Transcript Research Infrastructures

Hellenic Launch Event for FP6 (Dec 2002)
Research Infrastructures (RI)
Kyriakos Baxevanidis
European Commission, DG INFSO
[email protected]
Overview
 Toward a new ICT-infrastructure
 Information Society in Europe
 ICT Research Infrastructures in FP5
 FP6 - a new dimension to Infrastructures for Research
 Closing
Toward a new information infrastructure...
 Everything goes digital; increased role of SW
(“bytes for bricks”); technology goes invisible
 Broadband connectivity all the way; variety of
access, support to mobility
 Distributed space for processing, storage of
information; sharing of information resources
- forming of Virtual Organisations
 Role of content; knowledge-based schemes
A European policy: the eEurope Action Plan
Launched by the European Commission to meet the challenge
eEurope 2005
eEurope 2002
Stimulate the use
of the internet
Investing in
people and skills
A cheaper, faster,
secure internet
Services, applications & content
interactive public services on-line
(e-government, e-learning, e-health)
dynamic e-business environment
digital inclusiveness
Enabling infrastructure
promotion of broadband access
trust & confidence in cyberspace
eEurope Action Plan: a synthesis of actions
REGULATORY
MEASURES
TECHNOLOGY
INNOVATION
 Unbundling of local loop
 R&D
 Spectrum allocation
 Promote interoperability
 ….
 Research Infrastructures
 ….
The role of the Research Infrastructures
•Definition of next
generation infrastructure
and applications
Early adoption of
technology
Collaboration,
Cohesion
Policy requirements
User requirements
Technology
The model and the mission
Test-beds use
GÉANT infrastructure
Scientific/application areas
R&D
GÉANT profits from
technological innovation
of test-beds
Testbeds
International
dimension
GÉANT network
Mission: The broadband interconnection of European National Research
Networks, and the set-up of advanced test-beds and support of their use
for experimenting with advanced applications and communication
technologies in co-ordination with other parts of the IST Programme.
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Networks for research
European research networking backbone - GEANT
Strategy and
benchmarking SERENATE
International
Advanced Test-beds
GRIDS
IPv6
cluster GRIDSTART
cluster 6LINK
Optical
Access
techn.
Digital
libraries
QoS
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Networks for research: some facts in FP5
 6 Projects
 €83,5m EC contribution
 Cooperation with NRENs, evident world-wide
dimension (EUMEDIS, ALIS,TEIN, Russia, Balkans),
strategic study
GÉANT: the network and the project
 Pan-European coverage
(32 Countries/NRENs)
 Connectivity up to 10 Gbit/s
 Linking more than 3100 Univ.
 Total €200m funding over 4
years (€80m from EC).
 Peer connectivity to North
America and Japan.
 Extending to Mediterranean,
Asia Pacific, Latin America,
Russia, Balkans, Central Asia..
Europe: the most advanced research backbone
GÉANT
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NRENs Access Capacity to the GEANT Backbone
(from 2001 to 2002)
Gigabits per sec
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622Mbps
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Positioning European Research Networks
Abilene
(USA network)
GÉANT
Maximum Core Speed
2,5 GB/s
10 GB/s
Trunk Capacity
35 GB/s
130 GB/s
No of Main Access
Points
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31
No of Core Nodes
13
18
Accessible Institutions
200 aprox.
GÉANT +
NRENs
> 3100
Research Networks: the international dimension
7,5Gbps
ALIS
EUMEDIS
TEIN
20Mbps
SEEREN
155Mbps
GÉANT: “flagship” of networking activities
 Direct implementation of broadband policies (eEurope)
 European effort complements National/Regional ones
 Platform for testing across different disciplines (Grids, IPv6,…)
– economies of scale, cross-fertilization of knowledge
 A political instrument to foster cohesion in Europe (of
particular benefit to distanced regions)
 Strengthens international position of Europe
Grids
“when the bandwidth of the network brakes the frontiers of computing…”
A middle-ware layer that provides for the effective harnessing
of information resources available world-wide making them
accessible as a single resource for every user on the web
Resources can be of
any information type
(computing, storage,
networking,
visualization etc)
Access to them is provided in a secure, seamless,
coordinated, dynamic & inexpensive way
Grids: some facts in FP5
 8 Projects
 €28m EC contribution
 Research, test-beds, clustering/synergies,
international cooperation (USA), international
consensus fora, international research
organizations, support eScience
Major Infrastructure deployments (1)
Examples:
1. DATAGRID, CROSSGRID, DATATAG
• Across 17 sites in Europe
plus cross-Atlantic link
(2.5 Gbit/s)
Application requirements:
• Computing > 20 Teraflops/sec (equivalent to 100.000 PCs)
• Downloads > 0.5 Petabytes/week
• Collaborations of > 2000 scientists
Human brain:
- 100 Teraflops/sec
- 100 Terabytes memory
CERN
Major Infrastructure deployments (2)
2. EUROGRID (a network of High Performance Computing Centres)
• Across 6 sites in Europe
• Applications: Industrial, Scientific
• Real-time, Coupled applications,
Portals, Resource brokerage(ASP)
• Globus-Unicore interface
3. FLOWGRID (Computational Fluid Dynamics VO and test-bed)
• Across 6 sites in Europe
• Applications: Shipbuilding,
Automotive, Power-generation,
Gas turbine, Train-aerodynamics
Major impact to Application Communities
• Virtual collaboratories lead to
new work models & application
community structures. In IST:
• High Energy Physics
• Earth & Space Observation
• Environment, Weather forecast
• Bio-sciences and Health
• Industrial design/simulation/
visualization
Bio-Sciences
CERN-LHC
ESA
EADS-Aerospace
Application base continuously enlarged
•Corporate business
•Manufacturing industry
(Train, Automotive,
Shipbuilding)
•Power generation
•Education, e-Learning
•Chemical, pharmaceutical
•Health-care, Clinical
•Biology, Bio-informatics
•High Energy Physics
•Earth Observation, Environment
Synergetic work: at the core of the activity
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GRIP
EUROGRID
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GRIDLAB
CROSSGRID
DATAGRID
DATATAG
• Synergy with all Grid projects, EU National and
International efforts, HEALTHGRID, GGF
• High degree of cooperation on the technology level
between key user communities
• A bottom up approach (top-down in FP6)
Grids: the next generation of the web
 A “super machinery” for information processing
- an operational system for access to global resources
 Forming of dynamic virtual organizations (virtual global
collaboration environments) - new work models
 Access to digital information, science to all
 Pushes the frontiers of science and knowledge
 A new generation of business models over the internet (from
information- to resources-sharing; information processing
power on-demand; global virtual organizations)
 Enabling infrastructure for eEurope services (health, education)
IPv6: some facts in FP5
 9 Projects
 €25,8m EC contribution
 Research, test-beds, clustering/synergies, support
Task Force, IPv6 promotion, world-wide cooperation,
industry/operators/service-providers/academia
IPv6: a coordinated strategy
 Research on relevant topics
 Integration of fixed and mobile
 Co-operation with IPv6 Forum
 Co-operation in the launching of IPv6 Task Force
 Contributions to the Communications to Council / EP
 Experimentation on large scale test-beds
Extensive IPv6 test-beds
To Japan
To North
America
•Native IPv6 at: 34 Mb/s,
155 Mb/s, 2.5 Gbit/s
•2500 person months of
work over 3 years
To Brazil
•€33m total cost
To Korea
Technology adoption curve
Visibility
Grids
Web
Services
Java
Platform
IPv6
XML
Shift of competition base: from end-user product
designers to subsystem manufacturers
Technology Peak of Inflated
Through of
Trigger
Expectations Disillusionment
Slope of
Plateau of
Enlightenment Productivity
Time
Graph courtesy Karl Solchenbach (EUROGRID, Plallas GmbH)
Other topics in FP5
 Access technologies - 2 Projects
 Optical Networks - 1 Project
 Quality of Service - 1 Project
 Digital Libraries - 1 Project
From FP5 to FP6
From...
• deployment of the most performant research backbone network in
the world (GÉANT) – boosting the transfer of information ...
• piloting new & particularly powerful forms of distributed
computing (Grids) – boosting the processing of information…
• plus other enabling technologies (IPv6)...
…to deployment of an integrated & interoperable e-Infrastructure
for Research across Europe
pilots Grids Grids
Grids
e-Infrastructure
GEANT
IPv6
...
Vision: creating an e-infrastructure
e-Infrastructure
FP6 - focus on Networks for Research
 GÉANT – maintain and capitalise on worldwide
leadership on Research Networks
 FP6-GÉANT network will represent a significant step
forward in terms of
 services,
 communities served,
 geographical scope,
 bandwidth
 and pionering new technologies
FP6 - focus on Grids
 Build a high class information processing infrastructure for
researchers in Europe - provide international links
 Close ties to National efforts; Grid local support centres?
 Close coupling of GÉANT/NREN and Grid activities
 Toward infrastructures
 exhibiting production-level performance capabilities
(industrial quality)
 operating at gigabit / terabit scales
 targeting all research disciplines - support to
schemes open to all users
 Linking to concepts like Semantic-based systems,
Web services, Autonomic administration, Mobility
FP6 - focus on test-beds
 To promote fast validation and pervasive penetration of
state-of-the-art technology in research infrastructures
 To scale the breadth and magnitude of technology
developments in other parts of the programme
 Support to test-bed schemes open to all users
 Focus on
 IP (Internet Protocol) over optical paths
 GMPLS
 new routing and protocol schemes
 access technologies
 photonic networks
 lambda and terabit networking
...
Linking to policies
Research e-Infrastructures:
 “corner-stone” of ERA
 a common market for networking resources
 a common market for computing cycles, data storage
resources
 “integrator” of National infrastructures, RI-policies
 “spear-head” of an “eEurope infrastructure”
(e.g. broadband plus)
 … cohesion, cooperation etc in Europe …
 powerful “instrument” for International cooperation
FP6 structure
INTEGRATING EUROPEAN RESEARCH
ANTICIPATING S/T NEEDS
Citizens & governance in the
knowledge society
Sustainable development
Food safety & health risks
Aeronautics & space
Nanotechnologies, intelligent
mat., new production processes
Information Society
technologies
Genomic & biotechnology for
health
PRIORITY THEMATIC AREAS
Research for policy
support
Specific SME activities
Specific international co-operation activities
JRC activities
STRENGTHENING THE
FOUNDATIONS OF ERA
STRUCTURING THE ERA
Research
&
innovation
Human
resources
& mobility
Research
infrastructures
Frontier research,
unexpected
developments
Science &
society
Coordination of
research
activities
Development of
research /
innovation
policies
RI in FP6 - budget overview
Integrating and
strengthening the ERA
Programme
IST (Thematic
Priority 2)
Research
Infrastructures
Structuring
the ERA
€ 665 m Programme
ICT RI
“GÉANT and GRIDs”
€ 3.625 m
€ 300 m
€ 2.655 m
RI in FP6 - budget structure
€ 100 m
Structuring the ERA
€ 100 m
 Integrated Infrastructure
GÉANT
Grids
Grids
Grids
>> € 100 m
Initiatives (I3)
 Coordinated Actions (CA)
 Specific Support Actions (SSA)
RI
Integrating & Strenghtening the ERA
 Integrated Projects (IP)
RI
test-beds
Grids
for
complex
problem
solving
IST
 Networks of Excellence (NoE)
 Specific Targeted Research
Projects (STRAP)
 Coordinated Actions (CA)
 Specific Support Actions (SSA)
New instruments (IST)
Integration of activities a central topic:
• Integrated Projects (IP): big scale efforts
to integrate EU-, National- and
private-level activity
• Networks of Excellence (NoE): to enable
continuous restructuring of research according
to emerging needs
New instruments (RI)
• Integrated Infrastructure Initiatives (I3)
Networking
(100% funding)
Three different types of activity
Service Specific
(100% funding,
connect. costs 50%)
Joint research
(50% funding)
Indicative roadmap of calls (opening dates)
1. Research Infrastructures Programme
Year 2003
Year 2004
Year 2005
Year 2006
Year 2004
Year 2005
Year 2006
2. IST Programme
Year 2003
For more information
www.cordis.lu/ist
www.cordis.lu/ist/fp6/fp6.htm
www.cordis.lu/rtd2002
www.cordis.lu/fp6/eoi-instruments
www.cordis.lu/ist/rn/home.html
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