From GEANT to Grid empowered Research

Infrastructures

ANTONELLA KARLSONDG INFSO Research Infrastructures

Grids Information Day25 March 2003

From GEANT to Grid empowered Research

Infrastructures

ANTONELLA KARLSONDG INFSO Research Infrastructures

Grids Information Day25 March 2003

The transition

from FP5 to FP6

Research Infrastructures

Networks for research

Research on networking

European research networking backbone - GEANT

International Strategy and benchmarking - SERENATE

GRIDS

cluster GRIDSTART

IPv6

cluster 6LINK

OpticalAccesstechn.

Digitallibraries QoS ……

RESEARCH

NETWORKING

Grid projects in FP5

Cross program action (CPA9) projectsIn the year 2001: Six projects - € 19,686 MIn the year 2002: Eight projects - € 11,341 M

IST: Research NetworkingIn 2000, 2001 and 2002: Four projects - 13,973 M

IST: HealthIn 2002: One project - 3,876 M

Total EU funding in IST: 48,876 M

CPA9 projectsIn the year 2001: Six projects - € 19,686 M

DATATAG: Research and Technological Development for a TransAtlantic GRID

GRIDLAB: A GRID Application Toolkit and Testbed

CROSSGRID: Development of GRID Environment for Interactive Applications

GRIA: GRID Resources for Industrial Applications

GRIP: GRID Interoperability Project

EGSO: European GRID for Solar Observations

CPA9 projectsIn the year 2002: Eight projects - € 11,341 M.

FLOWGRID: Flow Simulations on Demand using GRID Comp.

OPENMOLGRID: Open Computing GRID for Molecular Science and Engineering

GRACE: GRID Search and Categorisation Engine 23

COG: Corporate Ontology GRID

MOSES: Modular and Scalable Environment for the Semantic Web

BIOGRID: Biotech Information for and Knowledge GRIDGEMSS: GRID Enabled Medical Simulation ServicesSELENE: Self e-Learning Networks

Grids projects in FP5(not in CPA9)DATAGRID: RTD for an International Data GRID

EUROGRID:Application Test-bed for European GRID Computing

DAMIEN: Distributed Applications and Middleware for Industrial Use of European Networks

GRIDSTART: GRID Dissemination, Standards, Applications, Roadmap and Training – accompanying measure – cluster

MAMMOGRID: European Federated mammogram database implemented on a grid infrastructure

Grids projects in FP5 - other

DG RTD:

ASTROVIRTEL:Accessing Astronomical Archives as Virtual Telescopes -Supported by Access to research infrastructures action of the program Improving the human potential.

COST Actions: 283 - Computational and Information Infrastructure in the

Astronomical DataGrid

282 - Knowledge Exploration in Science and Technology

Current Grid test-beds

Most of the projects include test-beds, which bring Grid technology from the laboratory into the real world

Several application areas – high energy physics, asytrophysics, quantum chemistry and drug design, earth and environment, biology, medicine, risk management, computational fluid dynamics, industrial simulations, etc.

IST Programme

Structuring the ERA

Programme

ResearchInfrastructures

Research NetworksResearch Networks

““GÉANT and GRIDsGÉANT and GRIDs””

Research Networks in FP6- Research Infrastructures

IST/RI implementation 2003-2004

IST

Call 2 : IPs & NoEs 1 step with hearings

Deadline October 2003

•F3 - Research networking test-beds

•F2 - Grid based systems for CPS

RI : Communication Network Development

Call b.1 : I3, CAs & SSAs 1 step, May 2003

•F3 - Grids

Call b.2 : I3 1 step, September 2003

•F3 - Géant

Create a pan-European Grid empowered research e-infrastructure

We have a political decision to implement and the responsibility to use the budget in the most effective and optimal way

Global knowledge infrastructure

Relate to policies:it is one of the major ways to implement the European Research Areawill change the way science is done in Europe powerful instrument for international cooperation enhance social and geographic cohesion

Deploy Grid empowered infrastructure which serves the research communities in all scientific disciplines: e-science

General objectives:

Use of the GEANT network as the main underlying connectivity platform

Coordinate and integrate when possible the GEANT and Grid efforts

Work in collaboration with user communities in order to build a bridge between research networking and Grid technology on one hand and scientific application areas on the other hand

Priorities:

The second stage of GEANT

From Grid test-beds to production quality Grid research infrastructure

•gigabit/terabit scales (in terms of computing, storage and communication power) Support the creation of national Grid infrastructures and integrate them on EU level

Build up on the scientific and technological know-how acquired in FP5, FP6 and in the world in general. Experiment with new technologies, adopt and implement them as soon as possible

Objectives:

•Expand Grids to new application areas

•identify as many as possible user communities

•specify their requirements

•make predictions for the evolution in time of these requirements

•identify the synergies between different communities

•describe their geographical coverage and expansion

Grid-empowered e-infrastructure that serves the concrete and actual needs of researchers: user communities

• Do not exist well defined national institutions for Grids responsible for deploying national infrastructures (similar to NRENs)

• Do not exist established funding schemes which are appropriate to the high level of integration and cooperation that the widespread of Grid technology imposes

• The technology is not mature enough

• Currently industrial entities are not ready to take the high risk of investment in Grids

• We turn to the research community in Europe: knowledgeable, creative, innovative, open to change, internationally oriented, strong community identity...

Challenges for Grids in the context of Research Infrastructures

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