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Grids: A crucial Technology for the Knowledge-based Economy

Enabling. application. technologies. Architecture,. Design and. Development. of the next. generation. GRID. Grids: A crucial Technology for the Knowledge-based Economy. C racow Grid Workshop ‘04 13 – 15 December 2004. Dr. Max Lemke Deputy Head of Unit

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Grids: A crucial Technology for the Knowledge-based Economy

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  1. Enabling application technologies Architecture, Design and Development of the next generation GRID Grids: A crucial Technology for the Knowledge-based Economy Cracow Grid Workshop ‘04 13 – 15 December 2004 Dr. Max Lemke Deputy Head of Unit DG Information Society Grid Technologies http://www.cordis.lu/ist/grids

  2. Scope • European ICT policy • Grid Vision: Towards the « Invisible Grid » • FP5 results & Lessons Learnt (2000-02) • The EU Grid Initiatives in FP6 (2002-06) • Final Reflections & Conclusions

  3. Becoming a leading force in the knowledge economy • European political context is evolving very rapidly • Renewed interest in putting highest priority on EU research • Achieving world leadership within the globalised knowledge-based economy by 2010 • Capitalising on EU strengths to accelerate innovation, competitiveness and growth

  4. Building a European ICT policy • The path to sustainable growth: • Stimulate research, development and innovation of ICT • Promote the widest and best possible use of ICT • Create the regulatory environment for ICT ICT • ICT research at EU level to: • Help tackling high-risk, long-term goals • Facilitate aggregation of research funds • Make Europe and attractive place for researchers Grids “…and to help Europe becoming the most competitive knowledge-based economy by 2010…”(Lisbon 2000)

  5. Towards FP7 Six major objectives1): • Creating European centres of excellence through collaboration between laboratories • Launching European technological initiatives • Stimulating the creativity of basic research through competition between teams at European level • Making Europe more attractive to the best researchers • Developing research infrastructure of European interest • Improving the coordination of national research programme • significant expansion of the European Community research budget for the period 2007-2013 1) Commission communication 16 June 2004: ‘Science and technology, the key to Europe’s future - Guidelines for future European Union policy to support research’

  6. 2005 2006 2003 2004 2007 - 2010 … FP6 – FP7 Timeline WP03-04 WP05-06 Call1 Call4 Call6 (tbc) Call5 Call2 Call3 FP6 FP7 WP + Calls Communication: "Preparing the future: reinforcing European research policy" (12/05/04) Adoption Proposals on FP, SPs Communication “Building our common future: Policy challenges and Budgetary means of the Enlarged Union 2007-2013" (10/02/04) New Financial Perspectives

  7. “A Grid provides an abstraction for resource sharing and collaboration across multiple administrative domains…” (Source: NGG Expert Group, 16 June 2003 “European Grid Research 2005-2010) What is Grid ? • Benefits for the entreprise and the citizen • Any-type, anywhere, anytime services • Infrastructure for dynamic virtual organizations & teams • Backbone for the future internet • Knowledge at the fingertip • Contributions to the Lisbon Agenda • Increased productivity • Reduce total cost of ownership • More flexible and agile businesses Industry& Business Grids e-Science

  8. Exploiting the Economic Potential of Grid Research Innovation Competitiveness Growth Finance Automotive Aerospace Pharma e-Science Media Grid-enabled Services Grid-aware ICT Grid: a key enabling technology Information and Communication Technologies

  9. Grid Research - the ChallengeComplexity - Interoperability - Ease of Use - ... Computing Architectures KnowledgeTechnologies Complex Systems Evolution of HPCN Next Generation Grids Service-OrientedKnowledge Utility Current Grids Evolution of the Web MobileServices Global Computing SoftwareTechnologies

  10. Next Generation Grid(s) – Expert Group Report 3-fold vision “Next Generation Grid(s) - European Grid Research 2005 - 2010”, June 2003“Next Generation Grids 2 – Requirements and Options for European Grids Research 2005–2010 and beyond”, August 2004 Simplification Abstraction NextGenerationGrids • End-user empowerment • Life-support to business processes Software Vision End-User Vision • Continuously changing requirements • Grid services development environments Architectural Vision • Societal behaviour (millions of self-organising nodes) • Computational semantics, ontologies, meta-descriptions • Pervasive virtual organisations Virtualization

  11. Ctrl Alt Del + + Grid research vision - 2007 and beyond Grid empowers Ambient Intelligence: Towards a service-oriented knowledge utility person-centric • Building the Invisible Grid • Mastering ICT complexity • Grids of mobile and embedded systems • Fromto self-healing systems • From plug & play to connect & share • Network-centric Grid Operating Systems • Knowledge at the fingertips local AmI AmI+Grid network-centric global

  12. EU FP5 Grid Projects 2000-2004 (EU Funding: 58 M€) • Infrastructure • DataTag • Computing • EuroGrid, DataGrid, Damien • Tools and Middleware • GridLab, GRIP • Applications • EGSO, CrossGrid, BioGrid, FlowGrid, Moses, COG, GEMSS, Grace, Mammogrid, OpenMolGrid, Selene, • P2P / ASP / Webservices • P2People, ASP-BP,GRIA, MMAPS, GRASP, GRIP, WEBSI • Clustering • GridStart Applications Middleware Infrastructure

  13. FP5 Grid Project Results - Examples Grid services and tools for applications like flood prevention and crisis management An industry-oriented Grid environment for applications like engineering post-production rendering in media UNICORE: No 2 Grid Middleware Toolkit

  14. Strong Polish Participation in FP5 Grid Research Projects 2 Polish-led Projects (out of 12) • CrossGrid • CYFRONET Cracow • ICM Warsaw • PSNC Poznan • INP Cracow • INS Warsaw • GridLab • PSNC Poznan Significant share of funding to Poland versus EU25 • FP5 IST Grid Research Funding: 9.96 % • FP5 wider IST Grid Project Funding: 5 % • GDP: 3.8 % • Population: 8.8 % CROSSGRID Testbed in Action

  15. FP5 EU Grid Research Achievements • Creation of a strong Grid research community • Europe’s position strengthened related to • Grid middleware development • Contribution to standardisation • Leading position established for vertical Grid MW oriented towards specific application requirements • First steps taken towards maturing Grid technologies for industrial and business use • Grid concept proven in eScience application pilots followed by deployment in research infrastructures • Identified weaknesses in commercial exploitation • Emergent opportunities for service providers

  16. Grid Research in FP6 - IST • Research Infrastructures • Deployment of high-capacity/speed communications network – GÉANT • Deployment in Research of Grids Industrial / SocietalApplications eBusiness, eGov, eWork, eHealth, risks management, … Application Research & Deployment • Grid Technologies • Grid-enabled applications and services for business society • Technologies and systems for building the invisible Grid • Network-centric Grid operating systems 125 M€ Grid RTD Software-, Web-, Knowledge Technologies, Broadband-, Mobile Communication Technologies, Security Related Research

  17. New Grid Research Projects in FP6 EU Funding: 52 MILLION Started: SUMMER 2004 GRIDCOORDBuilding the ERA in Grid research K-WF GridKnowledge basedworkflow & collaboration inteliGRIDSemantic Grid based virtual organisations Grid-based generic enabling application technologies to facilitate solution of industrial problemsSIMDAT OntoGridKnowledge Services for the semantic Grid UniGridSExtended OGSAImplementation based on UNICORE EU-driven Grid services architecture for businesS and industry NextGRID Mobile Grid architecture and services for dynamic virtual organisations Akogrimo DataminingGridDataminingtools & services HPC4UFault tolerance,dependabilityfor Grid European-wide virtual laboratory for longer term Grid research-creating the foundation for next generation Grids CoreGRID ProvenanceTrust and provenance for Grids Specific support action Integrated project Network of excellence Specific targeted research project

  18. NORDUGRID E-SCIENCE DAS SGIGRID BE-GRID METACENTER D-GRID H-GRID ACI GRID SWISSGRID BG-GRID IRISGRID GRID.IT HELLAS-GRID CYGRID Network of Excellence European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for Large Scale Distributed, Grid and Peer-to-Peer Technologies Objectives • Build S&T excellency on Grid -EU-wide virtual laboratory • Achieve sustainable restructuring and integration • Disseminate EU research on Grid • Set-up a think-tank to create spin-off projects • Create the European “Grid Lighthouse” Research Focus • Knowledge and data management • Programming models • System architecture • Resource management • Scheduling • Problem solving environments 6 EU Virtual Institutes 42 Partners

  19. Integrated Project • Main Application Areas: • Data mining legal sector • Broadcasting and entertainment • Financial modelling • Digital media • Supply chain management • Main Research and Development Areas: • Grid architecture • Foundations & core services • Dynamic federation and VO • Grid business models • Reference implementations • Standards and applications Conceptualisation Analysis Design Feedback for next iteration Implementation Evaluation Next Generation Grid services architecture for business and industry Application developers / users: SAP First derivatives Kino Research org.: EPCC IT Innov. FZJ USTUTT KTH NTUA QUB UvA CNR-ISTI Technology providers: Grid Systems HP Intel Microsoft Nec Service providers: Fujitsu BT T-Systems Datamat

  20. Domain and Application Specific Services Complex Grid Services The Next AKoGriMo Generation Focus Core Grid Services ”GRIDNET” Network Middleware Mobile Internet Integrated Project • Two testbeds • E-Learning • Hospital • Generalisation to • other applications • Technology Vision • NGG based on next generation IPv6 networks and supporting security, QoS, accounting /billing, user & context awareness. • Use of mobile comm’s beyond 3G. • Dynamic Virtual Organisations based on trust management Mobile Grid architectures and services for dynamic virtual organisations Universities - Uni BW München (D) - CRMPA (I) - NTUA (Gr) UPC(SP) IT Industry (tools & services) - BOC (UK) - SchlumbergerSEMA Grid Providers & Industry - HLRS (D) - CCLRC (UK) - Uni Hohenheim (D) - Datamat (I) Telcom operators - Telefonica I&D (SP) - Telnor (N) - Tel Inst (P)

  21. Grid Technologists End Users Integrated Project SIMDAT • Four sectors of international economic importance: • Automotive • Pharmaceutical • Aerospace • Meteorology • Seven Grid-technology development areas: • Grid infrastructure • Distributed Data Access • VO Administration • Workflows • Ontologies • Analysis Services • Knowledge Services The solution of industrially relevant complex problems using data-centric Grid technology Capability Providers

  22. GridCoord: ERA Pilot on a co-ordinated Europe-wide initiative on Grid Research • Situation in Europe • With more than 10 Grid Research programmes at MS & EU level, Europe is strong on Grid Research but fragmented • Weaknesses identified related to commercial exploitation of Grid research by European industry • General Objectives • Overcome fragmentation and dispersion across EU to reinforce impact of national and Community research • Strengthen Europe’s position in Grid Research and its exploitation

  23. GridCoord: Support for building a ERA on Grid Research • Major Activities • Compendium & gap analysis • Regular forum for funding bodies • Derive options and a roadmap for a long term EU vision • Support actions related to standardisation, maturity, … • Strengths • Requirements endorsed by 10 Member States in 2003 • GridCoord considered an ERA pioneer in IST • 9 MSs represented in GridCoord • Next Steps / Opportunities beyond GridCoord • Broaden industrial involvement along value chain • Broaden scope - include web, knowledge, SW technologies

  24. Application Pull Grid-enabled Applications & Services for business and society Research, development, validation and take-up of generic environments and tools TechnologyPush Work Programme 2005-2006Advanced Grid Technologies, Systems and Services IST Call 5Open May 2005Close Sept 2005Budget ~70M€ Applications e-business e-health, e-goy e-learning Environment Application Sector 1 Application Application Sector 3 Application Sector 2 Sector n Advanced Grid Technologies, Systems and Services Grid Foundations Architecture, design and development of technologies and systems for building the invisible Grid Network-centric Grid Operating Systems Potential new fabric layer for future distributed systems and services

  25. User involvement… Real time Grid for remote control of instruments Optical solutions for Grid infrastruct. …technology validation New user communities using Grids – Digital Libraries Flexible Quality of Service Assurance GRIDCC MUPPET DILIGENT EUQoS EGEE DEISA SEE-GRID eInfrastructure IPv6TF SC EUROLABS IPv6 Task Force support Experimental testbeds LOBSTER Specific Support Actions Traffic monitoring Grid Deployment and Testbeds in FP6

  26. Grid deployment in e-infrastructures • Goal • Create a European-wide Grid production infrastructure on top of present and future EU RN infrastructure • Build on • EU and EU member states major investments • International connections (US and AP) • Scope • Operations services, networking, pilots • Middleware • Hardening & re-engineering of existing middleware functionality • Approach • Leverage current and planned national and regional Grid programmes • Work closely with relevant industrial Grid developers, NRENs and US-AP projects Applications Grid infrastructure Geant network

  27. Europe’s IT industry: a Snapshot • Strengths • Markets: Telco (mobile), integration and value- added service provision, embedded systems, business software • Research: Grid, agents, complexity, knowledge technologies; Open Source approaches • Weaknesses • Weak large European IT industry (HW, package software) • US leadership on Web services and Operating Systems • Threads • Paradigm shift conquered by US-driven multinationals • Off-shore business process outsourcing to continue • Opportunities • Develop commons in partnership • Paradigm change from sales of IT systems and package SW to provision of on-demand services • Convergence of Grid & Web technologies

  28. European Research Area TechnologyPlatform Research & Development Grid Strategy towards the Lisbon Objectives • Coordination of National Programmes • Opening-up of National Programmes • International cooperation • Build critical mass • Leadership • Competitiveness • Addressing standardization, regulation, … • Innovation framework • Leveraging additional investments • Developing new methods, tools, systems and services • Advance excellence and know-how • Long-term and business-driven R&D • Integration & structuring

  29. Conclusions (1) Grid Potential • Grid as a utility: a new paradigm for service delivery • Grids: a key building block of the knowledge economy • Grids: as an enabler for innovation • Grids: a new service and business model for IT and Telco service providers

  30. Conclusions (2) IST Grid Programme • EU expects to capitalise on its strengths in Grid research and applications through strategic portfolio of new FP6 Grid Research projects launched September 2004 • ERA Pilot ‘GridCoord’ and NoE ‘CoreGrid’ are essential building blocks for a European Research Area for Grids • More coherent approaches and joint longer-term strategies supported by commitments from all key stakeholders is required to secure commercial benefits • The Grid of the future is a global challenge, thus International co-operation and standards are essential

  31. References /Background Information • Brochure: Building Grids for Europe • Expert Group Reports • “Next Generation Grid(s) - European Grid Research 2005 - 2010”, June 2003 • “Next Generation Grids 2 – Requirements and Options for European Grids Research 2005–2010 and beyond”, August 2004 • FP5 “IST Grid Projects Inventory and Roadmap” • GRIDSTART Project, April 2004 • Upcoming Events: • 31 Jan – 1 Feb 2005 Preparatory Workshop for Call 5Advanced Grid Technologies, Systems & Services • 25 – 27 April 2005 European Grid Technology Days and more:www.cordis.lu/ist/grids

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