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The new challenge for advanced networks: the EU institutions point of view

"INTRODUCING LOLA" WORKSHOP Trieste 4/4/2012

Athina ZAMPARA European Commission

DG INFSO, F3 Géant and e-Infrastructures

Contents

1. 1. e-Infrastructures: what we do 2. 2. The Géant of Networking 3. 3. e-Infrastructures and the Arts and Humanities 4. 4. The future of e-Infrastructures: Horizon 2020 5. 5. The future of Géant 6. 6. What is it for you

1. e-Infrastructures: what we do

Science and ICT

•  Adoption of ICT changes the knowledge discovery process   Open, cross-border & cross-discipline collaboration   Computing, simulation and data: tackling the very small,

very big and very complex   Data-driven discovery   Cost efficiency

The era of e-Science

What about the era of e-Arts?

Global dimension is key characteristic of e-Infrastructures

•  Addressing global challenges •  Global connectivity & interoperability, open

access

•  International cooperation: a positive sum game •  Bilaterally, and in regional and global fora (ITU, UNESCO,

OECD, G8+O5,…)

Scientific facilities, research communities

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e-Infrastructures Vision empower user communities through ubiquitous,

trusted and easy access to services for data, computation, communication and collaborative work

Structure of Global Virtual User Communities

Network/HPC Grid

Scientific Data

Virtual Laboratories

Workspace Meetings, etc.

Network/HPC Grid

Scientific Data



Network/HPC Grid

Scientific Data



Network/HPC

Grid Scientific Data

Involving User Communities

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generic e-Infrastructure… user communities involvement

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D4SCIENCE ETSF

IMPACT METAFOR

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FEDERICA EVALSO

e-Infrastructures spending Main user communities supported

e-Infrastructures Today

Linking at the speed of the light: GÉANT

Accessing knowledge: scientific data and publications

Innovating the knowledge process: global virtual research communities

Experimenting in silico: simulation and visualisation

Sharing the best computational resources: e-Science grid, clouds, supercomputing

Collaborating Grids

Data Services

Community Support Services

Astronomy

Climatology

Chemistry

Biology

•  Computing Infrastructure •  Persistent Storage Capacity

•  Integrity •  Authentication & Security

•  API •  Data Discovery & Navigation

•  Workflows Generation

(Scientific) Data (Discipline Specific)

Other Data

Researcher 1

Non Scientific World

Scientific World

Researcher 2

Aggregated Data Sets (Temporary or Permanent)

Workflows

Aggregation Path

Source: High-level Group on Scientific Data

2. The Géant of Networking

International networking connections

Networking Infrastructures

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To connect facilities and not only

Astronomers are using GÉANT network to connect multiple radio telescopes across Europe and beyond. e-VLBI (real-time, electronic Very Long Baseline Interferometry) connect telescopes to a central a supercomputer, which correlates the data from the telescopes synchronously


How a computer in Germany saves lives in the Philippines: forecasting typhoons and warning of

disasters under the international co-operation enabled by GÉANT and its partners

Bolinao after Emong struck in May 2009

eduROAM and eduGAIN Researchers and Students can carry their digital identity

throughout the European Research Area Access to all the resources they need

No longer a long list of passwords and user accounts - Web Single Sign On


To connect researchers and not only

GÉANT and LOLA: Enabling real-time remote musical collaboration Advanced software and high speed research networks combine to let musicians in multiple locations perform together in perfect harmony

3. e-Infrastructures and the Arts and Humanities

ASTRA (Ancient instruments Sound/Timbre Reconstruction Application)

It was a project that aimed to reconstruct the sound/timbre of ancient musical instruments using archaeological data as fragments from excavations, written descriptions and pictures. The technique used was the physical modelling synthesis, a complex digital audio rendering technique, which allows modelling the time-domain physics of the instrument. Instruments to simulate: monochord, epigonion, chitara, phorminx, panflute

ASTRA (2)

  - Reconstructing the sound of Epigonion is quite demanding in terms of computation

•  - This computing power has only just become readily available thanks to the available Grid environment •  More than 450 computer processors across the

Mediterranean worked together for ASTRA •  - ASTRA not only made it possible to recreate instruments

not existing anymore, it also allows students, researchers, musicians to share experiences and knowledge

INDICATE

•  INDICATE delivers two pilot applications to the Digital Cultural Heritage community:

•  - E-Infrastructure-enabled semantic search for cultural repositories, where data are being semantically enriched and, respective search, retrieval and publishing approaches are evaluated for porting to the e-Infrastructures platform provided by the EUMEDGRID e-Infrastructure and EUMEDCONNECT2 network.

•  - E-Infrastructure-enabled e-Collaborative Digital Archive protected by access control and rights management. This pilot will put in place two e-collaborative repositories.

DARIAH

•  DARIAH (Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities) aims to conceptualise and build a virtual bridge between different humanities and arts resources across Europe. (ESFRI)

•  Just as astronomers require a virtual observatory to study galaxies, researchers in the arts and humanities need a digital infrastructure to access, combine and collaboratively work on their scholarly resources, which include digital content, services and methodologies. DARIAH will be such an infrastructure: it aims to combine various national infrastructures – from the UK’s arts and humanities e-Science initiative projects to the German e-Humanities infrastructure TextGrid – and also to help other EU countries establish their own arts and humanities e-Infrastructures.

Other projects

•  - ATHENA aggregates museum content and promotes standards for museum digitisation and metadata.

•  - The CHAIN project aims to coordinate and leverage the efforts made over the past 6 years to extend the European e-Infrastructure (and particularly Grid) operational and organisational principles to a number of regions in the world. CHAIN uses their results with a vision of a harmonised and optimised interaction model for e-Infrastructure and specifically Grid interfaces between Europe and the rest of the world.

•  - DC-NET - Digital Cultural heritage NETwork aims at developing and at strengthening the co-ordination of the public research programmes among the European countries, in the sector of the digital cultural heritage.

Other projects

•  - D4Science (Data Infrastructures Ecosystem for Science) is a production e-Infrastructure able to support several heterogeneous virtual organizations.

•  - The EPIKH project aims at "connecting", through the adoption and use of Grid training infrastructures, along with that of e-Infrastructures, research & development and innovation with education in order to increase the number of users and scientific applications of these platforms.

•  - EUMEDGRID-Support will make a further step to push towards a larger production quality e-Infrastructure and the adoption of more sustainable organisational models for the provision of services.

Other projects

•  - NET-HERITAGE European Network on Research Programme Applied to the Protection of Tangible Cultural Heritage aims to coordinate national RTD programmes of European countries and support European programmes in research applied to the protection of tangible cultural heritage.

New projects from Call 9

•  DCH-RP: focuses on preservation of infrastructures for digital cultural heritage. It aims to develop a strategy, a set of recommendations and eventually a roadmap which will be validated by interacting with user communities and consulting stakeholders.

•  CHAIN-REDS: The core objective of the project is to promote, co-ordinate and support the efforts of non-European e-Infrastructures for Research and Education in collaborating with Europe.

•  ELCIRA: aims to reinforce collaboration between the research groups in Latin America and Europe, through a series of measures based on services oriented to scientists: video-conferencing, mobility services, transfer of large files and event management. Many services will be offered to VRCs or to communities in a single sign-on environment.

5. The future of e-Infrastructures: Horizon 2020

Horizon 2020: A break from the past

•  The Union’s new funding programme for R&I •  Designed to support the Europe 2020 strategy,

which promotes smart, sustainable and inclusive growth

•  A key tool in implementing the Innovation Union flagship initiative, which provides a comprehensive set of actions for R&I performance

Context

Key novelties

€ 27818 million

€ 20280 million

€ 35888 million

Priorities

Indicative breakdown of budget in EUR million

•  I Excellent science, of which: 27818 •  1. The European Research Council 15008 •  2. Future and Emerging Technologies 3505 •  3. Marie Curie actions on skills, training and career development 6503 •  4. European research infrastructures (including e-Infrastructure) 2802 •  II Industrial leadership, of which: 20280 •  1. Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies 15580 •  2. Access to risk finance 4000 •  3. Innovation in SMEs 700 •  III Societal challenges, of which: 35888 •  1. Health, demographic change and wellbeing 9077 •  2. Food security. sustainable agriculture, marine and maritime •  research and the bio-economy: 4694 •  3. Secure, clean and efficient energy 6537 •  4. Smart, green and integrated transport 7690 •  5. Climate action, resource efficiency and raw materials 3573 •  6. Inclusive, innovative and secure societies 4317 •  European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) 3194 •  Non-nuclear direct actions of the Joint Research Centre 2212 •  87740

Priorities

Supporting our excellent Science Base

•  Supporting world leading scientists in blue skies research (ERC)

•  Providing training and career development opportunities (Marie Curie)

•  Development of future and emerging technologies (FET)

•  Research infrastructures

Excellent science

Horizon 2020 Action Line for RIs within the block “Excellent Science”

Catalysing / leveraging use + development of RIs in Europe   Facilitating use of and access to national RIs of pan-EU interest   Developing pan-European RIs (not forgetting the regional potential)   Fostering e-Infrastructures, supporting e-science

Reinforcing the RI innovation potential & their human capital   Promoting technological innovation   Supporting social innovation

Supporting consistency / efficiency of MSs & EU RI policies   Strengthening the EU-RI policy   At international level as well

WIRE2011, 7th - 9th JUNE 2011

Research Infrastructures

for science and beyond

e-Infrastructures

enabling collaborative, cross-disciplinary, computation and data intensive research

Public clouds

Data-centric Science and Engineering Computing infrastructure

Research and education networks

e-Science policy

International and global collaboration

Services for industry

Key Enabling Technologies

Access to data and knowledge

Public backbone

Access to data and knowledge

Decision making

Big challenges (climate, medicine,

energy)

Innovation enabler

5. The future of Géant

Provide World Class Connectivity and Services to Knowledge Communities •  Support the Growth and Opening up of the Community •  Help to close digital divides •  Hub to the world •  Extend the user base •  Push the State of the Art through Innovation

Reorganize for 2020 •  Prepare for Change •  Ensure Flexibility in Technology and Architecture •  Integrate experimentation, engage in standardisation •  Improve the Governance •  Step up Funding •  Update the Regulatory Regime

Géant Experts Group (GEG) Report - Recommendations

GEG Report - 4 October 2011

CEF Connecting Europe Facility

Funds cross-border projects in: •  Energy, •  Transport and •  Information technology to strengthen the backbone of EU internal market

Digital Service Infrastructures •  Trans-European high-speed backbone connections for

public administrations •  Cross-border delivery of eGovernment services •  Cross-border eHealth services •  Multilingual access to online services •  Enabling access to digital resources of European heritage •  Access to public sector information


6. What is it for you?

•  Understand our priorities •  e-Infrastructure support: ask for help (e-IRG

http://www.e-irg.eu) •  Participate in our calls

•  Support the community with networking services (European and globally)

•  Develop new services that fit your needs •  Use the current services to enhance your knowledge

sharing •  e-learning services •  Pre-commercial procurement for developing new

equipment (for example: quality of service)

Next steps

•  Expand LOLA to other communities – demonstrate its capabilities to other communities

E-learning, e-Health

•  Open your community to new ways of researching, collaborating, teaching and learning with the support of e-Infrastructures

•  Collaborate with all stakeholders to design the new way of communicating and “doing” music

Thank you!

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