P. Kacsuk (MTA SZTAKI) – project co-ordinator on behalf of the SCI-BUS consortium SCIence gateway Based User Support (SCI-BUS)

P. Kacsuk (MTA SZTAKI) – project co-ordinatoron behalf of the SCI-BUS consortium

SCIence gateway Based User Support (SCI-BUS)

• SCI-BUS is a 3-year EU FP7 project• Starting in 1st of October 2011• Build 17 science gateways to various user

communities in Europe• There are 10 academic and 5 commercial

partners

Introduction to SCI-BUS

Academic consortium members

Participant organisation name Part. short name Country

Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia Szamitastechnikai es Automatizalasi Kutato Intezet MTA SZTAKI Hungary

Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam AMC The Netherlands

ETH Zurich ETH Switzerland

Middle East Technical University METU Turkey

Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen EKUT Germany

University of Westminster UoW UK

University of Zaragoza UNIZAR-BIFI Spain

INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania INAF Italy

Laurea University LU Finland

The Provost Fellows & Scholars of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin

TCD Ireland

Commercial consortium members

Participant organisation name Part. short name

Country

Simsoft Ltd. SIMSOFT Turkey

E-Group Ltd. EG Hungary

Scaletools Ltd. ST Switzerland

CloudBroker GmbH CB Switzerland

4D Soft Ltd. 4D Hungary

1. To create a generic-purpose gateway technology as a toolset to provide seamless access to major computing, data and networking infrastructures and services.

2. To elaborate an application-specific gateway building technology and customisation methodology based on which user communities can easily develop their own customised gateway

3. To use the gateway technology and customisation methodology to create application-specific gateways for various user communities and to provide gateway services for these communities

4. To disseminate the application-specific gateway building technology and the customisation methodology and best-practice case studies for many user communities in Europe

Main goals of SCI-BUS

1. To create and maintain a Liferay portlet repository that enables the quick creation of user specific customised gateways on top of the generic-purpose gateway

2. To provide gateway development, operation and maintenance support for the new communities to build and operate their own customised gateways

3. To provide user support for application developers and end-users to develop and run new DCI applications based on the developed gateways

4. To develop business models that guarantee the sustainability of the gateway services developed in the project to enable the commercial exploitation of the developed technologies

Main goals of SCI-BUS (2)

The gateway services will enable unified access to all the major DCI infrastructures used in Europe:• Local and remote clusters accessed by

queuing systems (PBS, LSF, Condor, SGE)• Local and remote supercomputers• Local and volunteer DGs (BOINC,

XtremWeb, OurGrid)• Grids (ARC, gLite, Globus, UNICORE)• Academic Public and Private Clouds

(OpenNebula, Eucalyptus, etc.)• Public Commercial Clouds (Amazon EC2,

IBM Cloud, etc.)

Architecture goals

Build and operate several application-specific gateways for various user communities:

• International seismology community • Helio-physics community• Swiss systems biology community of the SystemsX.ch project• German MoSGrid computational chemistry and bioinformatics

community • Biomedical researchers community of the Academic Medical Centre

of the University of Amsterdam• Astrophysics community• PireGrid SMEs community• Business process modelling community involving a wide range of

areas such as finance, healthcare, government, production, robotics and emergency

• Blender rendering community• Citizen web-2 community• Public application developer community

Community support goals

SCI-BUS and subcontractors

• We plan to bring 6 subcontractors into the project by an open call (you are kindly invited to submit proposal)

• The goal of bringing subcontractors into the project:– To support communities not covered by the current

consortium– To validate the ASM API and the customization

methodology– To get more feedback from user communities– To increase the number of customized gateways– To increase the number of portlets in the Portlet

Repository– To increase the number of applications in the Application

Repository– To increase the overall impact of the project

• Selection criteria:– Size of the community– Impact of the application– Engagement in the dissemination activities of SCI-BUS

SCI-BUS and interested communities

• The gateway customization technology will be provided for user communities in order to create their own user-specific gateways

• User communities who already expressed their interest to use the SCI-BUS services:No. Project/Initiative/Community

1 Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre

2 SystemsX.ch

3 Turkish Research and Business Organisations

4 Rudjer Boskovic Institute on behalf of National Virtual Organization AdriaMeteo

5 Blender Foundation

6 European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre

7 Kandilli Institute, as a partner of EPOS

8 Swiss Multi Science Computing Grid project

9 MoSGrid project

SCI-BUS and NGIs

• The generic purpose gateway technology will be provided for NGIs to support individual users in accessing DCIs

• NGIs who already expressed their interest to use the SCI-BUS services:

1 Croatian NGI

2 Malaysia NGI

3 BIG Grid

4 Turkish NGI

5 Slovak NGI

6 Swiss National Grid Association

7 Italian NGI

8 Bulgarian NGI

9 Grid-Ireland

10 Armenian NGI

11 German NGI

SCI-BUS gateways, repositories and

communities

SCI-BUSGeneric-Purposegateway

ELI EPOS MoSGrid BioGrid

Blender ETICS e-Group SimSoft

AMChospital

PireGrid

SHIWAWF

repository

EGI/EDGIAppl.

repositories

SCI-BUSAppl.

repositoryHU

UK

D

TU

B

CH

RO

IR

SP

NGI Gateways LiferayPortlet

repository

SimSoft

Customized gateways

SCI-BUS user scenarios

PortletsRepository

PortletsRepository

ApplicationsRepository

ApplicationsRepository

fMRI fMRI

MRI simulatorMRI simulator

SequencingSequencing

….….

NonLinSyst simulatorNonLinSyst simulator

SCI-BUSGeneric

Framework based on WS-PGRADE and

Liferay

SCI-BUSGeneric

Framework based on WS-PGRADE and

Liferay

ApplicationDeveloper

PortletDeveloper

GatewayDeveloper

SCI-BUSGeneric

Framework

SCI-BUSGeneric

Framework

PortletPortlet PortletPortlet PortletPortlet

Application Application

Application Application

DCIDCI

DCIDCIDCIDCI

Custom Gateway

Scientist

GatewayOperator

Data transferData transfer

ProfileProfile

MonitoringMonitoring

FunctionFunctionWorkflowWorkflow

Job submissionJob submission

….….

WorkflowWorkflow

Template ATemplate A

Data managementData management

PortletPortlet

FunctionFunction

FunctionFunction

Conclusions

• SCI-BUS will provide a generic purpose gateway technology based on WS-PGRADE

• The gateway will be integrated with CloudBroker to provide access to the major scientific and commercial clouds

• SCI-BUS will develop customization methodology by which at least 17 user-specific gateways will be created

• SCI-BUS will collaborate with other EU projects and communities to provide services for the broadest possible user communities