eela project overview

FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026409

www.eu-eela.org

E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America

EELA Project Overview

Pedro Henrique Rausch Bello – Leader of Task 2.3

(Slides courtesy of Jesus Casado / Bernard Marechal / Roberto Barbera)

ICTP/Democritos Workshop on Porting Applications to the GRID

Trieste, 17.02.2006

Trieste, GRID Workshop, 17.02.2006 2FP6−2004−Infrastructures−6-SSA-026409


• Introduction – Network in Latin America and Europe• Objectives• Partners• Structure• Work Packages Description• Obligations• Human Resources• Budget• Present Status• Conclusions

OUTLINE



NETWORK STATUS - RedCLARA



• Goals: – Build a bridge between consolidated e-Infrastructure initiatives

in Europe and emerging ones in Latin America– Reinforce collaboration between Latin America and Europe

• Objectives: – Establish a human collaboration network between Europe and

Latin America: Setting up the structure of the collaboration network Establishing adequate support mechanisms Adopting policies regarding the shared use of e-Infrastructure Evaluating new areas of collaboration and relevant partners, both

in Europe and Latin America

OBJECTIVES



– Build a pilot e-Infrastructure in Latin America: Implementing basic mechanisms for an interoperable e-

Infrastructure, adopting a security policy, establishing Certification Authorities and defining basic tools middleware

Setting up a Pilot Testbed, establishing Virtual Organizations and supporting application developers and users

Supporting advanced network services

– Promote a sustainable framework for e-Science: Identifying research communities and applications Supporting dissemination efforts Coordinating participation in possible new projects Defining a map for a future consolidated e-Infrastructure in LA

OBJECTIVES



– EUROPE Italy: INFN Portugal: LIP Spain: CIEMAT(coordinator), CSIC, RED.ES, UC, UPV

– INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS CERN CLARA

– LATIN AMERICA Argentine: UNLP Brazil: CECIERJ/CEDERJ, RNP, UFF, UFRJ Chile: REUNA, UDEC, UTFSM Cuba: CUBAENERGIA Mexico: UNAM Peru: SENAMHI Venezuela: ULA

PARTNERS



• WP1: Project administrative and technical management

– Manager: CIEMAT– In charge of the financial and administrative parts of the project– Assisted by the legal advisor of CIEMAT– Elaborates technical documents, deliverables and reports– Interacts with EC – Takes care of the EELA private Web Site– Distributes EC funds amongst the partners– Controls budget and audits

WORK PACKAGE 1



The EELA “external” web site (http://www.eu-eela.org)



The EELA “internal” web site(http://www.eu-eela.org/private/private_eela.htm)

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WP2: Pilot testbed operation and support– Manager: UFRJ– Establishes a common interoperable Pilot Grid Testbed between

existing resources in Latin America and Europe– GÉANT, RedCLARA and European and Latin American NRENs

will provide the network infrastructure – The grid infrastructure will be based on the EGEE middleware

framework– The EELA Pilot Testbed will support dissemination activities and

application exploitation

Task 2.1 – Coordination – Operation Management Team

Task 2.2 – Certification Authorities and Virtual Organizations

Task 2.3 – Pilot Testbed Operations

Task 2.4 – Network Support and Operations

WORK PACKAGE 2




EELA e-Infrastructure(from the Technical Annex)




EELA Pilot2 e-Infrastructure(NOW! - from GridICE)

UFF+UFRJ

CIEMAT

INFN-CT




EELA ROC (managed by UFRJ)(http://omnis.if.ufrj.br/eela)




EELA GridICE (managed by CIEMAT)(http://ice-eela.ciemat.es/gridice)

60% of T.A, !(even if not completely

dedicated to EELA)10% of T.A, !




EELA GOC Statistics (GStat)(http://goc.grid.sinica.edu.tw/gstat/eela/)




Usage of Pilot2

(2nd Jan 2006 – 29th Jan 2006)

Biomed VO

Lhcb VO




EELA VOMS (managed by LIP)(https://voms.lip.pt:8443/voms/eela/)

New registrations at: https://voms.lip.pt:8443/voms/eela/webui/request/user/create




• WP3: Identification and support of Grid enhanced applications– Manager: CIEMAT– Identifies, selects and customizes relevant applications and

tools suitable for the Grid dissemination process in Biomedical, High Energy Physics, Climate and e-Education

– Contributes to the definition of a common application interface with other research fields to encourage and help scientific and technology communities to easily migrate their applications to the EELA e-Infrastructure

Task 3.1 – Biomedical Applications

Task 3.2 – HEP Applications

Task 3.3 – Additional applications (e-Education and Climate)

WORK PACKAGE 3




EELA Applications

• Biomed (already EGEE pilot applications)– CDSS– GATE– gPS@

• HEP (already EGEE pilot applications)– ALICE– LHCb

• Additional (EELA specific)– Climate in the Grid Environment– Education in the Grid Environment

(to be “gridified” in Trieste in the next two weeks)

• New (not foreseen in the T.A.)– Questionnaire for evaluation by technical staff




• WP4: Dissemination activities

– Manager: INFN– INFN GILDA as strategic tool, already used in EGEE– Introduce state of the art grid technologies and services to

international community of users– Bring more LA and EU groups into EELA

Task 4.1 – Dissemination

Task 4.2 – Knowledge Dissemination

WORK PACKAGE 4




EELA Conferences and Workshops

• EELA Conferences– Chile (10/2006)– Brasil (03/2007, in conjunction with GGF ?)– Spain (09-10/2007)

• EELA Workshops– Venezuela (24-28 April 2006)– Spain (01-02/2007, before the first EELA Review)– Mexico, Peru, Italy, Cuba, Portugal, Chile, Argentina




EELA Tutorials(to be discussed and agreed at the KoM)

A = for Site Administrators

U = for Users




EELA First Tutorial

• Location: Madrid (Spain)• Date: 20-24 February 2006• Home page: http://www.eu-eela.org/events/tutorials/madrid-20240206/

• Agenda: http://agenda.eu-eela.org/fullAgenda.php?ida=a061




Other important training events

• ICTP Grid School– Trieste, 6-17 February 2006– http://cdsagenda5.ictp.trieste.it/full_display.php?ida=a05191

• EGEE User Forum– CERN, 1-3 March 2006– http://egee-intranet.web.cern.ch/egee-intranet/User-Forum/ind

ex.html

• International Grid School– Ischia, 9-21 July 2006– http://www.dma.unina.it/~murli/ISSGC06/




• MAIN METRICS– Web portal– Study and adoption of policies– Evaluation of new possible areas of collaboration– Certification Authorities in LA– Pilot installations from a middleware repository (at least 100

installations at the end of the 1st year)– Pilot e-Infrastructure (at least 3 sites)– Virtual Organisation setting up (at least 4 VOs at the end of 1st

year)– Network support (# of requests handled; end-to-end connections

for demos, tutorials,courses; statistics of network use)

OBLIGATIONS




• MAIN METRICS

– Number of enhanced applications demonstrated in the pilot e-infrastructure or in the GILDA Testbed (at least 4 after the 1styear and 8 after the 2nd year)

– Number of new applications (at least 1 per year)

– Number of conferences (at least 3 in 2 years), workshops (at least 3 per year), and tutorials (at least 6 in the first year and 4 in the second)

– Press releases, radio and TV references (at least 20 per year)

– Hits in WEB portal (at least 300,000 per year)

OBLIGATIONS




• MAIN METRICS

– Participation in relevant fora of EELA members (at least 10 per year)

– Meetings with scientific policy authorities (at least 10 per year)

– Participation in advisory committees and standardization bodies (at least 2 per year)

– Collaboration agreements with other projects, institutions and research communities (at least 2 per year)

– Resource Centre candidates (at least 3 in LA and 3 in EU)

OBLIGATIONS




PRESENT STATUS

• Approved by EC on December, 20, 2005

• Official starting date: January, 01, 2006

•Public and Private Web pages released (www.eu-eela.org)

• Mailing lists ready

• Pilot-Pilot Testbed working

• Project Office created




Conclusions and outlook

• The progress made by EELA in such a short amount of time is quite impressive– the sentence written in the EELA press release “By means of the

action of a group of very skilled and highly motivated people…” is in fact very true!

• However, many challenges are still in front of us:– extension of the pilot testbed– setting-up of ROC and User Support– setting-up of Certification Authorities in Latin America– porting of additional and new applications– the first deliverables (to be due already in february !)– create the EELA “brand” and the “team spirit”

• A chinese proverb says: “A long journey begins with a single step”. The EELA KoM was our first step.




If you want to know more

•You can find the Press Release and other useful information in EELA public website:

http://www.eu-eela.org

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