Enabling Grids for Escienc E NA 2 report

Enabling Grids for E-scienc. E NA 2 report for CSIC Gabriel Amorós (CSIC-IFIC) Prague, 27 -28 November 2007 www. eu-egee. org EGEE-II INFSO-RI-031688 EGEE and g. Lite are registered trademarks

CSIC Enabling Grids for E-scienc. E CSIC (Largest scientific research institute in Spain. Experience in Grid projects and applications in several scientific areas ) participates with two institutes: IFCA (Instituto de Física de Cantabria), Santander. IFIC (Instituto de Física Corpuscular), Valencia. (Institutes for High Energy Physics) Total NA 2 effort: 12 PM EGEE-II INFSO-RI-031688 2

Overview Enabling Grids for E-scienc. E • Personnel involved • Disemination activities summary – Talks and presentations about EGEE in external events External to EGEE organized events As a part of EGEE events. • User induction: – Medical Imaging – Astrophysics community (Planck mission) – Astronomy Community (XMM analysis) • Online dissemination activities – Web pages (SWE Federation) – Wiki pages (http: //wiki. ifca. es) EGEE-II INFSO-RI-031688 3

CSIC-Personnel involved Enabling Grids for E-scienc. E • Institute of Physics of Cantabria (IFCA, Santander) – EGEE funded effort Irma Díaz (Grid related dissemination activities and web pages) • Physics degree – Unfunded effort Jesus Marco and Isabel Campos (CSIC staff) • E-Science and Grid Computing specialists Concepción Ruiz • Journalist payed by CSIC for dissemination support • Institute of Corpuscular Physics (IFIC, Valencia) – EGEE funded effort Álvaro Fernández, Gabriel Amorós. • E-Science and Grid Computing specialists – Unfunded effort José Salt , Javier Sánchez (CSIC staff) • E-Science and Grid Computing specialists EGEE-II INFSO-RI-031688 4

CSIC-Talks in external events Enabling Grids for E-scienc. E – “Introducción al GRID y principales logros del proyecto EGEE”. – Meeting: XVII Informatics Summer School: 'Computación GRID: del Middleware a las aplicaciones'. Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. Proceed. – Authors: José Salt, Santiago González, Álvaro Fernández. – Date: 11. 06. 2007 – Participants: ~ 35 EGEE-II INFSO-RI-031688 5

CSIC-Talks in external events Enabling Grids for E-scienc. E – Round table – Meeting: XVII Jornadas de Paralelismo, Albacete. – Speaker: José Salt. – Date: 18. 09. 2006 – Participants: ~ 40 – Round tab. Ie – Meeting: e-Ciencia Andaluza (e-CA). Granada, – Speaker: Álvaro Fernández. – Date: 19. 06. 2007 – Participants: ~ 30 EGEE-II INFSO-RI-031688 6

CSIC-Talks in external events Enabling Grids for E-scienc. E – “Nuclear Fusion Applications on the Grid” – Meeting: IV Tematic Network meeting of Grid Middleware, Madrid – Speaker: Isabel Campos – Date: 26. 04. 2006 – Participants: ~ 40 – “Towards the construction of the European Grid” – Meeting: Summer school of the University Complutense of Madrid – Speaker: Isabel Campos – Date: 27. 07. 2006 – Participants: ~ 35 – “Grid Job Management and Control in Earth Sciences” – Meeting: DEGREE workshop – Speaker: Jesus Marco – Date: 01. 03. 2007 EGEE-II INFSO-RI-031688 – Participants: ~ 20 7

CSIC-Talks in external events Enabling Grids for E-scienc. E – “Spanish National Grid Initiative in the Context of EGI” – Meeting: Andalusian meeting on E-Science, Granada, Spain – Speaker: Jesus Marco – Date: 16. 06. 2007 – Participants: ~ 35 – “What is a suitable Grid for researchers ? ” – Meeting: Summer School on Grid Computing, Albacete, Spain – Speaker: Jesus Marco – Date: 27. 06. 2007 – Participants: ~ 60 EGEE-II INFSO-RI-031688 8

CSIC-Talks in external events Enabling Grids for E-scienc. E – “e-Science: network supercomputing” – Meeting: “Social complexity & new scientific paradigms: towards building desirable futures” at the Summer University Menendez Pelayo, Santander, Spain – Speaker: Jesus Marco – Date: 15. 08. 2007 – Participants: ~ 20 – Remark: participation of José Manuel Silva Rodríguez (Director General DG Research – European Comission). EGEE-II INFSO-RI-031688 9

CSIC-User induction Enabling Grids for E-scienc. E • Medical imaging – Several meetings with medical_image-biomed group from IFIC to offer them participation and use on the GRID infrastructure in collaboration with UPV. (Dec-06). – Participation in EU proposal to create applications related to Hadron Therapy Centers. • Astrophysics community (Planck mission) – Meetings with the researchers of CSIC involved in the Planck mission to offer support to migrate their tools to the Grid – Integration of IFCA in the Astrophysics cluster of EGEE • Astronomy Community (XMM analysis) – Meetings with the researchers of CSIC working in the data analysis of the X-Ray astronomy satellite XMM-Newton – Stablishment of agreement together with ESA to introduce them in the Planck VO as a subgroup EGEE-II INFSO-RI-031688 10

CSIC-Organized events Enabling Grids for E-scienc. E – Indirect dissemination activities (Related NA 3 events): ATLAS Distributed Analysis Tutorial. (14 part. ). 3 -May-2007. Grids & E-Science IV. (17 part. ) 24 -Sep-2007. Grid lectures at CARTIF (Valladolid) (8 part. ) 5 -Jun-2007. – Remarks: Most of the participants are not involved with EGEE, so the introductory hours provides them a vision of GRID computing and EGEE in particular. EGEE-II INFSO-RI-031688 11

CSIC-User Forum Events Enabling Grids for E-scienc. E • EGEE User Forum in Geneva (CH) September 2006 – Booth setup at the conference with general information about the grid projects involving CSIC centers • OGF/EGEE User Forum in Manchester (UK) May 2007 – CSIC was Premier Sponsor the User Forum – Booth at the conference displaying general information about the grid projects involving CSIC centers • CSIC Booth at the User Forum in Manchester in May 200 EGEE-II INFSO-RI-031688 12

CSIC-Activities to broad public Enabling Grids for E-scienc. E – 2 Editions (2006 and 2007) of the Week of Science: “Science and computation” at IFCA Presentations about the meaning of Grid computing and grid infrastructures at general public level November 2006: over 200 students (between 10 and 16 years old) November 2007 (ongoing): already inscribed 900 students for 2007. Remarks (future): this event will be included within • Madrid i+d, major event in SPAIN (april 2008, IFEMA, Madrid). • ESOF (july 2008, Barcelona). EGEE-II INFSO-RI-031688 13

CSIC-Activities to broad public Enabling Grids for E-scienc. E – IFIC is un the Dissemination Program 'VISITAS GUIADAS' of CSIC 4 -5 visits of High School students ( about 25 -30 students/visit) every year; GRID infrastructure and achievements are shown – Virtual travelling to learn e-Science (by Jesus Marco) Presentation to High School students (~ 60 attendants) – Internal IFIC Colloquium: with Dario Barberis (ATLAS Computing Responsable), January 2008 – Interview to J. Salt for MÈTODE (is a periodic publication addressed to the scientific an university community, edited by Universidad de Valencia). To be published. EGEE-II INFSO-RI-031688 14

CSIC- On line activities Enabling Grids for E-scienc. E • Visibility on internet – Web pages (SA 1 helpdesk for SW federation: Portugal and Spain): http: //swegus. ific. uv. es English. Statistics tool: • http: //swegus. ific. uv. es/awstats/aawstats. pl/config=swegus • >+50 Unique visitor/month (excluded SW people means around >+30) • 11 countries with >10 pages visited (exc. SW and related countries) – Wiki pages at IFCA: http: //wiki. ifca. es e-Science wiki pages Started several months ago not only for EGEE. Spanish-English. EGEE-II INFSO-RI-031688

CSIC in SPAIN Enabling Grids for E-scienc. E • CSIC is precursor member of the Spanish NGI (National Grid Initiative). • CSIC is precursor member for the Spanish network for e. Ciencia, created during last months and related to Grid and Supercomputing. This network involves +100 groups in Spain. EGEE-II INFSO-RI-031688 16

Conclusions Enabling Grids for E-scienc. E • SW Federation contribution: 1. 5 FTE • We reach to a large number of interested groups within the potential and de facto grid community. • Dissemination works on two ways: – The oportunities arrive to people: invitations to talks. – The oportunities are created: organizing events • Usually there are more people envolved with NA 2. • The potential user community is an specialised community: the dissemination rules should be specialised. • Any event is a good oportunity. EGEE-II INFSO-RI-031688 17