The e Infrastructure initiative - opportunities for the e Health community -

1. eHealth Workshop Brussels, 19th March 2004 The eInfrastructure initiative - opportunities for the eHealth community - Mário Campolargo Head of Unit DG INFSO F3 Research Infrastructure mario.campolargo@cec.eu.int "The views expressed in this presentation are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission"

2. Contents • Virtual communities • Current achievements – GÉANT and Grids • Grids Research and Deployment in FP6 • eInfrastructures - vision and projects • eInfrastructures - serving new user communities • eIRG - eInfrastructures Reflection Group • Conclusions

3. SUSTAINABLE development HIGH energy PHISICS HUMAN genome eoro Met LOGY Virtual communities • There is a need for integration accross • distributed • heterogeneous • large • dynamic "virtual organisations", making use of a wide set of varied resources belonging to possibly different enterprises… • Examples: High Energy Physics, Earth/Environment, Biology, Industrial Simulations… and also Digital Libraries, Virtual Museums, Open Universities, Social Sciences, eHealth… • … but also strong impact on Industry and Business in general

4. Flexible control and sharing of distributed resources Access to them is provided in a secure, coordinated, seamless, dynamic and inexpensive way Resources can be distributed world-wide Resources can be of any information type (computing, storage, networking, etc) Global nature of eScience Virtual research organisations

5. EU supported developments and achievements • Deployment of the pan-European GÉANT Research Network (including a global perspective) • Promotion of large scale IPv6 validation testbeds • Grid concept proven in eScience application pilots • Strengthening of Europe’s position in Grid middleware development and Grid research • First steps taken towards maturing Grid technologies for industrial use • Contribution to standardisation • Grid deployment side by side with networking deployment - eInfrastructure

6. The “super-vehicle” for information transfer GÉANT* - the networking layer • World leading Research Network • Connecting more than 3900 Universities and R&D centers • Over43 countries across Europe • Connectivity to NA, Japan, … • Speeds of up to 10 Gbps • Smoothing the digital divide • A super quality internet service * GÉANT and the National Research and Education Networks

7. GÉANT - the European Research Network

8. GÉANT - involving new user communities • GÉANT • Serving multiple user comunities(e.g. radio astronomers)

9. GÉANT - the global dimension

10. The “super-machinery” for information processing Grid - the middleware technology layer Grids • An emerging middleware technology layer, capable of allocating resources and delivering access to them to users and applications • Underlying high speed network is a key enabler! • Today grid and web services seen as part of a coherent picture… • A concept being driven today by the scientific applications

11. GRIDSTART MammoGrid GEMSS SeLeNe BioGrid AVO OpenMolGrid EGSO FlowGrid GRIA MOSES COG Eurogrid GRACE CrossGrid DAMIEN GridLab GRIP DataGrid DataTAG 1/10/2000 1/10/2001 1/10/2002 Grid projects - portfolio in FP5 Applications Middleware Infrastructure

12. GriPhyN PPDG iVDGL Grid projects - the international dimension

13. Research Infrastructure • Deployment of specifichigh performance Grids • Deployment of high-capacity and high-speed communications network - GÉANT • Grids for Complex • Problem Solving • Architecture, design and development of the next generation Grid • Enabling application technologies IST RI 125 M€ 200 M€ Grid Research and Deployment in FP6

14. Industry& Business Grids eScience Grid Research - challenges Promote Grid research to • Move Grid from e-Science to Industry • Solve new complex problems with higheconomic and societal impact • Exploit the potential of Grids beyonde-Science New Research Instruments (Integrated Projects) • cover entire R&D lifecycle of products/services including pre-competitive stages - creation of new business models • Bring all actors together -creation of critical mass

15. Next Generation Grid - 3 fold vision Abstraction • End-user empowerment • Life-support to business processes Simplification NextGenerationGrids • Continuously changing requirements • Grid services development environments Software vision End-UserVision Architectural Vision • Societal behaviour (millions of self-organising nodes) • Computational semantics, ontologies, meta-descriptions • Pervasive virtual organisations Virtualisation Expert Group Report: “Next Generation Grid(s) - European Grid Research 2005 - 2010”, June 2003

16. Grid - based generic enabling application technologies to facilitate solution of industrial problems EU - driven Grid services Mobile Grid architecture architecture for business and services for dynamic and industry virtual organisations European wide virtual laboratory for longer term Grid research foundation for next generation Grids Some new initiatives on Grid research Building the ERAin Grid research SemanticGrid Knowledgebasedworkflow & collaboration Dataminingtools & services Dependability, Trust, Provenance Extended OGSAImplementation Expert Group Report: “Next Generation Grid(s) - European Grid Research 2005 - 2010”, June 2003

17. science health learning business aeronautics genomics environment astronomy e-Infrastructure (Grids empowered) security semantic web. broadband automatic management IPv6 Grid mobility Vision - creating aneInfrastructure… Global knowledge infrastructure

18. eInfrastructure- linking to policies Research e-Infrastructures: • “corner-stone” of ERA • “spear-head” of an “eEurope infrastructure” (e.g. broadband plus) • “integrator” of National Infrastructures • powerful “instrument” for International cooperation • … cohesion, cooperation, standards, industrial, etc…

19. eInfrastructures TEN 155 network GÉANT network GÉANT network (FP6) Grid testbeds Grid enabled Infrastructures 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 GN2 project TEN 155 GN1 project EGEE, DEISA, SEEGRID, … Datagrid, Eurogrid, Crossgrid, Datatag, … EU supported Projects FP5 FP6 National initiatives Building the European eInfrastructure - steps

20. networking specific services GRID . INFRASTRUCTURE joint research activities networking specific services Technology testbeds GÉANT . INFRASTRUCTURE joint research activities User testbeds research results EU policies eInfrastructure- essential building blocks federated testbeds

21. networking Under negotiation specific services networking GRID . INFRASTRUCTURE joint research activities specific services Technology testbeds GÉANT . INFRASTRUCTURE joint research activities federated testbeds User testbeds EU policies research results eInfrastructure- GÉANT infrastructure • GN2, led by DANTE and the European NRENs, will continue and improve both functionalities and services of the current GÉANT. GN2 will enhance the performance offered and will develop solutions to support end to end services, GRID compliance, QoS assurance, seamless access and security. Pan-european second generation GÉANT

22. networking Under negotiation specific services networking GRID . INFRASTRUCTURE joint research activities specific services Technology testbeds GÉANT . INFRASTRUCTURE joint research activities federated testbeds User testbeds EU policies research results eInfrastructure- Grid infrastructures Pan-European Grid infrastructure EGEE SEE-GRID • EGEE, led by CERN, is expected to have a structuring effect by deploying the largest international Grid infrastructure with the combined capacity of over 20.000 CPU's, federating 70 institutions in 20 countries. EGEE is mission critical for a number of very demanding research communities.

23. networking Under negotiation specific services networking GRID . INFRASTRUCTURE joint research activities specific services Technology testbeds GÉANT . INFRASTRUCTURE joint research activities federated testbeds User testbeds EU policies research results eInfrastructure- Grid infrastructures Grid of supercomputers DEISA • DEISA, led by CNRS, aims at building a distributed tera-scale supercomputing facility made-up of six major supercomputing centers across Europe, to be interconnected by a gigabit network.

24. APPLICATIONS Physics Bioinformatics Time eInfrastructure- getting communities involved • Towards an open eInfrastructure to all user communities (e.g. GÉANT and EGEE) Biodiversity Chemistry Digital Libraries Geophysics Industry Earth Observation eHealth Climate modelling Astronomy Nanotechnology • By means of IST testbeds (current of future) • By new initiatives in the Research Infrastructure Programme

25. Dissemination Outreach Training Operational Support Requirements Deployment Implementation eInfrastructure- getting communities involved • Mechanism built in the I3 instrument (Integrated Infrastructure Initiative) New scientific community Networking Activities Established user community Networking Activities Joint Research Activities Service Support Activities

26. networking Under negotiation specific services networking GRID . INFRASTRUCTURE joint research activities specific services End-to-end quality of service Optical solutions for grid empowered infrastructures Technology testbeds GÉANT . INFRASTRUCTURE Experimenting with real time grids for remote control of instruments New user communities experimenting with Grids (e.g. Digital Libraries) joint research activities federated testbeds User testbeds EU policies research results eInfrastructure- Testbeds • … DILIGENT will bring the benefits of Grids to digital libraries • GRIDCC will focus on real-time grid technologies to remotely control instrumentation…

27. Operating at unprecedented levels of performance technology www.ec.ipv6tf.org eInfrastructure Reflexion Group policies IPv6 Task Force www.einfrastructures.org eInfrastructure- technology and policies • Centered around the researcher • Integratingcommunication and computing services • Integrating distributed resources of all types • Supporting the provision of knowledge environments

28. eInfrastructure- breaking barriers • New organisational policies • Resource sharing attitude • Common policies of accessing computing & data storage resources across institutions, application domains, national boundaries • eIRG - eInfrastructure Reflection Group • Providing a framework for an easier, faster and more cost-effective access from all researchers in Europe to all types of information resources (networking, computing, data storage) distributed across Europe. • Promoting best practice implementation of such a model in the research area to facilitate and accelerate a later commercial uptake of the new paradigm.

29. Technical Support Group Projects propose best practices and policies Nat./ Int. Infrastructure EU RI (GÉANT/Grids) …. Projects adopt best practices and policies Recommenda-tions Questionnaires Position papers Funding authorities consider recommendation in e.g. the new WorkProgrammes Best practices,charters, policies National Programmes EU Programmes ESFRI WG on HPC&N Documentsto e.g. ESFRI eIRG - eInfrastructures Reflection Group eIRG eInfrastructure Reflection Group Institutions“gridifying” resources adopt best practices and policies

30. Conclusions • The creation of virtual organisations is key to rationalise investments in research. • Europe is committed to deploy an ambitious eInfrastructure, building on the most advanced networking and Grid technologies. • Current achievement will be expanded and further integrated in the context of new FP6 projects (about to be launched). • TheeInfrastructure will ultimatelly change the way research is done, bringing clear benefits to all the Research Communities and thus contributing to the fast deployment of the European Research Area! • Research Infrastructure require more than technology… require a new culture and newpolicies! EC isco-operating with Member States to devise and implement them! • eHealth can benefit from Grid infrastructures… now!

31. Web page www.cordis.lu/ist/rn/ Monthly Newsletter Two brochures in early 2004 Workshops Further info on eInfrastructures