EUMEDGRID EUChina GRID GRID projects for the

EUMEDGRID & EUChina. GRID (GRID projects for the Mediterranean and China) Federico Ruggieri – INFN Project Manager TERENA Networking Conference Catania 17 May 2006

Extending GRIDs outside EU • GRID is a reality which allows new ways of sharing resources (not all of them completely exploited) in scientific collaboration (e. Science) and in other fields (e. Government, e. Health, e. Business, etc. ) • EU has largely invested in GRID technology in the past 4 years and is planning to invest more in FP 7. • Few countries outside EU and USA are anyway actively involved in the deployment of a (national) GRID infrastructure. • A World Wide GRID infrastructure is one of the natural objectives of this technology and will enhance the potential benefits for all the applications in 2 main ways: – Fostering new international groups/applications – Enabling new kind of world-class collaborative solutions

Mediterranean & China • Mediterranean area is of particular interest due to the neighborhood to many EU countries. Extending the European Research Area (ERA) to all the Mediterranean area is one of the present priorities in the European strategy of Research and many initiatives and projects are already active (EUMEDIS, EUMEDCONNECT, etc. ) [Empowering e. Science across the Mediterranean] • China is one of the fastest growing economies in the world with a specific program for Science GRID (CNGrid). Many groups of scientists in Europe have already established good relationships with Chinese Research Groups and grids can provide an infrastructure to enhance the level of collaboration, deploying new common applications and shared access to scientific data Interconnection & Interoperability of Grids between Europe & China

[Empowering e. Science across the Mediterranean] EUMEDGRID FP 6− 2004−Infrastructures− 6 -SSA-026024 www. eumedgrid. org

FP 6− 2004−Infrastructures− 6 -SSA-026024 Status & Numbers 4 EUMEDGRID is a Specific Support Action (SSA). 4 The official start of the project is the 1 January 2006. 4 24 Months duration. 4 14 partners: 9 Member States or AS, 5 non-MS. 4 EU Contribution of 1, 646, 500 € 4 A total of 481 Person Months (392 Funded). TNC 06 – Catania 17 May 2006

FP 6− 2004−Infrastructures− 6 -SSA-026024 Main Objectives 4 EUMEDGRID aims to provide specific support actions to assist the participation of the states of the Mediterranean region in the pan. European and worldwide Grid initiatives, thus expanding and supporting the European Research Area (ERA) in the region. 4 The core of the EUMEDGRID approach is to establish a human network in the e. Science area, enlarge and train this community, and establish a pilot Grid infrastructure supporting proof of concept regional applications. 4 The reference GRID Infrastructure in Europe will be EGEE. 4 EUMEDGRID will build upon and exploit the infrastructure provided by the Gigabit Pan-European Research & Education Network (GEANT) and the Mediterranean Research and Education Networking (EUMEDCONNECT) initiative in the region. TNC 06 – Catania 17 May 2006

FP 6− 2004−Infrastructures− 6 -SSA-026024 Participants Participant number Participant name 1 INFN (Italy) Coordinator 2 CERN (Switzerland) 3 CYNET (Cyprus) 4 DANTE (UK) 5 GARR (Italy) 6 GRNET (Greece) 7 RED. ES (Spain) 8 University of Malta (Malta) 9 CERIST (Algeria) 10 CNRST (Morocco) 11 EUN (Egypt) 12 HIAST (Syria) 13 MSRTDC (Tunisia) 14 TUBITAK - ULAKBIM (Turkey)

FP 6− 2004−Infrastructures− 6 -SSA-026024 Third Parties Third Party Partner Università di Messina – Dipartimento di Matematica (IT) INFN Dipartimento di Fisica – Università di Roma. Tre (IT) INFN CRS 4 – (IT) GARR ICTP – (IT) INFN IUCC (Inter University Computing Center) - ISRAEL GARR Laboratoire CRISTAL - Ecole Nationale des Sciences de l'Informatique (TU) MSRTDC Research Unit of Technologies of Information and Communication -University of Tunis (TU) MSRTDC Bilkent University (TK) TUBITAK JUNet, Jordan GRNET PADI 2, Palestine GRNET Institute of Communication and Computer Systems, Athens, Greece GRNET

FP 6− 2004−Infrastructures− 6 -SSA-026024 EUMEDGRID WP’s 4 WP 1: Project administrative and technical management 4 WP 2: Requirement capture and analysis • User profiles and Applications • Universities & Research Centres potentially interested 4 WP 3: Pilot infrastructure deployment and operations • Support pilot national grid infrastructure and services. 4 WP 4: Applications support • EGEE supported applications (LHC, Bio. Med, etc. ) • Regional applications (Geology, Management of water, etc. ) • New applications (to be discovered by WP 2). 4 WP 5: Training and dissemination TNC 06 – Catania 17 May 2006

FP 6− 2004−Infrastructures− 6 -SSA-026024 EUMEDGRID Infrastructure

FP 6− 2004−Infrastructures− 6 -SSA-026024 EUMEDCONNECT Network Country Name of NREN International Research Connectivity (in Mbps) Status Algeria CERIST 155 In service Cyprus CYNET 200 In service Egypt EUN 34 In service Israel IUCC 622 In service Jordan Uni. Co 45 In service Malta University of Malta 20 In service Morocco CNRST 34 In service Palestinian Territories PADI 2 45 In service Syria HIAST 8 In service Tunisia RFR 45 In service Turkey ULAKBIM 155 In service

FP 6− 2004−Infrastructures− 6 -SSA-026024 Achievements in the first 4 Months 4 Kick-Off Meeting in Malta attended by all the Med partners: Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Palestine, Israel, Syria, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Spain, Malta, Cyprus. 4 First Tutorial in Athens in March: 15 persons from several Med countries. 4 Preliminary pilot infrastructure set-up (6 sites). 4 Communities Requirements survey Questionnaire finalized and published on the Web (96 answers already received in less than 2 months; currently under analysis). 4 First applications already identified. TNC 06 – Catania 17 May 2006

FP 6− 2004−Infrastructures− 6 -SSA-026024 Real Time Monitor TNC 06 – Catania 17 May 2006

FP 6− 2004−Infrastructures− 6 -SSA-026024 Grid. Ice TNC 06 – Catania 17 May 2006

FP 6− 2004−Infrastructures− 6 -SSA-026024 SWIMED Groundwater modeling 4 Aim: estimate sustainable extraction scheme - improve management 4 CODESA-3 D: Density-dependent 3 D coupled groundwater flow and transport simulations 4 Data requirement • Geology • Topography • Meteorology • Water extraction by the farmer • Aquifer properties • Soil maps • Land use One simulated map of water levels

FP 6− 2004−Infrastructures− 6 -SSA-026024 Next Events Event Date Loaction/Country Tutorial 3 -7 July 2006 Istanbul, Turkey 11 -12 September 2006 Rome, Italy 12 -16 September 2006 Rome, Italy (in conjunction with EUChina. GRID) Oct-Nov 2006 Rabat, Morocco Conference Tutorial Look at www. eumedgrid. org for news and updates TNC 06 – Catania 17 May 2006

EUChina. GRID FP 6− 2004−Infrastructures− 6 -SSA 026634 http: //www. euchinagrid. org

Project Status 4 EUChina. GRID is a Specific Support Action (SSA) project. 4 The official start of the project was the 1 January 2006. 4 24 Months duration (starting on 1 st January ’ 06). 4 EU Contribution of 1, 299, 998 €. 4 A total of 495 Person Months (325 Funded). TNC 06 Catania 17 May 2006

Main Objectives O 1 Contribute to the creation of an human network promoting international collaboration. O 2 Disseminate European experience in China and confront with Chinese experience. O 3 Support interoperability of EGEE with the corresponding infrastructure in China, fronting the multi-protocol (IPv 4/IPv 6) network infrastructure. O 4 Use existing network infrastructure and foster its development O 5 Foster interoperability of solutions across different disciplines to achieve broader scale uptake of Grid technology. O 6 Harmonize European, and Chinese e. Science user and infrastructure requirements in terms of resources needed, Grid services, and application software. Provide recommendations for adapting the present best practices and tools (Virtual Organizations, Certification Authority, Policies, etc. ). TNC 06 Catania 17 May 2006

Participants 1 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare – INFN (IT) (coordinator) 2 European Organisation for Nuclear Research CERN (CH) 3 Dipartimento di Biologia - Università di Roma Tre (IT) 4 Consortium GARR (IT) 5 Greek Research & Technology Network (GR) 6 Jagiellonian University, Cracow (PL) 7 School of Computer Science and Engineering – Beihang University Beijing (CN) 8 Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences – Beijing (CN) 9 Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing (CN) 10 Peking University – Beijing (CN) TNC 06 Catania 17 May 2006

Third Parties 4 ACADEMIA SINICA GRID COMPUTING CENTRE (ASGC), TAIPEI (Partner: CERN) 4 Physics Department – UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMATRE – ROMA (Partner: INFN) TNC 06 Catania 17 May 2006

EUChina. GRID WP’s 4 WP 1 – Project Administrative and Technical Management 4 WP 2 – Network planning and interoperability study • Specific activity to study IPv 4/IPv 6 GRID interoperability. 4 WP 3 – Pilot infrastructure operational support • Specific activity to study interoperability between EGEE & CNGrid. 4 WP 4 – Applications • EGEE applications (LHC, Bio, etc. ) • ARGO-YBJ and Gamma Ray Bursts • Never Born Proteins 4 WP 5 – Dissemination • Dissemination of advanced knowledge on Grid technologies. TNC 06 Catania 17 May 2006

TEIN 2 ORIENT will upgrade to 2. 5 Gbps TNC 06 Catania 17 May 2006

CNGrid TNC 06 Catania 17 May 2006

Grid Middleware and IPv 6 4 A study will be done on Middleware and high level services compatibility with IPv 6 -> operational tests of functionality. 4 CNGrid MW is not yet IPv 6 compliant but China is going to deploy the largest production IPv 6 network in the world. 4 IPv 6 is the natural choice for new generation IP telephony in convergence with Wireless Networking. 4 Grid services should be able to run on the future IPv 6 enabled PDA’s, portable phones, etc. TNC 06 Catania 17 May 2006

ARGO – YBJ Laboratory • Unique High Altitude Cosmic Ray Laboratory (4300 m) Tibet, 90 km North to Lhasa. Chinese-Italian collaboration. • The Experiment data rate to be transferred is 250 TB/Year requiring a steady transfer rate of the order of 100 Mbps to Beijing and from there to Italy. TNC 06 Catania 17 May 2006

Never Born Proteins 4 The number of natural proteins on Earth, although apparently large, is only a tiny fraction of the possible ones: • with 20 different co-monomers (the 20 different natural amino- acids), a polypeptide chain with 60 residues (n=60) can exist in 2060 different chain structures. • In nature, we have around 1013 -14 different proteins, so that the ratio between the possible and the actual number is staggeringly large. 4 This means that there is an astronomically large number of proteins that have never been seen on Earth - an incredibly large number of “never born proteins” (NBP). 4 The present research in the field is based on a computational approach to study a large library of NBP (109 protein sequences) to the aim of clarifying the structural principles that characterize them and of selecting a reasonable number of sequences which can potentially give rise to stably folded proteins. TNC 06 Catania 17 May 2006

Achievements in the first 4 months 4 Kick-Off Meeting in Athens 4 First tutorial for Users and Site Managers in Beijing – China on 3 -7 April 2006: more than 40 people attended it and will be the core of Chinese trainers in the future events in China. 4 Preliminary pilot infrastructure set-up (6 sites). 4 First applications requirements analysis started. TNC 06 Catania 17 May 2006

Real Time Monitor TNC 06 Catania 17 May 2006

Grid. Ice TNC 06 Catania 17 May 2006

Next Events Event Date Loaction/Country Workshop 12 -13 June 2006 Beijing, China Tutorial 14 -17 June 2006 Beijing, China Tutorial 12 -16 September 2006 Rome, Italy (in conjunction with EUMEDGRID) Conference 18 -19 September 2006 Rome, Italy Look at www. euchinagrid. org for news and updates TNC 06 Catania 17 May 2006

Conclusions • EUChina. GRID and EUMEDGRID are both aiming to promote the extension and interoperation of the Grid Infrastructures outside EU. • Both will exploit the existing and foreseen EU cofunded network infrastructures (EUMEDCONNECT and TEIN 2/ORIENT). • In the first 4 months all WP’s started their activities and the two projects are on on-track. • Both already achieved the important result of creating an international human network of scientists enthusiastically collaborating.

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