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EGI – Organisation overview and outreach

EGI – Organisation overview and outreach. Catherine Gater EGI.eu Netherlands. What is EGI?. Why build a European Grid Infrastructure?.

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EGI – Organisation overview and outreach

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  1. EGI – Organisation overview and outreach Catherine Gater EGI.eu Netherlands

  2. What is EGI? • Why build a European Grid Infrastructure? “Infrastructure is the basic physical and organisational structures needed for the operation of a society or enterprise, or the services and facilities necessary for an economy to function” (Wikipedia) The Enterprise is the European Research Area TERENA-CPR Feb 2011

  3. What is a grid? • A grid consists of distributed resources, controlled by separate organisations. • These resources can be used systematically and securely by users external to that organisation. • Resources can include: • Commodity or HPC clusters • Disk or tape storage • Instruments • Data Archives or Digital Libraries TERENA-CPR Feb 2011

  4. What does a grid look like? • Archeology • Astronomy • Astrophysics • Civil Protection • Comp. Chemistry • Earth Sciences • Finance • Fusion • Geophysics • High Energy Physics • Life Sciences • Multimedia • Material Sciences • …

  5. What does a grid do? TERENA-CPR Feb 2011

  6. What does a grid do? TERENA-CPR Feb 2011

  7. EGI Collaboration Research Community Research Community Research Community N G I Research Community Research Community N G I N G I E I R O N G I E I R O EGI.eu TERENA-CPR Feb 2011

  8. EGI.eu • EGI = European Grid Infrastructure • EGI.eu = Stichting European Grid Initiative • EGI.eu • 21 members of staff • Based on the Science Park • Director is Steven Newhouse • Governed by an Executive Board day-to-day • Overseen by a larger Council with representatives from 33 countries / EIROs • Celebrated our first birthday on 8th February! TERENA-CPR Feb 2011

  9. EGI-InSPIRE Integrated Sustainable Pan-European Infrastructure for Researchers in Europe • A 4 year project with €25M EC contribution • Project cost €72M • Total Effort ~€330M • Effort: 9261PMs Funded Un-Funded Project Partners (47) EGI.eu, 37 NGIs, 2 EIROs Asia Pacific (8 partners) TERENA-CPR Feb 2011

  10. Aims of the project • Continue towards a sustainable production infrastructure • With infrastructure providers in Europe and around the world • With new Distributed Computing Infrastructure technologies as they mature • Provide support to current structured international research communities • Sustain current domain specific services • Attract new user communities (e.g. ESFRI) TERENA-CPR Feb 2011

  11. EGImeansinnovation • Deploy Technology Innovation • Distributed Computing continues to evolve • To include: Grids, Desktops, Virtualisation, Clouds, … • Enable Software Innovation • Provide reliable persistent technology platform • Tools built on gLite/UNICORE/ARC/Globus • Support Research Innovation • Infrastructure for data driven research • Support for international research (e.g. ESFRI) TERENA-CPR Feb 2011

  12. Supporting users • Support User Communities • Researchers in International Collaborations • National Research Collaborations through the NGI • Scale up from the single Virtual Organisation to a community • Provide a federated Helpdesk linking: • Discipline specific support (e.g. Bio Apps) • National Grid Infrastructures • Generic services (e.g. Training) • Provide core services to support users • Manage VOs, Application Database, Training Database TERENA-CPR Feb 2011

  13. And more… • Dissemination • With NGIs, VRCs and other projects • Support for Heavy User Communities • General and community specific services • Events • Two Annual meetings: User and Technology Forums TERENA-CPR Feb 2011

  14. Dissemination in EGI • Global task • 96 PM in the Global task for EGI.eu • NGI International task • 37 partners • 31 funded European partners • 6 unfunded non-European partners (Taiwan, Australia, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines TERENA-CPR Feb 2011

  15. Target audiences • Primary audiences: • New user communities (social sciences, environmental sciences, materials sciences etc.) • Existing user communities (life sciences, physics, earth sciences etc.) • Journalists • General public • National Grid Infrastructures (NGIs) and European International Research Organisations (EIROs) • Resource providers • Collaborating projects • Decision makers • Governmental representatives • Secondary audiences • Secondary schools, educational institutions • Local communities in the partner countries TERENA-CPR Feb 2011

  16. Reaching new users TERENA-CPR Feb 2011

  17. Top level messages • What the project is about; • Which resources, infrastructure and services the project can provide; • Which applications/scientific fields are already using the EGI; • Benefits for potential users; • Comparison of grids, cloud computing and other distributed computing infrastructures; • The project’s potential to revolutionise the way scientists work; • How to get involved; • Major developments such as: • New applications; • Key milestones; • Key events; • Who is involved in the project; • The future beyond EGI-InSPIRE for a sustainable infrastructure. TERENA-CPR Feb 2011

  18. Publications TERENA-CPR Feb 2011

  19. Website and wiki TERENA-CPR Feb 2011

  20. Events ISC, Hamburg, June 2010 OGF30/GRID2010, Brussels, November 2010 eChallenges, Warsaw, October 2010 TERENA-CPR Feb 2011

  21. Social media http://twitter.com/egi_inspire http://www.youtube.com/europeangrid http://www.flickr.com/photos/european_grid_initiative http://www.facebook.com http://www.linkedin.com TERENA-CPR Feb 2011

  22. Collaboration • Working with e-ScienceTalk to communicate the success stories of e-Infrastructures to policy makers, general public, scientists and students TERENA-CPR Feb 2011

  23. The future… TERENA-CPR Feb 2011

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