advanced computing in latin america
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Advanced Computingin Latin America
Cooperación Latinoamericana de Redes Avanzadas, RedCLARA
Luis Núñez, Academic Relations, RedCLARAAlvaro de la Ossa, RedCONARE, Costa Rica
Outline
• RedCLARA specificities
• RedCLARA e-Infrastructure evolution• Inherited e-Infrastructure • RedCLARA Advanced computing service model
• Science Gateway as the center for a sustainability model
• RedCLARA VRCs
• VRC lesson learned• LA ROCs Cooperation• Latest News• Summary
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CLARA specifics
• A non-profit organisation of 15 National Research and Education Networks (NRENs)
• Diversity of technical skills and maturity of local scientific communities of its members
• Brazilian and Venezuelan NRENs are the only ones that have structural governmental support
• Most of other LA countries have built their NRENs with the support of their members, charging them for operations and services
• In the rest of LA countries several different organisational schemes can be found, sometimes involving also the private sector
RedCLARA has to find the most efficient way to operate Advanced Computing e-Infrastructures with a minimum budget and a maximum benefit for its
members
• Mature
• Developing
• Starting
Gov. Supported
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From Networking to Communities
• GISELA 34 production applications inherited EELA /
EELA-2 represent potential communities
• 18 Resources Centres provide skilful personnel to support and develop services in the region
• 435 trained users / 73 inst.• 1794 cores platform• Operation 24/7
EELA
--01/01/2006
--31/12/2007
GIS
ELA
--31/08/2 012
--01/09/2 010
EELA-2
--01/04/2008
--31/03/2010
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e-Infrastructure inherited from EELA and EELA2 projects
EELA
--01/01/2006
--31/12/2007
GISELA
--31/08/2012
--01/09/2010
CHAIN
ALICE2
EELA-2
--01/04/2008
--31/03/2010
Three EC projectscooperating, building VRC
and sustainability plans
• ALICE2 defined RedCLARA Live Product Cycle (LPC)
• CHAIN: – Identifies Advance Computing
Services to build a wide portfolio – Provides the Science Gateway
concept – Uses the LPC definitions to
build a Service Model
• GISELA takes advantage from the Services Model and builds an Advanced Computing Business Plan
Sharing interest in VRC and
Sustainability Plan for services
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RedCLARA Advanced Computing model
• AC Expertise Transfer. Technical consulting to assist in-house applications
• Federated Authentication Resources. Grant-authorized access to use the federated resources at a continental scale
• Application Shelf Service. Application shelf allows users, industrial partners and/or NRENs to contract computing resources
• Virtual Resources Grid Allocation. Virtual services e-infrastructure, such as environments, cores/storage/network provisioning
• Data Preservation Services. Offer the possibility to store data for a period of time
• Training and Capacity Building Service. Increase the use and culture of Advanced Computing Services by providing people the information and the skills needed to exploit them
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Science GatewayService model
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RedCLARA advanced computingVRC organisational model
NOC
Regional NOC+NOC
NETWORK MANAGER (NSC)
CLARA
Country LA–1REUNA
Country LA–2
Country LA–N
GOC
Regional GOC+GOC
NGI or EDGS
APPLICATIONS MANAGER
Grid Community Coordinator
NGI or EDGS NOC
NGI or EDGS
GOC
Complex Model
Cooperative Broker Model
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First, Second year of operation after GISELA: ½ FTE for administrative purposes as contracts, billing and expenditures ½ FTE for technical support 1 FTE for marketing and sales
Third year1 FTE – Administrative1 FTE – Technical1 FTE – sales
Sustainability forecast
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Advantages of the regional,cooperative sustainability model
User
Grid
ScienceGateway
Authentication
Cloud
Virtual Instrumen
ts
Virtual Servers
CommercialProviders
• Solidarity, on-demand resources (hardware, software & manware), from research groups to research groups
• Less developed countries/research groups can access advance computing resources
• Sharing operational cost among the countries/research centres
• Replicating other services in the RedCLARA Operational Structure
• High bandwidth and low latency from the experimental academic advanced networks
• Better use of existent computational infrastructure and expertise from different countries
• Promoting local middleware solutions better suited for the region
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VRC strategic approach
• Identify most relevant research areas for LA for international cooperation
• Get a better knowledge of research groups by several means: personal visits, participation in their meetings
• Promote incentives for communities working on MDG and FP7 priority topics
• Build strong relationships with regional, other European and international S&T agencies for fruitful cooperation
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Synergies with other VRC projects/new communities
• Database of available funding for Research and Innovation in Latin America, development funded by FEMCIDI (OAS) – Database is available and working; will be linked to CHAIN Knowledge Base– Permanent population of the database being funded by ALICE2 project
• Three new communities funded by IDB project– Seismology/Tsunami alert– Health/Tropical Diseases– Renewable Energy/Bio-fuels
• Looking for new communities and alliances:
– WHO/PAHO: Network of university hospitals – CYTED/ALFA Communities
– NanoAndes Community (LA-France Cooperation)
– RISC EU Project.: A Network for supporting the coordination of supercomputing research between Europe and Latin America
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LA regional communities
1. LACXSER (LAtinoamerican Colaboratory of eXperimental Software Engineering Research)
2. ReLANS (Red Latinoamericana de Nanotecnología y Sociedad)
3. MAYA (Red de Microorganismos, Agricultura y Alimentos)
4. MCISur (Manejo Costero Integrado del Cono Sur)
5. LAGO (Large Aperture Gamma Ray Burst Observatory)
6. MAPA D2 (Mapa e Programa de artes em danca digital)
7. LACLO (Latin American Community of Learning Objects)
8. CoLaBoRa (Comunidad Latinoamericana de Bibliotecas y Repositorios Digitales)
9. URDIMBRE (Research of the impact of TIC in education)
1. LAGO (Large Aperture Gamma Ray Burst Observatory)
2. MAPA D2 (Mapa e Programa de artes em danca digital)
3. LACLO (Latin American Community of Learning Objects
4. CoLaBoRa (Comunidad Latinoamericana de Bibliotecas y Repositorios Digitales)
5. FLU‐CAP Programa de Influenza para Centroamérica y Panamá
6. TIC en FID Formación Docente Inicial7. ACHALAI Red internacional de recuperación del
patrimonio inmaterial de tradiciones musicales8. Grid Computación Científica y de Alto
Rendimiento9. ARCU-RED Comunidad de arte y cultura en la
red10. IPOL-LA Image Processing Online Latin America11. CLARISE Comunidad Latinoamericana Abierta
Regional de Investigación Social y Educativa12. Latin IDE Comunidad Latinoamericana de
Infraestructura de Datos Espaciales13. CLIC Comunidad Latinoamericana de
Investigación y Construcción de Conocimiento
ComCLARA2011
ComCLARA2010
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Regional LA Communities: lessons learned
• Tight follow-up of community activities– Monthly meetings + reports / weekly mails and contacts
• Rapid response on service demands (NREN help)
• Need community managerial skills (training? management?)
• Compel proposal for long-term sustainability• Openness to the inclusion of new members• Inter-community relations within LA and linking to others in EU
– Scientific data / learning object repositories
– Georeference for health care and disaster mitigation
– Share and develop managerial skills from more expert leaders
– Joint proposal from present communities
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Science Gateway Service model
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SG Task
Force B
uilt
• ~6 SG Te
chnica
l Virtu
al Seminars
(GIS
ELA Coop)
• ~10 people EPIK
H-trained
• ~6 resu
lts prese
nted at GIS
ELA-CHAIN
Conf
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New look o
f LA S
G
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Science Gateway
RedCLARA advanced computingVRC organisational model
NOC
Regional NOC+NOC
NOC
NETWORK MANAGER (NSC)
CLARA
Country LA–1REUNA
Country LA–2
Country LA–N
GOC
GOC
Regional GOC+GOC
NGI or EDGS
NGI or EDGS
NGI or EDGS
APPLICATIONS MANAGER
Grid Community Coordinator
Complex Model
Cooperative Broker Model
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• 3NRENs + 2Insts
Comitte
d to su
pport
• CUDI-mx,
RENATA-co and C
EDIA-ec
• UNAM-mx,
UniAndes-c
o
• Negotiatio
ns with
ROC-LA (m
x,co,br)
• Mesoameric
a project to su
pport susta
inability
Latest News• CUDI, CEDIA, RENATA joint effort to mantain
Advanced Computing Services in Latin América.• UNAM and UniAndes back this important support
HealthMaterials Technologies ICT (e-Government)ICT (Grids)ICT (Digital Libraries)Energy Technologies (Renewable Energies)FoodWaterSocial SciencesBiotechnologiesAstronomyEducationNatural DisastersCultural Heritage (Archaeology and Immaterial Patrimony)
RedCLARA-identifiedareas for possible VRCs
• Mature
• Developing
• Starting
Gov. Supported
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Mesoamerican/Caribbean Risk Management System
• Mesoamerican Integration and Development Project (MIDP), IDB funded http://www.proyectomesoamerica.org/
• Sharing sensors, computing & communications resources
• Profiting from data management for modeling severe climate events
• Defining mitigation actions and responses to handle severe climate events
• Mexico, Central American countries, Colombia & Caribbean countries
• RedCLARA IDB-promoted VRC
• Researchers from: mx, ni, cr, pa, co, ve, cl
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LA ROCs Cooperation
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Sustainability Dissemination
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Formal appointments with S&T Decision Makers
Sustainabilit
y is T
HE word
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