The Developing Needs for e-infrastructures

Joint Information Systems Committee

The Developing Needs for e-infrastructuresProfessor John Wood, Chair, JISC Committee for the Support of Research


The European ELT

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Estimated construction cost850 M€

First open access foreseen 2018

• highest priorities in ground-based astronomy• detailed studies of inter alia planets around other stars, the first objects in the Universe, super-massive Black Holes, and the nature and distribution of the Dark Matter and Dark Energy which dominate the Universe• maintain and reinforce Europe’s position at the forefront of astrophysical research.

www.eso.org/projects/e-elt


FAIR

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Estimated construction cost

1186 M€

First open access foreseen

2014

• high energy primary and secondary beams of ions of highest intensity and quality•including an “antimatter beam” of antiprotons allowing forefront research •experiments with primary beams of ion masses up to Uranium and the production of a broad range of radioactive ion beams.

www.gsi.de/fair/index_e.html


KM3NET

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Estimated construction cost

220-250 M€


2015

•deep-sea research infrastructure in the Mediterranean Sea• cubic-kilometre sized deep‑sea neutrino telescope for astronomy • detection of high-energy cosmic neutrinos• long-term deep-sea measurements.

www.km3net.org


SKA

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1150 M€


2014-2020

• Square Kilometre Array • next generation radio telescope• 50 times more sensitive than current facilities• survey the sky more than 10,000 times faster than any existing radio telescope.

www.skatelescope.org


ESFRI and e-IRG: EU-HPC

Estimated construction cost550 M€

First open access foreseen 2007

New generation of Capability (high-performance) and Capacity Computing (high‑throughput) top-level machines

• Scientific computing network to be set-up at European level associated with national, regional and local centres

• Different machine architectures will fulfil the requirements of different scientific domains and applications

www.hpcineuropetaskforce.eu


Global Dimension

Several of the projects on the Roadmap require a global approach.

Discussions are taking place on how the EU can act with one voice

A Forum for decision making is urgently needed. Carnegie meeting agreed to regular meeting of science ministers

Major player are Australia, Japan, Russia, South Africa, USA, China, India


Lessons learnt from first ESFRI Roadmap

Many countries were not ready for the Roadmap

– No national strategy for infrastructures in respective fields

– Lack of information

Remarkable differences between research fields

– Higher level of coordination in Physics

– Pan-European coordination of infrastructures in other fields not common

Triggering effect of the ESFRI Roadmap

– ESFRI stimulated many countries to start the process of national prioritisation

– High demand for Europe-wide accessible infrastructure


Implementation

Where are we with the implementation of the

Roadmap 2006:

- Preparatory phase from FP7

- Member States discussion on all the projects

- Some project in advanced state of implementation:

the example of XFEL

The update of the Roadmap has started since not all fields

were covered.


– Update and addendum of first Roadmap

– Assessment of maturity of Emerging Proposals

– Identification of further important research infrastructures

The ESFRI Roadmap is an ongoing process


ESFRI – The Forum

Chair: John Wood (Carlo Rizzuto, March 2008)

(+ 60 Representatives)

Executive Board

Chair + EC + 3 elected ESFRI-Members

ESFRI Secretariat (EC)

Hervé Pero (Executive Secretary)

RWG-PSE

Chair:Jørgen Kristian Kjems

RWG-BMS

Chair: Eckhart Curtius

RWG-SSH

Chair: Bjorn Henrichsen

ESFRI Structure

RWG-ENV

Chair: Eeva Ikonen

e-IWG

Chair: DanyVandromme


The necessity for e-science

e-science is about inventing and exploiting new advanced computational methods to:

–create a new approach to shared research between groups and facilities

–generate, curate and analyze data

–link publications to data

–develop and explore models and simulations at an unprecedented scale and to use simulations to run experiments

–help the set-up of distributed virtual organizations to ease collaboration and sharing of resources and information and the remote operation of facilities


Who are the users today?

Research communities in urgent need for new advanced methods because they face unprecedented computational challenges

– Example High Energy Physics

• LHC

• Neutrino Mass

• Gravitational Waves

Research communities foreseeing the need for new advanced computational methods because of new major projects

• Example: fusion (ITER)

Other research communities - a hollistic approach

• Geophysics

• Condensed Matter

• Meteorology

• Energy


The early adopters: HEP

The High Energy Physics was the first research community to adopt globally the grid paradigm for data collection and analysis

– High Energy Physics adopted grids for LHC to handle the unprecedented volume of data produced

– Highly structured community acting as “Guinea pig”

– High Energy Physics is the n°1 user of e-infrastructures around the world

– 99.9% of the data from Atlas has to be removed in the first few microseconds to avoid web overload!!


• Progress towards the LHC at CERN - first beam this year!

Particle Physics


Looking forward - the LHC at CERN

ATLAS tracker at RAL

CMS

CMS calorimeter crystal

LHC computing at RAL

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Invented at RAL

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Achievements in High Energy Physics

the example of EGEE

(Enabling Grids for E-sciencE)

–~50K jobs/day

–> 10K simultaneous jobs during prolonged periods

–Reliable data distribution service demonstrated at 1.6 GB/sec from CERN to LHC Computing Grid national nodes

Last month, running jobs for the whole Grid

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EGEE Grid


Meteorology (1)


Reaching the critical mass

Many research communities are trying the Grid

– Very positive experience within EGEE application sector

– Slow transition from pilot application to scientific production

A critical mass is needed to move from pilot applications to scientific production

– Critical mass of scientists: dissemination in the research community to reach beyond pioneers

– Critical mass of resources: large enough virtual organization

– Critical mass of grid expertise

Beside geographic extensions of the infrastructures, need for community oriented infrastructure projects:


Big Issues

Data DelugeCuration and ProvenanceInteroperabilityMulti-disciplinarity of research Linking of publications to dataWhat is coming up – “Tower of Babel” or “Nations

Speaking unto Nations.” – the need for International Strategies


The sun imaged with neutrinos(by the SuperK experiment)

SNO detector

Oscillations Confirmed by MINOS in 2006

SuperKamiokande and SNO open a new world of neutrino oscillations:

discovery that neutrinos have tiny masses and mix

Neutrino discovery timeline

The new world of neutrino physics


Explore CP violation: origin of matter in the universe?

Neutrino Factory

international scoping study design study

RAL is one credible site

T2K at J-PARC - starts 2009

A strong role in detector and accelerator development and in physics analysis

Looking forward - Neutrino Physics

MICE at RAL - installing now

Demonstrate cooling a muon beam

Technology demonstration

Learn more about neutrino mixing angles

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