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

2. CoreGRID objectives • To build a European-wide research laboratory • To avoid fragmentation of Grid research activities in Europe • 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

3. 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 E-SCIENCE DAS SGIGRID D-GRID METACENTER BE-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

4. 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 North America and Asia • 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

5. A NoE managed by ERCIM ERCIM is a consortium of leading research institutions from 18 countries (17 European) committed to information technology and applied mathematics. European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies

6. CoreGRID membership • 42 partners • 18 Countries (1 from S. America) • 120 Researchers • 165 PhD Students IC RAL-CCLRC U. Belfast U. Cambridge U. Cardiff U. Manchester U. Newcastle U. Wesminster VTT KTH SICS FhG FZJ USTUTT U. Muenster UNI DO U. Passau ZIB Delft U. Vrije U. U. Chile PSC CYFRONET 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

7. Joint Program of Activities Joint Programme of Activities Pierre Guisset SergeiGorlatch Integrated Activities Jointly Executed Research Spreading of Excellence Coordinated Programming of Partners’ activities Knowledge & Data Management Public Website Domenico Talia Technical reports Coordinated approach to prepare project proposals Programming Model Marco Danelutto Workshops & conferences Internal Collaboration and Dissemination System Architecture Industry Artur Andrzejak GRID User community Annual Integration Workshop Grid Information and Monitoring Service Ludek Matyska Newsletter Common Understanding Trust & Security Resource Management And Scheduling Conferences Ramin Yahyapour Brochures Grid Testbed PSE, tools and GRID systems Vladimir Getov Training & Education Mobility of researchers European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies

8. Collaboration with other EU Grid projects Collaboration Gateway • CoreGRID is participating to the Collaboration Gateway and leads two activities : • Roadmaps • Trainings Wolfgang Ziegler Exploitation of synergies / technical concertation Joint fora for exchange and dissemination Co-ordination of standardisation efforts Repository of reference Implementations and Grid middleware Collaboration on research Inventories and roadmaps Leadership Indicators and impact assessment Training activities Leadership European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies

9. 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

10. Knowledge & Data Management • Integration of data management and knowledge discovery with GRID technologies for providing knowledge-based GRID services • Define a unified vision of the data and knowledge management in Grids through a layered approach • Research activities • Distributed data management • Based on commodity storage devices and interconnects • Information and knowledge management • Semantic modeling through metadata • Data mining and knowledge discovery • Semantic description for service discovery European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies

11. Programming Model • Raise the level of abstraction to make the programming of grids easier • OGSA and WSRF are just the instruction set of grid computing infrastructures • Definition of a lightweight component model for grid applications • A clear illustration of the research fragmentation • At least 9 partners are working on component programming • Specific requirements: heterogeneity, dynamicity, scalability • Targeted applications: grid middleware & scientific computing • Research activities • Application requirements • Communication between components • Component model definition and hierarchical composition • Advanced programming models based on components framework European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies

12. System Architecture • Next Generation Grid System Architecture • Implement the “invisible Grid” vision of the NGG report • Focus on specific deficiencies of present day Grid systems • Today Grid middleware • centralized or semi-centralized • Short-term prediction models and tools • Fault tolerance mechanisms only for small/medium scale systems • Specific requirements: scalability, adaptability and dependability • Research activities • Definition of capabilities and architectural components of Grids • Scalable Grid Services • follow a P2P approach instead of a client/server approach • Mechanism for adaptive Grids • tools and models for long-term prediction • Dependability in Grids • Fault tolerant middleware and runtime European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies

13. Grid Information & Monitoring Service • Improve various services such as monitoring, information and user/accounting management • Avoid centralized management as much as possible • Research activities • Checkpointing services • Workflow services • Accounting and user management services in large scale system European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies

14. Resource Management & Scheduling • Develop generic solution for Grid scheduling and management • Not only able to manage computational resources • Definition of a pervasive RMS middleware for different application scenarios • Consider different kind of resources • Common interface and models • Support business models • Research activities • Grid scheduling architecture • Multi-level scheduling strategies • Workflow scheduling strategies for jobs with temporal dependencies • Fault-tolerance and reliability in scheduling • Coordinating scheduling with data management • Performance prediction for advanced scheduling European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies

15. Problem Solving Environment, tools and applications for problem solving • Develop a novel software environments and tools for Grid systems • Today Grid middleware systems are not component-based although their high-degree of complexity • Definition of a generic component system to integrate applications, tools and system components • Based on the CoreGRID components model • Research activities • Definition of a generic platform • Mediator components • Integrated toolkit • Advanced tools and environments European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies

16. Spreading Excellence P. Guisset (CETIC) Integrated Activities S. Gorlatch (U. Munster) Knowledge & Data Management D. Talia (U. Calabria) System Architecture A. Andrzejak (ZIB) Scheduling R. Yahyapour (U. Dortmund) CoreGRID Institutes Programming Model M. Danelutto (U. Pisa) Grid Information & Monitoring L. Matyska (U. Masaryk) PSE, tools and GRID systems V. Getov (U. Wesminster) Organizational Map Scientific Advisory Board Industrial Advisory Board Specific Task Forces Integration Monitoring Committee Members General Assembly Chair: R. Perrott (U. Belfast) Administrative & Financial Co-ordinator B. Le Dantec (ERCIM) Scientific Co-ordinator T. Priol (INRIA) Executive Committee Chair: D. Laforenza(CNR-ISTI) Collaboration Gateway W. Ziegler (FhG) European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies

17. Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) • Objectives: • Annual external assessment of the scientific quality of the work • Provide guidance to the strategic orientations • Formulate recommendations  guard the excellence of the Network • Three senior Network scientists and three external advisors • Internal members: • Jarek Nabrzyzki (PSNC - Poland) • Henri Bal (Vrije U. - The Netherlands) • Uwe Schwiegelshohn (Dortmund U. - Germany) • External members: • Dennis Gannon (Indiana U. - USA) • Michel Cosnard (Nice U. - France) • Sato Sekiguchi (AIST - Japan) European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies

18. Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) • IAB has four primary objectives: • To communicate to the Network European Industry’s long-term Grid-related technology needs and challenges • To provide the Network with Grid validation cases • To help identify the market sector(s) to be addressed within the Grid User Community, in order to ensure a quick adoption of next generation Grid technologies within European industry • To report to the Scientific Advisory Board its recommendation with respect to future strategic GRID-related research objectives • IAB is composed of 15 members from the European industrial sector • Confirmed members: • Federico Rossi, DATAMAT (Italy) • Yannis Perros, Algosystems (Greece) • Bernd Kosch, FUJITSU SIEMENS COMPUTER (Germany) • Mark Gilbert, European Microsoft Innovation Center (Germany) • John Easton, IBM Grid Computing (UK) • Anssi Karhinen, Nokia Research Center (Finland) • Igor Klapka, SAMTECH (Belgium) • Guillaume Alléon, EADS (France) European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies

19. Some of the CoreGRID results http://www.coregrid.net Newsletter Technical Report Workshop on Network Centric Operating systems March 16-17, Brussels Information available at the CoreGRID web site Announcement European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies

20. http://www.ercim.org/publication/Ercim_News/enw59/ Conclusion • CoreGRID started in September 1st, 2004 • A very active project although it is in its early stage • Funding from the EC: 8.2 M€ for the first 4 years • 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 European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies