The EPIKH Project (Exchange Programme to advance e-Infrastructure Know-How) Stato del progetto EPIKH e delle attività in corso a Catania – quadro delle richieste per il 2012 Roberto Barbera University of Catania & INFN - Italy Incontro con i referee di INFN Grid Bologna,

Stato del progetto EPIKH Attività in corso a Catania sugli Science Gateway Novità su GILDA Quadro delle richieste per il 2012 e loro giustificazione 2

3 The EPIKH Project ( “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 (Europe, Africa, Asia, and Latin America); –115 persons involved; –>650 researcher-months; –>500 secondments; Duration: March, 1, 2009 – February, 28, 2013 (48 months) EC contribution: 1,188,000 €

4 The EPIKH Partners (

5 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.

6 EPIKH secondments’ programme 1 st Phase: Non-EU → EU (selected) Res. Programs 2 nd Phase: EU → Non-EU Grid Schools (with 1 st phase tutors) Final Workshops

7 75 grant requests received so far; 63 selected List of CVs and profiles Trainer Trainee

8 90 secondments done so far (

9 EPIKH Schools (1/2) 1-week tutorials for site administrators (with remote installations) More than 12 new Grid sites already installed in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

10 EPIKH events in the world (

11 EPIKH Schools (1/2) 1-week tutorials for site administrators (with remote installations) More than 12 new Grid sites already installed in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

12 Grid Schools 2 entire weeks devoted to applications’ “gridification” call for applications widely open A total of 24 1-month Grid & HPC schools and related thematic workshops foreseen in the period 3/ /2013! EPIKH Schools (2/2)

13 List of already “gridified” applications ( Total = 53

EPIKH «highlights» Basically, all the training done so far by CHAIN, EU-IndiaGrid2, EUMEDGRID-Support and GISELA projects has been carried out in the context of the EPIKH Grid schools and EPIKH is now considered as the most important training provider in the Grid world; EPIKH has been included by the EuroAfrica-ICT project among the “FP6-FP7 Success Stories” of the development of ICT in Africa; EPIKH has been mentioned as “an example to follow for monitoring and encouraging local scientific applications to fight the digital divide” in the final recommendations made by the high-level stakeholders of the 6 th Conference on “Sharing Knowledge across the Mediterranean” which was held on 6 th -8 th of May 2011 in Malta – savoir.org/template/fs/malte2011/RecommendationsSKF.pdfwww.partager-le- savoir.org/template/fs/malte2011/RecommendationsSKF.pdf 14

EPIKH «breaking news» Grazie ai successi ed ai riconoscimenti di questi 2 anni e mezzo, la Commissione ha autorizzato EPIKH ad organizzare scuole anche in paesi che non sono partner ed a far venire in Europa giovani ricercatori anche non appartenenti a organizzazioni facenti parti del consorzio; Nuove scuole si stanno quindi organizzando in Colombia e Ecuador e si terranno nei primi mesi del 2012 in collaborazione con GISELA; Altre richieste sono arrivate da: Argentina, Emirati Arabi, Libano, Malesia, Nuova Zelanda, Nigeria, Taiwan, e Uganda. 15

Alcune considerazioni Malgrado l’entità dei finanziamenti, il numero di utenti delle infrastrutture Grid non aumenta come ci si sarebbe atteso. 16

Primary requirement: building Science Gateways should be like playing with Sc. Gtwy E Sc. Gtwy DSc. Gtwy CSc. Gtwy B Sc. Gtwy A Standards Simplicity Easiness of use Re-usability 17

The Science Gateway reference model Science Gateway Science Gateway App 1 App 2 App N Grid Services Embedded Applications Administrator Power User Basic User Users from different organisations having different roles and privileges Other Middleware 18

A&A Schema AuthorisationAuthorisation Science Gateway GrIDP (WAYF) (“catch-all”) GrIDP (WAYF) (“catch-all”) IDPCT IDP_y IDP_x LDAP CAS Register to a Service 2. Sign in Authentication (“catch-all”) IDP_z

Grid IDentity Pool (GrIDP) 20

21 The GARR-IDEM Identity Federation ( IDEM figures: 30 Members (COMETA is one of them); 54 IDentity Providers; 34 Service Providers (the INDICATE eCSG is one of them); >2,700,000 end users; ~50% of the Italian higher education & research community e-identified students in EU

INFN-AAI as IDEM IdP 22

The Workflow to access and use a Science Gateway (1/2) 1. register User 2.n account denied 4. sign in 2. y account granted 2.y 2.n 2.y store credentials 2. has to be member ? Admin 23

Compliant with the EGI Portal policy The Workflow to access and use a Science Gateway (2/2) 24

«catch-all» Identity Provider Identity Federations’ discovery service The authentication procedure 25

Science Gateway developed at Catania 26

A Generic Grid Engine for Science Gateways based on JSAGA Grid Engine Users Tracking DB Science GW Interface JSAGA API Job Engine Data Engine Users Track & Monit. Science GW 1 Science GW 2 Science GW 3 Grid MWs Liferay Portlets eToken Server 27

The new GILDA portal ( 28

Tutorial/scuole/corsi GILDA nel ) Caceres, 1 October - 31 March ) Ferrara, 25 October March ) Aurillac, 16 November January ) Caceres, 22 December May ) Caceres, 10 January - 10 April ) Kolkata, 1-5 February ) Kolkata, 7-17 February ) Porto, 24 February - 1 June ) Clermont-Ferrand, 25 February - 25 March ) Szeged, 28 February - 13 May ) Pretoria, March ) Vilnius, April ) Perugia, 8 May - 31 December ) Madrid, 9-26 May ) Beijing, 9-14 May ) Cordoba, 9-11 May ) Beijing, May ) Catania, May ) Beer Sheva, May ) Stellenbosch, May ) Naples, 23 May - 20 June ) Rabat, 30 May - 3 June ) Stellenbosch, 30 May - 9 June ) Rabat, 6-15 June ) Sonora, June ) Garching, September ) Lyon, September ) Ulaanbaatar, 28 September - 7 October ) Szeged, 3 October January ) Beijing, October ) Beijing, 24 October - 3 November ) Amman, November ) Amman, 28 November - 9 December 2011 GILDA sta diventanto un laboratorio virtuale per corsi universitari in tutta Europa. Grosso ritorno di visibilità per l’INFN.

Nuovi paradigmi formativi A partire dalla scuola EPIKH che si terrà in Giordania a fine Novembre, saranno inaugurati tre nuovi format educativi: –Format per la creazione di una Federazione di Identità, di un Identity Provider e di un Service Provider; –Format per sviluppatori di portlet relative ad applicazioni da inserire in Science Gateway; –Format per utenti finali ai quali verranno fatte usare, dipendentemente dal loro dominio scientifico, le applicazioni già presenti negli Science Gateway; Per la prima volta, non saranno esposti né la Grid Security Infrastructure ed i certificati né le specificità del middleware. 30

Richieste 2012 di Catania Personale: 4.3 FTE su 11 persone (+1 borsista tecnologo al 100% dal 24 Ottobre) Missioni interne: 10 k€ Missioni estere: 92.5 k€ Consumo: 10 k€ Inventariabile: 38 k€ –Macchine per GILDA: 30 k€ (+20 k€ a Padova) –PC per sviluppo e formazione: 8 k€ 31

Dettaglio missioni estere 32 CosaDove Quante volte Quante persone Quanti giorniFee Costo hotel al giorno Costo medio pasto Costo viaggioTotale Concertation Day EU FP7Bruxelles e-IRG MeetingEuropa EGI Technical/User ForumEuropa Contributo per Gridschool prgetto EPIKHAfrica Contributo per Gridschool prgetto EPIKHAfrica Contributo per Gridschool prgetto EPIKHAmerica Latina Contributo per Gridschool prgetto EPIKHAmerica Latina Contributo per Gridschool prgetto EPIKHAsia Contributo per Gridschool prgetto EPIKHAsia Eventi progetto GISELAAmerica Latina Eventi progetto CHAINMediterraneo Eventi progetto CHAINAsia Eventi progetto CHAINAfrica Eventi progetto CHAINAmerica Latina Eventi progetto agINFRAEuropa Partecipazione allo stand INFN a SC12USA Partecipazione a eventi OGF non in EuropaUSA/Asia Partecipazione a eventi OGF in EuropaBruxelles Presentazione paper a congressi internazionali (numero basato su esperienza 2009 e 2010)World

Giustificazione inventariabile per GILDA Svecchiamento hardware obsoleto: –Le ultime macchine assegnate a GILDA sono state quelle dismesse dal CNAF alcuni anni fa; –Molte macchine sono a 32 bit e non consentono l’installazione di versioni recenti di servizi gLite/EMI (es.: CREAM-CE); al momento diversi servizi sono installati su macchine virtuali che girano su macchine reali molto… «deboli»; –Alcune delle nuove macchine sono previste ospitare server virtuali con Liferay per lo sviluppo di Science Gateway durante le scuole grid e nell’ambito dei progetti CHAIN e GISELA. 33

Thank you very much ! Any questions ? 34