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From GEANT to Grid
empowered Research
Infrastructures
ANTONELLA KARLSON
DG INFSO Research Infrastructures
18 January 2003
Our Unit
FP5: Research Networking
FP6: Research Infrastructures
Brochure:
“Research Networking in Europe - striving for
global leadership”
published September 2002
web site: http://www.cordis.lu/ist/rn/home.html
Research Networking in FP5
Facts :
IPv6
Testbeds
Grids
Testbeds
Optical
Testbeds
International
dimension
R&D
 GÉANT / international connectivity
 Grids pilots involving leading research centers
 Large scale experimentation on IPv6
GÉANT network
 High political visibility - EP, Council, eEurope 2002
 Doubling the budget in FP6
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Networks for research
European research networking backbone - GEANT
Strategy and
benchmarking SERENATE
International
Research on networking
GRIDS
IPv6
cluster GRIDSTART
cluster 6LINK
Optical
Access
techn.
Digital
libraries
QoS
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GEANT
 The world’s most advanced backbone for research
 Operating at 10Gbps
 Pan-European coverage (32 countries)
 Linking more than 3000 Universities
 Total cost of 200 MEuro over 4 years / EU
contribution 80 MEuro
 SERENATE - strategic study on the future of RNs
GEANT: the achievements
GEANT
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NRENs* Access Capacity to the GEANT Backbone
(June and December 2001)
Gigabits per sec
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GEANT: international
NeDAP
Japan-Europe
GTRN
155Mbps
5Gbps
EUMedIS
TEIN
20Mbps
ALIS
Virtual
Silk
Road
SEEREN
Grid projects in FP5
Cross program action (CPA9) projects
In the year 2001: Six projects - € 19,686 M
In the year 2002: Eight projects - € 11,341 M
IST: Research Networking
In 2000, 2001 and 2002: Four projects - 13,973 M
IST: Health
In 2002: One project - 3,876 M
Total EU funding in IST: 48,876 M
Current Grid test-beds
Most of the projects include test-beds, which bring
Grid technology from the laboratory into the real
world
Several application areas – high energy physics,
asytrophysics, quantum chemistry and drug design,
earth and environment, biology, medicine, risk
management, computational fluid dynamics,
industrial simulations, etc.
Research Networks in FP6
Research
Infrastructures
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Programme
Research Networks
“GÉANT and GRIDs”
Structuring
the ERA
Programme
The vision: Pan-European Gridenabled Research e-Infrastructure
•deployment of the most performant research
backbone network in the world (GÉANT) – boosting
the transfer of information
•piloting of new and particularly powerful forms of
distributed computing – Grids – boosting the
processing of information
pilots Grids Grids
Grids
e-Infrastructure
GEANT
IPv6
IPv6
Global knowledge infrastructure
•e-science: include all fundamental and applied
sciences
•e-business
•security, semantic web, automatic management,
mobility
Relate to policies:
corner-stone of the ERA
 integrate national Infrastructures
 powerful instrument for international cooperation
 enhance social and geographic cohesion
FP6 – focus on GÉANT
 GÉANT – maintain and capitalise on worldwide
leadership in Research Networking
 FP6 GEANT network will represent a significant step
forward in terms of:
 services
 communities served
 geographical scope
 bandwidth
 implement new technologies
FP6 – focus on Grids
 Grids – from experimental pilots to stable provision
of services
 Deploy Grids-empowered infrastructure which
serves the research community in all scientific
disciplines
 This infrastructure should exhibit production-level
performance capabilities and constitute itself
distributed facilities at gigabit/terabit scales (in
terms of computing, storage and communication
power)
Challenges for Grids in the
context of Research Infrastructures
• Do not exist well defined national institutions for
Grids responsible for deploying national
infrastructures (similar to NRENs)
• Do not exist established funding schemes which are
appropriate to the high level of integration and
cooperation that the widespread of Grid technology
imposes
• The technology is not mature enough
• Currently industrial entities are not ready to take the
high risk of investment in Grids
• We turn to the research community in Europe:
knowledgeable, creative, innovative, open to change,
internationally oriented, strong community identity...
FP6 – focus on test-beds
 Test-beds will promote the fast validation and
pervasive penetration of state-of-the-art technology
into research infrastructures
 Test-beds will create the needed scale and focus in
order to foster the new technological and service
developments required by the research community.
 Focus on:
new routing and protocol schemes
 access technologies
 photonic networks
 lambda and terabit networking
 global networking ...
Grid-enabled e-infrastructure that serves
the concrete and actual needs of
researchers => Major priority:
User communities
Objectives:
•identify as many as possible user communities
•specify their requirements
•make predictions for the evolution in time of these
requirements
•identify the synergies between different communities
•describe their geographical coverage and expansion
In collaboration with:
SERENATE
GEANT
GRIDSTART
DATAGRID
National Initiatives
Specific research communities
Contact SERENATE and the
Commission in order to give input to our
study
[email protected]
Thank you for
your attention