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European infrastructures and middleware: opportunities for the
biomechanical community
Marco Petrone
Outline
• A quick overview on EU Infrastructures• A quick overview on EU Grid Projects• LHDL: some ideas on possible EU
infrastructures and middleware exploitation
Credits:Some slides are excerpts of EU commission officers, namely
Kyriakos Baxevanidis (Deputy Head of Unit Research Infrastructures) and Wolfgang Boch (Head of Unit of Grid Technologies)
Outline
• A quick overview on EU Infrastructures
• A quick overview on EU Grid Projects
• LHDL: some ideas on possible EU infrastructures and middleware exploitation
The e-Infrastructure today - strategic building blocks
GÉANT .
INFRASTRUCTURE
GÉANTPan-European Research Network,3700 institutes, IPv6 enabled(93 M€ - DANTE)
€250m in FP6
EU Research programmes
on Grids, networks, etc
GRID .
INFRASTRUCTURE
EGEE
production quality grid, 20000 CPUs, ~5PB storage, 500 sites, training, 27 countries, 71 partners, HEP, Biomed..., int. links (€32 M - CERN) DEISA
grid of EU supercomputers networked at Gbps, focus on global filing system, >120 Tflop/s, several user communities
(€15M - CNRS) .
OMII-EU
building blocks to construct grid-infrastructures in flexible & robust way; (€5 M – SOTON)
The e-Infrastructure today - periphery expanding fast
New ApplicationsMolecular, Clinical
Bioinformatics, BiologyCivil Protection
Astronomy
Grids & Digital LibrariesApplications on IPv6
ITHANETBioInfoGridCYCLOPSEuroVO-DCA, EXPRESDILIGENT6DISS, IPv6TF
Geographical expansion of collaborationEastern Europe, NIS, Caucasus
Latin AmericaAsia (China)Baltic States
MediterraneanSouth-Eastern Europe
OCCASION, PORTA OPTICA STUDYALICE, EELA, AUGERACCESSTEIN2 (EUChinaGrid, ORIENT)BalticGridEUMedConnect, EUMedGrid, ITHANETSEEREN(2)/SEEFIRE, SEEGRID(2)
e-Infrastructure
Support, EnhancementsSynergy, Outreach, Users
Security, Policy supportTraining
SW-interoperability, testingGrid interactive services
Control remote instrumentsQoS, Traffic Monitoring
Optical networksConnected Test-beds
BELIEF, GO4ITISSeG, E-IRGSPICEAGEETICSint.eu.gridGridCCEUQoS, LOBSTERMUPPEDEUROLabs
GÉANT .
INFRASTRUCTURE Core connectivity project
GÉANT2
NRENNREN
NREN
NREN
Stay the global leaderfor advanced communication technologies
Evolution of the e-Infrastructure (Research Networks)
RN: Research NetworkNREN: National Research Network
Focus has been on:
Provision of a pan-European and reliable communication backbone – 10 Gbit/s
Service to 30 Million users in 35 countries (production quality infrastructures)
A test platform for advanced communication experiments
New emphasis now on:
End-to-end service provision
Deployment of light-paths (12 000 km fibre, 400+ active elements)
New services to the users (AAI, high speed transfers, access to network measurement data, interface to Grid layer
Hybrid network (photonics + IP)
Evolution of the e-Infrastructure (Grids) - interoperability, inclusiveness…
GRID .
INFRASTRUCTURE
eDEISA
EGEE-II
Focus has been on:
New (SW/HW) installations,
configuration, stabilisation, robustness
Provision of 24/7 operation service
(production quality infrastructures)
Resource sharing procedures & policies
OMII-Europe
Re-engineer, provide building blocks for grid-infrastructures to be constructed in a flexible and robust way; build on EGEE (gLite), UNICORE, GLOBUS
New emphasis now on:
Interoperability
Integration of off-the-shelf components,
SW-certification, increased functionality
Outreach new user communities,
all-inclusive infrastructures,
lower digital divideStrengthening international links
Need for a European approach on Capability Computing (Supercomputing)
Conclusions of a Workshop (21/03/06) on preparing a Supercomputing agenda for FP7
(http://www.cordis.europa.eu.int/ist/rn/)
Implement a European HPC Platform – vision & ecosystem
HPC Performance Pyramid
European
HPC centre(s)
National/regional
HPC centers
Local HPC
centers
To support scientific applications exceeding capacities of national resources
Any European HPC system needs to be significantly bigger than national systems in the same time frame
Petaflop capacity by 2009
The HPC infrastructure is a needed integral resource component of the European Science Grid infrastructure
Pyramid or two-tier shape for infrastructure: Petaflop machines (Tier-1) at the pyramid top; existing National/Regional centres form Tier-2
The two tiers to be strongly integrated together into a global grid “à la DEISA” with a unique operational & service provisioning model
Tier-1
Tier-2
Implement a European HPC Platform – vision & ecosystem
Different architectures to support different algorithmic processes (rather than different disciplines)
Centres of Excellence to host Peta-scale facilities
A sustainable ecosystem for exploiting Computational Science through HPC requires a European Expertise and Services infrastructure (for code optimisation, numerical analysis, code porting, data mng …) along with investments on HW, logistics...
Implement a steady program to continuously invest and upgrade on top of national infrastructures rather than a single one-time investment
Outline
• A quick overview on EU Infrastructures
• A quick overview on EU Grid Projects
• LHDL: some ideas on possible EU infrastructures and middleware exploitation
Grid Strategy towards the Lisbon Objectives
L
eadership
Leadership
C
ompetitiveness
Com
petitiveness
A
ddressing
Addressing standardization, regulation, …
standardization, regulation, …
Innovation fram
ework
Innovation framew
ork
L
everaging additional investments
Leveraging additional investm
ents
Developing new methods, tools, systems and servicesDeveloping new methods, tools, systems and services Advance excellence and know-howAdvance excellence and know-how Long-term and business-driven R&DLong-term and business-driven R&D Integration – structuring - standardisationIntegration – structuring - standardisation
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Research & Development
Technology
PlatformEur
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inteliGRIDSemantic Grid based virtual organisations
ProvenanceTrust and provenance
for Grids
DataminingGridDatamining
tools & services
UniGridSExtended OGSA
Implementation based on UNICORE
K-WF GridKnowledge based
workflow & collaboration
GridCoordBuilding the ERA in Grid research
OntoGridKnowledge Services for the semantic Grid
HPC4UFault tolerance,dependability
for Grid
Grid-based generic enablingapplication technologies to facilitate
solution of industrial problemsSIMDAT
EU-driven Grid services architecture for businesS
and industryNextGRID
Mobile Grid architecture and services for dynamic
virtual organisations Akogrimo
European-wide virtual laboratory for longer term Gridresearch-creating the foundation for next generation Grids
CoreGRID
Specific support action Integrated project Network of excellence Specific targeted research project
Grid@AsiaTowards EU-Asian Co-operation
Networked European Software and Services Initiative
launched in Brussels on 7 September 2005www.nessi-europe.com
Mission: Develop a visionary strategy for
Software and Services driven by a common European Research Agenda
where innovation and business strengths are reinforced
A European Technology Platform for SW, Grids & e-Services
WP 2005-2006 (Call 4 + Call 5)Advanced Grid Technologies, Systems and Services
Application Pull
TechnologyPush
Network-centric Grid Operating SystemsPotential new fabric layer for future
distributed systems and services
Grid FoundationsArchitecture, design and development of technologies
and systems for building the invisible Grid
Grid-enabled Applications & Servicesfor business and society
Research, development, validation and take-up of generic environments and tools
Applicationse-business, e-health,
e-gov, e-learningEnvironment
Advanced Grid
Technologies,Systems
and Services
Ap
plicationSector 3
Ap
plicationSector 2
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Ap
plicationSector 1
FP6 Grid Technologies Projects – Calls 2, 3, 5
DataminingGrid
OntoGrid
InteliGridK-WF GridCoreGRIDsix virtual laboratories
UniGrids HPC4U
Provenance
GridCoord Grid@Asia
NextGRIDservice
architecture
Akogrimomobile
services
SIMDATindustrial
simulations
data, knowledge, data, knowledge, semantics, miningsemantics, mining
KnowArc Chemomen tum
A-Ware Sorma
platforms, user platforms, user environmentsenvironments
Specific support action Integrated project Network of excellence Specific targeted research project
g-Eclipse
Gredia
GridComp
QosCosGrid
Grid4all
AssessGridGridTrust
trust, securitytrust, security
Grid services, Grid services, business modelsbusiness models
ArguGrid Edutain@ Grid
GridEcon
Nessi-GridChallengers Degree
BREINagents &
semanticsXtreemOS
Linux based Grid
operating system
supporting the NESSI ETP & Grid communitysupporting the NESSI ETP & Grid community
BeinGridbusiness
experiments
EU Funding: 124 M€EU Funding: 124 M€
Outline
• A quick overview on EU Infrastructures
• A quick overview on EU Grid Projects
• LHDL: some ideas on possible EU infrastructures and middleware exploitation
LHDL Objectives
• The Living Human Project aims to create an in silico model of the human musculo-skeletal apparatus which can predict how mechanical forces are exchanged internally and externally at any dimensional scale from the whole body down to the protein level.
• The LHDL project aims to develop the core ICT infrastructure that is required for the Living Human Project
LHDL ICT Infrastructure and Services
• Community Building and Collaborative Work: WEB Portal, Forums, Wiki pages, Document repository, Workflow and Policy support, Bug Trackers, etc.
• Storage Services: data collection and metadata DB, catalog search, data federation, fast data transfer and caching.
• Computing Services: simulations, optimizations, statistical analysis, post-processing
• Fat Clients Interface: Grid enabled applications. MAF: a rapid application development framework.
ICT Services for Researchers
ICT Services for the scientific community:
• Good quality
• Professionally managed
• Sustainable model
ICT Infrastructure: Middleware
Services will need e-infrastructure to provide middleware and tools to manage virtual organizations:
• Storage and Access to services and data produced by researchers.
• Access to infrastructure resources.• Allowing the definition of access policies, and
monitoring of the access: AAA.• Standard interfaces for interoperability: WS, WS-RF,
OGSA, etc.
Community Applications Deployment
• Deployment to large scale facility– Fast and large storage– Enabling or even Capability Computing– High speed continental network connections for quick
transfer of federated data– Production quality services and infrastructure
• Deployment to smaller facility:– Simplify technological problems– Limited service quality and capability– Would anyway take advantage from a federation with the
grid.• Dependence from and the maturity of grid
middleware is still an open question.
Thanks!