EARNEST Workshop

1. Research Networking The Next Challenge Berlin, 23 May 2006 Wim Jansen EARNEST Workshop

2. Technical Organisational Co-operation FP7 The next Challenge

3. Workshop Research Networking May 2005 Objective: Capitalise on achievements and impact of eInfrastructure for the research communities in Europe Identify new challenges and provide a roadmap on how these challenges should be met in the coming 5 to 10 years Participants: - NREN directors - President and Secretary General of TERENA - Chairman of eIRG - Chairman of Board and Director DANTE - Chairman of NREN Policy Committee

4. GÉANT is acknowledged as leading the world. Europe is a pioneer in Grid empowered infrastructures. (eInfrastructure) ICT based infrastructure, namely GÉANT and GRID need reinforcement and expansion in FP7. “Research and Technology Development in IST” To enable Europe to continue to play a leading role.

5. Increasing networking traffic  Optical fibres: from renting to buying; distributed light path Hybrid networking and dynamic allocation; end2end across Europe, Optical Private Networks Ultimately all users will have the bandwidth they want Large (future) Infrastructure Facilities need to be connected Campus Networking is new challenge (1:10:100) from connectivity to service provision: streaming services (access grids, VoD), storage resources (archives, repositories), virtual labs, virtual organizations, digital libraries, VoIP, trust and security services (AAA), roaming. Expected Technological evolution

6. How will NRENs involve and serve the academic communities in the future? Intelligence in Networks will be moving from the organisation to the institutions and to the users. High learning curve requires transformation of NRENs from service providers to service enablers or service integrators. Advanced services everywhere for everyone (grid, dynamic configuration and allocation etc..) More services require new business models for NRENs Provide tailor made solutions for large infrastructures, and involve those users actively. Avoid concurrent research networks for different academic disciplines. -Extra- Organisational Challenges

7. Future collaboration between NRENs, with the goal to provide services of common interest (e.g. by leveraging Structural Funds) Reducing digital divide is crucial, but difficult. MS are in different stages of economic development, and needs. Hence political support differs as other infrastructures are competing (and also very much needed) Structural Funds used only for long term capital investments. Consider EU funding for supporting local network infrastructure. The infrastructure is as powerful as its weakest element. -intra- Organisational Challenges

8. “Expectations from the Commission”: - Which of the SERENATE recommendations had the biggest impact on the Networking community and why? Can we extrapolate these Results to EARNEST? Why not? What will cross-border fiber bring? Are the NRENs that can use the Structural Funds to bridge the digital divide also taking the necessary action to tender? Increasing mobility of researchers and /students: Security and Trust, AA infrastructure become a major challence Campus Networks Should EARNEST tackle the global dimensions of networking? Identify and map the 50 largest crucual scientific infrastructures How will NRENs involve and serve the academic communities in the future? Questions to address

9. A VRC is a group of researchers, working together effectively through the use of information and communications technology. Within the community, researchers can collaborate, communicate, share resources, access remote equipment or computers and produce results as effectively as if they, and the resources they require, were physically co-located. Example: European Institute of Technology Access to a VRC is provided through: Virtual Research Communities

10. A VRE is a set of online tools, systems and processes to facilitate or enhance the research process. The purpose of a Virtual Research Environment (VRE) is to provide researchers with the tools and services they need to do research of any type as efficiently and effectively as possible. VREs help individual researchers manage the increasingly complex range of tasks involved in doing research. facilitate collaboration among communities of researchers, resource discovery, data collection, data analysis, simulation, collaboration, communication, publishing, research administration, and project management Virtual Research Environment

11. MIDDLEWARE Scientist Experiment Analysis Computing Storage Storage Experiment Analysis Computing Storage Computing VRE From eScience to e-Social science

12. Increasingly Social Sciences and Humanities will use, process, store digital resources and will create VRC’s and VLE’s But without the necessary ICT background or skills New intermediary “breed” will (have to) emerge with the expertise to join-up services to enable communities to function, as well as collaboration facilitators and managers who are able to translate the requirements into functional specifications Are NREN’s willing to take up this challenge and to move the stack of services they provide. Are the NRENs prepared to move the technologies into a wider set of communities and begin to change cultures and behaviours.? EIT might become the next test case Role of NREN’s

13. What is your TARGET?

14. Framework Programme 7

15. Cooperation Ideas People Research infrastructures 2008 M€ Capacities + JRC + Euratom Research for SMEs 1228 M€ Regions of knowledge 126 M€ Science in society 329 M€ Research potential 320 M€ Int’l cooperation 182 M€ FP7 – Capacities budget (provisional figures)

16. support to existing research infrastructures support to new research infrastructures support measures FP7 – a new framework for more ambitious goals Foster the emergence of new infrastructures of pan-European interest Stimulate the efficient use and development of existing infrastructures

17. support to existing research infrastructures support to new research infrastructures Integrating activities Design studies ICT based e-Infrastructures Construction of new RIs (preparatory and implementation phases) support measures FP7 – key activities European policy, international cooperation, emerging needs

18. support to existing research infrastructures support to new research infrastructures • Integrated Infrastructure Initiative (I3) • Networking activities • Service Activities • Joint Research Activities Collaborative projects + Coordination and support actions support measures FP7 – key instruments ESFRI Roadmap (cooperation with e-IRG) Preparatory phase: Collaborative projects + Coordination/support action Implementation phase: Direct loans + guarantee to EIB loans (RSFF) + innovative procurement Coordination and support actions

19. support to existing research infrastructures support to new research infrastructures Scientific data infrastructure Grid infrastructure FP6 Network infrastructure Scientific facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . New FP7 e-Infrastructures - new layers, new infrastructures

20. Further development and evolution of GÉANT and grids Foster adoption by new user communities, enhance global relevance, increase level of trust and confidence anticipate and integrate new requirements and solutions Foster the emergence of Europe as a world scientific data hub. Deploy data repositories for the scientific community and future generations of scientistssupporting, in a coordinated way, digital libraries, archives, data storage, data curation, access to information and the necessary pooling of resources. FP7 – addressing the new scientific data layer