EGI Organisation overview and outreach Catherine Gater EGI

EGI – Organisation overview and outreach Catherine Gater EGI. eu Netherlands

What is EGI? • Why build a European Grid Infrastructure? “Infrastructure is the basic physical and organisational structures needed for the operation of a society or enterprise, or the services and facilities necessary for an economy to function” (Wikipedia) The Enterprise is the European Research Area 10/02/2011 TERENA-CPR Feb 2011 2

What is a grid? • A grid consists of distributed resources, controlled by separate organisations. • These resources can be used systematically and securely by users external to that organisation. • Resources can include: – Commodity or HPC clusters – Disk or tape storage – Instruments – Data Archives or Digital Libraries 10/02/2011 TERENA-CPR Feb 2011 3

What does a grid look like? Archeology Astronomy Astrophysics Civil Protection Comp. Chemistry Earth Sciences Finance Fusion Geophysics High Energy Physics Life Sciences Multimedia Material Sciences …

What does a grid do? 10/02/2011 TERENA-CPR Feb 2011 5

What does a grid do? 10/02/2011 TERENA-CPR Feb 2011 6

EGI Collaboration Research Community N G I 10/02/2011 E I R O Research Community N G I Research Community E I R O N G I EGI. eu TERENA-CPR Feb 2011 7

EGI. eu • EGI = European Grid Infrastructure • EGI. eu = Stichting European Grid Initiative • EGI. eu – – 21 members of staff Based on the Science Park Director is Steven Newhouse Governed by an Executive Board day-to-day – Overseen by a larger Council with representatives from 33 countries / EIROs – Celebrated our first birthday on 8 th February! 17/09/2020 TERENA-CPR Feb 2011 8

EGI-In. SPIRE Integrated Sustainable Pan-European Infrastructure for Researchers in Europe • A 4 year project with € 25 M EC contribution – Project cost € 72 M – Total Effort ~€ 330 M Funded – Effort: 9261 PMs Un-Funded Project Partners (47) EGI. eu, 37 NGIs, 2 EIROs Asia Pacific (8 partners) 10/02/2011 TERENA-CPR Feb 2011 9

Aims of the project • Continue towards a sustainable production infrastructure – With infrastructure providers in Europe and around the world – With new Distributed Computing Infrastructure technologies as they mature • Provide support to current structured international research communities – Sustain current domain specific services – Attract new user communities (e. g. ESFRI) 10/02/2011 TERENA-CPR Feb 2011 10

EGI means innovation • Deploy Technology Innovation – Distributed Computing continues to evolve • To include: Grids, Desktops, Virtualisation, Clouds, … • Enable Software Innovation – Provide reliable persistent technology platform • Tools built on g. Lite/UNICORE/ARC/Globus • Support Research Innovation – Infrastructure for data driven research • Support for international research (e. g. ESFRI) 10/02/2011 TERENA-CPR Feb 2011 11

Supporting users • Support User Communities – Researchers in International Collaborations – National Research Collaborations through the NGI – Scale up from the single Virtual Organisation to a community • Provide a federated Helpdesk linking: – Discipline specific support (e. g. Bio Apps) – National Grid Infrastructures – Generic services (e. g. Training) • Provide core services to support users – Manage VOs, Application Database, Training Database 10/02/2011 TERENA-CPR Feb 2011 12

And more… • Dissemination – With NGIs, VRCs and other projects • Support for Heavy User Communities – General and community specific services • Events – Two Annual meetings: User and Technology Forums 10/02/2011 TERENA-CPR Feb 2011 13

Dissemination in EGI • Global task – 96 PM in the Global task for EGI. eu • NGI International task – 37 partners – 31 funded European partners – 6 unfunded non-European partners (Taiwan, Australia, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines 10/02/2011 TERENA-CPR Feb 2011 14

Target audiences • Primary audiences: – New user communities (social sciences, environmental sciences, materials sciences etc. ) – Existing user communities (life sciences, physics, earth sciences etc. ) – Journalists – General public – National Grid Infrastructures (NGIs) and European International Research Organisations (EIROs) – Resource providers – Collaborating projects – Decision makers – Governmental representatives • Secondary audiences – Secondary schools, educational institutions – Local communities in the partner countries 10/02/2011 TERENA-CPR Feb 2011 15

Reaching new users 10/02/2011 TERENA-CPR Feb 2011 16

Top level messages • • • What the project is about; Which resources, infrastructure and services the project can provide; Which applications/scientific fields are already using the EGI; Benefits for potential users; Comparison of grids, cloud computing and other distributed computing infrastructures; The project’s potential to revolutionise the way scientists work; How to get involved; Major developments such as: – New applications; – Key milestones; – Key events; Who is involved in the project; The future beyond EGI-In. SPIRE for a sustainable infrastructure. 10/02/2011 TERENA-CPR Feb 2011 17

Publications 10/02/2011 TERENA-CPR Feb 2011 18

Website and wiki 10/02/2011 TERENA-CPR Feb 2011 19

Events ISC, Hamburg, June 2010 OGF 30/GRID 2010, Brussels, November 2010 10/02/2011 TERENA-CPR Feb 2011 e. Challenges, Warsaw, October 2010 20

Social media http: //twitter. com/egi_inspire http: //www. youtube. com/europeangrid http: //www. flickr. com/photos/european_grid_initiative http: //www. facebook. com http: //www. linkedin. com 10/02/2011 TERENA-CPR Feb 2011 21

Collaboration • Working with e-Science. Talk to communicate the success stories of e-Infrastructures to policy makers, general public, scientists and students 17/09/2020 TERENA-CPR Feb 2011 22

The future… 17/09/2020 TERENA-CPR Feb 2011 23