wrap-up roberto barbera (univ. of catania & infn) 2 nd ec review brussels, 08/12/2011

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Grid Initiatives for e-Science virtual communities in Europe and Latin America

Wrap-up

Roberto Barbera (Univ. of Catania & INFN)

2nd EC Review

Brussels, 08/12/2011

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Outline

• Concepts and analogies“the same equations have the same solutions”

• The GISELA business strategy

• Summary and conclusions

GISELA - Second Project Review - Brussels - 08/12/2011


Some concepts…

• Sustainability: in a general sense, is the capacity to maintain a certain process or state indefinitely; the term has its roots in ecology as the ability of an ecosystem to maintain ecological processes, functions, biodiversity and productivity into the future

• Sustainable development: is a pattern of resource use that aim to meet human needs while preserving the environment so that these needs can be met not only in the present, but in the indefinite future

• The three pillars: sustainable development must involve social and economic development, and environmental protection



Some concepts…


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… and some analogies

Real world• Social• Environment

• Economic

e-Infrastructures• VRCs• Access and accountability

(Science Gateways and Identity Federations)

• CLARA/NRENs and the Resource Centres

Key analogy: e-Infrastructures are complex “ecosystems” of services “sold” by resource providers and “bought” by virtual research communities.

VRCs

SGs + IdFsCLARA/NRENs +RCs

Sustain.e-Infra.

e-Infrastructures’ sustainable development


Generic business models…



… and the GISELA implementation

We are competitive w.r.t. commercial providers

CLARANRENsResourceCentres (RC)

International dimensionDomain specificapplicationse-Researche-Infrastruc-

ture and applications as a service

SGs and IdFs

Fostering e-Science

KnowledgeDissemi-nationUser supp.

EU and LAresearch groups

e-Infrastructure pay per use back to the RCs



Summary and conclusions (1/3)

• e-Infrastructures can be very beneficial platforms for e-Science, provided they are «easy to use»;

• Science Gateways, Identity Federations and Social Networks, can revolutionize the way Grid infrastructures are used, hugely widening their potential user base;

• The adoption of standards (JSR 286, SAGA, SAML, etc.) in the GISELA Science Gateway represents a concrete investment towards sustainability;




• Now that millions of users can potentially access and use our Science Gateways, we need to develop new «marketing» and «communication» strategies and create a portfolio of «appealing» applications to attract them;

• A new training format and programme as well as a more focused dissemination activity are being developed and implemented;

• The Science Gateway model has been adopted by CLARA and it is at the centre of its business model;




• The components (i.e., the portlets – our “Lego bricks”) of the GISELA Science Gateway have maximum re-usability and, indeed, they have been already adopted in/by other projects (e.g., agINFRA, CHAIN, DECIDE, EUMEDGRID-Support, INDICATE);

• In the last three months GISELA have worked hard to define a sustainable model «backward compatible» →

• We now have clear ideas and goals, the (standard-based) tools and a roadmap to achieve them, and the strength of choices largely shared and supported by other projects.


wrap-up roberto barbera (univ. of catania & infn) 2 nd ec review brussels, 08/12/2011

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