Pesentation given at DECIDE project Launch Event

1. ••• 1
e-Infrastructures as a key enabler for
virtual research communities
DECIDE Public Launch Event and KoM
Rome, 23 September 2010
Carmela ASERO
European Commission - DG INFSO
GÉANT & e-Infrastructure Unit

2. ••• 2
EGEE Grid attacks Avian Flu
During April 2006, a collaboration of Asian and EU laboratories
has analysed 300,000 possible drug components against the
avian flu virus H5N1 using the EGEE Grid infrastructure (for the
docking of 300,000 compounds against 8 different target
structures of Influenza A neuraminidases, 2000 computers were
used during 4 weeks – the equivalent of 100 years on a single
computer)
N1H5
Credit:
Y-T Wu

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e-Infrastructures: fundamental aspect of all
Roadmap RI..
Three groups of facilities distinguished:
• Those which fundamentally are e-Infrastructure -
based (e.g. all Social Sciences & Humanities,
ELIXIR, EPOS) - therefore e-Infrastructure aspects
key to address
• Distributed facilities, which need e-Infrastructures
to work (e.g. interlink their parts)
• Those for which e-Infrastructures will be important
at least for data acquisition, processing &
distribution to users

4. ••• 412/10/09 Brussells e-infra concertation
BIOBANKS-BBMRI
INFRAFRONTIER
EBI-ELIXIREATRIS
INSTRUCT
EMBRC
EU-Openscreen
ECRIN
Euro-Bio-imaging
Roadm
ap
2008
10 Projects
BLS4

5. ••• 5
Update on e-Infrastructures:
- overview, evolution in FP6, FP7

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network infrastructure (GÉANT)
computing infrastructure (EGI, PRACE/DEISA)
scientific data infrastructure
biology
data
astronomy
data
clinical
data
LHC
data
Support/Policy
InternationalCooperation&links
Virtual research communities

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network infrastructure (GÉANT)
computing infrastructure (EGI, PRACE/DEISA)
scientific data infrastructure
biology
data
astronomy
data
clinical
data
LHC
data
Support/Policy
InternationalCooperation&links
Virtual research communitiesGEANT
 Pan-European coverage
(40+ countries /3900
universities / 30+ million
students)
 Hybrid architecture:
 connectivity at 10 Gb/s
(aggregated traffic)
 dark fiber wavelengths
(demanding communities)
 International links

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network infrastructure (GÉANT)
computing infrastructure (EGI, PRACE/DEISA)
scientific data infrastructure
biology
data
astronomy
data
clinical
data
LHC
data
Support/Policy
InternationalCooperation&links
Virtual research communities
EGI:
 10000 users
 243020 LCPUs (cores)
 40Pb disk, 39Pb tape
 15 million jobs/month
 317 sites
 52 countries
 175 VOs, 29 active VOs

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network infrastructure (GÉANT)
computing infrastructure (EGI, PRACE/DEISA)
scientific data infrastructure
biology
data
astronomy
data
clinical
data
LHC
data
Support/Policy
InternationalCooperation&links
Virtual research communities
DEISA:
 1PFlop aggregated peak performance
 11 sites/7 countries connected at
10Gbit/s
 Workflow applications with grid-
technologies
 Global data management system
 Extreme Computing Initiative

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network infrastructure (GÉANT)
computing infrastructure (EGI, PRACE/DEISA)
scientific data infrastructure
biology
data
astronomy
data
clinical
data
LHC
data
Support/Policy
InternationalCooperation&links
Virtual research communities
PRACE:
 European PFlop machines
 Ecosystem of HPC resources
 Partnership of 20 EU countries
 First Access Call released (open
to all scientists)

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Capacities
4.1 b€
JRC
1.75 b€
Ideas
7.5 b€
Euratom
4.1 b€
People
4.75 b€
Cooperation
32.4 b€
e-Infrastructures
0.6 b€

13. ••• 13
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FP6 FP7
Millions
Support, Policy
Virtual Research Communities
Data
Computing
Connectivity/Network
Total EC Funding (€)
Layers

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0
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Connectivity/Network Computing Data Virtual Research
Communities
Support, Policy
Millions
FP7
FP6
Total EC Funding (€)
FP

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User Communities (€)
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Infrastructure (€)
Data

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Communities
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Infrastructure (€)
Data

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no no
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Number of Projects
INCO Dimension ?

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0
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10
15
20
25
30
SSH Environmental
Sciences
Energy and
transports
Biological and
Medical Sciences
Materials and
Analytical
Facilities
Physical
Sciences and
Engineering
Security/Civil
protection
Millions
FP7
FP6
FP

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Update on e-Infrastructures:
- snapshot of work on BMS

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Medical research related project
Transatlantic cooperation toward one unique
worldwide facility for studies of
neurodegenerative diseases.
e-Infrastructure-based global virtual
research community for structural
biology in the life sciences
Building upon neuGRID and GÉANT for
extraction of diagnostic markers for
Alzheimer’s disease and schizophrenia
Grid for European neuroscientists
working in the field of imaging of
Alzheimer’s disease

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Improve protein annotation via
coordination & integration of
databases; data faster to public
Enhance building the Catalogue of
Life (taxonomy of world’s plants,
animals, fungi, microbes..)
Deploy grids for faster and better
bio-NMR data analysis
Deploy e-Infrastructure services to
enhance functionality & use of
EuropeanTheoretical Spectroscopy
Facility

22. ••• 22
Update on e-Infrastructures:
- next plans

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Three vectors of a renewed European strategy:
COM(2009) 108
e-Infrastructure
Europe as hub
of excellence in
e-Science
Sustainable and
continuous services
of production quality
24/7
Innovation by
exploiting know-how
beyond science
(public services,
large scale
experimentation,…)

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• Addressing the data deluge, heterogeneity
• Integrated e-Science environments
• Strengthen service and user orientation
• Some key users: ESFRI-roadmap projects,
Future Internet experimentation platform, public
services (eHealth etc)
• Open to innovation, new concepts (from grids to
clouds etc..)
• Reflect on governance, ensure sustainability
 GEANT, EGI, PRACE,…
• Global dimension

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Network layer
Data layer
User Communities
biology
space
climatology
astronomy
geosciences
physics
fusion
environment
spectroscopy
medical
ICT
…
DRAFTDRAFT
Supportactions
€4M
Simulation software & services layer
€43M
Computing layer: Distributed Computing & PRACE
PRACE €20M
eScience
Environment
€27M
NCPs
€1M

26. ••• 26
Looking ahead:
new political landscape

27. ••• 27
An overarching policy framework that aims
at delivering sustainable economic and
social benefits from a digital single market
based on fast and ultra fast Internet and
interoperable applications
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/digital-agenda/documents/
digital-agenda-communication-en.pdf

28. ••• 28
1. Fragmented digital markets
2. Lack of interoperability
3. Rising cybercrime and risk of low trust in
networks
4. Lack of investment in networks
5. Insufficient research and innovation efforts
6. Lack of digital literacy and skills
7. Missed opportunities in addressing societal
challenges

29. ••• 29
Action under Research & Innovation:
“ensure sufficient financial support to
joint ICT RI and innovation clusters,
develop further e-Infrastructures and
establish EU strategy for cloud
computing, notably for government
and science”

30. ••• 30
e-Health in DAE
The Commission will work with Member States competent authorities
and all interested stakeholders to:
• Key Action 13: Undertake pilot actions to equip Europeans with
secure online access to their medical health data by 2015 and to
achieve by 2020 widespread deployment of telemedicine services;
• Key Action 14: Propose a recommendation defining a minimum
common set of patient data for interoperability of patient records
to be accessed or exchanged electronically across Member States by
2012 in line with data protection requirements.
Other actions:
• Foster EU-wide standards, interoperability testing and
certification of eHealth systems by 2015 through stakeholder
dialogue;
• Reinforce the AmbientAssisted Living (AAL) Joint Programme
to allow older people and persons with disabilities to live
independently and be active in society.

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• Grand challenges (like Health) calling for new
orientations of our research policies if we want to
sustain our living standards & world position
• RI are playing a central role in supporting the
knowledge triangle (research-education-
innovation)
• Transition to e-Science (e-Infrastructure enabled)
will accelerate over the next years
• A new Digital Agenda for Europe
www.cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/e-infrastructure/

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THANK YOU!