DATAMAT: Profile, Role and Expectations

1. DATAMAT:Profile, Role and Expectations Federico ROSSI - fedro@datamat.itInternational ProgrammesBusiness Development Manager Ugo GRANDINETTI - ugrand@datamat.it International ProgrammesProgrammes Co-ordinator

2. Contents of the Presentation • Company Profile • Rationale for Participation • Related Experience • Exploitation Plans • Involvement in Data Grid IST project

3. Other2% HighSchool48% UniversityDegree50% DATAMAT Group Profile • Large Italian private ICT group, established in 1971: • 120 MEuro turnover (1999) • 10% yearly R&D investment • 1400 highly qualified staff (June 2000) +30% since 1999 Average 32 years

4. DATAMAT Presence • Broad presence on ICT market sectors: • Focus on high technology systems. COMMAND &CONTROLSYSTEMS SIMULATION & TRAINING COMMUNICATIONS MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AEROSPACE & ENVIRONMENT INFORMATIONSYSTEMS SOFTWARETECHNOLOGIES

5. DATAMAT Organisation

6. Why DATAMAT commitment? • DATAMAT is traditionally focused on IT innovation, with a long record of state-of-the-art technologies exploitation in International research and technical development project • The concept of computational grid is one of the most promising novelties for IT market, representing a fundamental change in how computing is perceived and used, as WWW was in the 90’s

7. Some selected references:Earth Observation • ENVISAT (for ESA) • Integration and Validation of entire Payload Data Segment • distributed User Services (USF, USCF, INV) • EPS (for Eumetsat) • Definition Study for Polar Data Processing / Distribution Facilities • MUIS (for ESA) • User Management / Inventory Data Server • Integration & Validation

8. Some selected references:Meteorology • Weather Radar (SW Processing, Mosaicing) • For Italian Met Service: Weather Radar Network • For several Italian regions: Weather Radars • NSED (New Data ProcessingSystem) • For Italian Met Service:400 operators, 62 sitesacquisition, validation, processing, archiving, dissemination

9. LNA DOWN CONVERTER MODEMs & GATEWAY MULTIPLEXER RF DIPLEXER HPA UP CONVERTER Some selected references:Telecommunications • Operational Support SwFault Management Systems (CMT) Telecom Italia Networks • Surveillance & Building Automation (POPEYE) • Ground Stations for Satellite Communications (CMCS)

10. Exploitation strategy • Return of 50% investment to be achieved • Present exploitation potential: • distributed supercomputing applications • mainly for private and public research sector • collaborative applications • healthcare, environment, media, transport • on-demand applications • market of computing services (B2B) • Acquire knowledge to develop applications and commercialise value added services

11. DATAMAT Involvement • Leading Task 1.2 “Job Resources Specification and Job Description” of WP1 “Workload Management”. Goal: to specify the methods to define and publish the resources needed by a generic job and to develop a working prototype accordingly. Main interfaces: Task 1.4 “Scheduling” • Participation to other tasks of WP1: • 1.1 “Requirements definition”, • 1.4 “Scheduling”, • 1.7 “Testing and Refinement” • Possible involvement in WP 9 “Earth Observation Science Application”

12. Planning WP1 DATAMAT Involvement: Open Issues • Preliminary effort allocation to be verified against needs and effective workload distribution • Interfaces with other tasks to be clearly identified and assigned to one of the two parties involved • Contribution from/to other Partners’ tasks to be detailed

13. Conclusions ---------------------------------------- “Inventors look beyond wow. They dive into the deep end. Ask lots of stupid questions. Leave no stone unturned. Learn everything, then forget it all. And always stay sceptical. Invent.” ----------------------------------------