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www.eu-eela.eu
E-science grid facility forEurope and Latin America
Creating and operating a Grid infrastructure:
a use case from Europe & Latin America Bernard M. MarechalEELA-2 Project CoordinatorCETA-CIEMAT (Madrid - Spain) & UFRJ (Rio de Janeiro - Brazil)
Philippe GavilletEELA-2 Deputy Project CoordinatorCETA-CIEMAT (Madrid - Spain) & CERN
WSIS’08 - ICT / e-Science 21.05.2008(3rd Facilitation Meeting on Action Line C7 e-Science)
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KEY WORDS
• Grid: Multi-CPU Computing model that provides the ability to perform higher throughput computing with large storage capabilities
• e-Infrastructure: Distributed Grid infrastructure
• e-Science: Global collaborative scientific research, usually based on an e-Infrastructure
• JRU: Joint Research Unit
• NGI: National Grid Initiative
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MOTIVATIONS, PROBLEM AREA
• EELA (E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America) under FP6 www.eu-eela.org
– Bridge consolidated e-Infrastructures in Europe and emerging ones in Latin America
– Create and operate a transcontinental Grid infrastructure– Address cost-effectively regional problems– Enhance Research in developing counties
• EELA-2 (E-science grid facility for Europe and Latin America) under FP7 www.eu-eela.eu
– Set up a high capacity, production quality, scalable Grid Facility– Ensure round-the-clock, worldwide access to distributed computing and
storage resources– Support a wide spectrum of applications for both European and Latin
American scientific communities
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RESEARCH OBJECTIVES
• EELA– Aim at building a Latin American e-Infrastructure at the level of
European standard– Focus on e-Science-related applications, profiting from a stable,
performant networking infrastructure (RedCLARA & GÉANT)– Disseminate the Grid culture (Decision makers) and train local
communities of all kinds (Users, System Administrators)
• EELA-2– Provide empowered Grid facility with versatile services fulfilling
all application requirements– Ensure long-term sustainability of the e-Infrastructure beyond
the term of the project (from 2010 onward)
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RESEARCH APPROACH
• EELA– Establish scientific network– Enlarge and train (hands-on workshops) communities– Establish a pilot Grid supporting proof-of-concept applications– Close collaboration with other EC funded projects– Grid Cluster deployment, definition and enforcement of
operational schemes and policies
• EELA-2– Expand the current EELA infrastructure– Provide the full set of Grid Services needed by all types of
applications– Collaborate with NRENs and create Regional Operation Centres– Support actively the creation of National Grid Initiatives (NGI)
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MAJOR OUTCOMES / RESULTS
• EELA
– Provide European researchers early access to a new, well-supported e-Infrastructure and enable them to speed up the processing of scientific data
– Strengthen scientific communities in Europe and Latin America
– Successful building of a reliable and almost “production quality” e-Infrastructure in Latin America
– Grid technology skills acquired to autonomously support the Latin American Grid on the long term
– Entrance and consolidation of Latin American communities in worldwide collaborations
– Amplification of the e-Infrastructures relevance, blazing the trail towards Latin American e-Science initiatives and/or NGIs
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EELA-2 COUNTRIES / RESOURCES
FranceIrelandItalyPortugalSpain
ArgentinaBrazilChileColombia CLARA (International)CubaEcuadorMexicoPeruVenezuela
14 Countries
16 Partners (9 JRUs)
53 Members
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EELA in numbers
– 21 partners from 10 countries (7 in Latin America and 3 in Europe), including 2 international organisations (CERN and CLARA)
– EC support: 1.7 MEuro for 2 years
– Additional CIEMAT funds (400 KEuro) for Latin America
– 4 Work Packages (Management; Pilot Test-bed operation and support; Support of applications; Dissemination activities)
– 1700 CPUs; 500,000 jobs successfully executed, i.e. 500 CPUs.year delivered to EELA users
– 15 applications deployed on the EELA infrastructure
– 18 tutorials (about 700 participants enrolled, i.e. 2000 participants.day)
– 2 EELA Grid schools (Concept of Stand-alone Grid; 30 students deployed 12 applications in 2 X 10 days)
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EELA-2 in numbers
– 16 JRU-type partners (6 from Europe, 9 from LA and 1 International Institution CLARA) in 14 countries (5 from Europe, 9 from Latin America)
– 53 institutions, most of them clustered in 9 Joint Research Units (JRU)
– EC support of about 2.1 MEuro (+ 300 KEuro from CIEMAT)
– 6 Activities (Management, Dissemination and training; Application support; Infrastructures services; Network resource provision; Development of services for applications and infrastructure)
– 30 Resource Centres; 3000 computing nodes; 700 TB of storag
– Foreseen growth over the project duration: 20 % in computing and 15% in storage
– About 50 applications selected (Biomedical, High Energy Physics, Earth Sciences, Climate, e-Learning, e-Government, e-Industry)
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SURVEY: APPLICATION DOMAINS
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7
7
3
31 1 1 1 1 1 1
Bio
HEP
Earth Sciences
Engineering
Optimization
A.I
Civil Proctection
Data mining
e-Learning
Environmental Sciences
Food Engineering
Physics
Biomedicine: 45% HEP: 14% Earth Sciences: 14%
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SURVEY: APPLICATIONS PER COUNTRY
AR3
BR14
CL4CO
1CU2
EC1
FR3
IE1
IT1
MX3
PE2
PT3
ES13
VE1 AR
BR
CL
CO
CU
EC
FR
IE
IT
MX
PE
PT
ES
VE
BR: 29% ES: 27% CL: 8% AR=FR=MX=PT: 6%
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SURVEY: POTENTIAL IMPACTS (1)
• Scientific: <98%>– Consensus that the Grid model is (will be) useful and should
open new perspectives for Applications.
• Social: <55%> – Half of Applications will have positive outcomes socially
Biomedicine: <82%> HEP: It induces social benefits, but delayed beyond the project time
scale (e.g. Hadron therapy) Earth Sciences: <70%> Comment: Running Biomedicine & Earth sciences Applications on
EELA-2 will substantially contribute to enhance their socially useful results (higher accuracy of predictions, diagnosis, rates)
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SURVEY: POTENTIAL IMPACTS (2)
• Industry: <80%> – A rather large fraction of Applications is claimed to induce Industry spin-
offs. Arguments are:
Biomedicine <91%> • Induce better medical methods for observation, diagnosis, therapy / new tools• General feeling: By nature results should interest industry, but no clear link yet
HEP: <71%>• Grid boosts simulation studies, leading to more efficient detector R&D in
collaboration with Industry.
Earth Sciences: <57%>• Enhance forecasts (seismic, weather,..) for agriculture, industry activities
Comments: In fact, basically NO industry sector concerned by EELA-2 Applications is currently using a Grid model.
• Studies are outsourced to University teams (through University-Industry contract) which use a Grid for higher efficiency (faster, more accurate results)
• Challenge is to get Industry (especially SMEs) to use the EELA Grid.
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CONCLUSIONS AND OUTLOOK
– EELA was a success, recognized by the highest EC ranking
– EELA drastically changed the perspectives about e-Science in Latin America
– The mature grid empowered EELA Test-bed improved scientific collaborations between European and Latin American scientists
– EELA-2 was recently presented at IST-Africa’08 (7-9 May 2008) with interesting exchanges:
– EELA know-how could perfectly be “exported” through its powerful, comprehensive Training program (e.g. Grid Schools)
EELA-2 is willing to share resources and knowledge with other
institutions from other countries New collaboration is usually established via MoU
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Thank you for your attention