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EARNEST and the e-IRG
Lajos BÁLINT
<[email protected]>
EARNEST WS, 23-24.05.2006
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About this presentation
Basic goal: input to the EARNEST study wrt. e-IRG
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from RN viewpoint
basic issues rather than history
somewhat subjective (provoking?)
advise EARNEST directly (+ e-IRG indirectly)
Why e-IRG?
• influential advisory role assumed !
( + coordination ? )
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Outline
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EARNEST background
what is e-IRG
e-IRG coverage
e-IRG and EARNEST
corollaries / suggestions
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EARNEST – considerable background
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SERENATE (NRENs / TERENA)
GN2 JRA1...5 (NRENs / Consortium + DANTE)
ENPG (delegated govt. + NREN representatives)
e-IRG (delegated govt. + NREN + project reps.)
others (EC invites NREN + project reps./individuals)
(ESFRI – the wider embedding [served by e-IRG])
Common goal: e-Infrastructures  e-Science  ERA
Briefly outlined here:
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Parallel efforts – different roles
EARNEST: a project within GN2 for
investigating research networking and
preparing the next RN generation (  NRENs, ...)
- bottom-up, more technical-organisational
- looking mainly for what is possible
e-IRG:
an advisory body in the area of
building the future e-Infrastructure (  EC, ...)
- top-down, more political-strategic
- looking mainly for what is desirable
EARNEST + e-IRG: possibilities vs. desires  realities (?)
Practice: work is/will be done by the NRENs + DANTE (NGIs + ...)!
Role of the EC (priorities): catalysis + orchestration + balancing
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What is e-IRG?
• Definition (web, 2005):
High level coordination of e-Infrastructure development for
eScience
• Mission (10 December 2003, Rome):
Monitoring & advising (political/administrative) in
shared use of e-resources
• Objectives:
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identification of resources
recommendation of policies
focusing on applications (users / domains)
increasing awareness of opportunities
addressing governance issues in resource deployment
drawing on NREN community experiences
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What is e-IRG?
(cont’d)
”... support on the political, advisory, and monitoring level, the
creation of a policy and administrative framework for the
easy and cost-effective shared use of electronic resources”
”... develop a roadmap for the e-Infrastructures for FP7 and
beyond and support the ESFRI in the process of the
development of a priority list and a roadmap for new
Research Infrastructures”
Structure / operation:
– Delegated members – troika
– Closed meetings and open workshops
– White papers – Opportunities lists – Roadmaps + Sustainability ...
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The e-IRG coverage
– Past: emphasis on grids (coordination ...)
– Present: widening scope (network – Grid – archives)
– Future: balanced coverage of e-Infrastructure issues (?)
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(cont’d)
The e-IRG coverage
Covered topics (revisit?):
– The network: national/European/global (connectivity – QoS IP & BoD)
– The e-Infrastructure resources (availability, accessibility + coord/mgmt)
[sense – process/compute (incl.HPC) – store – actuate ( + data)]
– Applications and users (technical / admin / usage support / ease of use)
[grids (Grid framework) – coord/mgmt – helping/advising/training]
– Federated AAAI (security for dependability + accountability for fairness)
– AUP (acceptability of use – key of integrated/shared usage)
– Virtual repositories – digital archives (collections of curated resources)
– An organisation (?) (oriented to the application framework?)
(consortium + coord/QoS operational unit?) [NGIs vs. NRENs ...?]
– Involvement of the industry (integrated user & partner)
+ Sustainability (political – legal – technical – financial – operational ...)
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The e-IRG Roadmap
• EC request (2004):
Strategic Roadmap for e-Infrastructure (10-20 years)
• Goal: e-Infrastructure to well support the ERA
(in parallel: ESFRI Roadmaps)
• Method: Opportunities List  Roadmap 2005 (2006/07)
e-IRG Roadmap v0.9: main points (RN + MW + resources + co-op):
• global end to end hybrid networking
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• middleware repositories
• SW life cycle management
• open standards
• training and support
• grid resource provision
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• supercomputers
• storage facilities
• data for the grid
• sensors
• grid-enabled instruments
• new technologies
-------------------------------------------------• collaboration tools
• co-operation with industry
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e-IRG as related to EARNEST
• Different role / framework
• Overlapping coverage
• Possibility of separating the coverage + co-operating:
– EARNEST:
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– e-IRG:
network technology
network architecture
geographic coverage
org.structure (network)
network user communities
application demand analysis
involvement of telcos
sustainability (network level)
• e-resources
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repositories/archives
disciplinary coverage
org.structure (applications)
appl.user communities
network supply analysis
involvement of industry
sustainability (appl.level)
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The dilemmas for both EARNEST and e-IRG
• Several failed earlier foresights (X.25, ATM, early 100 Gbps ...)
• Timeframe of foresight / roadmapping (vs. FP7 calendar)
• Widening spectrum of options (technology, architecture...)
• Revolution (new gen.) vs. evolution (consolidation) periods
• Sustainability (multiple conditions – digital divide)
• EC (FP7) budget (late decisions – how to adapt)
• Necessity of EC support
(motivating co-operation and national funding)
• Different views on EC financing
(arguments for both minor and major increase)
• FP6 RN budget: 0,5 % of total FP6 budget goes to GN2 – what in FP7?
(cf. 50% rule + rule of only international connectivity)
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The timeframe
Timings of the RNs 6,7,8. generations (GEANT-1,2,3):
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Preparing GN-i starts:
Proposal submitted:
Tendering starts:
Project officially starts:
New network completed:
GEANT-1
GEANT-2
GEANT-3
early 99
late 99
early 00
fall 00
fall 01
late 02
fall 03
early 04
fall 04
mid-06
fall 06
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fall 07
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early 07 (?)
fall 08
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late 10 (??)
Full time from start to finish: 2,5 years
3,5 years 4,5 years (?)
– Final e-IRG Roadmap is due in 2007 (?)
– EARNEST final report is due in 2007 (late Summer)
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EARNEST and e-IRG: a summary
• Lessons learnt:
– overlapping requires co-operation
(coverage to be agreed)
– lack of integrating the efforts  lower efficiency
(efforts to be joined)
– lack of matching approaches  mess of messages
(approaches to be harmonised)
– lack of balanced emphasis  distorted view of needs
(balanced view to be attained)
– lack of elevated EC funding (FP7 wrt. FP6)  losing impetus
(annual FP7 funds to be considerably elevated)
Sustainability is a common key goal!
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EARNEST and e-IRG: a summary
(cont’d)
• EC funding (FP6  FP7): some important aspects:
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new topics in e-Infrastructure (RN, Grid, testbeds, libraries, research...)
general political importance of the field increases
seamless pan-European end-to-end connectivity needed
geographical coverage of the pan-European network widening
digital divide to be narrowed
testing, piloting and introducing new technologies/services needed
access and campus networks to be developed
development of global connectivity to be intensified
increase of national funding to be motivated by the level of EC support
cohesive role of EU funding to be kept/strengthened
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EARNEST and e-IRG: a summary
(cont’d)
• Summary – suggestions to EARNEST:
(also a message to e-IRG + a model for other EARNEST ”backgrounds”)
– Complementarity and collaboration (+ Competition?)
(keep contact, exchange ideas, share coverage + keep key role)
– Different roles: deliver differently: - EARNEST  NRENs (+ EC)
- e-IRG
 EC (+ NRENs)
– Don’t waste time – deliver asap!
– Put emphasis on: - role of NRENs / TERENA / DANTE (NIGs / ...)
- importance of demand-supply balance
- necessity of bidirectional flow of information
- significance of handling complex sustainability
– Increase of annual EC (FP7) support (>50%) to be well reasoned!
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