Grid Initiatives for e-Science virtual communities in
Europe and Latin America
Wrap-up
Roberto Barbera (Univ. of Catania & INFN)
2nd EC Review
Brussels, 08/12/2011
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Outline
• Concepts and analogies
“the same equations have the same solutions”
• The GISELA business strategy
• Summary and conclusions
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Some concepts…
• Sustainability: in a general sense, is the capacity to
maintain a certain process or state indefinitely; the
term has its roots in ecology as the ability of an
ecosystem to maintain ecological processes,
functions, biodiversity and productivity into the future
• Sustainable development: is a pattern of resource use
that aim to meet human needs while preserving the
environment so that these needs can be met not only in
the present, but in the indefinite future
• The three pillars: sustainable development must
involve social and economic development, and
environmental protection
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Some concepts…
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… and some analogies
Key analogy: e-Infrastructures are complex “ecosystems” of
services “sold” by resource providers and “bought” by virtual
research communities.
Real world
• Social
• Environment
• Economic
VRCs
Sustain.
e-Infra.
SGs + IdFs
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e-Infrastructures
• VRCs
• Access and accountability
(Science Gateways and Identity
Federations)
• CLARA/NRENs and the
Resource Centres
CLARA/
NRENs +
RCs
e-Infrastructures’
sustainable
development
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Generic business models…
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… and the GISELA implementation
Knowledge
Fostering International Dissemination
e-Science dimension
CLARA
User supp.
NRENs
Domain
Resource
specific
Centres (RC)
applications
e-Infrastruc- e-Research
SGs
ture and
and
applications
IdFs
as a service
We are competitive w.r.t.
commercial providers
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EU and LA
research
groups
e-Infrastructure pay per use
back to the RCs
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Summary and conclusions (1/3)
• e-Infrastructures can be very beneficial platforms
for e-Science, provided they are «easy to use»;
• Science Gateways, Identity Federations and
Social Networks, can revolutionize the way Grid
infrastructures are used, hugely widening their
potential user base;
• The adoption of standards (JSR 286, SAGA,
SAML, etc.) in the GISELA Science Gateway
represents a concrete investment towards
sustainability;
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Summary and conclusions (2/3)
• Now that millions of users can potentially access and
use our Science Gateways, we need to develop new
«marketing» and «communication» strategies and
create a portfolio of «appealing» applications to
attract them;
• A new training format and programme as well as a
more focused dissemination activity are being
developed and implemented;
• The Science Gateway model has been adopted by
CLARA and it is at the centre of its business model;
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Summary and conclusions (3/3)
• The components (i.e., the portlets – our “Lego
bricks”) of the GISELA Science Gateway have
maximum re-usability and, indeed, they have been
already adopted in/by other projects (e.g., agINFRA,
CHAIN, DECIDE, EUMEDGRID-Support, INDICATE);
• In the last three months GISELA have worked
hard to define a sustainable model «backward
compatible» →
• We now have clear ideas and goals, the
(standard-based) tools and a roadmap to achieve
them, and the strength of choices largely shared
and supported by other projects.
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