E2GRIS-1 WELCOME ADDRESS Bernard M. Marechal CETA-CIEMAT & UFRJ (SPAIN & BRAZIL) 1st EELA-2 Grid School Itacuruçá Island - Brazil, 02.11.2008

EELA (SSA project under FP6) EELA-2 (I3 project under FP7) EELA & EELA-2 objectives EELA (SSA project under FP6) Build a bridge between consolidated e-Infrastructure initiatives in Europe and emerging ones in Latin American Create a collaboration network to deploy a large portfolio of scientific applications on a well supported Pilot Test-bed Care in parallel of the training in grid technologies and of the knowledge dissemination and outreach EELA-2 (I3 project under FP7) Provide an empowered Grid Facility with versatile services fulfilling application requirements Ensure production quality services Ensure the long term sustainability of the e-Infrastructure beyond the term of the project Expand the current EELA e-Infrastructure Look for new communities outside academia (Industry and Business) Itacuruçá Island - Brazil, 1st EELA-2 Grid School, 02.11.2008

Countries and resources centres France Ireland Italy Portugal Spain Argentina Brazil Chile Colombia CLARA (International) Cuba Ecuador Mexico Peru Venezuela 14 Countries 16 Partners (9 JRUs) 53 Members Itacuruçá Island - Brazil, 1st EELA-2 Grid School, 02.11.2008

SURVEY: APPLICATION DOMAINS Biomedicine: 45% HEP: 14% Earth Sciences: 14% Itacuruçá Island - Brazil, 1st EELA-2 Grid School, 02.11.2008

SURVEY: APPLICATIONS / COUNTRY BR: 29% ES: 27% CL: 8% AR=FR=MX=PT: 6% Itacuruçá Island - Brazil, 1st EELA-2 Grid School, 02.11.2008

E2GRIS-1 Selected Applications-1 * CardioGrid Portal (UBA - Argentina) Marcelo Risk & Juan Francisco García Eijó * CATIVIC (UCV - Venezuela) Jaime Alberto Parada Delgado & Edgar Perdomo * CCATT-BRAMS (U.Chile - Chile) Claudio BAEZA & Rodrigo Delgado Urzua * CROSS-Fire (U. Minho - Portugal) Ricardo Marques (& Erica Vidal CCT-ROSARIO CONICET - Argentina) * GROMACS (UFRJ - Brazil) André Assunção da Silva Teixeira Ribeiro * gRREEMM (Cubaenergia - Cuba) Alina Roig Rassi & Maikel Dominguez Garcia Itacuruçá Island - Brazil, 1st EELA-2 Grid School, 02.11.2008

E2GRIS-1 Selected Applications-2 * Heart Simulator (UFJF - Brazil) Ricardo Silva Campos & Gustavo Miranda Teixeira * HIRLAM+WAM (CMRC - Ireland) Yassine Lassoued & Ali Al'Othman  * HPC Structure (CIP - Peru) Omar Martin Palomino Huamani & Rolando Navarro * InterproScan and/or HMMER (UNIANDES - Colombia) Daniel Alberto Burbano & Michael Pérez * META-Dock (UNAM - Mexico) Jérôme Verleyen & Juan Manuel Hurtado Ramirez * Satellite Images Clas. (UTPL - Ecuador) Susana A. Arias Tapia & Héctor F. Gómez Alvarado Itacuruçá Island - Brazil, 1st EELA-2 Grid School, 02.11.2008

Tutors and Support Alexandre Nóbrega (UFCG - Brazil) Alexandre Soron (UFRJ - Brazil) Bruno Silva (UFRJ - Brazil) Cesar Chagas (UFRJ - Brazil) Curt Roloff (UFRJ - Brazil) Diego Carvalho (CEFET RJ - Brazil) Diego Scardaci (INFN Catania - Italy) Francisco Castrillo (CETA CIEMAT - Spain) Frederico Oliveria (UFRJ - Brazil) Rafael Leon (ULA- Venezuela) Rafael Silva (UFCG - Brazil) Ramon Diacovo (CEFET RJ - Brazil) Raul Priego (CETA CIEMAT - Spain) Riccardo Bruno (INFN Catania - Italy) Vanessa Hamar (ULA - Venezuela) Zélia Quadros (CBPF - Brazil) Itacuruçá Island - Brazil, 1st EELA-2 Grid School, 02.11.2008

The “global” Grid coverage Should survive the EC projects At Feb review: 100 sites, 10K CPUs 1st gLite release foreseen for March’05 6 domains and Itacuruçá Island - Brazil, 1st EELA-2 Grid School, 02.11.2008

E2GRIS-1 MISSION No EELA-3 foreseen “Long-term sustainability” should be an EELA-2 goal National Grid Initiatives (NGI) should be created e-Science structures are highly desirable New Communities using the EELA-2 e-Infrastructure New Countries collaborating with / joining EELA-2 E2GRIS-1 roles: Short-term: Gridify 12 applications Middle-term: Increase the number of Grid experts Long-term: Promote Long-term Sustainability Itacuruçá Island - Brazil, 1st EELA-2 Grid School, 02.11.2008

3 layers: RC, National and LA EELA-2 model for e-Infrastructure 3 layers: RC, National and LA Itacuruçá Island - Brazil, 1st EELA-2 Grid School, 02.11.2008

The NGI layer Only one per country and must be inclusive, no matter what (middleware, application domain, etc.) Itacuruçá Island - Brazil, 1st EELA-2 Grid School, 02.11.2008

The LGI layer Again!!! Must be inclusive, no matter what (middleware, application domain, etc.) Itacuruçá Island - Brazil, 1st EELA-2 Grid School, 02.11.2008

Best wishes for E2GRIS-1 Back home, please read DSA1.3 See you on 15/11/08 with ……… 12 applications ported on the Stand Alone Grid Back home, please read DSA1.3 http://documents.eu-eela.org/record/1118/files/ and scatter it in your country Itacuruçá Island - Brazil, 1st EELA-2 Grid School, 02.11.2008