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Given the significant interest in the scientific and academic community for this topic, GARR has been involved since the beginning with the developments in high throughput distributed computing under the GRID paradigm, and has contributed to numerous GRID projects in the years from 2004 to 2012, such as EGEE, EGI, EUChinaGRID, EUMedGRID, performing research activities as well as support actions for numerous user communities in the domains of physics, astronomy, bioinformatics and medical research.

Subsequently, the success in recent years of the cloud paradigm had a strong impact with the education and research community, thus making it necessary to create a Distributed Computing and Storage (CSD) Department to manage these technologies for the benefit of GARR user community, in terms of services as well as research.

The GARR-X Progress Project gave a decisive boost to cloud research and development work, with the implementation of an OpenStack testing platform distributed over the 5 sites of the infrastructure. On this infrastructure, GARR CSD team designed and implemented a federated OpenStack platform model, and tested object storage federation scenarios, mutual synchronization of datasets from external user groups and the replication of large datasets (Google n-grams, collaboration with SWITCH, the Swiss research network). Different authentication mechanisms were also integrated, with successful results in the investigation of user authentication and authorisation strategies based on SAML and OIDC protocols.

Further information

• GARR Federated Cloud
• Technical documentation
• GARR Cloud: the discussion forum
• Article: Declarative Modelling for Building a Cloud Federation and Cloud Applications
• GARR choses open source for its R&E Federated Cloud

Research and development activities in the field of digital identity have focused in particular on two areas:

• testing of a cloud system to facilitate the process of digital identity management by organisations within the identity federations.
  This is an innovative approach that has been successfully tested in pilot studies conducted in collaboration with the biomedical community which has grown to become a nationwide service called IdP in the cloud. This activity was carried out mostly at the national level, and thanks to the great interest it has generated at the international level there are now plans to extend it to the European level in the context of GÉANT.
• study and testing of new architectures for identity federations.
  This activity has focused in particular on the management and use of attributes to manage complex groups such as Virtual Organisations and personalise the authentication and authorisation services, for example by offering services based on the user's role. These activities were carried out both nationally and internationally, within the framework of the GÉANT (from GN2 to GN4 Phase2) and AARC 1 and 2 European projects. The AARC project in particular conducted a series of pilot studies with various user communities belonging to large European research infrastructures, such as CLARIN, ELIXIR, DARIAH.

Further information

• IDEM: Publications
• IdP in the cloud
• AARC1 and 2: documents

Monitoring

Monitoring has a central role in the context of research on advanced network services. In addition to the participation in the research on this topic during the various stages of GÉANT, GARR has carries out constant and intensive in-house research and development activities. This work results in numerous services that enable a fine-grained monitoring of the GARR network, both in support of real-time network management, and to study the evolution of traffic trends. This analysis is critical to GARR activity, as it drives the development of predictive models on the evolution of network needs which, along with other elements, in turn feed the research into new technologies, network architectures and services, and are the precondition for the transition to new generations of the network.

IpV6

GARR research activities include the contribution to the development and testing of the IPv6 protocol in the context of the pioneering European project 6Net. About 10 years before the widespread adoption of the new version of the protocol, back in 2005 the project had already built a native IPv6 testbed deployed on 16 European countries, with the aim to:

• drive the dissemination of the new protocol and the migration from the existing IPv4-based networks;
• test new services and applications;
• guarantee interoperability of IPv6 with major legacy applications.

In relation to this latter aspect, GARR conducted a thorough study of interoperability of IPv6 with the middleware di Grid gLite, later extended to other families of middleware at European level (ARC, Unicore). To this end an international Grid testbed over IPv6 was set up, and specific strategies for integrating IPv4 and IPv6 resources were designed, promoting wherever possible a dual-stack approach for the services and products used. These activities were carried out within the context of the EGEE, EGI and EU-ChinaGRID international projects, in collaboration with the HEPiX working group (a group born to promote Unix within the high energy physics community).

IP/MPLS, QoS, eduroam

Other R&D activities include IP/MPLS experimentation beginning in the early 2000s, particularly within the MUPBED project which contributed to the transfer of this cutting-edge technology to telecommunication operators, Quality of Service (particularly in the Sequin project and the GN2 phase of GÉANT), and eduroam, the service that allows users visiting other organisations to easily and securely access the wireless network using the same credentials provided by their home organisation. Eduroam was developed in the context of the international task force for Mobility and Network Middleware (TF-MNM) and of the GÉANT project in collaboration with standardisation groups and industrial partners. Born as an experimental activity just over 10 years ago, today eduroam is a service available in thousands of institutions across over 70 countries.

Standardisation

Finally, among other R&D activities we note the participation and contribution to the development of new standards and definitions within IETF and other international bodies such as ITU. GARR has been author and co-author of many standards (RFCs and "T" specifications), taking the lead in various working groups and committees. Recently, a GARR representative has served as Coordinator for the IETF Application Area Directorate, overseeing the monitoring activities for IETF standard specifications in the Application Services area, which is the prelude to their submission for approval.

Further information and publications

• 6Net: publications
• MUPBED: publications
• Sequin: documents and publications

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Claudia Battista

Director since 2022

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Federico Ruggieri

Director from 2015 to 2022

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Enzo Valente

Director from 2002 to 2014

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Graduated in Physics at the University of Rome "La Sapienza".
Formerly he was a lecturer of Instrumental Methods of Subnuclear Physics at the Department of Physics of the University "La Sapienza" as well as a research manager at the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN). He has more than 450 scientific publications in international and national journals. He was chairman of the INFN Calculation Commission, Director of the NIC-Rome Project (then Consorzio CASPUR, now confederated in CINECA) and Director of the INFN - CNAF Supercalculating Centre in Bologna. Valente was a protagonist of the original design for the harmonisation of Italian research networks during the second half of the 1980s; he was the first Director of Consortium GARR from 2003 to 2014. As Director, Valente participated in international and continental research networks activities, including those of TERENA, and promoted the achievement and expansion of the GARR mission both nationally and internationally (in the Mediterranean, African and Asian regions).

Since 2013, Valente has been an Italian representative in the e-Infrastructure Reflection Group (e-IRG), which gathers European research network representatives and defines European programmes in the field of e-Infrastructures and support to research. From January 2015 he has been a member of the GARR Technical-Scientific Committee, and he collaborates with GARR research activities under the GÉANT (GN4) project which is co-funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme.

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Il Direttore, nominato dal Consiglio di Amministrazione, ha la responsabilità operativa e gestionale del Consortium GARR.

Laureato in Fisica presso l'Università di Bari e Dirigente di Ricerca dell’INFN presso la Sezione di Roma Tre, è Coordinatore del Dipartimento di Calcolo e Storage del GARR dal 2013 e Direttore del GARR dal 1 gennaio 2015.

Ha svolto la sua attività professionale sperimentale principalmente nel campo della Fisica delle particelle. Ha partecipato alla costruzione, messa in opera ed analisi dei dati di diversi esperimenti al CERN ed a Frascati. Nel corso della sua carriera si è concentrato sugli aspetti del calcolo, delle reti di trasmissione dati e dei sistemi di acquisizione e processamento dei dati. Ha ricoperto molti incarichi: Presidente della Commissione Nazionale Calcolo INFN, Chairman del Comitato Europeo per il Calcolo nella Fisica delle Alte Energie (HEPCCC), Direttore del CNAF (Centro Nazionale per la Ricerca e Sviluppo nelle Tecnologie Informatiche e Telematiche dell’INFN), membro del Comitato Tecnico Scientifico della Rete GARR e del Consorzio CASPUR.

In qualità di chairman dello HEPCCC ha avviato il primo Progetto Europeo DataGRID per lo sviluppo di Griglie Computazionali, co-finanziato dalla Commissione Europea ed è stato il Project Manager di successivi progetti Europei di estensione delle infrastrutture Grid nei paesi del Mediterraneo, del Medio Oriente ed in Cina (EUMEDGRID, EUMEDGRID-Support, EUChinaGrid, CHAIN, CHAIN-REDS).

È docente di “Acquisizione Dati e Controllo di Esperimenti” nel corso di laurea magistrale in Fisica presso l’Università di Roma Tre ed esperto scientifico qualificato del MIUR. Ha al suo attivo più di 400 pubblicazioni nel campo delle particelle elementari, dell’acquisizione dati e del Grid computing.

È stato speaker in molte conferenze internazionali sugli argomenti di Grid ed eInfrastructures.
La sua collaborazione con GARR risale agli anni ’90, quando è stato tra l’altro membro del primo Organismo Tecnico Scientifico GARR.

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Il Consortium GARR, nell’ambito delle attività di promozione della conoscenza, ha assegnato due premi destinati a proposte o lavori originali formulati da giovani ricercatori (nati a partire dal 1 gennaio 1981).

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Former Members of the Board of Statutory Auditors

• Gian Pietro Angelini - from 26/04/2009 to 25/04/2018 - from 26/04/2018 to 26/04/2021
• Marco Avagliano - from 26/04/2015 to 26/04/2021
• Roberta Boniotti - from 26/04/2006 to 25/04/2012
• Salvatore De Bellis - from 27/11/2017 to 25/04/2018
• Speranzina De Matteo - from 20/02/2003 to 16/01/2012 - from 17/01/2012 to 30/09/2017
• Mariangela Focacci - from 26/04/2009 to 25/04/2015
• Piero Marini - from 20/02/2003 to 26/04/2006
• Fabrizio Mercuri - from 26/04/2012 to 25/04/2015
• Fernando Pacciani - from 20/02/2003 to 27/12/2011
• Baldassarre Santamaria - from 26/04/2006 to 25/04/2009
• Antonio Scelfo - from 20/02/2003 to 19/02/2006
• Liana Serra - from 20/02/2003 to 25/04/2009

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