Thierry PRIOL* Scientific Coordinator INRIA/ERCIM coregrid Thierry.Priol@inria.fr

1. CoreGRID: European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies Thierry PRIOL* Scientific Coordinator INRIA/ERCIM http://www.coregrid.net Thierry.Priol@inria.fr * Director of the ACI GRID from the French Ministry of Research Head of the PARIS project-team at INRIA

2. Outline of the Presentation • A Brief Overview of the GRID Concept • The European Union Effort in GRID • The CoreGRID Network of Excellence • Conclusion European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies

3. A Grid definition… from the Globus project • Analogy with the power grid • Processing power = Electricity Flexible, secure, coordinated resource sharing among • dynamic collections of individuals, institutions and resources (from “The anatomy of the Grid: Enabling Scalable Virtual Organizations”) • Enable communities or virtual organizations (VO) to share • geographically distributed resources as they pursue common goals • Different type of resources • Computers, storage, sensors, networks, visualization, software, … European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies

4. The Nebulous GRID: from concept to implementations Collaboratories Cyberinfrastructure P2P Computing Mobile Computing Virtual Supercomputing Ubiquitous Computing Desktop Grid Metacomputing PC Grid Computing Internet computing Utility Computing On Demand Computing Pervasive Computing Scavenging Grid European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies

5. Different kind of Grids • Information Grid: Sharing knowledge • The Web : one of the killer application of the Internet • Storage Grid: Sharing data • Music, Video, …: the killer applications • Scientific data • Computational Grid: Aggregating computing power • Virtual Supercomputing • ASP metacomputing • Internet computing or desktop grid : killer apps here ! European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies

6. Internet Internet Internet Computational Grids: several « visions »Like for electricity (nuclear, hydraulic, wind, …) • Virtual Supercomputing • A combination of several supercomputers geographically distributed (10-1000) • Ex: Globus, Legion, Unicore • Internet computing • Desktop Grid, Scavenging Grid • A combination of a large number of PCs (10000-1000000) • Use of idle PCs (cycle stealing) • Ex: Seti@home, xTremWeb • Metacomputing • A combination of several applications servers • Ex: Diet, NetSolve, Ninf N3S NASTRAN FLUENT NASTRAN STAR-CD European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies

7. CoreGRID vision of the GRID Information GRIDs Storage & Computational GRIDs European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies

8. Grid projects funded by the EU Former FP5 IST Grid Projects (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 European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies

9. First actions launched in IST-FP5 Grid research is a key strategic objective From FP5 to FP6 Grid research funding more than doubles IST-FP6 commitment to Grid research 125M€ FP6 58M€ FP5 2000-2002 2002-2006 European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies

10. Grids for Complex Problem Solving Architecture, design and development of the next generation Grid Enabling application technologies DG IST - F2 Research Infrastructure Deployment of specifichigh performance Grids Deployment of high-capacityand high-speed communi-cations network - GEANTDG IST - F3 Grid Research and Deployment in FP6 Application-orientedStrategic Objectives e.g. eBusiness, eGov, eWork, eHealth, risks management,environment, transport R&D Research & Development Deployment 125 M€ (IST) 200 M€ RI Technology-orientedstrategic objectives, e.g. semantic web, embedded systems software and services R&D European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies

11. New Grid Research Projects (FP6) 2002-2006 Total EU Funding: 52 M€ GRIDCOORDBuilding the ERAin Grid research inteliGRIDSemantic Gridbased virtual organisations Grid-based generic enabling application technologies to facilitate solution of industrial problemsSIMDAT K-WF GridKnowledge basedworkflow & collaboration OntoGridKnowledge Services forthe semantic Grid UniGridSExtended OGSAImplementation based on UNICORE Mobile Grid architecture EU driven Grid services DataminingGridDataminingtools & services - and services for dynamic architecture for business and industry NEXTGRID virtual Organisations AKOGRIMO HPC4UFault tolerance,dependabilityfor Grid ProvenanceProvenance for Grids European wide virtual laboratory for longer term Grid - research foundation for next generation Grids COREGRID - European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies

12. Network of Excellence (NoE) - objectives • To reinforce or strengthen scientific and technological excellence on a given research topic • By integrating the critical mass of expertise needed to provide European leadership and be a world force • Around a Joint Programme of Activity (JPA) • Structuring European research by integrating research capacities across Europe • Strong and durable integration • To progress knowledge on a particular theme • Overcome the fragmentation of European research • To act as a “Virtual Centre of Excellence” • To spread excellence beyond the partners European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies

13. A clear evidence of fragmentation • Grid National initiatives: • Belgium Be-GRID • Bulgarian BG-Grid • Cyprus CyGrid • Czech Metacenter • French ACI GRID • German D-GRID • Greek Hellas-GRID • Hungarian Grid • Italian GRID.IT • Polish SGIGrid • Scandinavian NORDUGRID • Spanish IRISGrid • Swiss SwissGRID • The Netherlands DAS • UK e-Science NORDUGRID DAS E-SCIENCE SGIGRID METACENTER BE-GRID D-GRID H-GRID ACI GRID SWISSGRID GRID.IT IRISGRID BG-GRID HELLAS-GRID CYGRID European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies

14. CoreGRID objectives • To build a European-wide research laboratory • Create the European “Grid Lighthouse” and be seen as such worldwide • To achieve integration and sustainability • To build solid foundations for GRID and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) technologies • Both on a methodological basis and a technological basis. • Support medium and long term research activities • Achieve and promote scientific and technological excellence within & beyond the Grid research community • Gather and disseminate European research • A think-tank for spin-off projects • EC funded, bilateral projects, international cooperations, … European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies

15. Network priorities • Excellence • CoreGRID brings together a European critical mass of well-known experts in GRID and P2P research allowing to compete with research and development in US and Japan • An ambitious joint program of activities to deal with well identified challenges • Long-term integration & structuring • Set-up a sustainable European research laboratory with an associated management • With several Institutes • With research groups assigned to Institutes European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies

16. CoreGRID membership • 42 partners • 18 Countries (1 from S. America) • 118 Researchers • 163 PhD Students • Budget: 8.2 M€ for 4 years VTT IC RAL-CCLRC U. Belfast U. Cambridge U. Cardiff U. Manchester U. Newcastle U. Wesminster KTH SICS FhG FZ-Julich HLRS U. Munster U. Dortmund U. Passau ZIB Delft U. Vrije U. PSC CYFRONET U. Chile CETIC UCL Masaryk U. INRIA CNRSERCIM EPFL UASF SZTAKI U. Coimbra CLPP-BAS UPC CNR-ISTI INFN U. Calabria U. Lecce U. Pisa ICS-FORTH U. Cyprus European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies

17. A set of well identified research challenges • Knowledge & Data Management • Handling information/data that are required/produced by a wide range of diverse processing power • Programming Model • Making the programming of Grid infrastructures as simple and transparent as possible • System Architecture • Designing the next generation Grid middleware • Grid Information and Monitoring Services • Scalable information service to implement a service view of the Grid • Resource Management & Scheduling • Scheduling jobs/applications/tasks/computation within a Grid environment • Problem Solving Environments, tools and GRID systems • Integrating various middleware, tools and applications for problem solving European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies

18. Conclusion • CoreGRID started in September 1st, 2004 • A very active project although it is in its early stage • Involvement of the main European Key players in Grid computing (both institutions and researchers) • The only one Network of Excellence in Grid funded by the EU • International collaborations • Still to be implemented • High priorities for collaboration with Asia and North America • Should be linked with one of six areas of the joint executed research programme • Additional funding is required both from the EU and foreign countries • Modalities for collaborations with non EU countries open to discussions European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies