eela, eela-2,…. lgi

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E-science grid facility forEurope and Latin America

EELA, EELA-2,…. LGI

Bernard M. Marechal - CETA CIEMATEELA-2 Project Coordinator

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The Grid: networked data processing centres and ”middleware” software as the “glue” of resources.

Researchers perform their activities regardless geographical location, interact with colleagues, share and access data

Scientific instruments and experiments provide huge amount of data

The Grid Paradigm

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The “global” Grid coverage

How to take care of the future of e-infrastructures?

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Grid “Ecosystem” evolution in Europe

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…and in Latin America ?

EELA

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EELA & EELA-2 objectives

EELA

• Build a bridge between consolidated e-Infrastructure initiatives in Europe and emerging ones in Latin American

• Create a collaboration network to deploy a large portfolio of scientific applications on a well supported Pilot Test-bed

• Care in parallel of the training in grid technologies and of the knowledge dissemination and outreach

EELA-2

• Provide an empowered Grid Facility with versatile services fulfilling application requirements

• Ensure production quality services

• Ensure the long term sustainability of the e-Infrastructure beyond the term of the project

• Expand the current EELA e-Infrastructure

• Look for new communities outside academia (Industry and Business)

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Projects in numbers

EELA-2 (CP-CSA under EU FP7) EELA (SSA under EU FP6)

E-infrastructure shared between Europe and Latin America

• EC support: 1.7 M€

• CIEMAT extra support: 0.4 M€

• 10 Countries (3 in Europe)

• 2 International Organisations

• 20 Members (7 in Europe)

E-science grid facility for Europe and Latin America

• EC support: 2.1 M€

• CETA-CIEMAT extra funds: 0.3 M€

• Currently 16 Countries (11 in LA)

• 2 new countries (Panama & Uruguay)

• 1 International Organisation (CLARA)

• Currently 78 Members (62 in LA)

• 32 Institutions joining (31 in LA)

• Currently 13 JRUs (9 in LA)

• 4 new JRUs (3 in LA)

At the final review EELA was awarded the highest EC rank:

“Good to excellent project”

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Countries and Resources Centres

EELA-2 today• 16 Countries• 18 Partners (13 JRUs)• 78 Member Institutions

France

Ireland

Italy

Portugal

Spain

ArgentinaBrazilChileColombia CLARA (International)CubaEcuadorMexicoPeruVenezuela

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• Panama• Uruguay

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Applications distribution per country, continent and scientific domain (Y1)

EELA-2 achievements - NA3

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Certification Authority

Registration Authority

CA Applicant

Catch All Certification Authority

EELA-2 achievements - SA1

SA1 = Grid Infrastructure Service ActivityEvery EELA-2 country has access to the LA PKI

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Legacy Sitesprod.vo SitesOurGrid Sites

Resource Centres Map (Y1)

EELA-2 achievements - SA1

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About 1 million jobs executed

About 1 million jobs executed

About 1 million jobs executed

About 1 million jobs executed

ResourceCentres

EELA-2 achievements - SA1

Infrastructure Usage - all VOs (Y1)

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The EELA-2 proposal

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• A 3-level organisation is proposed: – Local (RCs ↔ LAN/MAN)– National (NGIs ↔ NRENs)– Continental (LGI ↔ CLARA)

• Multi-middleware (gLite, OurGrid, OSG, …) structures: NGIs and LGI must not be middleware dependent

• Close synergy with EGI that foresees to support three middleware (ARC, gLite and UNICORE)

• Important role of both the LA NRENs and CLARA: fully justified by their participation in EELA and EELA-2

• Even more: e-Infrastructures (Grid) should be part of the NRENs and CLARA structure (cost effective, technically correct, politically easier)

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The Latin American Grid Initiative (LGI)(http://documents.eu-eela.org/record/1119/files/)

(RC: Resource Centre, NGI: National Grid Initiative, GOC: Grid Operation Centre, NREN: National Research & Education Network, NOC: Network Operation Centre, LGI: Latin American Grid Initiative, CLARA: Cooperación Latino Americana de Redes Avanzadas, GSC: Grid Support Centre, NSC: Network Support Centre)

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The Latin American Grid Infrastructure - GridLGI

• GridLGI is composed, from bottom to top of three layers, each of them including Grid and Network components:

– At the lower Institute level: The Resource Centre (RC) is the actual site of the Grid computing resources; The backbone LAN or MAN network connects the Computing and Storage Elements (CE &

SE) at the RC site;

– At the intermediate national level: The National Grid Initiative (NGI) integrates all Grid Institutions in the country and federates

under its Grid Operation Centre (GOC) all their RCs in a National Grid (GridNGI); The underlying National Research & Education Network (NREN) links country-wide the

Research and Education Institutes and optimizes / monitors their network activity via its associated Network Operation Centre (NOC);

– At the upper international layer: The Latin American Grid Initiative (LGI) which brings together all NGIs and supervises the

various GridNGIs operation from its Grid Support Centre (GSC); CLARA: it is the WAN network which integrates the Latin American NRENs and supervises

the overall RedCLARA network activity by means of its Network Support Centre (NSC).

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LGI Management/Governance

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Possible structure of a Latin American NGI

A strong liaison with the NREN is strongly suggested/recommended.A strong liaison with the NREN is strongly suggested/recommended.Local conditions permitting, the NGI should Local conditions permitting, the NGI should

be incorporated into the NREN.be incorporated into the NREN.

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Useful references

• Project website: – www.eu-eela.eu

• Final review of EELA:– http://indico.eu-eela.eu/conferenceOtherViews.py?

view=standard&confId=113

• First review of EELA-2: – http://indico.eu-eela.eu/conferenceOtherViews.py?

view=standard&confId=193

• LGI model:– http://documents.eu-eela.org/record/1119/files