EGI-InSPIRE
EGI strategy and Grand Vision
Ludek Matyska
EGI Council Chair
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EGI Grand Vision (1/2)
• Provide Enabling Services to Researchers
– collaboration and partnership with researchers
and research communities to the definition and
development of requirements
– support user-centric development
• Provide Flexible Virtual Research
Environments
– distributed computing and data infrastructure
– service co-development – joint undertaking of
researchers, service and technology providers
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EGI Grand Vision (2/2)
• Operate an Unprecedented European
Capability for High Throughput Data
Analysis
– distributed resource pool, resource allocation,
federated cloud infrastructure
• Develop the human capital
– NGI (resource providers) operations
management, policy development, technical
outreach, technology experts
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EGI Vision in a nutshell
researchers from all
disciplines can easily
connect to the most
innovative ICT services,
data, knowledge and
expertise they need for
performing collaborative
excellent research
Knowledge
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Open Data
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Evolution to 2020
By 2020, European researchers will be able to:
• Access a single point of contact for obtaining the
necessary ICT services (integrated and interoperable)
the related capacity and support from the various eInfrastructures (including commercial providers)
• Connect to the best expert consultancy to understand
the services they need or to support developing new
solutions to perform their digital research
• Freely discover, share, use, re-use research outputs
(publications, data, software, workflows, …)
Open Science Commons
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EGI Mission
To be a core player of the “backbone” for federationenabling services for compute, storage, data,
communication, knowledge and expertise for the ERA
complementing community specific capabilities
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Open Science Commons
• E-Infrastructure Commons
– a flexible and dynamic ecosystem providing
integrated services through interoperable
infrastructures
• Open Data Commons
– observations, results, applications of scientific
activities available for anyone to use and reuse
• Knowledge Commons
– collaborations, communities and the shared
ownership of knowledge to address challenges in
education and research
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Strategy for e-Infrastructure Commons
• A common backbone of federated services
– strengthen the relationship between e-Infrastructures
• Joint capacity planning
– policies, processes, access and business models
• Open integrated resource provisioning/access
(marketplace)
– includes commercial providers
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Strategy for Open Data Commons
• Open data sharing, curation and long
term preservation
– expanded and new services
• Open access policy
– sharing of current and future research
outputs
– easy access control
• OpenAIRE integration
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Strategy for Knowledge Commons
• Distributed Competence Centers (DCC)
– Strong user engagement
– Different aspects of knowledge
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Connectivity, compute and data services
Data management and planning
Data archives certification
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• Collaboration with Centers of Excellence in
HPC sector
• Facilitate knowledge transfer to private sector
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EGI Solutions Portfolio
Individual
Researchers
& Teams
Research
Communities
& Institutions
HighThroughput
Data Analysis
Federated
Operations
Community
Driven
Innovations
and Support
Federated
Cloud
Resource
Centres &
Institutions
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EGI Strategic Actions
• New governance model
• Innovation of the sustainability strategy and business
model
• User engagement strategy
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Enabling services for R&D
• Data are the driver
– Store & move
– Process
• No “one size fits all” research communities
• Different approaches need specific solutions
• Higher involvement of user communities in the process
of
– Defining the e-infrastructure and its services
– Pushing the evolution forward
• User-centric development model
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Capability for high
throughput data analysis
• Scientists need access to properly scaled einfrastructure
– Going from smaller through large to huge
– Covering storage&network&computing
– Resources at the “huge” end beyond scope of institutes or even
single countries
• EGI operates the largest distributed e-infrastrustructure
– both compute and data
• Cloud technology as the enabler
– Federated cloud infrastructure
– >10M cores & >1 Exabyte of storage
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Flexible virtual environments
• A single service not sufficient
– Combination of services (workflows) integrated in a
proper supportive environment
– Distributed
– Combine all aspects
• Flexible virtual research environments
– Emphasis on software co-development
• Development followed by the operation
– Joint undertaking of researchers and IT/einfrastructure experts and service providers
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Human capital
• Experts the highest asset
– EGEE/EGI helped to prepare at least one generation
of IT/e-infrastructure experts
• Human networks
– Between institutes/countries
– Between scientific domains
• Virtual centers of excellence
– Training
– Application development
– Consultancy
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Impact – Researchers
• Access to the advanced and continuously
evolving e-infrastructures
– Data driven
– Data analysis
• Partnership within human networks
• Collaboration potential
• Support for excellent science
– Not slowed down due to unavailability of
resources/environments
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Impact – NGIs
• Organizational aspects
• Higher integration of individual aspects
– Network
– Compute
– Data
• Distributed Research Infrastructure
– NGIs as building stones
– Closer collaboration with other einfrastructure providers
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Impact – Europe
• EGI currently 35 organizations
– EGI.eu as a coordinator
• Similar number for NRENs
– Dante & Terena
• A Distributed Open Computing and Data
Infrastructure for Europe
– Efficient use of public investment
– High impact on European science
– Coordination – lowers the overall cost
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EGI role
• Long term operational experience
• Pan-European coverage
– >35 countries
– >21000 researchers using the infrastructure
• Innovative approaches
– Federated clouds
– Federated AAI
• Coordinating body and governance structure
– EGI.eu
• Evolution
– Towards DRI
– Towards co-development
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Summary
A single “e-infrastructure Commons” for
knowledge, innovation and science, as a
living ecosystem, which is open and
accessible and continuously adapts to the
changing requirements of research
Evolving e-infrastructure that provides high
throughput data analysis capability for
European scientists
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