DORII

De e-Ciencia

DORII: Deployment of Remote Instrumentation Infrastructure

The DORII project [1] is supported by the European Commission [2] within the Sevent Framework program [3] (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement no. RI-213110. The project aims to deploy e-Infrastructure for new scientific communities, where on the one hand ICT technology is still not present at the appropriate level today, while on the other hand it is demanded to empower the communities’ daily work.

The main focus of the DORII project is on groups of scientific users with experimental equipment and instrumentation that are currently not or only partially integrated in the European e-Infrastructures. At present, following selected scientific areas are represented in the project:

• Earthquake community (with various sensor networks)
• Environmental science community
• Experimental science community (with synchrotron and free electron lasers)

These scientific communities are well recognised and organised even in the industrial area represented by SMEs. In practice, this means that the organisations are members of bigger consortia which deal with the topics mentioned above, but also focus on research aiming for a better experimental environment.

Working closely with end-users, solutions will be put in place that build upon the success of past and ongoing projects in such areas as remote instrumentation (GRIDCC [4], RINGRID [5]), interactivity (Int.Eu.Grid [6]), software frameworks for application developers (gEclipse [7]) and advanced networking technologies (GN2) with EGEE based middleware.

Finally, to insure the interoperability and sustainability of DORII, DORII will promote standardisation and knowledge transfer via e-IRG and OGF research groups.

The DORII project will deliver solutions based on proven methodologies and technology while minimising risk through regular communication with end-users and exploitation of results with recognized organizations.

List of Parnerts

PSNC Instytut Chemii Bioorganicznej PAN Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (Poland) [8]
CSIC Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (Spain) [9][10]
CNIT Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per la Telecomunicazioni (Italy) [11]
ELETTRA Sincrotrone Trieste SCpA (Italy) [12]
EUCENTRE European Centre for Training and Research in Earthquake Engineering (Italy) [13]
LMU Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Germany) [14]
HLRS USTUTT High Performance Computing Center of The university of Stuttgart (Germany) [15]
OGS Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale (Italy) [16]
ECOHYDROS Ecohydros SL (Spain) [17]
GRNET Greek Research and Technology Network S.A. (Greece) [18]
UC Universidad de Cantabria (Spain) [19]

CSIC-IFCA Contribution

IFCA contributes to the project in the NA2, NA3 and SA2 workpackages, with emphasis in the following activities:

SA2: Deployment and Management of Production infrastructure

• Supporting the project generic VO vo.dorii.eu in the local EGEE site

* 318 CPUs

• Supporting the project private VOs ihidra and ienvmod in the local I2G site.

* 276 CPUs
* > 1 TB storage

• Installing and setting up a Service Availability Monitoring (SAM) Server [20]
• Hosting a Hierarchical Grid Site Management (HGSM) database replica with additional information and geographical representation of each site resources.

NA3: Remote Instrumentation Communities and Application Support

• Installing and mantaining a local instance of the Virtual Control Room (VCR).
• Supporting the porting and development of the ECOHYDROS application to the grid, as well as their instruments integration.