/UNICORE/ARC/Globus
• Support Research Innovation– Infrastructure for data driven research
• Support for international research (e.g. ESFRI)
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Supporting users• Support User Communities
– Researchers in International Collaborations– National Research Collaborations through the NGI– Scale up from the single Virtual Organisation to a
community• Provide a federated Helpdesk linking:
– Discipline specific support (e.g. Bio Apps)– National Grid Infrastructures– Generic services (e.g. Training)
• Provide core services to support users– Manage VOs, Application Database, Training
Database
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And more…• Dissemination
– With NGIs, VRCs and other projects
• Support for Heavy User Communities– General and community specific
services
• Events– Two Annual meetings:
User and Technology Forums
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Dissemination in EGI• Global task
– 96 PM in the Global task for EGI.eu• NGI International task
– 37 partners– 31 funded European partners– 6 unfunded non-European partners
(Taiwan, Australia, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines
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Target audiences• Primary audiences:
– New user communities (social sciences, environmental sciences, materials sciences etc.)
– Existing user communities (life sciences, physics, earth sciences etc.)– Journalists– General public– National Grid Infrastructures (NGIs) and European International
Research Organisations (EIROs)– Resource providers– Collaborating projects– Decision makers– Governmental representatives
• Secondary audiences– Secondary schools, educational institutions– Local communities in the partner countries
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Reaching new users
Self-sustainableuser
communities
EGI dissemination
EGI infrastructure
services
EGI User
Support
Users
End users
Grid application developers
System administrators
Representatives of scientific
communities
Success stories
Lessons learnt
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Top level messages• What the project is about;• Which resources, infrastructure and services the project can provide;• Which applications/scientific fields are already using the EGI;• Benefits for potential users;• Comparison of grids, cloud computing and other distributed computing
infrastructures;• The project’s potential to revolutionise the way scientists work;• How to get involved;• Major developments such as:
– New applications;– Key milestones;– Key events;
• Who is involved in the project;• The future beyond EGI-InSPIRE for a sustainable infrastructure.
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Publications
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Website and wiki
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Events
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ISC, Hamburg, June 2010
eChallenges, Warsaw, October 2010OGF30/GRID2010, Brussels, November 2010
Social media
http://twitter.com/egi_inspire
http://www.youtube.com/europeangrid
http://www.flickr.com/photos/european_grid_initiative
http://www.facebook.com
http://www.linkedin.com
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Collaboration
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• Working with e-ScienceTalk to communicate the success stories of e-Infrastructures to policy makers, general public, scientists and students
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The future…
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