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The CHAIN project aims to coordinate advanced e-infrastructures between Africa and Europe for access by research communities. It consolidates the state of e-infrastructures, models cooperation, and supports intercontinental virtual research communities. In Africa, South Africa has the most developed e-infrastructure through SAGrid and partnerships like AfricaGrid are working to integrate resources across the continent and regions like North Africa, Middle East and provide support services. CHAIN will help prepare African initiatives for interoperable participation in global e-infrastructures.
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- 1. Co-ordination & Harmonisation of Advanced e-Infrastructures e-Infrastructures for access by research communities between Africa and Europe Bruce Becker (CSIR Meraka/SAGrid) bbecker@csir.co.za For Federico Ruggieri (INFN Roma-III), CHAIN coordinator. Federico.ruggieri@roma3.infn.it PAERIP Workshop, Cape Town 11 November 2011 Research Infrastructures – Grant Agreement n. 260011
- 2. Outline ● The CHAIN project objectives ● E-Infrastructures in South Africa ● e-Infrastructure as a means to access Research Infrastructure ● AfricaGrid and CHAIN
- 3. Status & Partners Grant Agreement signed with EC for a total contribution of 1.1 M€ Total cost: about 1.9 M€ Start Date: 1st December 2010 and 24 Months duration. Partners: INFN (Italy - Coordinator) CESNET (Czech Republic) CIEMAT (Spain) GRNET (Greece) IHEP (+ CNIC + PKU + BUA - China) UBUNTUNET (Africa) CLARA (Latin America) PSA (India) Plus: ASREN (North Africa/Middle East/Gulf) Represented by INFN Asia-Pacific consortium Represented by INFN
- 4. CHAIN Work Programme ● WP1 – management ● WP2 – consolidating the state of the art ● WP3 – present and emerging needs of intercontinental Virtual Research Communities ● WP4 – modelling the cooperation of European e- infrastructures with non-European ones ● WP5 – dissemintation and outreach
- 5. Consolidating the State of the Art ● Conduct an analysis of the state-of-the-art regarding current solutions for European Grid interfacing with grids in other world regions ● Produce a set of guidelines for operational and organisational interactions, customised for the type of region. ● Disseminate the NGI concept in the regions where this is needed, and conduct actions for national and regional sustainability. ● The maturity of non-European e-Infrastructures varies across the world regions, where 3 typical scenarios can be identified: ● Completely green-field regions which need to be supported from scratch (e.g. sub-Saharan Africa with the exception of South Africa). ● Stable (if small) regional infrastructure established and interoperational with Europe (e.g. Mediterranean, LA & Caribbean, SEE). ● Advanced countries/regions which have autonomously invested in e- Infrastructures and are willing to interoperate with European ones (e.g. China, India, New Zealand, USA, Japan, etc.)
- 6. Present and future needs of trans-continental scientific communities ● continuing to provide limited support to the existing and well experienced Virtual Research Communities such as LHC and BioMed; ● providing support for communities that have already approached the Grid technology but are interested to widen their activities collaborating with other continents; ● discovering and attracting new scientific communities or merging similar ones actually operating within separate e- Infrastructures worldwide. ● involve at least a couple of reference communities that will be selected and involved in the project to validate the proposed model. ● Reference communities so far : Life Sciences (NMR and SAXS), Climate Change, High- Energy Physics
- 7. CHAIN and South(ern) Africa
- 8. CHAIN is preparing African initiatives for an equal interoperable footing with global e-Infrastructure
- 9. Functional Core Deployment Proposed External Sites Services In progress extensions infrastructure EUMed EGI EELA CERN 7(+3) sites ~1300 CPU cores ~20 TB perm. Storage ~17 permament staff 20/09/12 9
- 10. 20/09/12 User Communities ● SAGrid is a shared, federated infrastructure ● Resources provided by institutes, not users - ● SAGrid sites responsible for operations only ● Users interact with a single, common set of services – an enabler of collaboration ● Users from all over the continent ● Close work with HP-UNESCO Brain Gain initiative (especially Marocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt) led to formal collaboration with EUMedGrid Support ● First an infrastructure sharing agreement, then led to development of AfricaGrid Regional Operations Centre
- 11. 20/09/12 Africa Grid Regional Operations Centre ● The inter-institutional and international coordination of resources is as important as the deployment of these ● The integration of new resources into a regional infrastructure is a way to accelerate development and access ● Don't build a new train, add cars to a big train
- 12. 20/09/12 Africa and Arabia Regional Operations Centre
- 13. 20/09/12 Africa and Arabia Regional Operations Centre
- 14. 20/09/12 Africa and Arabia Regional Operations Centre
- 15. 20/09/12 Africa and Arabia Regional Operations Centre
- 16. 20/09/12 Africa and Arabia Regional Operations Centre
- 17. 20/09/12 Africa and Arabia Regional Operations Centre https://roc.africa-grid.org
- 18. 20/09/12 A coordinated management and publishing of resources and services https://gocdb.africa-grid.org/portal
- 19. 20/09/12 Support services and issue routing https://support.africa-grid.org
- 20. 20/09/12 Application databases and knowledge base ● Access to infrastructures are not enough – need to prove scientific value ● Scientific output is closely related to data and applications ● Application databases (EGI/EPIKH/CHAIN) to avoid replication of effort and encourage standards adoption ● Interoperability and coordination of data and applications is important to VRCs
- 21. 20/09/12 A wide variety of applications available for researchers Computer science Computational chemistry Earth science Astronomy, Fusion astroparticle High-energy physics physics Life sciences others multidisciplinary
- 22. 20/09/12 Beware the long tail...
- 23. 20/09/12 Thank you Bruce Becker for Federico Ruggieri CHAIN project coordinator http://www.chain-project.eu bbecker@csir.co.za Federico.Ruggieri@roma3.infn.it For more information : CHAIN website : http://www.chain-project.eu/ CHAIN Knowledge Base : http://www.chain-project.eu/knowledge-base