Co-ordination & Harmonisation of Advanced e-Infrastructures
for Research and Education Data Sharing
e-Infrastructures technical and
organisational challenges
Federico Ruggieri (GARR/INFN)
eAGE2014 10-11 December 2014
Muscat, Oman
www.chain-project.eu
[email protected]
Co-funded by the European Commission under
its 7th Framework Programme
Outline
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General Information on CHAIN-REDS
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The Vision and the Actions
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Use cases
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Challenges and solutions
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Conclusions
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General Information
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Research Infrastructures – Support Action - Grant Agreement n. 306819
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Total Costs of € 2.3 M - Max. EC contribution: € 1.52 M
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Start date: 1 December 2012 - Duration: 30 Months
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Partners:
 INFN (IT) – Coordinator
 CIEMAT (ES) – WP4 Leader
 GRNET (GR) – WP3 Leader
 CESNET (CZ) – WP5 Leader
 UBUNTUNET (MW) – Africa
 CLARA (UR) – Latin America
 IHEP (CN) – China
 ASREN (DE) – Arab States
 SIGMA ORIONIS (FR) – WP2 Leader
 C-DAC (IN) – India
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Regional Grid infrastructures
CNGrid
NKN &
Garuda
GISELA
SAGrid &
SANREN
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EUAsiaGrid
The Vision
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Promote and support technological and scientific collaboration
across different e-Infrastructures established and
operated in various continents to facilitate their uptake and
use by established and emerging Virtual Research Communities
(VRCs) but also by single researchers
Not only disseminate, exchange and reinforce the best practices
currently adopted in Europe and other continents, but also
promote the progress of interoperability among different
regional e-Infrastructures
Study and define a path towards a global e-Infrastructure
ecosystem that will allow VRCs, research groups and even single
researchers to access and efficiently use worldwide distributed
resources
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The benefits of e-Infrastructures
e-Infrastructures
support wide
geographically
distributed
communities
Grids and networks
allow the access of
many researchers to
scientific resources
(laboratories and data)
enhance
international
collaboration of
scientists
promote
collaboration in
other fields.
Disparity can be reduced and larger
participation and contributions to high
quality research.
The e-Infrastructures promote the
usage of network connectivity and
stimulate scientific and technical
development of countries
contribute to fight the digital
divide and brain drain.
Interoperations
5) Provide proof-of principle use cases for Data sharing across continents
Data Accessibility, Reproducibility, and Trustworthiness (DART) challenge
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Of interest to EUDAT Workflow WG
Several videos already available
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India
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Africa&Arab States;
Latin America;
China; Asia Pacific
Clouds for R&E - Federation
demo
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Baseline example for
cloud federation: EGI
Federated Cloud Task
Force
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OCCI and CDMI
standards as a
prerequisite for cloud
federation
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Orchestration system,
based on CLEVER, linking
several Cloud providers
Cloud federation demo
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As an application
accessible by the CHAINREDS Science Gateway
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The KB of Open Access Repositories
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The Knowledge Base of e-Infrastructures has been extended
to open access data document and (recently) educational
repositories
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(http://www.chain-project.eu/knowledge-base)
Federated Identities –
The CHAIN-REDS impact
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Countries where CHAIN-REDS has supported
the deployment of federated services
Science Gateway and Standards:
SAGA, OCCI, CDMI
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DART demo
Data Accessibility, Reproducibility, and Trustworthiness
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Use cases
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APHRC (Africa)
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LAGO (LA)
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Molecular dynamics domain
ABINIT (Arab region)
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Astroparticle domain
DART based
GROMACS (India)
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Societal health and well-being domain
Ab initio calculations on quantum chemistry and Physics of materials
domains
TreeThreader (China)
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Life processes at the molecular level
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New roles for NRENs
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New e-Infrastructures cover several levels and
technologies (Network, Cloud, Identity Federations,
Science Gateways)
National Research and Education Networks are widening
their scope beyond connectivity
Providing applications on portals and Science Gateways
exposes services to final users and scalable support
should be provided
Data access requires not only high bandwidth and low
latency, but also standard ways to uniquely identify digital
objects, metadata harvesting, catalogues and models for
data reprocessing
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Challenges & Solutions
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Make Data Repository Open and Accessible
following the standards and exposing them in the
Knowledge Base
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Make Access to Applications and Services easy
using the Science Gateway approach
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Identify Users by means of Identity Federations
and help the integration of Service Providers
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Identify Data using Persistent Identifiers
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Conclusions
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CHAIN-REDS Vision has been implemented in a series of actions to
promote coordinated activities among regional e-Infrastructures
Interoperation, Science Gateways, Identity Federations and standards
are promoted to support intercontinental VRCs activities
Successful demos have been deployed for Federated Clouds and
DART
Five Use Cases are supported to show the successful
implementation of the project’s vision
The project is currently filling the gap of stable Inter-regional
Coordination: a Plan will be proposed in the final part of the activity
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Co-ordination & Harmonisation of Advanced e-Infrastructures
for Research and Education Data Sharing
Thank you !
www.chain-project.eu
[email protected]
www.chain-project.eu
[email protected]
Co-funded by the European Commission under
its 7th Framework Programme