Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
NA2 report for CSIC
Gabriel Amorós (CSIC-IFIC)
Prague, 27-28 November 2007
www.eu-egee.org
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CSIC
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
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 NA2 effort: 12 PM
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Overview
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
• 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)
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CSIC-Personnel involved
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
• 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
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CSIC-Talks in external events
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
– “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
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CSIC-Talks in external events
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
– Round table
– Meeting: XVII Jornadas de Paralelismo, Albacete.
– Speaker: José Salt.
– Date: 18.09.2006
– Participants: ~ 40
– Round tabIe
– Meeting: e-Ciencia Andaluza (e-CA). Granada,
– Speaker: Álvaro Fernández.
– Date: 19.06.2007
– Participants: ~ 30
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CSIC-Talks in external events
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
– “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
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– Participants:
~ 20
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CSIC-Talks in external events
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
– “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
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CSIC-Talks in external events
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
– “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).
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CSIC-User induction
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
• 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
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CSIC-Organized events
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
– Indirect dissemination activities (Related NA3 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.
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CSIC-User Forum Events
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
• 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
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CSIC-Activities to broad public
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
– 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).
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CSIC-Activities to broad public
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
– 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.
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CSIC- On line activities
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
• Visibility on internet
– Web pages (SA1 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.
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CSIC in SPAIN
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
• CSIC is precursor member of the Spanish NGI (National
Grid Initiative).
• CSIC is precursor member for the Spanish network for eCiencia, created during last months and related to Grid
and Supercomputing. This network involves +100
groups in Spain.
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Conclusions
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
• 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 NA2.
• The potential user community is an specialised
community: the dissemination rules should be
specialised.
• Any event is a good oportunity.
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