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Mirco Mazzucato Infn -Padova 1
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The International Grid activities in Italy
and the eBusiness
eIndustryeGovernmentEScience andTechnology
(BIGEST) Italian Grid Initiative
Rome MIUR – March 2003Mirco Mazzucato
Mirco Mazzucato INFN-Padova-3
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eScience and the Grid Italy started to develop the Grid technology and related infrastructures in the
second half of 1999 Main motivations Modern fundamental Science in all domains requires more and more global
collaboration (eScience) : improve efficiency, avoid effort duplication, combine distributed expertise …..
The scientific world is flowed by an enormous amount of distributed raw data HEP: 10 PBytes/year in 2007 Earth Observation: Envisat 500 TBytes/year now Mammography screening of a country like It: 200TBytes/year Genome databases now ~200TBytes…. quickly growing
..they need to be transformed in precious piece of knowledge: Laws of nature, new discoveries, innovative technologies….
This challenging task need new advanced support infrastructures Modern Virtual Organizations,i.e.eScience distributed teams of scientists with a
common scientific goal, should be able to share resources, data, instruments and knowledge in real time at national, regional (Europe) and international level to make scientific progress more efficient and faster
At the end of 1999 in Italy, after a carefull evaluation, we decided that Grids were the promising enabling technology for eScience
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eIndustry, eGovernment and the Grid
Modern Industries and also Governments rely more and more on innovative choices which are increasingly based on the cycle:
Theoretical description of the problem Simulation/Calculations of different options Selection of best solution Realization
and require access to large computing resources, distributed data and collaborative methods
The Grid middleware can provide common services that all e-Science, e-Industry and e-Government Grid applications can use as TCP/IP provide a common internet access protocol
Italy has fostered and aims to remain a main player in the development of this new e-World (or ERA) and believe that Grids will provide the enabling technology and infrastructure
Italy spend ~1% of GNP in research. Grids should open the possibility to profit of the much larger international scientific efforts
Insisting on pursuing the generality of any solution for the Grid middleware should allow large scale economies and large synergies between different sectors
Industry and Governments can re-use most of the services developed in the favourable e-Science environment that are generally made available as open source implementations enhancing in this way the European competitiveness
Mirco Mazzucato INFN-Padova-5
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The Grid National Strategy The development of the Grid middleware and of the national Grid
infrastructure is being actively pursued, since end of 1999, through a series of national and international projects
In general Grid middleware has been whenever possible developed through European funded projects:
DataGrid, DataTAG, GridLab.... ..and international collaborations (with US Globus, Condor, iVDGL,
PPDG, GGF...) to allow worldwide interoperability GLUE, World Grid, MAGIC....
...but also by INFN Grid and ISUFI at national level ...and now by FIRB.... The national Grid infrastructure is being developed by national
projects Garr for the underline broadband Research Networking INFN Grid, FIRB WP3, S-PACI PON for Grids
....and integrated at international level through EU DataGrid, DataTAG
The next step is the new HEP LHC Computing Grid projects that will provide a common grid environment for the collaborative work of thousands of physicists distributed world-wide
EO, Astronomy Virtual Observatory, Gravitational Waves are following
Mirco Mazzucato INFN-Padova-6
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Early Grid R&D in Italy : The INFN-GRID Project
First national Grid project approved in Europe: beg. 2000 Focused on the preparation of the INFN LHC comp. infrastructure The size of the project : 20 Italian Sites, ~100 people, ~ 50 FTE’s
Budget devoted to the development of the LHC Regional Computing Centers and related collaborative Grid infrastructure
..but since the beginning the development of the middleware in INFN Grid was conceived as being of general use and has taken into account the requirements of other sciences
Biology (PD) and Earth Observation(Esrin-ESA-Frascati) It is a successful example of collaboration between physicists, sw
engineers, computer professionals and computer scientists (CS Dep. of Universities of VE, PD, BO, CT, TO,…) and Italian Industries
DatamatSPA and Nice have been major contributors in the developments of the DataGrid middleware
They have now top level expertise in Globus based Grid middleware at European and International Level
Comparable only with IBM INFN Grid has been and is the national container for INFN to
coordinate the contribution to all EU and International Grid projects and to the GGF standardization
Mirco Mazzucato INFN-Padova-7
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INFN Grid: activities (traditional)
INFN Grid has developed activities on all those components of a distributed computing infrastructure which allow in principle common solutions .
These tradionally included: The development of the National testbed (including LHC Computing
Centers prototypes integrated and related services ) and the access to the Garr Italian Research Network
The development of the grid middleware and of the European testbed in the EU DataGrid project
The study and solution of Grid M/W interoperability with US and the creation of the first World Grid testbed based on de facto standard components in the EU DataTAG project
Grid integration in HEP applications The INFN participation to internationl coordination bodies
HEP Joint Technical Board (JTB) Common EU-US ineroperable solutions (GLUE)
HEP Intergrid Collaboration Board (HICB): EU-US-AP grid projects managers The contributions to the Grid standardization activities in the Global Grid
Forum (GGF) INFN M/W specific developments: Monitoring (Nagios), Genius portal,
LFCG installation kit, test suites....
Mirco Mazzucato INFN-Padova-8
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DataGrid: Italian activities
www.edg.org Financed by EU for Middleware development and EU testbed (9.8 M€)
INFN: 1 M€, CNR: 0.3 M€, Datamat 0.5 M€, IRST(Tn): 0.3 M€ Italy: 2.1 M€ for personnel for 3 years
The main Italian contributions are in: WP1 (Workload Management, resource discovery, grid scheduling) WP2(Data Management) WP4( Fabric Management, automatic installation kit) WP8 (HEP and Biology applications)
Particular care and efforts have been devoted to guarantee support to WP1 managed by INFN
The INFN testbed connected to the European EDG infrastructure has constantly grown and now includes all 20 major INFN sites located in all major Italian Universities
EDG will provide basic middleware, prototype testbed and services for HEP, Biology and EO and input to the new FP6 Integrated Infrastructure Initiative (EGEE)
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Catania
Bologna
Padova/LNL
Torino
Cagliari
Roma
Milano
To USA
To Russia/Japan
The major sites of the INFN DataGrid testbed connectedto the EU EDG testbed – US and ASIA
Cern
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NLNLSURFnet
CERN
UKUKSuperJANET4
AbileneAbilene
ESNETESNET
MRENMREN
ITITGARR-B
GEANT
NewYork
STAR-TAP
STAR-LIGHT
DataTAG project
Main focus of INFN EDT activities:Interoperability between Grids in EU and US (WP4 managed by INFN )
US partnership:Globus, Condor, PPDG, iVDGL projects and HEP experiments
Main PartnersCERN, INFN,UvA(NL) PPARC(UK), INRIA(FR)
Mirco Mazzucato INFN-Padova-11
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DataTAG and GLUE: activities
www.cern.ch/datatag Financed by EU with 0.6 M€ for personnel INFN is managing WP4 (Grid interoperability EU-US) WP4 has set up with the US project iVDGL, the GLUE ( Global
Laboratory Uniform Environment) http://128.3.182.66/mtgs/ivdgl/Interoperability.htm activities that have now solved the basic Grid interoperability issues between EU and US:
Middleware Services Application Grid integration support
INFN has also a small participation in WP2 (Network measurements)
Record in transatlantic transfer speed have been recently achieved The development of common solutions (or at least agreed and
introperable) is a natural interest of European Applications, in particular those concerned by EU-US collaboration.
Most of the HEP experiments have strong US components together with EU ones
and many other sciences now can profit of these solutions: EO, AVO...
INFN DataTAG with iVDGL(US) have provided the first interoperable EDG(EU) and VDT(US) middleware
Demo at IST2002 an SC2002
Mirco Mazzucato INFN-Padova-12
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Grid aspects covered by EDG (in red INFN main developments)
VO servers and VOMS
LDAP directory for mapping users (with certificates) to correct VO
Storage Element Grid-aware storage area, situated close to a CE
User Interface Submit & monitor jobs, retrieve output
Replica Manager Replicates data to one or more CEs
Job Submission Service
Manages submission of jobs to Res. Broker
Replica Catalog Keeps track of multiple data files “replicated” on different CEs
Information index Provides info about grid resources via GIIS/GRIS hierarchy
Information & Monitoring
Provides info on resource utilization & performance
Resource Broker Uses Info Index to discover & select resources based on job requirements
Grid Fabric Mgmt Configure, installs & maintains grid sw packages and environ.
Logging and Bookkeeping
Collects resource usage & job status
Network performance, security and monitoring
Provides efficient network transport, security & bandwidth monitoring
Computing Element Gatekeeper to a grid computing resource
Testbed admin. Certificate auth.,user reg., usage policy etc.
Mirco Mazzucato INFN-Padova-13
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The INFN development of middleware www.infn.it/grid
Progress on middleware developed by INFN Grid was unexpected
Genius Portal is becoming almost a standard It is used in all EDG demos and is being adopted by several
application (also industrial) and in US The Grid Monitoring system is now adopted by the LHC
Computing Grid project The installation configuration kit is now a baseline The Virtual Organization Mapping System is adopted by
LCG and by several US projects in alternative to Globus CAS
Their development is continuing and their usage by applications in a wider eScience context is expanding
Tutorials and contacts with Industries are increasing Last Grid tutorial organized in Torino December 5th and 6th(50
people) Next Grid tutorial in Catania
Mirco Mazzucato INFN-Padova-14
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The Grid FIRB Proposal(see talk of M.Vanneschi)
In FIRB INFN will study and prototype a national Grid Operation Center (GOC) in Italy to support the creation of a national grid infrastructure
The generalization of the infrastructure support is a model successfully established with the research network (GARR, GEANT..)
GOC will support several Italian Sciences applications and eventually the operation of this Italian infrastructure in the context of the new European Infrastructure project EGEE
EU eScience will count on national GOCs (like the FIRB or UK ones) to guarantee 24x24x7 operations of the Grid infrastructure as counts on GEANT and GARR for the network operation
The Italian eScience Grid infrastructure currently support: Astrophysics Biology Computational Chemistry Geophysics Earth Observation
Integration with international Grid infrastructures occurs via EDG,EDT,US proj.
Mirco Mazzucato INFN-Padova-15
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Some issues Grid M/W is being developed by several projects: in US: Globus, Condor, PPDG, GriPhyN, iVDGL..... in EU: DataGrid, DataTAG, Cross Grid, Gridlab... Grid M/W is now being adopted by a variety of Science sectors Current M/W software is typical of prototype development. It is
working but it is far from having developed robust solutions and well engineered production quality components assuring long term survival and easy evolution
See e.g. Globus issues The Grid middleware is deployed in several testbeds. This requires
large manpower, duplications of efforts etc and all national Grid programs are looking for sinergies and common deployment and operation support
Policies for resource sharing within comunities having common objectives (VO), security issues, accounting etc start to be generally addressed only now
FP6 need to allow a definite step forward and increase European competitiveness
Grids are now seen by many governments as a Science and Industry development enabling factor and large funds are made available also at national level
Mirco Mazzucato INFN-Padova-17
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The Italian Grid for Business, Industry, Government,
EScience&Technology (IG-BIGEST)
It is a new national initiative leveraging from INFN, FIRB and PON projects and aiming at coordinating all Italian efforts towards a national grid program and a coordinated Italian effective participation to FP6 and international grid projects
IG-BIGEST includes all Italian Sciences Institutions, major computing centers and many Industries ready to invest in early tests
The IG-BIGEST main objectives Create a general EU grid infrastructure for eScience integrating all
available EU national infrastructures and open to industry early test . Make current Grid middleware robust and fault tolerant for this production infrastructure to allow to start EU eScience
->Research Infrastructure Promote R&D on open Grid issues Support development of specific components and usage of Grids by
major applications in e-Science, eIndustry and eGovernment ->IST(Complex Problem Solving) or specific programs (e.g.
eHealth)
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The 1rst IG-BIGEST FP6 Proposal:EGEE
Consortium Partners, coordinated by CERN, cover ~20 European countries
It is an Integrated Infrastructure Initiative for the RI call 45-47 Millions available
Initial EGEE request: ~35 M€ for 2 years But it is a 4 year project aiming at ~100M€
Preliminar cost sharing Overall management: 7% Quality assurance: 3% Interface to applications: 10% for requirements and validation Middleware re-engineering: 30% to consolidate current M/W Grid deployment and operation centers: 50%
1rst EGEE grid infrastructure size: >50 major EU sites,6-8 operation and call centers, POP on reference sites in each minor country
Strong cooperation with Geant and successor but EGEE will not allow to make M/W R&D and developments in many
area where this is badly needed Neither to adress the development of higher level specific Industrial,
Governments or even science and general application components ->IST
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What after EGEE in FP6? IG-BIGEST need to address with the EU partners major
issues present in current grid middleware and more long term developments and can provide expertise in all areas
Programming Tools and Environment Security: AAAA in particular Audit and Accounting
Aim at the development of services that will bring current Grid security suitable for Business, Industries and Government Virtual Organizations
Data Intensive Services Extension of current Data Grid Services to cover
requirements of extended classes of Science e.g. genomic databases, medical application etc
Knowledge discovery Services Grid Portals Resource Management (Brokering, Scheduling and
Monitoring)
IG-BIGEST will support the development of the CORE Grid proposal for the next IST call, coordinated by INRIA(T.Priol)
Issues: participation of Industries, applications….
Mirco Mazzucato INFN-Padova-20
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The HEAlthgrid VENture(HEAVEN) Network of Excellence
Develop GRID compliant e-Health application on the European scale
On 5 levels: Molecular, Cellular, Organ, Patient, Population
Integrate them, whenever possible, into a European Grid for Health
Partners: CEA, CNRS, EPCC,IG-BIGEST/INFN,SIEMENS, IBM,...+ Italian Industry (in negotiation) Timescale: 5 years Researchers: 70 FTE Budget: 7 MEuros for eHealth call closing April 25
Mirco Mazzucato INFN-Padova-21
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How will HEAVEN Work?
Infrastructure
Projects
Pilot application
Deployment
Pilot application
Deployment
Pilot application
Deployment
Pilot application
Deployment
Pilot application
Deployment
Business Model
Prototype
New specific components for eHealth applications
Dissemination
GRID Basic Services
Feedback
Integration
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The GPCALMA Pilot Application
Data Collection Centre Diagnostic Centretelediagnosis for breast cancer screening
Data & MetaData Catalogue
1 - Data Collection
2 - Data Registration
3 - Run CAD remotely
4 - Transfer Selected Data
5 - Interactive Diagnosis
CAD selection to minimize data transfers for quick diagnosis
Mirco Mazzucato INFN-Padova-23
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Additional FP6 proposals for eScience
Many IG-BIGEST applications are part of large European consortia who need to develop their specific Grid higher level services. These include:
Astrophysics Biology Computational Chemistry Geophysics Climate Earth Observation eLearning Digital Libraries
Need to find appropriate EU calls to extend the European Research Area to cover these applications to allow them to make a critical mass at EU level to compete in the world
Mirco Mazzucato INFN-Padova-24
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The IG-BIGEST Industrial activities
IG-BIGEST collaboration with Industries is actively ongoing along 3 lines:
Participation of solution providers in FP6 proposal E.g. Datamat, Nice , + a couple more under
discussion in EGEE and HEAVEN
Develop a specific higher level of services on top of the basic Grid layer to increase the productivity of specific sectors
Exploit current INFN and IG-BIGEST expertise on Grids
Involve Industries in early tests using existing Grid infrastructure available in Italy by INFN, FIRB and PON and in future by EGEE (we hope...)
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Current case of study:Grids in Industrial Engineering
Involve major Italian Industries dealing with the engineering in the Automotive sectors and some civil engineering companies
We have started regular meetings and mail exchanges to identify potential interest of Grids
Automotive grid components to allow collaborative work of geographically
separate groups working in product development with interconnected data
Identify integration issues of currently most used tools in CAE, CAD, Virtual Reality and Rendering
Identify issue in standardization of data exchange Identify data transfer requirements Identify interface and specific requirement towards basic grid
services Engineering
Grid components to allow the outsourcing of most intensive computational activities alowing them to pay what they really use
Simulation, finite element analysis, rendering and virtual reality
This is particularly interesting for SMEs whose market results are increasingly dependent on the capability to develop simulations and Virtual Reality demos
All these are very good candidates for IP in IST-CPS In near future we will start to address issues related to the
Farmaceutical industries of IG-BIGESt and SME’s and Real time grids for apparatus control and catastrophy management, NMI
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Conclusions Italian Science and Industries are making a coordinated
effort to be active part in the construction of the European Research Area
IG-BIGEST is the national initiative aiming at supporting the development of eScience, eGovernment and eBusiness in Italy and Europe aiming at giving Europe the edge on Grid Research and Industrial outreach
IG-BIGEST will contribute to all aspects of Grids development: R&D, S/W Engineering, deployment of infrastructure, operation, development of specific components for applications for eScience, eBusiness, eIndustry&Government, eHealth...
We count on IST-CPS Unit support to align activities and to develop adequate partnerships and identify possibilities and most convenient Instruments