session 7a, 10 may 2007 ist-africa 2007 copyright 2007 eela project: ist-026409


The EELA Project

Leandro Neumann Ciuffo

INFN-Catania

Italy


Outline

• Background• EELA in one slide• Approach• Members and organisational structure • EELA world map• Training and outreach• Applications• Summary and conclusions• Forthcoming events


The “Global” Grid


The Network in Latin America

RNP-BRREUNA-CL

CUDI-MX

RAAP-PE

REACCIUN-VE


Research approach, Methodology

EELA 1st Conference

EU-LAC Summit

EELA is one of the m

ost importa

nt customers of R

edCLARA!


EELA in one slide

• Researchers willing to perform their activities regardless of their geographical location, interact with colleagues, share and access data.

• The Pilot Test-bed: Resource Centres in EU and LA are "glued" by the EGEE middleware.

• Applications and scientific data (HEP, Biomed, e-Learning, Climate, etc.)


Approach

• 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

• Co-funded by European Commission: – 1.7 M€

– 0.4 M€ (CIEMAT)

– 0.5 M€ (partners counterpart)


EELA members

UNLP

CECIERJ/CEDERJ,RNP, UFRJ, UFF

INFN

REUNA,UDEC, UTFSM

CUBAENERGIA

UNAM

SENAMHI

ULA

LIP

CIEMAT, CSIC,RED.ES, UC, UPV


Management Structure


Geo-distribution of Resources Centers

EELA countries

stand-alone Grid site

~ 1100 CPUs

~ 60 TB storage


Geo-distribution of Certification Authorities

EELA countries

CA

CACA

CA

CA

CACA

CA

CA


Geo-distribution of Dissemination Events

EELA countries


Geo-distribution of Training Events

EELA countries

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The First EELA GRID School (EGRIS-1)

• 2 weeks devoted to learn how to “gridify” applications • 8 applications selected and 7 gridified

(e-Learning, climate, biomed and optimization)

• 66 nodes, 4 sites + 10 Mbits/s connection installed in an island


Tutorial statistics: number of attendees

• 9 Tutorials + ROC-on-Duty + Grid School (EGRIS-1)• 500 participants enrolled• Side effect: formation of Local Training Teams in many LA countries


Survey of Communities: 2006 results

BrazilChile

ColombiaEcuador

El Salvador

MexicoNicaragua

PeruVenezuela

EU

• 46 LA communities• 5 European communities from France, Luxembourg, Spain, UK

http://www.eu-eela.org/eela_new_communities_form.phpMoUs with

new institu

tions have alre

ady been signed


Applications

• 13 running applications (9 developed by EELA)• Applications to address particular LA issues

El Niño Phenomenon Malaria studies E-learning


Summary and Conclusions

• EELA is completely changing the perspective about e-Science in Latin America;

• This not only because of the number of grid sites, or CPUs, or Terabytes, but rather because: – we are "building" the human network creating/fostering scientific

collaborations across the Atlantic; – we are raising the awareness of new ways of doing (e-)Science;– we are putting the seed for a long term sustainability of e-

Infrastructures in the Region.


Forthcoming events

2nd Grid SchoolMérida (Venezuela)30/07/2007

12th TutorialAntigua (Guatemala) 17/10/2007 *to be confirmed*

11th TutorialLima (Peru)24/09/2007

6th Workshop(Cuba) 28/05/2007

2nd ConferenceRio de Janeiro (Brazil)25/06/2007


Obrigado

http://www.eu-eela.org

http://www.belief-eela.org

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