Co-ordination & Harmonisation of Advanced e-Infrastructures Research Infrastructures – Grant Agreement n. 260011 Regional progress report: Mediterranean.

Co-ordination & Harmonisation of Advanced e-Infrastructures

Research Infrastructures – Grant Agreement n. 260011

Regional progress report: Mediterranean

Salem Al-Agtash, ASREN1st CHAIN Review – Athens, 03 Feb. 2012

1st CHAIN Review – Athens, 03 Feb. 2012 2

Status before CHAIN

EUMEDCONNECT2 network which connects some Arab Mediterranean countries to Europe


WP2 Progress

Coordinating with its ARAB NREN partners for verifying and collecting some technical data on the existing e-Infastructures

Dissemination of CHAIN efforts in the context of the underlying frameworks and software architectures towards interoperability and integration of regional e-InfrastructuresWorking paper: “High level interfaces towards ubiquitous harmonization of e-infrastructure services”

(During e-AGE 2011, Arab, Turkish, and EU NRENs signed Amman declaration to continue support e-Infrastructure and build on the success of the EUMEDGrid support project)


Questionnaire/ Analysis (WP2)

On-line questionnaire targeted to national and regional Grid infrastructures

Follow up for verification and validation with all Arab NRENs


Middleware support

Algeria Egypt Jordan Morocco Somalia Sudan Tunisia UAE

ARC

N/A N/A

UNICORE

gLite ● ● ● ● ●

globus ●

CNGrid GOS

Other

Boinc, Condor, XWno

Technology status (WP2, WP4)


• Most of NGIs established in 2006• Majority of the NGIs are in a nascent state• Range of Academic Researches is a few 10s. This is

much less than the range of the other regions in the world which is 100 -1800 !

Sustainability

Form of organization Algeria Jordan Morocco

Somalia UAE

Task force Consortium National Program ● ● Professional association Stand alone organization ● ●Other

National Research

and Education network

Sustainability (WP2)


NGI sites (WP2)

• Regional cooperation has to be fostered

• EUMEDGRID-Support improved it in Med region

• More for access to the other counties – CHAIN is an opportunity


Long-term sustainability: ASREN (WP2)

Builds on EUMEDCONNECT2 to connect all Arab countries


ASRENOrg.net (WP2)

PAN Arab Network, 2005, NAP, the Network Access Points 2007, ASREN, 2010, ASREN GmbH June 2011


User communities (WP3) User Communities

Algeria Egypt Jordan Morocco Somalia Sudan Tunisia UAEHigh Energy Physics ●

N/A

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N/A N/A

Life Science Material Sciences Astronomy & Astrophysics

Comp. Chemistry ● Bioinformatics ● ● Earth Science ● Fusion Computer Science & Maths ● ● ●

Environmental Social simulation Drug Discovery Meteorology ● CFD Engineering Water Resources Management

Logistics ●Multidisciplinary




Operation maturity (WP4)

Middleware Core Services

Algeria Egypt Jordan Morocco Somalia Sudan Tunisia UAE

Virtual Organisation Membership Service (VOMS)

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Workload Management System (WMS)

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Berkley Database Information Index (BDII)

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LCG File Catalog (LFC) ● ● ●

File Transfer Service (FTS) ●

MyProxy ● ● ● ●


Africa & Arabia ROC (WP4)

Hosting the Africa & Arabia Regional Operation Centre, taking over the activities performed inthe context of the EUMEDGRID- Support project(User support, Technical support, Information

sharing, etc.


Africa & Arabia ROC (WP4)

Developing a roadmap to further extend the e-Infrastructures deployed by EUMEDCONNECT and EUMEDGRID to all Arab countries

Africa & Arabia ROC will be the coordination and support point for all sites in the Arab region

Africa & Arabia ROC Website has been installed


Outreach (WP5)

Supporting ASREN establishment – till June 2011 October 2011/ Workshop Developing Lebanese

National Research and Education Network Beirut, Lebanon

November 2011/ Joint CHAIN/EPIKH School for ROC management in Amman, Jordan


Next – e-Infrastructure level

UAE installed a new highly sophisticated grid system that will join Africa & Arabia ROC

Consolidation of cooperation between grids in the ASREN region and beyond through CHAIN, embedded within ASREN

Plans for a consortium as a result of e-AGE to establish connectivity between neighboring countries in the Arab region


Next – Community level More contacts to existing VRCs, examples:

Genomics applications Mathematical modeling, with intensive numerical analysis Emerging applications in software applications to environmental resources Consolidating communities from EPIKH schools in Egypt, Morocco, and

Jordan, and the Modeling grid applications in Lebanon Activities for federated identity and science gateway and building

capacity through joint research projects – initial interest at UAE School planned for GATE users in Algeria in April using

EUMEDGRID Science Gateway based on the CHAIN model Upcoming e-AGE towards better integration of efforts at the

regional level



Thank you

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