Australian Research Collaboration Service (ARCS) & Grid Activities in Australia

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1 Australian Research Collaboration Service (ARCS) & Grid Activities in Australia Prof Anthony Williams Executive Director Supported by:

2 ARCS Mission The ARCS Mission is to enable and enhance research through the provision of long-term eresearch support, services and tools. Core roles of ARCS include: Agent for change and to promote uptake of eresearch services and tools at national level; Key coordination role for national eresearch services and service providers; Cooperative development & implementation of national standards & services (including international context); Core activities in interoperability, collaboration and authorisation infrastructure and more recently also data storage infrastructure; Development of discipline-specific tools & services. March 10, 2010 ISGC2010, Taipei 2

3 ARCS Mission (continued) Vehicle for federal government funding of eresearch services in ARCS core areas of interest; ARCS is uniquely positioned as the entity which is the cooperative aspect of the key nationally distributed eresearch Service Providers. Keys to a future successful ARCS: deliver well and strongly into these core roles as required by the federal goverment; development, deployment and operation of highlyvalued, robust, reliable & easy-to-use tools and services. March 10, 2010 ISGC2010, Taipei 3

4 Australian eresearch Landscape ANDS, ARCS NCI & other HPC AARNet, AAF ARCS March 10, 2010 ISGC2010, Taipei 4

5 Summary of ARCS Services Video collaboration (desktop and room based) Web-based collaboration (workspaces, applications & services); ARCS Data Fabric: Data movement, federation, databases & digital repositories - able to share data with anyone anywhere; ARCS Grid & Compute Cloud: Seamless resource sharing; Security & authorisation (expertise, exemplars, tools and services); Virtual environments & scientific instruments - remote access and operation; Data Storage Infrastructure. March 10, 2010 ISGC2010, Taipei 5

6 ARCS Collaboration Structure ARCS - Collaboration Structure AeRIC & DIISR ARCS Governance ARCS Related Organisations Intersect (NSW) ANU (ACT) Australian Access Fed (AAF) Aust Nat Data Serv (ANDS) CSIRO ivec (WA) National Comput Infra (NCI) AARNet QCIF (Qld) ersa (SA) Other Infrastructure Providers VeRSI TPAC (Tas) VPAC (Vic) [a] eres Service Provider B Other eres Serv Providers... Possible NT member... NCRIS Capability A NCRIS Capability B [a] Current Lead Agent for ARCS Other NCRIS Capabilities... Discipine Area A Discipline Area B Other Discipline Areas... March 10, 2010 ISGC2010, Taipei 6

7 Members of ARCS Resources Total MARCS annual revenue = approx $35m Total MARCS EFTs = approx 170 Note: Figures exclude ANU and CSIRO March (as difficult 10, 2010 to count) ISGC2010, Taipei 7

8 ARCS Collaboration Services Video Collaboration: ARCS provides support for EVO (in collaboration with AARNET) and Access Grid technologies - including High Definition; Instant Messaging (IM): Jabber is flexible IM system like MSN, ICQ etc (ARCS runs an ARCS Jabber server); Research Oriented Web Tools: Research web-based workspaces and tools - Sakai, Drupal, Plone, Wiki, Twiki, Google Calendar, Google Apps, ; Customer Service: End-user support is provided via telephone 1800 TOARCS (answered all business hours) & request tracker system customer.service@arcs.org.au. March 10, 2010 ISGC2010, Taipei 8

9 ARCS Data Fabric Access to Data Fabric uses the AAF; Is a system to store, manage and share data currently based on irods (previously SRB); Is available to every Australian researcher; Has distributed storage and access nodes; Provides some free storage to every researcher (can be extended typically at hardware cost only to arbitrary size); Can be accessed with web interface (with Shibboleth) and webdav and CLI tools (with SLCS); and Will soon be unified with Grid/Cloud compute. March 10, 2010 ISGC2010, Taipei 9

10 Current ARCS Data Fabric March 10, 2010 ISGC2010, Taipei 10

11 ARCS Systems Services Major role is to manage the ARCS National Grid and to develop the ARCS Compute Cloud as its successor A number of HPC, data and other facilities available to Australian researchers Standard interface provided by ARCS Grid/Cloud Develop and support easy to use tools for grid submission, and data staging, e.g., Grisu interface; Publish information about the resources available - ( MDS ) Monitoring and Discovery Service Deploy other services as required by Data, Collaboration or Security Services teams Sakai, SRB (ARCS Data,( Fabric IdP, SLCS certificates etc March 10, 2010 ISGC2010, Taipei 11

12 Systems - ARCS National Grid March 10, 2010 ISGC2010, Taipei 12

13 ARCS Security Services Provides ARCS authentication and authorisation infrastructure, services, tools, exemplars, expertise and best practice advice; Assists with interfacing to Australian Access Federation (AAF) and other Identity Providers (IdPs) - run ARCS IdP & Pilot AAF instance; Develop suggested template usage policies for eresearch Service Providers (SPs) including ARCS, ANDS and discipline-based services; Pro-actively work with other SPs teams to allow their services to make effective use of Security Services; Provide broad support for any research-oriented organisations that wants to access these services. March 10, 2010 ISGC2010, Taipei 13

14 Activities for next 3 years 2008 Strategic Roadmap for Australian Research Infrastructure - identified significant gaps in infrastructure provision, particularly electronic storage of research data. Result was government funded enhanced eresearch infrastructure via a Super Science investment of $312 million for , with $97 million to ARCS for Data Storage and Collaboration Tools made up as: $35 million for ARCS Managed Core Services; $12 million for Research Community Projects; $50 million for Data Storage Infrastructure. March 10, 2010 ISGC2010, Taipei 14

15 Activities for Next 3 Years ARCS Managed Core Services ($35m): Continuous development, deployment and operation of ARCS managed core services Research Community Projects ($12m): Open competitive process involving national research communities to identify discipline specific services to be developed - typically ongoing operation by the research community themselves, perhaps building on core services. Data Storage Infrastructure ($50m): Consultation underway to identify data storage coinvestors and to decide on how many/which sites and how to achieve seamless interoperability. March 10, 2010 ISGC2010, Taipei 15

16 Researcher Survey re Core Services March 10, 2010 ISGC2010, Taipei 16

17 Key ARCS Contacts Executive Director: Prof Anthony (Tony) Williams, Office: , Mobile: ; ARCS Customer Service: phone (1800 TOARCS); Associate Director: Dr Nick Tate, Mobile: ; ARCS Admin Staff: Data Services Manager: Florian Goessmann, Office: ; Systems Services Manager: Jim McGovern, Phone: ; Collaboration Services Manager: Andrew Alexandar, Phone: ; Security Services Manager: Neil Witheridge, Phone: ; Projects Manager: Dr Paul Coddington, Phone: March 10, 2010 ISGC2010, Taipei 17

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