Mário CampolargoDG INFSO F3 Research

Infrastructure

25 March 2003

Grid enabled Research Infrastructure for Europe

- an FP6 perspective -

Grids Information Day

FP6 – short introduction GÉANT and Grids testbeds as a basis for an e-infrastructure eInfrastructure - a vision for Europe Objectives of the workprogramme on Research Infrastructure Conclusions

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FP6 structure

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PRIORITY THEMATIC AREAS ANTICIPATING S/T NEEDS

Specific international co-operation activities

JRC activities

Research & innovation

STRUCTURING THE ERA

Human resources &

mobility

Science & society

Specific SME activities

Coordination of research activities

Development of research /

innovation policies

STRENGTHENING THE FOUNDATIONS OF ERA

Research for policy support

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Research infrastructures

Research Infrastructures

Visible facts from FP5 on support for Research Infrastructures:

GÉANT / international connectivity - Eumedis, ALIS, TEIN, Russia,...

Large scale experimentation on IPv6 Grids pilots involving leading Research Centers

High political visibility - EP, Council, eEurope 2002 Doubling budget in FP6 for GÉANT and Grids Infrastructures

International dimension

GÉANT network

IPv6 Testbeds

R&

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Grids Testbeds

Optical Testbeds

e-Infrastructure

deployment of the most performant research backbone network in the world (GÉANT) – boosting the transfer of information

GÉANT

GridsGrids Gridspilots

IPv6IPv6

piloting of new and particularly powerful forms of distributed computing – Grids – boosting the processing of information

Two key aspects for the future:

Research Infrastructures

The “super-vehicle” for information transfer

155Mbps7,5Gbps

EUMEDIS

ALIS 20 MbpsTEIN

NeDAP

SPONGE

SEEREN

GÉANT

World leading Research Network Speeds of up to 10 Gbit/s Connecting more than 3100 Universities and R&D centers Over 32 countries across Europe Connectivity to NA, Japan, …

The “super-machinery” for information processing

Computing power: >>20 teraflop/sec/equivalent to 100.000 PCs

Co-operative science: among 2,000 scientist in the world

CERN

The Large Hadron Collider Project (CERN)

DATAGRID

Flexible control and sharing of distributed resources Current pilots are bringing Grids from

the laboratory bench into the real world.

Several application areas – high energy physics, earth/environment, biology, industrial simulations, etc

Grids

Moving towards an e-Infrastructure

IPv6

IPv6

IPv6

GridsGrids

GridsGÉANT

Grids middleware

Moving towards an e-Infrastructure

e-Infrastructure

In FP6, deployment of a Grid empowered eInfrastructure

Vision - creating an e-infrastructure…

e-Infrastructure(Grids empowered)

e-Infrastructure(Grids empowered)

security

mobility

semantic web.

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e-Learning

e-Business

aeronautics

genomics

environment

astronomy

e-Health

e-Science

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Linking to policies

Research e-Infrastructures:

“corner-stone” of ERA “spear-head” of an “eEurope infrastructure”

(e.g. broadband plus) “integrator” of National Infrastructures powerful “instrument” for International cooperation … cohesion, cooperation,

standards, industrial, etc…

In the Specific Programme on "Structuring the European Research Area”

2.3. Communication Network Development

“The objective of this scheme in support of existing research infrastructures is to create a denser network between related initiatives, in particular by establishing a high-capacity and high-speed communications network for all researchers in Europe (GÉANT) and specific high performance Grids and test-beds (Grids).”

FP6 - Research Infrastructure

2.3. Communication Network Development

focus on:

High-capacity and high-speed communications network for all researchers in Europe (GÉANT)

High performance Grids infrastructures

Test-beds (within the IST priority)

FP6 - Research Infrastructure

FP6 – focus on GÉANT

GÉANT – maintain and capitalise on worldwide leadership on Research Networks

FP6 GÉANT network will represent a significant step forward in terms of

services, communities served, geographical scope, bandwidth and pioneering new technologies

These infrastructures should exhibit production-level performance capabilities and constitute themselves distributed facilities at gigabit/terabit scales (in terms of computing, storage and communication power).

Grids – moving from experimental pilots to stable provision of services

Deployment of Grids-empowered infrastructures to the Research Community in all scientific disciplines.

FP6 – focus on Grids

DG INFSO has established an ambitious plan to implement the objectives identified in FP6 for Grids.

Two complementary objectives being pursued – Grids for complex problem solving and Grids infrastructures.

With the work on GÉANT and Grids (Research Infrastructure in close cooperation with IST), the European Commission expects to deploy an e-Infrastructure for all Research Communities, thus contributing to the fast deployment of the European Research Area!

Research Infrastructure require more than technology… require policies! We are ready to cooperate with Member States and you, to devise and implement them!

Good projects are key to the success of FP6!

Conclusions

Web pagewww.cordis.lu/ist/rn/

Workshops

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Thanks for your attention!

For further information, please contact:

Research Infrastructuresmario.campolargo@cec.eu.int

kyriakos.baxevanidis@cec.eu.intantonella.karlson@cec.eu.int

Grids for complex problem solvingwolfgang.boch@cec.eu.int