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Driving Progress: A possible “business model” for the Open Grid Forum

Driving Progress: A possible “business model” for the Open Grid Forum. Craig A. Lee, President, OGF. September 15, 2008. Why Standardize?. Need for commonality and best practices across a significant user community Technical Requirements

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Driving Progress: A possible “business model” for the Open Grid Forum

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  1. Driving Progress:A possible “business model” for the Open Grid Forum Craig A. Lee, President, OGF September 15, 2008

  2. Why Standardize? • Need for commonality and best practices across a significant user community • Technical Requirements • Feasible & appropriate to codify in the technical design • Marketplace Drivers • User community must have critical mass • Major stakeholders will have no motivation to standardize otherwise • Genuine standardization (with wide-scale adoption) will only occur when all of these conditions are met • How can we drive this process? 2

  3. A Case Study: HPC Basic Profile • 2006 • Key stakeholders decided to demonstrate interoperability between their existing job submission infrastructures • November 2006 (SC06) • Prototype implementations demonstrated • 28-August-2007 • HPC Basic Profile, Version 1.0, published • http://www.ogf.org/documents/GFD.114.pdf • November 2007 (SC07) • Interoperability demonstrated by Altair, Microsoft, Platform, OMII-UK, OMII-Europe, EGEE, UVa • 21-February-2008 • Interoperability Experiences with HPCBP, Version 1.0, published http://www.ogf.org/documents/GFD.124.pdf • Commercial adoption plans by Altair, Microsoft & Platform 3

  4. How to “Bottle” this Process?? • Build Critical Mass of Key Stakeholders • Continual polling and coordination across the community • They must agree on: • Clear Goals • Clear Schedule (“time-box” the process) • Clear Responsibilities • Properly Provisioning the Effort 4

  5. A General Process Model Task A Concept Development Task B RFQ/CFP* Development Task C Selection & Kick-off Task E Task D Deploy & Persist Develop & Test *RFQ/CFP = Request for Quotation/Call for Participation Stakeholders Manage OGF Facilitates Clear Schedule, Deliverables and Project Responsibilities 5 5

  6. Return on Investment • What are the “carrots” to build the critical mass of stakeholders? • Get early influence in specification development, early skills building, visibility, and opportunity for early market deployment of standards, but just as important… • Return on Investment (ROI) • Investment • Time, Money & People • Both Monetary and In-Kind (labor & materials) • Timely Connection to Concrete Results • Stakeholders benefit from collaboration • Get more than they put in 6

  7. Targeted Project Issues • Can we find those key projects, build critical mass, and effectively execute? • Can we “turn the crank” to make this happen on a routine basis? • What resources must OGF invest to make this happen -- and can OGF get an ROI? • Can we make this a feasible and desirable “business model” for OGF? 7

  8. A Case Study: OWS • The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web Services (OWS) Testbed is a (roughly) annual effort whereby sponsors can define focused, near-term projects to achieve key technical developments • OWS-5 Statistics (completed March 2008): • Multiple technical “threads” around important topics • 7 Sponsors, 35 participants • 52 Components, 24 reports, 13 demonstrations • $1.2M sponsorship, $4M in-kind contributions • 3.3x ROI • OWS-6 is in the planning stage • Key opportunity for the grid and geospatial communities to engage on critical topics of mutual interest 8

  9. OWS-5 Example: NASA Sensor Web Demo Satellite EO-1 tasked to collect imagery on Northern San Diego County Wildfires that was integrated with UAV track data (red lines) in Google Earth. Demo drove issues around sensor networks, data interoperability, and command & control. 9

  10. A Possible “Business Model” for OGF This process could be used to drive: Best practices Standards Interoperability testing Compliance testing … anything that requires collaboration among stakeholders to drive progress Key Process Issues: Building critical mass of key stakeholders Clearly identified schedule, goals, and responsibilities Properly provisioning the effort 10 10

  11. Update on OGC OWS-6 RFQ/CFP • OWS-6 RFQ/CFP closed on Sept. 5 • OGF and specific OGF standards were mentioned in Thread 2: GeoProcessing Workflows • OGC leadership is reviewing response • Briefing to Sponsors was Thursday, Sept. 11 • Information on any possible grid or OGF involvement could be available soon thereafter • Side note: S. Sekiguchi (AIST) representing OGF at first meeting of OGC’s Workflow Domain WG at Tech. Committee meeting Sept. 17 in Atlanta • Thanks! 11

  12. Update on Green VM project • Effort to coordinate existing projects on virtualization, clouds and green IT under the OGF umbrella • First telecon on Sept 4, 2008 • 7 attendees from 6 organizations • Atos Origin, IBM Haifa, UCM, ENS Lyon, Platform Computing, Aerospace • Possible next steps • Development of a "reference model" for energy monitoring and policy enforcement engine • Enable a "common framework" in which to coordinate projects, e.g., Reservoir, OpenNebula, Green-Net • Three Main Issues • Money, funding & support 12

  13. An Energy Management Arch. Anne-Cecile Orgerie, Laurent Lefèvre, and Jean-Patrick Gelas, Save Watts in your Grid: Green Strategies for Energy-Aware Framework in Large Scale Distributed Systems. 14th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Melbourne, Australia, December 2008. 13

  14. Key Engagement Issues • How to engage business units? • How to get visibility for this work? • Targeted Projects “business model” • Specific PR/Outreach campaigns? • Speakers Bureau? • NCOIC (Darema), OGC (Sekiguchi), Financial Services Tech Forum (Walter), NOAA (Lee) • What segment of the "market" to go after? • What are the "most natural" adjacencies for the current core constituency? • Application domains that require HPC • National projects, e.g., disaster recovery & mitigation, environmental, aviation, … • Does HPC need green? A cluster rack that can be turned off is a cluster in need of more users 14

  15. Potential Engagement Areas • Clouds and virtualization • Green IT • Grid Sustainability • Financial Services • Life Sciences • Geospatial • Data, Digital Repositories, Digital Libraries • Compliance Testing/Certification • Public Administration & e-Government 15

  16. Summary • How to engage major stakeholders? • Contact me: lee@aero.org 16

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