earnest workshop research networking the next challenge berlin, 23 may 2006 wim jansen
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EARNEST Workshop
Research NetworkingThe Next Challenge
Berlin, 23 May 2006Wim Jansen
The next Challenge
Technical OrganisationalCo-operation
FP7
Workshop Research Networking May 2005
Objective:Capitalise on achievements and impact of eInfrastructure for the research communities in Europe Identify new challenges and provide a roadmap on how these challenges should be met in the coming 5 to 10 years Participants: - NREN directors - President and Secretary General of TERENA- Chairman of eIRG- Chairman of Board and Director DANTE- Chairman of NREN Policy Committee
“Research and Technology Development in IST”
• GÉANT is acknowledged as leading the world. • Europe is a pioneer in Grid empowered
infrastructures. (eInfrastructure)• ICT based infrastructure, namely GÉANT and
GRID need reinforcement and expansion in FP7.
To enable Europe to continue to play a leading role.
Expected Technological evolution Increasing networking traffic Optical fibres:
from renting to buying; distributed light path– Hybrid networking and dynamic allocation; end2end
across Europe, Optical Private Networks– Ultimately all users will have the bandwidth they want– Large (future) Infrastructure Facilities need to be
connected– Campus Networking is new challenge (1:10:100)– from connectivity to service provision: streaming
services (access grids, VoD), storage resources (archives, repositories), virtual labs, virtual organizations, digital libraries, VoIP, trust and security services (AAA), roaming.
-Extra- Organisational ChallengesHow will NRENs involve and serve the academic
communities in the future?– Intelligence in Networks will be moving from the
organisation to the institutions and to the users. High learning curve requires transformation of NRENs from service providers to service enablers or service integrators.
– Advanced services everywhere for everyone (grid, dynamic configuration and allocation etc..)
– More services require new business models for NRENs – Provide tailor made solutions for large infrastructures,
and involve those users actively. – Avoid concurrent research networks for different
academic disciplines.
-intra- Organisational Challenges
Future collaboration between NRENs, with the goal to provide services of common interest (e.g. by leveraging Structural Funds)– Reducing digital divide is crucial, but difficult.
• MS are in different stages of economic development, and needs.
• Hence political support differs as other infrastructures are competing (and also very much needed)
• Structural Funds used only for long term capital investments.
– Consider EU funding for supporting local network infrastructure. The infrastructure is as powerful as its weakest element.
Questions to address
“Expectations from the Commission”:- Which of the SERENATE recommendations had the biggest
impact on the Networking community and why? - Can we extrapolate these Results to EARNEST? Why not?
- What will cross-border fiber bring?- Are the NRENs that can use the Structural Funds to bridge
the digital divide also taking the necessary action to tender?
- Increasing mobility of researchers and /students: - Security and Trust, AA infrastructure become a major challence- Campus Networks
• Should EARNEST tackle the global dimensions of networking?
• Identify and map the 50 largest crucual scientific infrastructures
• How will NRENs involve and serve the academic communities in the future?
Virtual Research Communities• A VRC is a group of researchers, working
together effectively through the use of information and communications technology.
• Within the community, researchers can collaborate, communicate, share resources, access remote equipment or computers and produce results as effectively as if they, and the resources they require, were physically co-located.
• Example: European Institute of Technology
Access to a VRC is provided through:
Virtual Research Environment• A VRE is a set of online tools, systems and
processes to facilitate or enhance the research process.
• The purpose of a Virtual Research Environment (VRE) is to provide researchers with the tools and services they need to do research of any type as efficiently and effectively as possible.
• VREs help individual researchers – manage the increasingly complex range of tasks
involved in doing research. – facilitate collaboration among communities of
researchers, – resource discovery, data collection, data analysis,
simulation, collaboration, communication, publishing, research administration, and project management
VRE
MIDDLEWARE
Experiment
Experiment
Computing
Computing
Computing
Storage
Storage
Storage
Analysis
Analysis
Scientist
From eScience to e-Social science
Role of NREN’s• Increasingly Social Sciences and Humanities will
use, process, store digital resources and will create VRC’s and VLE’s
• But without the necessary ICT background or skills• New intermediary “breed” will (have to) emerge
with the expertise to join-up services to enable communities to function, as well as collaboration facilitators and managers who are able to translate the requirements into functional specifications
• Are NREN’s willing to take up this challenge and to move the stack of services they provide.
• Are the NRENs prepared to move the technologies into a wider set of communities and begin to change cultures and behaviours.?
• EIT might become the next test case
What is your TARGET?
Framework Programme 7
Research infrastructures2008 M€
Research for SMEs 1228 M€
Regions of knowledge 126 M€
Research potential 320 M€
Science in society 329 M€
Int’l cooperation 182 M€
Cooperation
Ideas
Capacities
JRC + Euratom+
People
FP7 – Capacities budget (provisional figures)FP7 – Capacities budget (provisional figures)
support to existing research infrastructures
support to new research
infrastructures
support measures
Stimulate the efficient
use and development of
existing infrastructuresStimulate the efficient
use and development of
existing infrastructures
Foster the emergence of
new infrastructures of
pan-European interest
Foster the emergence of
new infrastructures of
pan-European interest
FP7 – a new framework for more ambitious goalsFP7 – a new framework for more ambitious goals
support to existing research infrastructures
support to new research
infrastructures
support measures
FP7 – key activitiesFP7 – key activities
Integrating activitiesIntegrating activities
ICT based e-InfrastructuresICT based e-Infrastructures
European policy, international cooperation, emerging needsEuropean policy, international cooperation, emerging needs
Design studiesDesign studies
Construction of new RIs (preparatory and implementation phases)
Construction of new RIs (preparatory and implementation phases)
support to existing research infrastructures
support to new research
infrastructures
support measures
FP7 – key instrumentsFP7 – key instruments
Coordination and support actionsCoordination and support actions
ESFRI Roadmap(cooperation with e-IRG)
Preparatory phase:Collaborative projects +Coordination/support action
Implementation phase:Direct loans + guarantee to EIB loans (RSFF) + innovative procurement
ESFRI Roadmap(cooperation with e-IRG)
Preparatory phase:Collaborative projects +Coordination/support action
Implementation phase:Direct loans + guarantee to EIB loans (RSFF) + innovative procurement
Integrated Infrastructure Initiative (I3)Networking activitiesService ActivitiesJoint Research Activities
Integrated Infrastructure Initiative (I3)Networking activitiesService ActivitiesJoint Research Activities
Collaborative projects+
Coordination and support actions
Collaborative projects+
Coordination and support actions
support to existing research infrastructures
support to new research
infrastructures
FP7 e-Infrastructures - new layers, new infrastructuresFP7 e-Infrastructures - new layers, new infrastructures
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . New
FP
6F
P6
Network infrastructure
Grid infrastructure
Scientific facilities
Scientific data infrastructure
FP7 – addressing the new scientific data layer
• Further development and evolution of GÉANT and grids
• Foster adoption by new user communities, enhance global relevance, increase level of trust and confidence
• anticipate and integrate new requirements and solutions
• Foster the emergence of Europe as a world scientific data hub.
• Deploy data repositories for the scientific community and future generations of scientists supporting, in a coordinated way, digital libraries, archives, data storage, data curation, access to information and the necessary pooling of resources.