Abstract
e-Infrastructures became critical platforms that integrate computational resources, facilities and repositories globally. The coordination and harmonization of advanced e-Infrastructure project developed with partners from Europe, Latin America, Arabia, Africa, China, and India contributed to developing interoperable platforms based on identity federation and science gateway technologies. This paper presents these technologies to support key services in the development of Arabia networking and services platform for research and education. The platform provides scientists, teachers, and students with seamless access to a variety of advanced resources, services, and applications available at regional e-Infrastructures in Europe and elsewhere. Users simply enter the credentials provided by their home institutions to get authenticated and do not need digital certificate-based mechanisms. Twenty applications from five scientific domains were deployed and integrated. Results showed that on average about 35,000 monthly jobs are running for a total of about 17,500 CPU wall-clock hours. Therefore, seamlessly integrated e-Infrastructures for regional e-Science activities are important resources that support scientists, students, and faculty with computational services and linkage to global research communities.
Highlights
The coordination and harmonization of advanced e-Infrastructure project developed with partners from Europe, Latin America, Arabia, Africa, China, and India contributed to developing interoperable platforms based on identity federation and science gateway technologies
Twenty applications from five scientific domains have been deployed on the EUMEDGRID infrastructure to be integrated in ASREN science gateway
The results of the application test show that about 35,000 jobs are running on average each month for a total of about 17,500 CPU wall clock hours
Summary
A variety of e-infrastructures are still isolated and context insensitive Their interoperability to create larger computational capacities is seen critical to address the requirements of cross-continental research communities and for the development of research and education and the advancement of science and technology, worldwide, [1] [2] [3]. The results of this paper build on the collaboration models that have been established by many projects and initiatives between the different e-infrastructures in Europe, Latin America, China, India, Africa, and Arabia in the framework of the EU FP7 funded projects [8] [9] [10] These models provided tools for the harmonization of e-infrastructures to help researchers in the region benefit from services provided outside their local networks.
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