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Why is 'instrumenting the grid’ important for e-Infrastructure ?

Maria Ramalho Natário

European Commission, DG INFSO – F03Maria.Ramalho-Natario@ec.europa.eu

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a new vision for Science

Global research challenges with high societal impact

Data deluge… virtual-labs

Experimentation-based Science and Numerically- based Science

Cross-disciplinarity

Global Virtual Research Communities

networkinggridsinstrumentationcomputingdata curation…

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e-Infrastructure: the vision

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Linking at the speed of the light

Sharing computers, instruments and applications

Sharing and federating scientific data

WeatherForecast

VO

Biomedics

VO

Astrophysics

VO

Connecting researchersSharing the best scientific resources

Building global virtual research communities

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GÉANT: connecting Europe

Pan-European coverage (40+ countries /3900 universities / 30+ million students)

Hybrid architecture:

connectivity at 10 Gb/s (aggregated traffic)

dark fiber wavelengths(demanding communities)

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GÉANT: global reach

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EGEE: large multi-science grids

>240 sites >50 000 CPUs, 25 Pbyte of storage ~100 000 jobs successfully completed per day 200 Virtual Organisations >8000 registered users, representing 1000s of

scientists

Astrophysics and astroparticle physics

Biomedical and bioinformaticsComputational chemistryComputational sciences

High Energy PhysicsDisaster recovery

Digital LibrariesEarth sciencesInfrastructure

GeophysicsFinance

Fusion

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EGEE*: users and resources distribution

* EGEE and sister projects: EELA, SEEGRID, EUMEDGrid, EUIndia Grid, EU China Grid

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EGEE: promoting interoperability

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new “petaflop” supercomputers

Local

EU

PRACE petaflop supercomputers

National

DEISA virtual supercomputer

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DEISA: virtual HPC services

11 sites in 7 countries connected at 10 Gb/s

Over 22,000 CPUs sporting 200 TFlop

Running larger parallel applications in individual sites

Enabling workflow applications with grid technologies

Providing a global data management service

Extreme Computing Initiative

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Importance of data for Science

extract knowledg

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addvalue

publishdisseminat

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store validatemanage

capturecollectcreate

From raw data to publications

From research to education

From one to multiple disciplines

From past and present to future

From one to multiple organisations

Several "continuum"

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GÉANT network infrastructure

scientific data as an infrastructure

computing/data grid infrastructure

scientific data infrastructure

biology data

astronomy data

clinical data

LHC data

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involving scientific communities

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generic e-Infrastructure… user communities involvement

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FEDERICAEVALSOEDGES,DORII

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Recent developments create the expectation that technology is fast maturing to support the emergence of a new infrastructure paradigm, according to which the shared use of

instrumentation, computing and data

resources across administrative and technology domains will progressively become a commodity service.

M. Campolargo

Conclusions … in disguise

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Further information

www.cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/e-infrastructure/

Information Day:http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/e-infrastructure/events-20080418_en.htmlWork Programme (New):http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/wp_en.html#capacities