Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
EGEE and the European
strategy for Grids
Mike Mineter
NeSC Edinburgh
mjm@nesc.ac.uk
www.eu-egee.org
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Acknowledgements
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
This presentation includes slides and information from:
– Fabrizio Gagliardi and Bob Jones (UK AHM 2004 talk)
– Roberto Barbera (Slides on applications)
– Other colleagues in EGEE
• Additional slides and preparation by Mike Mineter,
NeSC
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Contents
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
• The EU strategy for grids
• EGEE
– Project goals
– Project Activities
 Operations
 Middleware Re-engineering
 (Human) Networking
• FAQ about EGEE
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EU strategy -1
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
• From 2002 to 2006, EU funding for Grid research and
deployment more than doubled, reaching 275 M€ in
FP6.
• For the same period, an estimate of the funding for
Grid research and deployment by a number of Member
and Accession States (UK, France, Italy, The
Netherlands, Germany, Hungary, Spain, Poland, Czech
Republic, Sweden) is about 300-500 M€.
• http://www.gridcoord.org/grid/portal
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EU strategy -2
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
• Romano Prodi, President of the European Commission
(quoted by Oluf Nielsen, European Commission )
• “the story of the e-Economy is complex, but it is one
we need to understand since the prosperity of the EU
Citizens depends on it”
• “Education, training and research are the key to
economic renewal… we need an integrated strategy for
education and research based on networking and
mobility giving priority to the technologies of the
future”
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EGEE Area in FP6 structure
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
EGEE Area
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Advanced Grid Technologies, Systems and
Services
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
• Information Society Technologies
• http://www.cordis.lu/ist/grids/index.htm
• Objectives
– To advance the current generation of Grids towards the
knowledge Grid and complete virtualisation of Grid resources. To
foster uptake and use in business and society.
– To reduce the complexity of Grid-based systems, empowering
individuals and organisations to create, provide access to and
use a variety of services, anywhere, anytime, in a transparent
and cost-effective way, realising the vision of a knowledge-based
and ubiquitous utility.
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Contents
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
• The EU strategy for grids
• EGEE
– Project goals
– Project Activities
 Operations
 Middleware Re-engineering
 (Human) Networking
• FAQ about EGEE
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EGEE – towards e-infrastructure
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
EGEE will build a large-scale
production grid service to:
• Underpin research,
technology and public service
• Link with and build on
national, regional and
international initiatives
• Foster international
cooperation both in the
creation and the use of the einfrastructure
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Pan-European Grid
Operations, Support and
training
Collaboration
Network
infrastructure
& Resource
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EGEE has a scope much wider than…
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
• Europe:
it is an International project with partners world-wide,
and funding from the EU
• e-Science:
It is intended to also support non-scientific research
and collaborations in industry, the public sector, …
(health, virtual digital libraries…)
• Its end date of March 2006:
the goal of EGEE is to create an infrastructure that will
be sustainable, far beyond the end of its initial phase of
funding. (LHC comes on line in 2007)
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Grids for eInfrastructure…
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
• What is missing?
– Production-quality (stable, mature) Grid middleware
– Production-quality operational support
 Grid Operation Centres, Helpdesks, etc.
– Multi-discipline grid-enabled application environment
 Now led by HEP, Bio-info
– Administrative and policy decision framework in order to
share resources at pan-European scale (and beyond)
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Areas such as AAA (Authentication, Authorisation, Accounting)
End-to-end issues (Network related)
Funding Policies (Grid economics)
Resource Sharing Policies
Usage Policies
• EGEE project will tackle most of the above issues
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In 2 years EGEE will:
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
• Establish production quality
sustained Grid services
– 3000 users from at least 5
disciplines
– over 8,000 CPU's, 50 sites
– over 5 Petabytes (1015)
storage
• Demonstrate a viable general process
to bring other scientific communities on
board
• Propose a second phase in mid 2005 to
take over EGEE in early 2006
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In 2 years EGEE will:
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• Establish production quality
sustained Grid services
– Reliable and secure
– 24 hr/day; 7 day/week
– Capable of being sustained:
~20 years
• Demonstrate a viable general process
to bring other scientific communities on
board
• Propose a second phase in mid 2005 to
take over EGEE in early 2006
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EGEE Figures & Organization
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
• Coordinator: European Organization for Nuclear Research - CERN
• 70 leading institutions in 27 countries, federated in regional Grids
• 32 M € EU funding in 2004-2005 (twice from partners)
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Contents
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
• The EU strategy for grids
• EGEE
– Project goals
– Project Activities
 Operations
 Middleware Re-engineering
 (Human) Networking
• FAQ about EGEE
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EGEE Activities
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
32 Million Euros EU funding over 2 years starting 1st April 2004
• 48 % service activities (Grid Operations,
Support and Management, Network
Resource Provision)
• 24 % middleware re-engineering (Quality
Assurance, Security, Network Services
Development)
• 28 % networking (Management,
Dissemination and Outreach, User
Training and Education, Application
Identification and Support, Policy and
International Cooperation)
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Emphasis in EGEE is on
operating a production
grid and supporting the
end-users
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Contents
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
• The EU strategy for grids
• EGEE
– Project goals
– Project Activities
 Operations
 Middleware Re-engineering
 (Human) Networking
• FAQ about EGEE
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EGEE Service Activities
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
• Create, operate, support and
manage a production quality
infrastructure
• Offered services:
– Middleware deployment and
installation
– Software and documentation
repository
– Grid monitoring and problem
tracking
– Bug reporting and knowledge
database
– VO services
– Grid management services
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EGEE Service Activities
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
• Create, operate, support and
manage a production quality
infrastructure
• Offered services:
– Middleware deployment and
installation
– Software and documentation
repository
– Grid monitoring and problem
tracking
– Bug reporting and knowledge
database
– VO services
– Grid management services
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Contents
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
• The EU strategy for grids
• EGEE
– Project goals
– Project Activities
 Operations
 Middleware Re-engineering
 (Human) Networking
• FAQ about EGEE
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gLite
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
• “gLite” - the new EGEE middleware (under test)
• Service oriented - components that are :
– Loosely coupled (by messages)
– Accessible across network; modular and self-contained; clean
modes of failure
– So can change implementation without changing interfaces
– Can be developed in anticipation of new uses
– … and are (will be) based on (emerging) standards.
• Opens EGEE to:
– New middleware (plethora of tools now available)
– Heterogeneous resources (storage, computation…)
– Interact with other Grids (international, regional, national and
thematic)
• Goal: to outperform and then replace LCG middleware
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Contents
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
• The EU strategy for grids
• EGEE
– Project goals
– Project Activities
 Operations
 Middleware Re-engineering
 (Human) Networking
• FAQ about EGEE
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The networking activities
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• What are the Networking Activities?
• Their goal: Building new and effective VO’s (user
communities)
• The Training activities
• Application support
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(Human) Networking Activities
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
• Dissemination and Outreach: 5% of EGEE budget
– Dissemination – to actively promote and raise awareness of the EGEE
project
– Outreach – to identify and contact potential new user communities
• Training and Induction: 4% of EGEE budget
– Induction – to introduce and orient - users and members
– Training – to create, collate, make available and deliver material and
courses
• Application Identification and Support
– Process for selecting new application areas
– Supports selected VO’s in porting applications
• International cooperation
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Gaining new and effective users
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
The “virtuous circle”
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Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
Dissemination
• 1st project conference, Cork,
April
• 2nd conference in The Hague
– 22-26 November
– http://public.euegee.org/conferences/2nd
– Over 300 delegates
• Websites, Brochures and press
releases
– For project and general public
www.eu-egee.org
– Information packs for the general
public, press and industry
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User training and induction
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
• Training material and courses from
introductory to advanced level
• Train a wide variety of users both
internal to the EGEE consortium and
external groups from across Europe
• Experience with GENIUS portal and
GILDA testbed
• Courses inline with the needs of the
projects and applications
• See http://egee.nesc.ac.uk/
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Training and Induction
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
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Edinburgh
UK & Ireland
IHEP
IMPB RAS
ITEP
JINR
Protvino
Russia
Moscow
Russia
Moscow
Russia
Dubna
Russia
KU-NATFAK
PNPI
RRCKI
Copenhagen
Denmark
Petersburgh
Russia
Moscow
Russia
GUP
Linz
Austria
FZK
Karlsruhe
Germany
Innsbruck
Austria
GRNET
Athens
Greece
INFN
CESNET
Rome
Italy
Prague
Czech Rep.
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Budapest
Hungary
II-SAS
Bratislava
Slovakia
ICM
PSNC
ICI
Warsaw
Poland
Poznan
Poland
Bucharest
Romania
ELUB
Budapest
Hungary
MTA SZTAKI
TAU
Budapest
Hungary
Tel Aviv
Isreal
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Training Courses and Activities
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
Develop NA3 processes; requirements analysis
Induction for project members
Further courses for project members
Induction for users
Further user and app. dev. training
Advanced courses
Workshops: EGEE advances, new VO’s
Build repository of training material
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Community support
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
• The EGEE training material is being made available to
the whole community.
• A training materials repository allowing flexible
searches of the available material is currently under
development and testing.
– Training activity homepage: http://egee.nesc.ac.uk/
– Roadmap: training events since the start of EGEE
http://www.egee.nesc.ac.uk/schedreg/index.html
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Contents
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
• The EU strategy for grids
• EGEE
– Project goals
– Project Activities
 Operations
 Middleware Re-engineering
 (Human) Networking
• Application support
• FAQ about EGEE
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EGEE pilot application: BioMedical
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
• BioMedical
– Bioinformatics (gene/proteome databases
distributions)
– Interactive application (human supervision
or simulation)
– Security/privacy constraints
 Heterogeneous data formats - Frequent
data updates - Complex data sets Long term archiving
• BioMed applications deployed
– GATE - Geant4 Application for Tomographic
Emission
– GPS@ - genomic web portal
– CDSS - Clinical Decision Support System
http://egee-na4.ct.infn.it/biomed/applications.html
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BLAST – comparing DNA or protein sequences
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
• BLAST is the first step for analysing new sequences: to
compare DNA or protein sequences to other ones stored in
personal or public databases.
• Ideal as a grid application – trivial to parallelise as independent
concurrent jobs on one or more CEs.
– Requires resources to store databases and run algorithms
– Large user community
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Earth Observation: Ozone
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
• Building on European
Datagrid experience
• To produce and store the
Ozone profiles or columns
– Enhance availability
• To extend the processing
capabilities
– Validation against other data
– Mid-latitude ozone studies
– ...
• To facilitate collaboration
– Including with emerging large
scale European projects
GOME instrument
(~75 GB - ~5000 orbits/y)
~28000 profiles/day
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Geophysics Applications
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
Seismic processing Generic Platform:
- Based on Geocluster, an industrial application – to be a starter of the
core member VO.
- Include several standard tools for signal processing, simulation and
inversion.
- Opened: any user can write new
algorithms in new modules (shared or
not)
- Free for academic research
-Controlled by license keys
(opportunity to explore license issue
at a grid level)
- initial partners F, CH, UK, Russia,
Norway
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Computational Chemistry: molecular
simulator
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
SURFACE
Construction of the
Potential Energy Surface
Ar - Benzene
DYNAMICS
Dynamical properties
Calculation
PROPERTIES
Calculation of
Averaged quantities
no
Good
Results?
yes
end
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The MAGIC telescope
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
• Largest Imaging Air Cherenkov
Telescope
(17 m mirror dish)
• Located on Canary Island
La Palma (@ 2200 m asl)
• Lowest energy threshold ever
obtained with a Cherenkov
telescope
 Aim: detect –ray sources in the
unexplored energy range:
30 (10)-> 300 GeV
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The MAGIC Physics Program
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
Pulsars
AGNs
 Origin
of
Cosmic Rays
SNRs
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-Ray Horizon
 Tests
of Quantum
Gravity effects
GRBs
Cold
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Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
• The EU strategy for grids
• EGEE
– Project goals
– Project Activities
 Operations
 Middleware Re-engineering
 (Human) Networking
• FAQ about EGEE
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Who else can benefit from EGEE?
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
• EGEE Generic Applications Advisory
Panel:
– For new applications
• EU projects: Diligent, SEE-GRID …
• Expression of interest: Planck/Gaia
(astroparticle), SimDat (drug discovery)
http://agenda.cern.ch/age?a042351
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Links to industry?
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
• EGEE Industry Forum
– raise awareness of the project in
industry to encourage industrial
participation in the project
– foster direct contact of the project
partners with industry
– ensure that the project can benefit
from practical experience of
industrial applications
• For more info:
http://public.eu-egee.org/industry/
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Private or Federated Resources?
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
For applications that must operate in a closed environment, EGEE
middleware can be downloaded and installed on closed
infrastructures
Approach being used by MammoGrid
EGEE sites are administered/owned by different organisations
Sites have ultimate control over how their resources are used
Limiting the demands of your application will make it acceptable to more
sites and hence make more resources available to you
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Intellectual Property
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• The existing EGEE grid middleware (LCG2) is distributed under an Open Source
License developed by EU DataGrid
– Derived from modified BSD - no
restriction on usage (academic or
commercial) beyond acknowledgement
– Same approach for new middleware
(gLite)
• Application software maintains its own
licensing scheme
– Sites must obtain appropriate licenses
before installation
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To read more about EGEE…
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
• Explore the web site!
• www.eu-egee.org
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Summary
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
• EGEE is the first attempt to build a worldwide Grid
infrastructure for data intensive applications from many
scientific domains
• A large-scale production grid service is already deployed and
being used for HEP and BioMed applications with new
applications being ported
• Resources & user groups will rapidly expand during the
project
• A process is in place for migrating new applications to the
EGEE infrastructure
• A training programme is underway
• Prototype “next generation” middleware is being tested
(gLite)
• Plans for a follow-on project are being discussed
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Further Information
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
EGEE www.eu-egee.org
LCG lcg.web.cern.ch/LCG/
NeSC www.nesc.ac.uk
The Grid Cafe www.gridcafe.org
•More EU sites:
•http://www.cordis.lu/ist/grids/fp6_grid_projects.htm
•http://www.gridstart.org/concertation_mtg.shtml
•“Concertation event” and EGEE conference
http://public.eu-egee.org/conferences/2nd/programme/outline.html
•e-Infrastructures Reflection Group http://www.e-irg.org
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