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Future Plans for the eIRG

Future Plans for the eIRG. Tony Hey Neil Geddes Malcolm Read Alistair Dunlop. ESFRI and eIRG?. European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructure Set up by EU Council Reports to DG Research Developing a 20 year Roadmap for European Large Facilities e-Infrastructure Reflection Group

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Future Plans for the eIRG

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  1. Future Plans for the eIRG Tony Hey Neil Geddes Malcolm Read Alistair Dunlop

  2. ESFRI and eIRG? • European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructure • Set up by EU Council • Reports to DG Research • Developing a 20 year Roadmap for European Large Facilities • e-Infrastructure Reflection Group • Established by Ministerial request • Reports to DG INFOSOC • Developing Roadmap for e-Infrastructure

  3. ESFRI • ESFRI not an EU body but supported by Commission staff • Established 3 Steering Groups • Physical Sciences and Engineering • Biological and Medical Sciences • Social Sciences and the Humanities • Formally rejected request from eIRG to be recognized as 4th Steering Group on e-Infrastructure and HPC

  4. ESFRI List of Opportunities The list includes: • 4 projects in physics and astronomy, corresponding to large-scale facilities for nuclear physics, astroparticle physics and astronomy • 1 project on nanotechnologies, distributed over several sites • 4 projects for multidisciplinary facilities for the analysis of matter (material and biological): three of these concern new generation sources for neutrons (spallation source) and photons (free electron lasers); the fourth is an upgrade of the European third generation synchrotron • 1 project in supercomputing for applications in various fields • 4 projects in environmental sciences, ranging from coastal research to biodiversity • 7 projects in biological and medical sciences, including some with a clear biomedical character • 2 projects in social sciences and humanities, based on the collection of data throughout Europe

  5. ESFRI List of Opportunities (cont.) • The list includes medium and large scale projects, with costs ranging from less than € 100 million to more than € 1 billion • In a number of cases, especially in biology, the projects consist of a network of facilities located in several countries • In addition to the list of 23 projects to be developed within Europe (with possible participation from other countries), ESFRI compiled a short-list of “global projects” to be developed at world level, in which Europe is already involved, at least in the early stages

  6. eIRG • Ministerial group established by Greek Presidency • Rotating ‘troika’ – past, present, future – for management of eIRG • Support for eIRG allocated via EGEE Research Infrastructures project • Produced successive versions of eIRG White Paper on EU e-Infrastructure • Developing Roadmap for European e-Infrastructure at request of DG INFSO by September 2005

  7. Grid Infrastructure Opportunities • Populate the Europe Science Grid with pre-funded shared large scale facilities • Funding scheme to grid-enable wide variety of scientific measuring equipment including sensor networks, satellites, telescopes and especially databases • Provide high-grade realtime collaboration environments to research communities • Establish training centres for grid developers • Create a European centre of expertise for reprogrammable logic • Facilitate exchanges and/or marketplaces for grid resources • Support and extend the federation based authentication and authorisation infrastructure • Support the creation of a mature and open grid protocol stack by supporting the relevant standards bodies GGF, W3C, IETF and WSI

  8. Grid Infrastructure Opportunities (2) • Provide reflectors and buffers/storage for useful data streams from satellites, sensor networks and other data sources • Create a normalisation institute that will contribute to standardised access, validated aggregation processes and good interoperability of distributed scientific data. • Support for digital libraries for data curation, software curation and semantic metadata • Create a body overseeing Quality Assurance activities to identify different levels of reliability for grid service providers • Initiate an organisation to register parameters and formats in scope and activities similar to the functions that IANA performs for the internet (a bookkeeper for grid parameters) • Support the creation of a European Federation of middleware repositories

  9. Future Plans for eIRG? For eIRG there is a need to separate ‘Strategy and Policy’ issues from Technical issues • Establish ‘top level’ eIRG committee with national representatives responsible for national e-Infrastructure strategy and policy • Establish Working Groups covering the Technical Areas identified by the White Paper and Draft Roadmap • Build on good foundations established in the last 2 years

  10. Possible eIRG Working Groups (1) • HPC • Possible coordination of Supercomputer procurements • Supplement national HPCsystems • Networking • GEANT Roadmap, Hybrid Networks, QoS • Use existing body? ENPG? TERENA … • AAA • GEANT2 AAI Group? • TERENA-TACAR, TERENA TF on Middleware? • Shibboleth

  11. Possible eIRG Working Groups (2) • Grid Middleware • National ‘Middleware Engineering’ Centres • EC assistance and coordination • e-Science • Input application requirements • Main link to ESFRI? • Scientific Data • Major data challenges • EC supplement national and subject repositories? • Curation and access issues

  12. Possible eIRG Working Groups (3) • Digital Libraries/Institutional Repositories • Open Access to scientific publications and data • Berlin-3 declaration will result in many HE institutions establishing ‘Institutional Repositories’ • Will be key part of the EU Information Infrastructure of the future • Need for tools and search engines • Preservation and Curation issues • Legal Issues for Virtual Organisations • IPR, Provenance, Electronic Contracts • Open Source Licenses

  13. Future of eIRG (1) Two possible options: • Official recognition by European Council • All members send letter to their Minister stating that the eIRG has progressed to the state that it now needs recognition by Council • Stress that eIRG has different, complementary mandate from ESFRI and that e-Infrastructure will be critically important for realization of ERA • Request that the eIRG should be supported by DGINFSO in same way that ESFRI supported by DG Research

  14. Future of eIRG (2) Two possible options: • Improved version of status quo • Restructure eIRG to separate strategy and policy issues from technical concerns • Establish formal route for input to ESFRI • Establish mechanism for input of scientific requirements • Have better support for eIRG and WGs • Have non-rotating Chair with 1 year or 2 year mandate?

  15. Relationship with GridCoord? • ‘ERA Pilot on a co-ordinated Europe-wide Initiative in Grid Research’ • Approximately 100M€/year (without EC funds) • WP3 – Deliverable 3.1.1 • Compendium of national Grid R&D initiatives in Europe • Contributions from 9 GridCoord countries France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, UK

  16. Themes for next 6 months? • Continue to refine and restructure White Paper and review Roadmap with Technical WGs • Investigate links to National Grid initiatives (cf GridCoord) and ‘subsidiarity’ concerns for EC funding • Explore mechanisms for links with industry (cf Greek proposal for ERIA) and with the proposed Grid Technology Platform

  17. eIRG and WG Meeting Dates? • Suggest meeting in September? October? • Establish Membership andTerms of Reference for WGs? • ESFRI Meeting on Research Infrastructures in December • Suggest have eIRG meeting at same time • Possible joint event/meeting with ESFRI

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