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Notur:
- Grant f.o.m. 2010 is 16.5 Mkr (was 21.7 Mkr)
- No guarantees that funding will increase in 2010
- Same level of operations maintained in 2010 as for 2009
- Explore collaboration with met.no on investment (in 2011)
Need to start work on an investment plan for 2011-2012.
New call for research infrastructure in September. Application for
Notur to be resubmitted, but details of the call are unknown
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Tier-1:
- Annual grant for 2010-2012 is 5 Mkr
- No guarantees that funding will increase
- Same level of operations maintained in 2010 as for 2009
New call for research infrastructure in September. Application for
Tier-1 to be resubmitted, but details of the call are unknown
Small funding has consequences for Norway’s contribution to
Nordic Tier-1 and national Tier-2. There will be no significant
expansion of Tier-1/2 resources.
Personnel effort, services maintained by NorGrid (3D) and
network capacity maintained to be able to continue participation.
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NorStore:
- Total grant 37 Mkr. Period 2010-2013
- Grant 2010: ca. 10 Mkr. Includes equipment, operations, support,
training, development, dissemination, advanced support.
- Recruitment of project leader on-going.
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Two new Nordic projects:
- Resource sharing/bartering; create market where countries can
trade/buy resources, users can access resources abroad (0.5 FTE)
- Cloud computing; competence project to use cloud technologies
for science (cycles + data), combine private and commercial
clouds; look at implications for national infrastructures (1.0 FTE)
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European e-Infrastructure
Performance pyramid:
Process coupling
EC / FP7:
Tier-0: Petascale systems
Tier-1: national systems
Local systems
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DEISA
EGEE / EGI
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PRACE roadmap
Preparatory Phase: 10 M€ / yr (5 M€ / yr EU)
Implementation Phase: 100-150 M€ / yr (10 M€ / yr EU)
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PRACE
PRACE Initiative: the consortium
- MoU signed April 2007
- Initial partners:
- France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, UK, Italy
- Austria, Finland, Greece, Norway, Poland, Portugal,
Sweden and Switzerland
- Later: Cyprus, Ireland, Serbia, Turkey, Czech Republic, Bulgaria
PRACE Project: EC/FP7 project
- Preparatory Phase: Jan 2008 – Dec 2009
- Principal Partners (6) that commit ≥ 20 M€/yr from 2010
- General Partners (8), including NO, SE, FI
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PRACE
PRACE Initiative:
- Will turn into a legal entity April 2010, seat Brussels
- Statutes for legal entity nearly ready
- Agreement for ‘initial period’ (5 year)
PRACE Project: EC/FP7 project
- Preparatory Phase: Jan 2008 - Dec 2009 (ext. April 2010)
- First Implementation Phase: May 2010 – May 2012
- Project has been called for a hearing February 8
- Proposal for 2nd Implementation Phase to be submitted 2010
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PRACE
PRACE Implementation Phase:
- Evolution of the Infrastructure/Entity
- Dissemination and Training
- HPC Ecosystem Relations
- Operations, Evolution of the (Technical) Infrastructure
- Industry relations
- Petascale Applications
- Procurement Strategy
- Future Technologies
Norwegian contribution: 85 PM (of which 61 PM EC-funded).
Additional: 40 k€ for participation in prototypes
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PRACE
PRACE legal entity:
Temporary central office: Brussels (12-18 months)
Cost central office: 0.8 – 1.2 M€ / yr
Membership fee: ca. 50-75 k€ / yr flat fee
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European DCI
EGI is the core of a Distributed Computing Infrastructure for Europe
- EGI = EGI.eu (central office) + NGIs + EIROs
- Specialized Support Centres are defined on EGI, e.g., for HEP
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EGI
EGI = EGI.eu + NGIs + EIROs
NGI = a legal entity that ’oversees’ the national e-Infrastructure
- should be able to provide uniformity across shared resources
- expected to financially support the operation of the national
eInfrastructure and support the national user community.
EGI.eu = the central office or coordinating body:
- ‘glue’ that enables coherence between the NGIs
- management and coordination of standards and interfaces
- runs central services for the European infrastructure
EIRO = European Intergovernmental Research Organization
- There are 7 EIROs: CERN, EFDA, EMBL, ESA, ESO, ESRF, ILL
- EIROs that have signed the MoU: CERN, EMBL
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EGI
NGI responsibilities:
Each NGI must carry out a number of International Tasks
(operations, support, monitoring, dissemination, ...). Ca. 4-6 FTE.
The four Nordic countries aim to create a group of 20-25 people
to carry out these tasks together. The group will be distributed
and will be integrated in the future Nordic eInfrastructure
Collaboration (eNORIA).
EGI has defined a number of Global Tasks (centralized) that will
be carried out by one or more NGIs. NGIs sent in bids for this.
Global Tasks are mostly related to coordination and
administration (not too interesting...)
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EGI
Status:
EC published a reserved/closed call for EGI. Deadline is
November 24. EC contribution is 25 M€ for 4 years.
EGI.eu legal entity established February 2010, seat Amsterdam.
Membership fee for NGIs and EIROs to sustain EGI.eu. Fee is
weighed by country size. For Norway, the annual fee is 38.500 €.
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EGI
Expected start EGI-InSPIRE project: May 2010
An application will be submitted to RCN in March 2010 for
funding, incl. participation in EGI, for 2.5-3 year period
The funding needed in 2009 and 1H2010, e.g., for membership fee,
comes from current NorGrid grant (expires 12/2010)
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