Next-generation IT infrastructure: status and opportunities

1. Next-generation IT infrastructure: status and opportunities Dave Berry Grid Computing Now! National e-Science Centre AHM 2007 11th September 2007

2. Overview • What industry cares about • - and what it doesn’t care about • Underestimating the industrial state of the art • - and overestimating industry’s needs • - some examples from Grids Mean Business • How GCN! can help • - active areas of interest • My focus on IT infrastructure • - there are, of course, other areas of e-science that have plenty to offer UK industry

3. “Cost of ownership” What does a business really care about? • Of little interest: • What the technology is called • Technology for its own sake • Technological purity “Service levels” “Time to market” John Easton, CoreGRID

4. Grid Computing Utility Computing Trends in IT infrastructure Grid:Applying the resources of many computers in a distributed network, in parallel, to a single problem SaaS:Providing software capability as a consumable commodity, at commodity prices SOA:Delivering IT functionality as reusable, interoperable, location independent services Service Oriented Architecture VirtualisedResources Virtualisation: Providing an IT platform independent of the hardware underlying it. Software as a Service Utility:giving users all the resources they need at the time they are needed, at a cost that is related to the business value delivered

5. Academia under-estimates industry • Multi-thousand node “grids” are relatively commonplace • Geographic “grids” are becoming more common • Ultra-‘bleeding edge’ solutions are already being implemented • but you won’t necessarily hear about them… except maybe rumours • Don’t underestimate what is achievable today • This is the benchmark that a new solution has to beat. John Easton, CoreGRID

6. Academia over-estimates industry • Multi-organisation systems are extremely rare • Those that do exist are usually master-slave relationships rather than peer-to-peer relationships • Web Services will not happen in the foreseeable future for most companies • Most grids are ‘inside the firewall’ • Security is NOT an issue for these John Easton, CoreGRID

7. Using 15,000 CPUs 66% of the TimeMicron Grid Overview Brooklin Gore, OGF20

8. Roadmap and Design Move to shared resource environment in a controlled manner End State: all resources are shared with grid scheduling and policies ensuring SLA’s are met Andrew Dolan, OGF20 OGF

9. Virtual Resource Market Virtual Resource Market - Details $/Unit Performance $/Fabric $/Virtual Unit Performance $ for SLAs (Budget) Match $ for SLA to $/Virtual Unit Performance Compute Fabrics Compute Fabric C1 Bid for Compute Fabric Offers of C1 Compute Fabric C2 Bid for Network Fabric Offers of C2 Bid for Storage Fabric Canonical Architecture A Network Fabric N1 Network Fabrics Offers of N1 Bid for Compute Fabric Bids Offers Network Fabric N2 Bid for Network Fabric Canonical Architecture B Offers of N2 SLA Storage Fabric S1 Storage Fabrics Bid for Storage Fabric Offers of S1 Bid for Compute Fabric Storage Fabric S2 Bid for Network Fabric Offers of S2 Canonical Architecture C Canonical Application Architectures Time Slice Bids Time Slice Offers Minimize $/Unit Performance Maintain SLAs Virtualized Resources Physical Resources Chris Swan, OGF20

10. What can GCN! offer e-scientists? • Potential collaborators • Via Advisory Council, GCN! membership, personal contacts, other KTNs, etc. • Kick-off Meetings • Bringing potential collaborators together to form study groups or discuss funding proposals • Dissemination • Webinars, events, web site • Knowledge Transfer Networks exist to share information and bring people together

11. Road traffic modelling

12. Old World New World Dynamic Shared Virtual Automated Service Static Silo Physical Manual Application Software Licensing

13. Green IT Utilisation optimisation via virtualisation Modelling power management & cooling, Need: 2xProcessing Capacity per annum; Target: 60% Energy Reduction* by 2050

14. GCN! Roadmapping Event • The Next Information Infrastructure • Workshop, May 30th, Intellect • 25 attendees representing high-tech; users; KTNs; Government • Excellent feedback from vast majority • Generating insight on potential innovations; promoters and next steps for KTN • Report available soon

15. Some suggested innovations • Security threat detection and response • New Infrastructure • Wrapping applications for Grid deployment • Energy-efficient IT • Smart travel • Traffic modelling in real time – signage control • Dynamic journey planning • Dial-a-ride public transport • Proactive health care • 24/7 monitoring • At-home advisory services (web 3.0) • Personal ‘MOT’ • Integrative biology – driving personalised medicine

16. More possible gaps in near-market R&D • Application design for next generation infrastructures • Applications may have multiple instances, run anywhere • Migration techniques • Dynamic integration • Managing large-scale infrastructures • Dynamic, possibly conflicting, policies • Data provisioning • Green IT • Modelling of power management, cooling, etc • Utilisation optimisation • Markets, brokering, security, etc. • Data licensing & security • Micro-payments • SLA & QoS management

17. GCN! Technical Webinars: Green IT Webinar 25 October 2007 Software Licensing Webinar November 2007 What people say about our webinars: “The event was very useful - content and speakers very good - format fine” – Oracle “ I would recommend this webinar Distributed Systems in e-Health to a colleague.”- IBM “Excellent” - Platform Upcoming Events