Advanced Computingin Latin America

Cooperación Latinoamericana de Redes Avanzadas, RedCLARA

Luis Núñez, Academic Relations, RedCLARAAlvaro de la Ossa, RedCONARE, Costa Rica

Outline

• RedCLARA specificities

• RedCLARA e-Infrastructure evolution• Inherited e-Infrastructure • RedCLARA Advanced computing service model

• Science Gateway as the center for a sustainability model

• RedCLARA VRCs

• VRC lesson learned• LA ROCs Cooperation• Latest News• Summary

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CLARA specifics

• A non-profit organisation of 15 National Research and Education Networks (NRENs)

• Diversity of technical skills and maturity of local scientific communities of its members

• Brazilian and Venezuelan NRENs are the only ones that have structural governmental support

• Most of other LA countries have built their NRENs with the support of their members, charging them for operations and services

• In the rest of LA countries several different organisational schemes can be found, sometimes involving also the private sector

RedCLARA has to find the most efficient way to operate Advanced Computing e-Infrastructures with a minimum budget and a maximum benefit for its

members

• Mature

• Developing

• Starting

Gov. Supported

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From Networking to Communities

• GISELA 34 production applications inherited EELA /

EELA-2 represent potential communities

• 18 Resources Centres provide skilful personnel to support and develop services in the region

• 435 trained users / 73 inst.• 1794 cores platform• Operation 24/7

EELA

--01/01/2006

--31/12/2007

GIS

ELA

--31/08/2 012

--01/09/2 010

EELA-2

--01/04/2008

--31/03/2010

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e-Infrastructure inherited from EELA and EELA2 projects

EELA

--01/01/2006

--31/12/2007

GISELA

--31/08/2012

--01/09/2010

CHAIN

ALICE2

EELA-2

--01/04/2008

--31/03/2010

Three EC projectscooperating, building VRC

and sustainability plans

• ALICE2 defined RedCLARA Live Product Cycle (LPC)

• CHAIN: – Identifies Advance Computing

Services to build a wide portfolio – Provides the Science Gateway

concept – Uses the LPC definitions to

build a Service Model

• GISELA takes advantage from the Services Model and builds an Advanced Computing Business Plan

Sharing interest in VRC and

Sustainability Plan for services

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RedCLARA Advanced Computing model

• AC Expertise Transfer. Technical consulting to assist in-house applications

• Federated Authentication Resources. Grant-authorized access to use the federated resources at a continental scale

• Application Shelf Service. Application shelf allows users, industrial partners and/or NRENs to contract computing resources

• Virtual Resources Grid Allocation. Virtual services e-infrastructure, such as environments, cores/storage/network provisioning

• Data Preservation Services. Offer the possibility to store data for a period of time

• Training and Capacity Building Service. Increase the use and culture of Advanced Computing Services by providing people the information and the skills needed to exploit them

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Science GatewayService model

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RedCLARA advanced computingVRC organisational model

NOC

Regional NOC+NOC

NETWORK MANAGER (NSC)

CLARA

Country LA–1REUNA

Country LA–2

Country LA–N

GOC

Regional GOC+GOC

NGI or EDGS

APPLICATIONS MANAGER

Grid Community Coordinator

NGI or EDGS NOC

NGI or EDGS

GOC

Complex Model

Cooperative Broker Model

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First, Second year of operation after GISELA: ½ FTE for administrative purposes as contracts, billing and expenditures ½ FTE for technical support 1 FTE for marketing and sales

Third year1 FTE – Administrative1 FTE – Technical1 FTE – sales

Sustainability forecast

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Advantages of the regional,cooperative sustainability model

User

Grid

ScienceGateway

Authentication

Cloud

Virtual Instrumen

ts

Virtual Servers

CommercialProviders

• Solidarity, on-demand resources (hardware, software & manware), from research groups to research groups

• Less developed countries/research groups can access advance computing resources

• Sharing operational cost among the countries/research centres

• Replicating other services in the RedCLARA Operational Structure

• High bandwidth and low latency from the experimental academic advanced networks

• Better use of existent computational infrastructure and expertise from different countries

• Promoting local middleware solutions better suited for the region

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VRC strategic approach

• Identify most relevant research areas for LA for international cooperation

• Get a better knowledge of research groups by several means: personal visits, participation in their meetings

• Promote incentives for communities working on MDG and FP7 priority topics

• Build strong relationships with regional, other European and international S&T agencies for fruitful cooperation

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Synergies with other VRC projects/new communities

• Database of available funding for Research and Innovation in Latin America, development funded by FEMCIDI (OAS) – Database is available and working; will be linked to CHAIN Knowledge Base– Permanent population of the database being funded by ALICE2 project

• Three new communities funded by IDB project– Seismology/Tsunami alert– Health/Tropical Diseases– Renewable Energy/Bio-fuels

• Looking for new communities and alliances:

– WHO/PAHO: Network of university hospitals – CYTED/ALFA Communities

– NanoAndes Community (LA-France Cooperation)

– RISC EU Project.: A Network for supporting the coordination of supercomputing research between Europe and Latin America

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LA regional communities

1. LACXSER (LAtinoamerican Colaboratory of eXperimental Software Engineering Research)

2. ReLANS (Red Latinoamericana de Nanotecnología y Sociedad)

3. MAYA (Red de Microorganismos, Agricultura y Alimentos)

4. MCISur (Manejo Costero Integrado del Cono Sur)

5. LAGO (Large Aperture Gamma Ray Burst Observatory)

6. MAPA D2 (Mapa e Programa de artes em danca digital)

7. LACLO (Latin American Community of Learning Objects)

8. CoLaBoRa (Comunidad Latinoamericana de Bibliotecas y Repositorios Digitales)

9. URDIMBRE (Research of the impact of TIC in education)

1. LAGO (Large Aperture Gamma Ray Burst Observatory)

2. MAPA D2 (Mapa e Programa de artes em danca digital)

3. LACLO (Latin American Community of Learning Objects

4. CoLaBoRa (Comunidad Latinoamericana de Bibliotecas y Repositorios Digitales)

5. FLU‐CAP Programa de Influenza para Centroamérica y Panamá

6. TIC en FID Formación Docente Inicial7. ACHALAI Red internacional de recuperación del

patrimonio inmaterial de tradiciones musicales8. Grid Computación Científica y de Alto

Rendimiento9. ARCU-RED Comunidad de arte y cultura en la

red10. IPOL-LA Image Processing Online Latin America11. CLARISE Comunidad Latinoamericana Abierta

Regional de Investigación Social y Educativa12. Latin IDE Comunidad Latinoamericana de

Infraestructura de Datos Espaciales13. CLIC Comunidad Latinoamericana de

Investigación y Construcción de Conocimiento

ComCLARA2011

ComCLARA2010

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Regional LA Communities: lessons learned

• Tight follow-up of community activities– Monthly meetings + reports / weekly mails and contacts

• Rapid response on service demands (NREN help)

• Need community managerial skills (training? management?)

• Compel proposal for long-term sustainability• Openness to the inclusion of new members• Inter-community relations within LA and linking to others in EU

– Scientific data / learning object repositories

– Georeference for health care and disaster mitigation

– Share and develop managerial skills from more expert leaders

– Joint proposal from present communities

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Science Gateway Service model

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Science Gateway

RedCLARA advanced computingVRC organisational model

NOC

Regional NOC+NOC

NOC

NETWORK MANAGER (NSC)

CLARA

Country LA–1REUNA

Country LA–2

Country LA–N

GOC

GOC

Regional GOC+GOC

NGI or EDGS

NGI or EDGS

NGI or EDGS

APPLICATIONS MANAGER

Grid Community Coordinator

Complex Model

Cooperative Broker Model

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• 3NRENs + 2Insts

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pport

• CUDI-mx,

RENATA-co and C

EDIA-ec

• UNAM-mx,

UniAndes-c

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• Negotiatio

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• Mesoameric

a project to su

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inability

Latest News• CUDI, CEDIA, RENATA joint effort to mantain

Advanced Computing Services in Latin América.• UNAM and UniAndes back this important support

HealthMaterials Technologies ICT (e-Government)ICT (Grids)ICT (Digital Libraries)Energy Technologies (Renewable Energies)FoodWaterSocial SciencesBiotechnologiesAstronomyEducationNatural DisastersCultural Heritage (Archaeology and Immaterial Patrimony)

RedCLARA-identifiedareas for possible VRCs

• Mature

• Developing

• Starting

Gov. Supported

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Mesoamerican/Caribbean Risk Management System

• Mesoamerican Integration and Development Project (MIDP), IDB funded http://www.proyectomesoamerica.org/

• Sharing sensors, computing & communications resources

• Profiting from data management for modeling severe climate events

• Defining mitigation actions and responses to handle severe climate events

• Mexico, Central American countries, Colombia & Caribbean countries

• RedCLARA IDB-promoted VRC

• Researchers from: mx, ni, cr, pa, co, ve, cl

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Formal appointments with S&T Decision Makers

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