1. EGI
EGI
A Foundation for Compute and Data
Intensive Research
Per Öster
EGI Council
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2. What is a Grid?
• A grid consists of distributed resources
controlled by separate organisations that be
systematically used securely by users
external to that organisation
• Resources can include:
– Commodity or HPC clusters
– Disk and tape storage
– Instruments
– Data Archives and Digital Libraries
– i.e. any resources on internet
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3. EGI
The EGI Model
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4. EGI
Collaboration
Research
Community
Research Research
Community Community
NGI:
Na'onal
Grid
Ini'a've
EIRO:
European
Intergovernmental
Research
Organisa'on
(e.g.
CERN,
EMBL,
ESA,
…)
E E
N I N N I N
G R G G R G
I O I EGI.eu I O I
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5. EGI.eu
• Coordination for European Grid resources
– Established February 8th 2010
– Central policy & services
needed to run a grid
– Sustainable small
coordinating organisation EGI.eu Executive Board
• Based in Amsterdam
– Coordinating core (~20 people) in Amsterdam
– Technical services from partners (~20 people)
EGI and EGI.eu: Supported by the EGI-InSPIRE project
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6. EGI.eu Governance
• EGI.eu established as non-profit foundation
• Governance & ownership by its participants
– Participants:
• European NGIs
– Associated participants:
• Organizations aligned with EGI.eu’s objectives
– EIROS, non-eligible NGIs,…
• EGI Council contains all participants
– Votes linked to financial contributions
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7. EGI Council
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8. EGI Objectives
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9. EGI Governance
Statutes
Policy
EGI
Council
Terms
of
Reference
EGI.eu
Execu've
Board
Terms
of
Reference
(ToR)
Technology
Security
Opera'ons
Users
Policy
Development
Process
Technical
Security
Opera'ons
User
(PDP)
Coordina'on
Coordina'on
Management
Community
Board
Group
Board
Board
Common
Glossary
(GCG)
hLp://www.egi.eu/policy/groups/
hLp://go.egi.eu/policies_and_procedures
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10. EGI Ecosystem
Policies +
Funding
User
Community
Services +
Support
Requirements +
Feedback
Requirements +
Service
&
Resource
Feedback
Policies +
Providers
Funding Requirements +
European
Technology
Providers
EGI.eu
Feedback
Commission
Open
Source
Resource
Providers
Na'onal
Research
Strategic Infrastructure
Technology +
Support
Councils
Feedback Providers
Commercial
Public
Funding
Bodies
Providers
Policies +
Funding
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11. EGI-InSPIRE Project
Integrated Sustainable Pan-European Infrastructure for
Researchers in Europe
A 4 year project with €25M EC
contribution
– Project cost €72M
– Total Effort ~€330M
– Effort: 9261 PMs
Project Partners (50)
EGI.eu, 38 NGIs, 2 EIROs
Asia Pacific (9 partners)
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12. European Grid Infrastructure
(July 2011 and increase from Apr 2010)
Logical CPUs (cores)
• 248,424 EGI (+29.3%)
• 337,608 All
106.7 PB disk and 112.8 PB tape
Resource Centres
• 329 EGI
• 346 All (+6.8%)
• 93 supporting MPI (+6.8%)
Countries (+11.5%)
• 50 EGI
• 57 All
38 NGIs providing resources
• 26 National Operations Centres
• 12 NGIs in 4 Federated Operations Centres
1 EIRO providing resources (CERN)
19 countries in 4 non-European Operations Centres
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13. EGI Usage (July 2011)
Average usage May 2010-July 2011 vs 2009-2010 Year to Year Increase
• 28.9M jobs/month, 949,000 jobs/day (+ 90%) 19,980 End-users (+61%)
• 79.5M CPU wall clock hours/month (+31%) 278 VOs (+17.7%)
• 2.8M jobs/month for non-HEP users (+47%) ~30 high activity VOs (no change)
User Communities
Archeology Fusion
Astronomy Geophysics
Astrophysics High Energy Physics
Civil Protection Life Sciences
Comp. Chemistry Multimedia
Earth Sciences Material Sciences
Finance …
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14. EGI Resource Providers and
Operations Centres 1/2
• 22 National Operations Centres
– Armenia, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cyprus,
Croatia, Czech Republic, France, FYR of Macedonia, Germany,
Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Montenegro, Poland,
Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Turkey
• 5 Federated Operations Centres (16 NGIs)
– IberGrid (Portugal and Spain)
– The Netherlands Federation (Belgium and The Netherlands)
– Russian Federation (Russia and Ukraine)
– NDGF Federation (Austria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia,
Lithuania, Norway and Sweden)
– United Kingdom/Ireland Federation
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15. EGI Resource Providers and
Operations Centres 2/2
• 1 EIRO Operations Centre: CERN
• 4 Non-European Operations Centres
– Asia Pacific Federation: Australia, China, India,
Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan
and Thailand
– Canada Federation: Canada and China
– GISELA Consortium (IGALC Federation): Argentina,
Brazil, and Venezuela
– Latin America: Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico
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16. EGI
Future Plans
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17. Alignment to the Cloud
Key
Virtual
Ecosystem
Research
Partners
Communi'es
NGIs
+
EIRO
(Users)
EGI.eu
Coordina'on
Central
Domain
Community
Services
SoSware
Planning
&
Services
Services
Services
PlaRorms
gLite
UNICORE
dCache
ARC
Globus
Support
Infrastructure
NGI
NGI
EIRO
NGI
NGI
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18. Summary
• EGI.eu established in Amsterdam
– Supported through EGI-InSPIRE project
• EGI has transitioned from a federation of
regional to national resource providers
• EGI will with technology providers to have
a standards based open architecture
• EGI will evolve to support the needs of its
current and new user communities
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19. Contacts
• EGI.eu Director
– director@egi.eu
• EGI.eu Operations Team
– operations@egi.eu
• EGI.eu User Community Support Team
– ucst@egi.eu
• EGI.eu Policy Team
– policy@egi.eu
• EGI.eu Dissemination Team
– press@egi.eu
• EGI.eu Secretariat
– contact@egi.eu
• EGI Council
– council@egi.eu
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