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e-Infrastructures as a key enabler for virtual research communities

DECIDE Public Launch Event and KoM

Rome, 23 September 2010

Carmela ASEROEuropean Commission - DG INFSO

GÉANT & e-Infrastructure Unit

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EGEE Grid attacks Avian Flu

During April 2006, a collaboration of Asian and EU laboratories has analysed 300,000 possible drug components against the

avian flu virus H5N1 using the EGEE Grid infrastructure (for thedocking of 300,000 compounds against 8 different target

structures of Influenza A neuraminidases, 2000 computers were used during 4 weeks – the equivalent of 100 years on a single

computer)

N1H5

Credit: Y-T Wu

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e-Infrastructures: fundamental aspect of all Roadmap RI..

Three groups of facilities distinguished: • Those which fundamentally are e-Infrastructure -

based (e.g. all Social Sciences & Humanities, ELIXIR, EPOS) - therefore e-Infrastructure aspects key to address

• Distributed facilities, which need e-Infrastructures to work (e.g. interlink their parts)

• Those for which e-Infrastructures will be important at least for data acquisition, processing & distribution to users

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BIOBANKS-BBMRI

INFRAFRONTIER

EBI-ELIXIREATRIS

INSTRUCT

EMBRC

EU-Openscreen

ECRIN

Euro-Bio-imagingRoadmap 2008

10 ProjectsBLS4

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Update on e-Infrastructures:- overview, evolution in FP6, FP7

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network infrastructure (GÉANT)

computing infrastructure (EGI, PRACE/DEISA)

scientific data infrastructure

biology data

astronomy data

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network infrastructure (GÉANT)

computing infrastructure (EGI, PRACE/DEISA)

scientific data infrastructure

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Virtual research communitiesGEANT Pan-European coverage

(40+ countries /3900 universities / 30+ million students)

Hybrid architecture:

connectivity at 10 Gb/s(aggregated traffic)

dark fiber wavelengths(demanding communities)

International links

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network infrastructure (GÉANT)

computing infrastructure (EGI, PRACE/DEISA)

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Virtual research communitiesEGI: 10000 users

243020 LCPUs (cores)

40Pb disk, 39Pb tape

15 million jobs/month

317 sites

52 countries

175 VOs, 29 active VOs

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network infrastructure (GÉANT)

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DEISA: 1PFlop aggregated peak performance

11 sites/7 countries connected at 10Gbit/s

Workflow applications with grid-technologies

Global data management system

Extreme Computing Initiative

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network infrastructure (GÉANT)

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PRACE: European PFlop machines

Ecosystem of HPC resources

Partnership of 20 EU countries

First Access Call released (open to all scientists)

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Capacities

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JRC

1.75 b€

Ideas

7.5 b€

Euratom

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People

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Cooperation

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Update on e-Infrastructures:- snapshot of work on BMS

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Medical research related project

Transatlantic cooperation toward one unique worldwide facility for studies of neurodegenerative diseases.

e-Infrastructure-based global virtual research community for structural biology in the life sciences

Building upon neuGRID and GÉANT for extraction of diagnostic markers for Alzheimer’s disease and schizophrenia

Grid for European neuroscientists working in the field of imaging of Alzheimer’s disease

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Improve protein annotation viacoordination & integration of databases; data faster to public

Enhance building the Catalogue of Life (taxonomy of world’s plants, animals, fungi, microbes..)

Deploy grids for faster and better bio-NMR data analysis

Deploy e-Infrastructure services to enhance functionality & use of EuropeanTheoretical Spectroscopy Facility

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Update on e-Infrastructures:- next plans

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Three vectors of a renewed European strategy:

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e-Infrastructure

Europe as hub of excellence in

e-Science

Sustainable and continuous servicesof production quality

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Innovation by exploiting know-how

beyond science (public services,

large scale experimentation,…)

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• Addressing the data deluge, heterogeneity

• Integrated e-Science environments

• Strengthen service and user orientation

• Some key users: ESFRI-roadmap projects, Future Internet experimentation platform, public services (eHealth etc)

• Open to innovation, new concepts (from grids to clouds etc..)

• Reflect on governance, ensure sustainability

GEANT, EGI, PRACE,…

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Looking ahead:new political landscape

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An overarching policy framework that aims at delivering sustainable economic and

social benefits from a digital single market based on fast and ultra fast Internet and

interoperable applications

http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/digital-agenda/documents/digital-agenda-communication-en.pdf

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1. Fragmented digital markets2. Lack of interoperability3. Rising cybercrime and risk of low trust in

networks4. Lack of investment in networks5. Insufficient research and innovation efforts6. Lack of digital literacy and skills7. Missed opportunities in addressing societal

challenges

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Action under Research & Innovation:

“ensure sufficient financial support to joint ICT RI and innovation clusters,

develop further e-Infrastructures and establish EU strategy for cloud

computing, notably for government and science”

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e-Health in DAEThe Commission will work with Member States competent authorities and all interested stakeholders to:

• Key Action 13: Undertake pilot actions to equip Europeans with secure online access to their medical health data by 2015 and to achieve by 2020 widespread deployment of telemedicine services;

• Key Action 14: Propose a recommendation defining a minimum common set of patient data for interoperability of patient records to be accessed or exchanged electronically across Member States by 2012 in line with data protection requirements.

Other actions:• Foster EU-wide standards, interoperability testing and

certification of eHealth systems by 2015 through stakeholder dialogue;

• Reinforce the AmbientAssisted Living (AAL) Joint Programmeto allow older people and persons with disabilities to live independently and be active in society.

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• Grand challenges (like Health) calling for new orientations of our research policies if we want to sustain our living standards & world position

• RI are playing a central role in supporting the knowledge triangle (research-education-innovation)

• Transition to e-Science (e-Infrastructure enabled) will accelerate over the next years

• A new Digital Agenda for Europe

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

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THANK YOU!