Transcript Slides - TERENA Networking Conference 2006

EUMEDGRID & EUChinaGRID
(GRID projects for the
Mediterranean and China)
Federico Ruggieri – INFN
Project Manager
TERENA Networking Conference
Catania 17 May 2006
Extending GRIDs outside EU
• GRID is a reality which allows new ways of sharing resources
(not all of them completely exploited) in scientific collaboration
(eScience) and in other fields (eGovernment, eHealth,
eBusiness, etc.)
• EU has largely invested in GRID technology in the past 4 years
and is planning to invest more in FP7.
• Few countries outside EU and USA are anyway actively involved
in the deployment of a (national) GRID infrastructure.
• A World Wide GRID infrastructure is one of the natural objectives
of this technology and will enhance the potential benefits for all
the applications in 2 main ways:
– Fostering new international groups/applications
– Enabling new kind of world-class collaborative solutions
Mediterranean & China
• Mediterranean area is of particular interest due to the
neighborhood to many EU countries. Extending the European
Research Area (ERA) to all the Mediterranean area is one of the
present priorities in the European strategy of Research and many
initiatives and projects are already active (EUMEDIS,
EUMEDCONNECT, etc.)
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[Empowering eScience across the Mediterranean]
• China is one of the fastest growing economies in the world with
a specific program for Science GRID (CNGrid). Many groups of
scientists in Europe have already established good relationships
with Chinese Research Groups and grids can provide an
infrastructure to enhance the level of collaboration, deploying
new common applications and shared access to scientific data
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Interconnection & Interoperability of
Grids between Europe & China
[Empowering eScience across the Mediterranean]
EUMEDGRID
FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026024
www.eumedgrid.org
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Status & Numbers
 EUMEDGRID is a Specific Support Action (SSA).
 The official start of the project is the 1 January
2006.
 24 Months duration.
 14 partners: 9 Member States or AS, 5 non-MS.
 EU Contribution of 1,646,500 €
 A total of 481 Person Months (392 Funded).
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Main Objectives
 EUMEDGRID aims to provide specific support actions to assist
the participation of the states of the Mediterranean region in
the pan-European and worldwide Grid initiatives, thus
expanding and supporting the European Research Area
(ERA) in the region.
 The core of the EUMEDGRID approach is to establish a
human network in the eScience area, enlarge and train this
community, and establish a pilot Grid infrastructure
supporting proof of concept regional applications.
 The reference GRID Infrastructure in Europe will be EGEE.
 EUMEDGRID will build upon and exploit the infrastructure
provided by the Gigabit Pan-European Research &
Education Network (GEANT) and the Mediterranean
Research and Education Networking (EUMEDCONNECT)
initiative in the region.
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Participants
Participant
Participant name
number
1 INFN (Italy) Coordinator
2 CERN (Switzerland)
3 CYNET (Cyprus)
4 DANTE (UK)
5 GARR (Italy)
6 GRNET (Greece)
7 RED.ES (Spain)
8 University of Malta (Malta)
9 CERIST (Algeria)
10 CNRST (Morocco)
11 EUN (Egypt)
12 HIAST (Syria)
13 MSRTDC (Tunisia)
14 TUBITAK - ULAKBIM (Turkey)
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Third Parties
Third Party
Partner
Università di Messina – Dipartimento di Matematica (IT)
INFN
Dipartimento di Fisica – Università di RomaTre (IT)
INFN
CRS4 – (IT)
GARR
ICTP – (IT)
INFN
IUCC (Inter University Computing Center) - ISRAEL
GARR
Laboratoire CRISTAL - Ecole Nationale des Sciences de l'Informatique (TU)
MSRTDC
Research Unit of Technologies of Information and Communication -University
of Tunis (TU)
MSRTDC
Bilkent University (TK)
TUBITAK
JUNet, Jordan
GRNET
PADI2, Palestine
GRNET
Institute of Communication and Computer Systems, Athens, Greece
GRNET
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EUMEDGRID WP’s
 WP1: Project administrative and technical management
 WP2: Requirement capture and analysis
• User profiles and Applications
• Universities & Research Centres potentially interested
 WP3: Pilot infrastructure deployment and operations
• Support pilot national grid infrastructure and services.
 WP4: Applications support
• EGEE supported applications (LHC, BioMed, etc.)
• Regional applications (Geology, Management of water, etc.)
• New applications (to be discovered by WP2).
 WP5: Training and dissemination
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EUMEDGRID Infrastructure
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EUMEDCONNECT Network
Country
Name of NREN
International Research
Connectivity (in Mbps)
Status
Algeria
CERIST
155
In service
Cyprus
CYNET
200
In service
Egypt
EUN
34
In service
Israel
IUCC
622
In service
Jordan
UniCo
45
In service
Malta
University of Malta
20
In service
Morocco
CNRST
34
In service
Palestinian Territories
PADI2
45
In service
Syria
HIAST
8
In service
Tunisia
RFR
45
In service
Turkey
ULAKBIM
155
In service
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Achievements in the first 4
Months
 Kick-Off Meeting in Malta attended by all the Med
partners: Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Palestine,
Israel, Syria, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Spain, Malta,
Cyprus.
 First Tutorial in Athens in March: 15 persons from
several Med countries.
 Preliminary pilot infrastructure set-up (6 sites).
 Communities Requirements survey Questionnaire
finalized and published on the Web (96 answers
already received in less than 2 months; currently
under analysis).
 First applications already identified.
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Real Time Monitor
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GridIce
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SWIMED
Groundwater modeling
4.07E+06
 Aim: estimate sustainable
extraction scheme - improve
management
4.06E+06
 CODESA-3D: Density-dependent
3D coupled groundwater flow and
transport simulations
 Data requirement
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•
•
•
Geology
Topography
Meteorology
Water extraction by the
farmer
• Aquifer properties
• Soil maps
• Land use
4.05E+06
4.04E+06
N
H [m.a.s.l]
160
120
80
40
20
10
5
0
-2
6.60E+05 6.70E+05 6.80E+05
One simulated map of water levels
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Next Events
Event
Date
Loaction/Country
Tutorial
3-7 July 2006
Istanbul, Turkey
Conference
11-12 September
2006
Rome, Italy
Tutorial
12-16 September
2006
Rome, Italy
(in conjunction with EUChinaGRID)
Tutorial
Oct-Nov 2006
Rabat, Morocco
Look at www.eumedgrid.org for news and updates
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EUChinaGRID
FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026634
http://www.euchinagrid.org
Project Status
 EUChinaGRID is a Specific Support Action (SSA)
project.
 The official start of the project was the 1 January
2006.
 24 Months duration (starting on 1st January ’06).
 EU Contribution of 1,299,998 €.
 A total of 495 Person Months (325 Funded).
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Main Objectives
O1 Contribute to the creation of an human network promoting
international collaboration.
O2 Disseminate European experience in China and confront with
Chinese experience.
O3 Support interoperability of EGEE with the corresponding
infrastructure in China, fronting the multi-protocol (IPv4/IPv6)
network infrastructure.
O4 Use existing network infrastructure and foster its development
O5 Foster interoperability of solutions across different disciplines to
achieve broader scale uptake of Grid technology.
O6 Harmonize European, and Chinese eScience user and
infrastructure requirements in terms of resources needed, Grid
services, and application software. Provide recommendations
for adapting the present best practices and tools (Virtual
Organizations, Certification Authority, Policies, etc.).
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Participants
1
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare – INFN (IT) (coordinator)
2
European Organisation for Nuclear Research CERN (CH)
3
Dipartimento di Biologia - Università di Roma Tre (IT)
4
Consortium GARR (IT)
5
Greek Research & Technology Network (GR)
6
Jagiellonian University, Cracow (PL)
7
School of Computer Science and Engineering – Beihang University Beijing (CN)
8
Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences – Beijing (CN)
9
Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing (CN)
10
Peking University – Beijing (CN)
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Third Parties
 ACADEMIA SINICA GRID COMPUTING CENTRE
(ASGC), TAIPEI (Partner: CERN)
 Physics Department – UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMATRE –
ROMA (Partner: INFN)
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EUChinaGRID WP’s
 WP1 – Project Administrative and Technical Management
 WP2 – Network planning and interoperability study
• Specific activity to study IPv4/IPv6 GRID interoperability.
 WP3 – Pilot infrastructure operational support
• Specific activity to study interoperability between EGEE &
CNGrid.
 WP4 – Applications
• EGEE applications (LHC, Bio, etc.)
• ARGO-YBJ and Gamma Ray Bursts
• Never Born Proteins
 WP5 – Dissemination
• Dissemination of advanced knowledge on Grid technologies.
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TEIN2
ORIENT will
upgrade to 2.5
Gbps
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CNGrid
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Grid Middleware and IPv6
 A study will be done on Middleware and high level
services compatibility with IPv6 -> operational tests of
functionality.
 CNGrid MW is not yet IPv6 compliant but China is
going to deploy the largest production IPv6 network in
the world.
 IPv6 is the natural choice for new generation IP
telephony in convergence with Wireless Networking.
 Grid services should be able to run on the future IPv6
enabled PDA’s, portable phones, etc.
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ARGO – YBJ Laboratory
• Unique High Altitude Cosmic Ray Laboratory (4300 m) Tibet, 90
km North to Lhasa. Chinese-Italian collaboration.
• The Experiment data rate to be transferred is 250 TB/Year
requiring a steady transfer rate of the order of 100 Mbps to
Beijing and from there to Italy.
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Never Born Proteins
 The number of natural proteins on Earth, although apparently
large, is only a tiny fraction of the possible ones:
• with 20 different co-monomers (the 20 different natural aminoacids), a polypeptide chain with 60 residues (n=60) can exist in
2060 different chain structures.
• In nature, we have around 1013-14 different proteins, so that the
ratio between the possible and the actual number is staggeringly
large.
 This means that there is an astronomically large number of
proteins that have never been seen on Earth - an incredibly large
number of “never born proteins” (NBP).
 The present research in the field is based on a computational
approach to study a large library of NBP (109 protein sequences)
to the aim of clarifying the structural principles that characterize
them and of selecting a reasonable number of sequences which
can potentially give rise to stably folded proteins.
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Achievements in the first 4
months
 Kick-Off Meeting in Athens
 First tutorial for Users and Site Managers in Beijing –
China on 3-7 April 2006: more than 40 people
attended it and will be the core of Chinese trainers in
the future events in China.
 Preliminary pilot infrastructure set-up (6 sites).
 First applications requirements analysis started.
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Real Time Monitor
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GridIce
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Next Events
Event
Date
Loaction/Country
Workshop
12-13 June 2006
Beijing, China
Tutorial
14-17 June 2006
Beijing, China
Tutorial
12-16 September 2006
Rome, Italy
(in conjunction with EUMEDGRID)
Conference
18-19 September 2006
Rome, Italy
Look at www.euchinagrid.org for news and updates
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Conclusions
• EUChinaGRID and EUMEDGRID are both aiming to
promote the extension and interoperation of the Grid
Infrastructures outside EU.
• Both will exploit the existing and foreseen EU cofunded network infrastructures (EUMEDCONNECT and
TEIN2/ORIENT).
• In the first 4 months all WP’s started their activities and
the two projects are on on-track.
• Both already achieved the important result of
creating an international human network of scientists
enthusiastically collaborating.
Thank You !