EGI: A driver for European Innovation

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EGI A driver for European Innovation
Steven Newhouse Interim EGI.eu Director EGI-InSPIR
E Project Director (EGEE-III Technical Director)
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What are EGI EGI.eu?

• European Grid Initiative (EGI)
• A European collaboration to bring together
  providers of national distribute computing
  infrastructures
• EGI.eu
• A new organisation, governed by representatives
  of the National Grid Infrastructures, to
  coordinate the European Grid Infrastructure
• European Grid Infrastructure (EGI)
• Integrated European e-Infrastructure to support
  the European Research Area, specifically the
  ESFRI projects

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What is e-Infrastructure?

• Resources linked by high speed networks
• Compute, Storage, Instruments, ...
• Controlled access to shared resources
• Authentication, Authorisation, Accounting, ...
• Dependable services for others to use
• Driven by availability and reliability metrics
• Services that are there for the long-term
• Supporting experiments lasting decades

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The EGI-InSPIRE Project

• Integrated Sustainable Pan-European
  Infrastructure for Researchers in Europe
• Submitted to INFRA-2010 1.2.1
• 1.2.1.1 European Grid Initiative
• 1.2.1.2 Service deployment for heavy users
• A 4 year project with 25M EC contribution
• Project cost 70M
• Activity cost 330M

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EGI means Innovation

• Deploying Technology Innovation
• Distributed Computing continues to evolve
• Grids ? Desktops ? Virtualisation ? Clouds ??
• Enabling Software Innovation
• Provide reliable persistent technology platforms
• Today Tools built on gLite/UNICORE/ARC
• Supporting Research Innovation
• Infrastructure for data driven research
• Support for international research (e.g. ESFRI)

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Technology Innovation

• Will come from outside EGI
• EGI runs DCI technologies in production
• Partnership with technology projects
• EMI (European Middleware Infrastructure)
• Continued evolution of gLite, ARC, UNICORE
• StratusLab (Proposed)
• RESERVOIR in production environments
• Build on the operational experience of NGIs
• BalticCloud, CNAF, CERN, ....

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Innovating technology being deployed within the
production infrastructure
Technology innovations taking place outside the
production infrastructure
Collaboration
EC National Research Projects
NGIs EIROs
Feedback
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Technology Requirements

• An infrastructure has to be
• Available
• Reliable
• Accessible
• EGI.eu will define requirements
• To meet the needs of end-users
• To meet the needs of resource providers
• EGI.eu will verify these requirements
• Must be satisfied before moving into production

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Software Innovation

• Will come from outside EGI-InSPIRE
• EGI is a neutral platform for applications
• EGI cannot support all services in its core
• Every community needs something different
• Foster innovation within sectors
• High Throughput Computing
• High Performance Computing
• Digital Libraries
• ...

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Support Multiple Communities
HEP Apps
LS Apps
CCMST Apps
F Apps
Commercial
U M D
HTC Services
HPC Services
Digital Library Services
Volunteer Desktop Services
EMI
gLite
Core Site Services
Swiss Grid Day
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Physical Resources
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Research Innovation

• An infrastructure to support the ERA
• Within the EU27
• Geographical Europe
• Interoperability worldwide for collaboration
• Work with Virtual Research Communities
• Groupings of aligned Virtual Organisations
• Provide community specific
• Support, training, consultancy, requirements etc.

EGI_DS Workshop
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Opportunities for Industry

• Provide Technology
• New software based around EGIs published
  requirements
• Provide Resources
• Commercial agreement for specific user
  communities
• Build services
• Use the EGI platform interfaces to provide added
  value services
• A platform for your innovation
• Pre-competitive work on the public resources
• Competitive work on your own resources, or ....

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Engagement Mechanisms

• EGI expects to collaborate for industry outreach
• Creating Users of E-Infrastructure proposal has
  dedicated business outreach
• Building on the experiences of EGEE
• Business Forum 2 Way Communication
• Industry Days F2F meetings
• Business Associates Services around EGI

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Opportunities for Business
HEP Apps
LS Apps
ISV Applications ()
ISV Applications ()
U M D
HTC Services
HPC Services
EMI
Added Value Services ()
Added Value Services ()
Core Site Services
Commercial Implementation ()
Swiss Grid Day
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Physical Resources
Cloud ()
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Summary

• Move away from a project based model
• Sustainable e-Infrastructure
• Partitioning of a single project into an
  ecosystem
• Service oriented?
• Relationship (SLAs) between different projects
• Start coordinating European e-Infrastructure
• 1st May 2010
• Contact director_at_egi.eu