SouthEastern European Gridenabled eInfrastructure Development

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South-Eastern European Grid-enabled
eInfrastructure Development
Gabriel NeaguLocal project coordinator
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SEE-GRID 1 Impact analysis

• At the European level
• proved capacity of this region to be a reliable
  and efficient partner on the EGEE map
• At the regional level
• quality of the project management
• quality of the human resources discovered and
  motivated by the project, their outstanding
  spirit of collaboration and mutual support
• further extension of the current geographic
  coverage of the regional Grid infrastructure
• At the national level
• supporting the start-up and dynamic evolution of
  deploying and using Grid resources and services
  in participating countries
• raising awareness at the national level about the
  role of NGI for a sustainable development of the
  domain
• Provide guidelines and recommendations for
  deploying eInfrastructures and drafting
  eInfrastructures deployment strategy

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Project Snapshot

• Project name South Eastern European
  Grid-enabled eInfrastructure Development
• Project Acronym SEE-GRID 2
• Call Identifier FP6-2002-Infrastructures-2
• Contract No. FP6-RI-31775
• Project Type Specific Support Action (SSA)
• Start Date 01/05/2006
• Duration 24 months
• Consortium 13 contracting partners
• Coordinator GRNET Atena
• Project web site www.see-grid.eu
• RO participation Contractor ICI Bucharest
• Local JRU partners UPB, NIPNE-HH, INCAS,
  UniBuc

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Project Countries

• EU member-states (Greece, Hungary, Bulgaria,
  Romania)
• Associate Countries (Croatia, Serbia, Turkey)
• Third Countries - Western Balkans (Albania,
  Bosnia-Herzegovina, Former Yugoslav Republic of
  Macedonia, Montenegro)
• European Neighborhood Policy countries (Moldova)

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Project Participants

• The Greek Research and Technology Network-GRNET
• European Organization for Nuclear Research - CERN
  
• Computer and Automation Research Institute -
  Hungarian Academy of Sciences - SZTAKI
• The National Institute for Research and
  Development in Informatics ICI Bucharest
• The Institute for Parallel Processing of the
  Bulgarian Academy of Sciences-IPP
• The Scientific and Technological Research Council
  of Turkey - Turkish Academic Network and
  Information Center - TUBITAK ULAKBIM
• Academy of Sciences-Institute of Informatics and
  Applied Mathematics - ASA-?????
• Faculty of Electrical Engineering Banja Luka -
  UoBL
• Ss Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje
  UKIM
• The Academic and Research Network at the
  University of Belgrade UOB
• The Rudjer Boskovic Institute RBI Zagreb
• Research and Educational Netwoking Association of
  Moldova - RENAM
• University of Montenegro - UOM

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Foundation GEANT / SEEREN / EGEE
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Project Structure

• WP1 - Project administrative and technical
  management
• WP2 - Studies Strategies for sustainable,
  Operational, Organisational Policy schemes
• WP3 - eInfrastructure Expansion Operations
  Support
• WP4 - User Community enlargement application
  support
• WP5 - Training, Dissemination Communication

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SEE-GRID-2 New Directions

• Policy-focused deployment strategy
• Shift priority from a top-down approach (i.e.
  from regional project execution to national
  copying/implementing) towards a bottom-up
  approach (from national priorities, cooperation,
  and innovation to regional cohesiveness, vision,
  and break-through)
• Proliferation of Grid Resource Centers
• Expand regionally to include new countries/areas
  and widen the SEE eInfra community
• Expand nationally to include new sites/institutes
  and strengthen collaboration in each country
  create a web of resource centers also at national
  level, not only at regional.
• Application-driven deployment approach
• serve the needs of diverse and multi-disciplinary
  communities
• extend the user-base USE the grid, USE the
  network, USE the Infrastructure
• get closer to the public-at-large.

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SEE-GRID-2 ObjectivesEnsure Sustainable
Development

• National commitment and support for incubating
  NGIs
• National support at RE and Ministerial level
• (annually increasing) local financing
• National eInfrastructure Strategy
• NGI to include partners beyond project
  partnership
• Engage regional and national user communities
• involve a wide range of institutes and
  communities and support Grid applications from
  groups in various scientific domains
• measure and assess user engagement via
  questionnaire and other feedback mechanisms
• prepare a Developers Guide for Porting to the
  Grid that captures the experience gained in the
  project by applications developers that are
  supported directly by SEE-GRID-2 and use this
  guide to accelerate the migration of new
  applications to the Grid

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SEE-GRID-2 Objectives Upgrade SEE grid
infrastructure

• Upgrade the capacity of the regional pilot
  infrastructure
• increase number of sites and resources in the
  pilot regional infrastructure (more than 2x
  current regional resources)
• increase the number of sites migrating into EGEE
• Guarantee stability and interoperability of the
  infrastructure
• operational procedures, timely updates to M/W and
  OS, and advance notices of updates and downtimes
• available network resources and
  bandwidth-on-demand requirements
• monitor infrastructure performance and assess its
  usage
• Support the accreditation of national Grid CAs.
• Per country One CA / Multiple RAs
• Deploy portal technology for accessing the grid
  and supporting application development and
  deployment
• re-engineering P-GRADE Portal to the requirements
  of the new middleware
• Draw upon deployment experience/results of other
  grid projects (EGEE/EGEE-II, EUMEDGRID,
  BalticGrid, EELA, etc)
• MoUs and cooperation with partner project
• Share key deliverables and results

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SEE-GRID-2 ObjectivesStrengthen the Human
Network

• Liaise with and beyond SEE user communities
• approach SEE industrial partners
• workshops/seminars in other regions / eInfa
  projects
• Training events
• at regional level for site admins and end-users
• at national-level for countrys site admins and
  end-users NOT at project budget
• Dissemination events
• at regional level for policymakers and public at
  large
• at national-level for countrys policymakers and
  public at large NOT at project budget
• Regional eInfra projects Policy Workshop

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Grid Infrastructure in SEE NGIs current status

• Current status of NGI development
• NGIs have been set up in 9 SEE countries Greece,
  Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, FYROM,
  Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Turkey
• 87 member organizations with the following
  distribution
• 33,3 - research
• 63,2 - academia
• 3,4 - industry
• Grid infrastructures in these countries
• 41 sites (with a steady growth dynamics during
  2004-2006 period)
• 911 worker nodes
• More than 15 TB of storage
• 37 hosting organizations

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Grid Infrastructure in SEE NGIs RoGrid
contribution

• Active sites
• RO-01-ICI
• RO-02-NIPNE (ATLAS)
• RO-03-UPB
• RO-04-NIPNE alias NIHAM (ALICE)
• RO-05-INCAS
• RO-06-UniBuc
• RO-07-NIPNE (LHCb)
• RO-08-UVT
• RO-09-UTCN
• RO-10-UTGAI
• RO-11-NIPNE (LHCb)

RO-01-ICI WNs cluster
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How to use SEE Grid Infrastructure

• Contact the national SEE-GRID representative
• Obtain a certificate from SEE-GRID catch-all CA
  or national CA
• Join the SEE-GRID Virtual Organization
• Ask support from local SEE-GRID organizations
• Take benefits from running existing SEE-GRID VO
  applications
• Details on project web site www.see-grid.eu