Enabling Grids for Escience and industry in Europe

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Enabling Grids for E-science and industry in
Europe

• Fabrizio Gagliardi
• EGEE Proposal Coordinator
• Fabrizio.Gagliardi_at_cern.ch

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EGEE visionEnabling Grids for E-science in
Europe

• Goal
• Create a general European Grid production quality
  infrastructure on top of present and future EU RN
  infrastructure
• Build on
• EU and EU member states major investment in Grid
  Technology
• International connections (US and AP)
• Several pioneering prototype results
• Large Grid development community in EU
• Goal can be achieved for about 100m/4 years on
  top of the national and regional initiatives
• Approach
• Leverage current and planned national and
  regional Grid programmes
• Work closely with relevant industrial Grid
  developers, NRNs and US-AP projects

Applications
 
EGEE
Geant network
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Why EGEE? The Historical Analogy

• Prior to the EU Geant program, there was in
  Europe a multitude of exploratory projects in
  networking technology. Geant was truly production
  oriented, and brought European telecom operators
  actively into the picture
• In a similar way, EGEE can ensure preservation
  of current investments in European Grid RD,
  extending the present infrastructure and
  focussing all activities towards establishing a
  production quality Grid

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Why EGEE? The Societal Impact
Access to a production quality GRID will change
the way science and much else is done in Europe
An international network of scientists will be
able to model a new flood of the Danube in real
time, using meteorological and geological data
from several centres across Europe
A team of engineering students will be able to
run the latest 3D rendering programs from their
laptops using the Grid
A genetic scientist at a conference, inspired by
a talk she hears, will be able to launch a
complex biomolecular simulation from her mobile
phone
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Why EGEE? The Political Context

• Current Grid RD projects run out within 18
  months
• The EGEE partners have already made major
  progress in aligning national and regional Grid
  RD efforts, in preparation for EGEE
• Launching EGEE now will preserve the current
  strong momentum of the European Grid community,
  and the enthusiasm of the hundreds of young
  European researchers already involved in EU Grid
  projects

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EGEE Approach

• Most of partners building national and regional
  Grid consortia to participate in EGEE
• Condition to participate in EGEE is to have
  already an established Grid activity or be an
  established Grid technology centre
• EGEE overall project (100 M Euros needed EU
  funding for 4 years) will need to submit
  staggered proposals to respond to several
  separate EU calls
• Communication Network Development Call opened on
  December 17th and will close on May 6th
• Participation to EGEE through national or
  regional Grid consortia

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Proposed Consortium 1/2
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Proposed Consortium 2/2
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Observers
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Conclusions

• The EU DataGrid project has successfully
  fulfilled its role of EU Grid flagship project in
  collaboration with several other EU and
  international projects
• Essential to keep the momentum and the current
  lead in production Grids in Europe
• Important to build an international cooperation
  between European and US/AP Grid infrastructure
  projects
• The scientific user communities are already
  international (HEP is an excellent example) and
  so the computing resources and most of the
  experimental instruments
• EGEE proposes the right framework and plans to
  accomplish the above objectives