1 e-Infrastructures and Virtualisation, Remote Instrumentation “The views expressed in this presentation are those of the author and do not necessarily.

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e-Infrastructures and Virtualisation, e-Infrastructures and Virtualisation, Remote InstrumentationRemote Instrumentation

“The views expressed in this presentation are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission”

Remote Engineering & Virtual Instrumentation

REV 2010 conference

Ioannis SagiasEuropean Commission - DG INFSO

GEANT & e-Infrastructures

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Key element of the Lund declaration adopted on 8 July 09 • Essential for researchers to stay at the forefront of

research• Key component for “frontier” research

Key Challenges:

- Overcoming fragmentation - Coping with increasing costs / complexity - Improving efficiency of (and access to) research

services

Research Infrastructures = Large scale facilities + e-Infrastructures

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• Scientific advances more important than ever

‐ Global challenges with high societal impact

‐ Innovation and economic development

• Adoption of ICT changes the scientific discovery process

‐ Computing, simulation and data

‐ Tackling the very small, very big and very complex

‐ Cost efficiency

‐ Open, cross-border & cross-discipline collaboration

Science and ICT

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Three vectors of a renewed European strategy:

ICT infrastructures for e-ScienceCOM(2009) 108

e-Infrastructure

Europe as hub of

excellence ine-Science

Sustainable and continuous services of

production quality 24/7

Innovation by exploiting know-

how beyond science (public services, large

scale experimentation,

…)e-IRG

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Support given by FP7 Research Infrastructures

action

Evolving infrastructures

Design studies

e-infrastructures

New infrastructures

Construction

e-infrastructures

Integrating activities

e-Infrastructures

ESFRIRoadmap

Policy development / Programme implementation

e-IRG

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Scientific facilities

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Linking at the speed of the lightLinking at the speed of the light

Sharing computers, software and instrumentsSharing computers, software and instruments

Sharing and federating scientific dataSharing and federating scientific data

…ubiquitous research environments for accessing and sharing resources and tools…

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Linking at the speed of the light: GÉANT

Accessing knowledge: scientific data

Innovating the scientific process: global virtual research communities

Experimenting in silico: simulation and visualisation

Sharing the best computational resources: e-Science grid, supercomputing

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GÉANT Global Connectivity

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Collaborating Grids

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Remote instrumentation infrastructures – DORII

project

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Remote instrumentation infrastructures – DORII

project• Earthquake community

– Network-centric seismic simulations

– Earthquake early warning system

• Environment community with selected applications

– Mediterranean Ocean Observing Network

– Oceanographic and coastal observation and modelling using imaging

• Experimental science community

– On-line data analysis - synchrotron and free electron lasers

– Reference installation mentioned by ESFRI

Enhancing the work done in RINGrid (Remote InstrumentationIn Next Generation Grids)

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Remote instrumentation infrastructures – DORII

projectOGF RISGE-RG

Open Grid Forum Remote Instrumentation Services in Grid Environment Research Group

bring together various existing approaches in defining remote access interfaces to sophisticated laboratory equipment

integrate scientific instruments with the Grid

ARI-WG: Access to Remote Instrumentation in Grid environment Working Group

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Remote instrumentation infrastructures – NEXPReS

project

• further improve the astronomy technique of electronic Very Long Baseline Interferometry (e-VLBI) with the objective of incorporating it into every experiment conducted by the European VLBI Network (EVN)

• From the Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) to the Electronic VLBI (e-VLBI)

• “Best of both worlds” data archiving and reprocessing afforded by traditional VLBI speed and flexibility of e-VLBI

Novel EXplorations Pushing Robust e-VLBI Services

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Remote instrumentation infrastructures – NEXPReS

project

Better data quality: more telescopes delivering good, error-free data

More efficient use of telescope infrastructure more time available for observations

e-VLBI in Europe is formally recognised as a pathfinder technology for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), an ESFRI project

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Remote instrumentation infrastructures – EVALSO

project

• The project aims at creating a physical infrastructure (and the tools to exploit it) to efficiently connect the ESO Very Large Telescope VLT at Cerro Paranal and the RUB OCA Observatories at Cerro Armazones to Europe

• Build on GEANT and RedCLARA

Enabling Virtual Access to Latin-American Southern Observatories

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Remote instrumentation infrastructures – EVALSO

project

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Remote instrumentation infrastructures – AugerAccess

project

• The project aims at improving the access capabilities of European research groups working on the Pierre Auger Observatory. Located in a remote place in the Pampa Amarilla in Argentina

• Build on GEANT and RedCLARA

• upgrading of the connectivity to allow rapid access to the data collected at the Observatory thus enhancing the potential of the European

groups in data processing and analysis

Integrating Auger Observatory and European Research Institutions into a worldwide grid

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• INFRA-2011-1.2.1: e-Science environments

• INFRA-2011-1.2.2: Data Infrastructures for e-Science

• INFRA-2011-2.3.5: Second implementation phase fo PRACE

• INFRA-2011-3.4: Coordination actions, conferences, studies, int. cooperation for e-Infra

• INFRA-2011-3.5: Trans-National cooperation among NCPs

Planned Call 9 (closing 23.11.10, €95m)

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Epilogue

“corner-stone” of the European Research Area

“spear-head” of the European Digital Agenda

“integrator” of National Infrastructures

“instrument” for International Cooperation

“facilitate” EIT, cohesion, cooperation, standards, industry, poverty reduction, etc …

e-Infrastructures are THE Enabler

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Bytes for PeopleThank you