Www.epikh.eu The EPIKH Project (Exchange Programme to advance e-Infrastructure Know-How) The EPIKH Project Roberto Barbera ([email protected])[email protected].

www.epikh.eu

The EPIKH Project(Exchange Programme to advance e-Infrastructure Know-How)

The EPIKH Project

Roberto Barbera ([email protected])

University of Catania and INFN

EUMEDGRID-Support Kick-off Meeting

Cairo, 26.01.2010

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Cairo, EUMEDGRID-Support Kick-off Meeting, 26.01.2010 2

Outline

• Background and concepts

• The EPIKH project

• The GILDA t-Infrastructure– Educational formats and services

• EPIKH training activities with GILDA

• Conclusions


Computationally intensive research


Computationally intensive research


e-Science

Virtual Organisations

• Applications• Data• Instruments

e-Infrastructuree-Infrastructure


World digital inclusion (www.maplecroft.com)


The Global Network


The Global Grid

EELA

OSG

TeraGrid

NAREGIEUMedGrid

BalticGrid

SEE-Grid

EUIndiaGrid

EUAsiaGrid

EUChinaGrid

DEISA

EGEE


The Triangle of Knowledge

Research & Development

InnovationEducation & Training

Building e-Infrastructures is a waste if we don’t “build”, at the same time, their users.

Along with e-Infrastructures, t-Infrastructures and training programmes are also needed.

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t-Infrastructuret-Infrastructure


The EPIKH Project (www.epikh.eu)

• “Exchange Programme to advance e-Infrastructure Know-How” (EPIKH)– EU FP7- Marie Curie Actions – People - International Research Staff

Exchange Scheme (IRSES)

• Consortium “numbers”:– 23 partners;– 18 countries;– 4 continents (Africa,

Latin America, Asia, Europe);– 115 persons involved;– >650 researcher-months;– >500 secondments;

• Duration: March, 1, 2009 – February, 28, 2013 (48 months)• EC contribution: 1,188,000 €


The EPIKH Partners

Partners in common with EUMEDGRID-Support


The EPIKH goals• Strategic aims:

– Reinforce the impact of e-Infrastructures in scientific research defining and delivering stimulating programme of educational events, including Grid Schools and High Performance Computing courses;

– Broaden the engagement in e-Science activities and collaborations both geographically and across disciplines.

• Specific actions:– Spreading the knowledge about the “Grid Paradigm” to all potential users:

both system administrators and application developers through an extensive training programme;

– Easing the access of the trained people to the e-Infrastructures existing in the areas of action of the project;

– Fostering the establishment of scientific collaborations among the countries/continents involved in the project.


EPIKH secondments’ programme

1st Phase:

Non-EU → EU(selected)

Res. Programs

2nd Phase:

EU → Non-EUGrid Schools

(with 1st phase tutors)

Workshops


EPIKH Quality & Certification Programme

• All seconded people must be officially selected against their CVs;

• All Non-EU→EU secondments must have a Research Program agreed between “sending” and “accepting” organisations;

• All secondments must have final reports both from the seconded person and the “accepting” organisation– If both reports will be successfull

the seconded person will be provided with an official certificatecertificate


EPIKH on the web

www.epikh.eu

wiki.epikh.eu

documents.epikh.eu

agenda.epikh.eu


Grants and applications(wiki.epikh.eu)

The call for applications is already open !


GILDA: the “de facto” standard EPIKH t-Infrastructure

GILDA: Grid INFN Laboratory for Dissemination Activities

https://gilda.ct.infn.it

GILDA is a complete Grid production quality infrastructure

fully devoted to demonstrate/disseminate Grid computing

GILDA is an international effort funded by multiple sources

GILDA is adopted by several Grid projects worldwide

It runs the latest version of the gLite middleware and

support other middleware such as Condor, Globus,

OurGrid, UNICORE, etc.

Using GILDA is free of charge


The GILDA “island” on GridMap(gridmap.cern.ch/gm/#topo=gilda&layout=tc&vo=OPS&serv=Site&sitenames)

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The GILDA formats and services (https://gilda.ct.infn.it)

• Training on Grid– Tutorial for Users– Tutorial for Site Admin– Grid Schools– Tutorial for Trainers/Customized events– University courses (Degree, Ms.C, Ph.D, etc.)– Training materials: Wiki pages, Printable Documentation, Demos, Videos,

etc.• Grid Application development

– Support to Grid application development– Deployment of the applications into the GENIUS and P-GRADE grid portals– GILDA Ticketing support system

• Infrastructure– GILDA CA– GILDA VOMS– Creation of pilot test-beds: EELA, EUMED, EUCHINA, EUINDIA, SAGRID,

etc.– Testing and development on new available gLite services– Dedicated Software repository/Virtual services (INFN Grid)– Monitoring (GStat, SAM, GridMap, etc. )

Remote site installationSuccessfully tested in Mexico and MalaysiaWe’ll do it in Cairo in May 2010

Remote site installationSuccessfully tested in Mexico and MalaysiaWe’ll do it in Cairo in May 2010


Users’ assistance provided by GILDA

• Training material– Wiki page– Video tutorials– Step by step instructions

• GILDA Forge

• Support system


GILDA “numbers” so far

>1000 users registeredin the GILDA VO

>14,000 certificates issued since 2004.More than 30% renewed at least once.

>410 tutorials in 56 countries since 2004.

Up to 6 at the same time!

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Grid Training done in Africa with GILDA (in the last 2 years)

EELA-2 Grid tutorialLilongwe (Malawi) – 13.11.08

2nd SAGrid Workshop & TutorialDurban – 11-13.12.08

HP/UNESCO/EGEE Grid tutorialJohannesburg – 28-29.03.08

1st SAGrid Workshop & TutorialCape Town – 25.07.08 01.08.08

About 120 people trained on e-Infrastructure

from Algeria, Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi,

Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania,

Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Zambia, and Zimbabwe


EPIKH training activities with GILDA(1/2)

1-week tutorials for site administrators (with remote installations)


Grid Schools 2 entire weeks devoted to applications’ “gridification”call for applications widely open

Eight 1-month Grid & HPC schools

and related thematic workshops

foreseen in Africa in the period 2009-2012!

EPIKH training activities with GILDA(2/2)


Applications’ “virtuous cycle”

Dissemination Training events

“Gridification”Deployment on largeInfrastructures and

inclusion in the portfolio of demonstrative applications


Examples of GILDA “demonstrative” applications

RASTER-3D

DEM-2-VRML

GATE

ASTRA


EPIKH and EUMEDGRID-SupportEUMEDGRID-Support Applications Lifecycle

EPIKH and EUMEDGRID-Support have 6 Partners in common


Conclusions• EUMEDGRID-Support scientific communities can greatly

benefit from EPIKH and use GILDA to “gridify” and run applications of local interest;

• EPIKH can represents for young brilliant scientists and technologists a unique occasion to learn and adopt the Grid paradigm through stimulating research programmes;

• Thanks to EPIKH activities, EUMED Organisations can setup “clones” of GILDA locally to implement campus grids or even nation-wide e-infrastructures (good examples are already existing both in South Africa and Cuba);

• EPIKH/GILDA can offer free technical support for anyone willing to organize local training events on Grid computing:– It can be undergraduate courses, M.Sc. courses, Ph.D. curricula,

tutorials, Grid Schools, etc.


Thank you very much ! Any questions ?


Useful bookmarks

EPIKH home page

–http://www.epikh.euGILDA home page

–https://gilda.ct.infn.itGILDA Support System– http://gilda-support.ct.infn.it

GILDA Form for tutorial bookings– http://gilda-support.ct.infn.it

GILDA Repository of Training Material– https://grid.ct.infn.it/twiki/bin/view/GILDA/WebHome

ICEAGE Library– http://www.iceage-eu.org/library

GILDA Virtual Services– https://gilda.ct.infn.it/VirtualServices.html

Www.epikh.eu The EPIKH Project (Exchange Programme to advance e-Infrastructure Know-How) The EPIKH Project Roberto Barbera ([email protected])[email protected].

Documents

eumedgridsupport slide

tools slide

intensive research slide

epikh secondments programme

global network slide

official certificate

grid tutorial

free of charge slide