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Grid Initiatives for e-Science virtual communities in Europe and Latin America

A Sustainable future is in the hands of CLARA and the Latin American NRENs

Roberto Barbera (Univ. of Catania and INFN)

on behalf of Luis Nuñez (RedCLARA)

ISGC’ 2012, 26th February to 02nd March 2012 Taipei (Taiwan)

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Outline

• Latin America/CLARA Specificities

• The GISELA business strategy

• Actions

• Conclusions

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Latin America/CLARA Specificities

• A non-profit organisation with 15 National Research and Education Networks (NRENs)

• With diversity of technical skills and maturity of local scientific communities of its members

• The Brazilian and Venezuelan NRENs are the only ones that have structural governmental support

• The rest of the LA countries have built their NRENs with the support of their members, charging them for operations and services

• For the rest of LA countries several different organisational schemes can be found, sometimes involving also the private sector

• Mature

• Developing

• Starting

CLARA has to find the most efficient way to operate infrastructures with a minimum budget and a maximum benefit for its members

Gov. Supported

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GISELA 34 production applications inherited from EELA / EELA-2 represent potential communities

• 18 Resources Centres provide skilful personnel to support and develop services in the region

• 435 trained users / 73 inst.• 1794 cores platform• Operation 24/7 EELA

--01/01/2006

--31/12/2007

GISELA

--31/08/2012

--01/09/2010

EELA-2

--01/04/2008

--31/03/2010

e-Infrastructure

inherited from EELA and EELA2 projects

The evolution …

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Current CLARA Services : Connectivity + Communication+ Content

GISELA triggered the first Advanced

Computing Service !

• Webconference (VCEspresso)• Videoconference (SIVIC)• Content Management (DSpace)• E-Learning System (Moodle)• Video on Demand (CLARAVe)• Web 2.0: Wikis, Blogs• Researchers/Funding

opportunities/Partner search• News, Agenda, etc

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Generic business models…

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… and the GISELA implementation

Competitiveness w.r.t.

commercial providers

CLARA

NRENs

Resource

Centres (RC)

International

dimension

Domain

specific

applications

e-Research

e-Infrastruc-

ture and

applications

as a service

SGs

and

IdFs

Fostering

e-Science

Knowledge

Dissemi-

nation

User supp.EU and LA

research

groups

e-Infrastructure pay per use

back to the RCs

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Sustainability Recipe

• Take a look around and identify all products you can offer. Thinking out of the box, exploits those services based on your most competitive skills

• Wrap out all your products in a incremental model• Simplify the service deliver methodology– Aiming to the widest group of users– Making • Do your math to evaluate your cost and to explain

the way you did your math• Be competitive but also solidary leaving spaces

for those who can not afford the services• Workout a marketing plan to reach users

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Grid Services Replicating Networking Services

• In CLARA’s network activities a Regional Network Operation Centre (RNOC) catches the functions of the countries that have no domestic NOC

• When domestic network infrastructures grow, the NRENs are going to be able to install their own NOC

• Once this happens, the RNOC will transfer the domestic networking functions to the NOC that has been installed

• CLARA auctions, among its members NRENs the operation of the regional NOC every four years

• The Grid pioneer Infrastructure could follow the same model

• Those countries that can support the creation of a GOC (Grid Operation Centre) will have one, and those who cannot afford it or are not mature enough to create one, can use the Regional Grid Operation Centre (GSC)

• Domestic GOCs are responsible for their domestic services and interact with the ROC when services have a regional scope

• Those countries without a GOC, will use the ROC for domestic functions in their country.

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CLARA Advanced Computing Services

• Adv. Comp. (AC) Expertise Transfer. Technical Consulting to assist in house applications– Customising an existing application to profit the existing Adv. Comp. e-Infrastructure– Developing in house new applications required by the customer organisation

(Research, Industry or NREN)

• SDK/SourceFourge Training To increase the awareness on the AC environments

• Wizard for basic applications. Allows the less expert users and/or NREN to install their applications

• Federated Authentication Resources. Grant authorized access to use the federated resources at a continental scale

• Application Shelf Service: Application Shelf Allows users, industrial partner and/or NREN to contract computing resources

• Virtual Resources Grid Allocation. Virtual services e-Infrastructure, such as:– Allocation of AC resources allowing the member institutions to configure AC environments

(cores/storage/network provisioning) and elements needed to execute their applications– Running Services records, tracking the processes submitted to the e-infrastructure

• Data Preservation Services. Offer the possibility to store their data for a period of time

• Training and Capacity Building Service. To increases the usage and the culture of Advanced Computing Services by providing people the information and the skills needed to access the AC Services

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CLARA Grid VRC Organisational Model

NOC

Regional NOC+NOC

NOC

NETWORK MANAGER (NSC)

CLARA

Country LA–1

REUNA

Country LA–2

Country LA–N

GOC

GOC

Regional GOC+GOC

NGI or EDGS

NGI or EDGS

NGI or EDGS

APPLICATIONS MANAGER

Grid Community Coordinator

Complex Model

Cooperative Broker Model

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A Regional Cooperative Solution Offers

User

Grid

ScienceGatewa

y

Authentication

Cloud

Virtual Instruments

Virtual Servers

Commercial

Providers

• On demand resources (Hardware, Software & Manware) from the research groups to the research groups

• High bandwidth and low latency from the Experimental academic advanced Networks

• Replicating other services in the RedCLARA Operational Structure

• Added value to the existent infrastructure

• Better use of the existent computational infrastructure and expertise from different countries

• Promoting local middleware solutions better suited for the region

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Science Gateway Service Centric Model

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VRC Check Service

Description

RedCLARA

RC

Submit

Service

Request

Consult the

Advance Computing

Resources Available

Find the

Suitable

Resources

Send the VR

availability

Shows Budget

Login &

Send Data

Data

Processing

Accept

Budget

OUT

Elaborates

contract

Register

and login

Virtual Resource on demand

2

Yes

Data

Storage

Consult

Data

Read

Data

Display

Basic View

Grid

ScienceGateway

Developer

Administrator

Autentication

User

Cloud

Virtual Instruments

Virtual Servers

CLARA Grid-VRC Support ModelScience Gateway Centric Model

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Regional Competitive Solution

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Business Model Parameters RC Profit Margin % 300%RedCLARA Profit Margin 60%% RedCLARA Capacity 30%Max-Cores- GISELA Capacity 1794MAX-Cores-RedCLARA Capacity 538Max Num days/year (80% UpTime) 292Hours per day 24 RedCLARA Price € 0.17

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Two Examples of RC Costs (€)

RC costs (736 Cores – UFRJ - Brazil)

Computing Power; Monthly power consumption: 2,737

Storage; Monthly power consumption: 115.

Air conditioning Monthly power consumption: 555

Manpower (1 FTE) 2,100

Depreciation by month (based on 20% of the value of the equipment in 5 years) 4,666

Maintenance (after the warranty period) 4% of the total hardware value (wild guess) estimated per year to be spent on hardware maintenance 933

Grand total for 736 core per month 11,106

Total cost per Core . Month 15

Total cost per Core . Day 0.63

Total cost per Core . Hour 0.03

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Operation Evolution

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SERVUCTION & Operational Profit

• First and Second year of operation after GISELA end (31/08/2012 →)

• ½ FTE for administrative purposes as contracts, bills and expenditures

• ½ FTE for technical support

• 1 FTE fore marketing and sales

• Third year (1 FTE - Administrative, 1 FTE - Technical, and 1 FTE – sales) Fix

ed

Costs

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Business Model Supported by 3 Actions

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Science Gateway Technical Capacities

Funding sources

from S&T Agencies

Marketing towards VRC/User

Communties

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Action Plan (1/3)

Raise awareness, sensitize and inform on the different opportunities of the Advanced Services• Sensitizing and informing research communities of the opportunities

that Advanced Services could bring to their environment– Organize Virtual Days on Technology and the Community– Organize courses and competencies for students who have applications

of general use– Document the existing applications of the GISElA Science Gateway, by

creating tutorials to ease the use and appropriation.• Raise awareness, sensitize and inform the decision makers of S & T

and the Directors of the National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) on the opportunities that Advanced Computing Services could bring to Science and Technology– Interviews with Latin American high authorities of decision makers in

Science and Technology. CLARA’s Academic Manager is coordinating interviews with decision makers (Ministers, Directors and General Secretaries) of S&T in the LA region

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Action Plan(2/3)

Identify the real needs of Advanced Computing Services by research communities. It is necessary to understand real needs of advanced computing services in the LA region. The communities need to produce a positive social impact in their research results in order to attract the S&T decision makers’ and NRENs Directors’ attention• Identify communities that produce research results with high positive social

impact as potential users of advanced computing services• Identify “ambassadors” of each community to conduct a series of actions to

first understand the communities’ needs and then to induce the communities into advanced computing services

 Increase technical potentialities and capacities of the GISELA Science Gateway to provide an easy and friendly interface that can be used to access different web services through different platforms

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Action Plan (3/3)

Train research communities so they adopt the GISELA Science Gateway into their daily research. Communities need to be able to build and maintain their own portals and include all the applications they need to develop research projects• Creation of a Task Force (in collaboration with EPIKH) to implement and give technical

support to applications running in the GISELA Science Gateway environment.– Deploy applications of communities with social impact: seismology and climate– Install Identity Federation Systems in at least two countries of the Latin American region– Document extensively the processes of adaptation and configuration of the GISELA

Science Gateway– Redefine the web interface and usability of the portal

• Create on line and detailed technical documentation to have a permanent reference for the Task Force professionals and local technical representatives of the different institutions involved in the e-infrastructure and resource centers.

• Create a AuthN &AuthZ Infrastructure (AAI) in Latin America based on federated indentity services, "cloning & adapting" the existing "catch all" services developed at INFN Catania

• Update of the CP/CPS documents of the Certification Authorities established in Latin America to allow them issue "robot certificates" that are necessary for the GISELA Science Gateway

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Conclusions (1/2)

• The service architecture based on GISELA SG centric model includes all possible services to be offered by RedCLARA

• The cooperative shared cost broker model is economically viable and competitive with the present commercial offer

• It has been validated with the

– Directors on NRENs at the RedCLARA Assembly (Oct 27th, 2011) Need to be explained to the S&T Agencies Need to be aligned with National Initiatives Good idea: 30% National capacity to be share regional + Funds for RC Need to be related with other EU projects (RISC, CHAIN, ProIdeal)

– Application Committee (Nov 18th, 2011) Need to allow the possibility to “credit cores” for research projects Need to allow possibility to offer 5% financed resources for good

proposals with no funding opportunities

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Conclusions (2/2)

• RedCLARA Assembly (Nov 10th, 2011) and RedCLARA Board Meeting (Dec 2nd , 2011) recommended to:

– Evaluate the cost/performance of the GISELA e-Infrastructure– Convince two or three candidates to start/test the model– Look for funding for the test period (~2 years)

• Develop a LA Call for a Science Gateway Task Force

– Training at LA and EU technical people from VE, CO, PE, MX, EC– F2F meeting and workshop at the Joint GISELA-CHAIN Conference

• Aggressive plan to interact with LA Science & Technology Agencies (AR, CL, MX, PE, EC, CO, VE)

• Marketing strategy aiming to VRC and ComCLARA Communities

• CLARA Market Study for Cloud Services for standard computing services

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