Max Lemke

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European Grid Research
AcrossGrids 2004 Conference 2nd IST Concertation
Meeting on Grid Research 29-30 January, 2004

• Max Lemke
• Deputy Head of Unit
• DG Information Society
• Grids for Complex Problem solving
• http//www.cordis.lu/ist/grids

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Outline

• Introduction
• Grid in PF5
• Grid in FP6 From vision to implementation
• Next steps Call 3
• Grid Vision 2007 and beyond
• ERA Pilot on Grid Research - towards a technology
  platform
• Conclusion

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What is the Grid ?

• Benefits
• Increased productivity by reducing Total Cost of
  Ownership
• Any-type, anywhere, anytime services by/for all
• Infrastructure for dynamic virtual organizations
• Next generation Internet services backbone

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Outline

• Introduction
• Grid in PF5
• Grid in FP6 From vision to implementation
• Next steps Call 3
• Grid Vision 2007 and beyond
• ERA Pilot on Grid Research - towards a technology
  platform
• Conclusion

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Focus of 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
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FP5 IST Grid Projects Lifeline
2nd IST ConcertationMeeting on Grid
Research January 29-30, 2004
Start of Research Infrastructure Project EGEE
(01.04.04)
Envisaged start of FP6 Grid Research Projects
1st IST ConcertationMeeting on Grid
Research June 18-19, 2003
1-10-2000
1-10-2001
1-10-2002
1-10-2003
30-9-2004
30-9-2005
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FP5 Grid Research - achievements so far (1)

• Europes position in Grid middleware strengthened
• 1st OGSA-compliant version of UNICORE (e.g. GRIP)
• Globus Application Toolkit, authentication
  service (e.g. GRIDLAB)
• Application areas in e-Science
• GRID pilots mostly in e-science disciplines
  (physics, engineering, biology/medicine, earth
  science, etc.)
• initial steps towards maturing Grid technologies
  for industrial use (e.g. GRASP, GRIA, COG, GRACE,
  MOSES, SELENE, etc.)
• lacking on knowledge management and semantic grid
• Business Models partially addressed
• accounting services, workflows (e.g. GRIA)
• ASP services (e.g. EUROGRID)
• security, licensing models

DRAFT ASSESSMENT
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FP5 Grid Research - achievements so far (2)

• Research Infrastructure - Grid deployment
• DATAGRID was the basis for FP6 projects EGEE and
  DEISA
• Standardization
• Contribution to GGF
• FP5 projects have set-up and lead GGF working
  groups
• Grid Protocol Architecture (GPA)
• Open Grid Services Infrastructure (OGSI)
• Grid Scheduling Ontology (GSO-prop)
• Applications tests beds (APPS)
• GGF work insufficiently embedded as part of
  projects objectives and deliverables

DRAFT ASSESSMENT
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Outline

• Introduction
• Grid in PF5
• Grid in FP6 From vision to implementation
• Next steps Call 3
• Grid Vision 2007 and beyond
• ERA Pilot on Grid Research - towards a technology
  platform
• Conclusion

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IST-FP6 commitment to Grid research

• CPA 9 actions launched in IST-FP5
• Proposals under Selection from IST-FP6 Call 2
  Strategic ObjectiveGrids for Complex Problem
  Solving

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Grid Research and Deployment in FP6
Application-orientedStrategic Objectives e.g.
eBusiness, eGov, eWork, eHealth, risks
management

• Research Infrastructure
• Deployment of specifichigh performance Grids
• Deployment of high-capacityand high-speed
  communi-cations network - GEANT DG IST -
  F3

• Grids for Complex Problem Solving
• Architecture, design and development of the next
  generation Grid
• Enabling application technologies
• DG IST - F2

RD
Research Development
Deployment
125 M (IST)
200 M RI
Technology-orientedstrategic objectives e.g.
semantic web, software and services
RD
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The Challenge (1)Complexity - Interoperability -
Ease of Use - ...
Complex Systems
Evolution of HPCN
Next Generation Grids
Global Grid Services Infrastructure?
Current Grids
Empowering AmI
Evolution of the Web
Global Computing
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The Challenge in FP6 (2)Moving Grid from
e-Science to Industry

• Promote Grid research to
• Solve complex problems with high economic and
  societal impact
• Exploit the potential of Grids beyond e-Science
• Ease access and use of Grids

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Next Generation Grid(s) 3-fold vision
Expert Group Report Next Generation Grid(s) -
European Grid Research 2005 - 2010, June 2003
Abstraction
Simplification

• End-user empowerment
• Life-support to business processes

NextGenerationGrids

• Continuously changing requirements
• Grid services development environments

Software vision
End-UserVision
Architectural Vision

• Societal behaviour (millions of self-organising
  nodes)
• Computational semantics, ontologies,
  meta-descriptions
• Pervasive virtual organisations

Virtualization
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Next Generation Grid(s)Identified Research
Themes
Expert Group Report Next Generation Grid(s) -
European Grid Research 2005 - 2010, June 2003
Properties
Open Reliable ScalablePersistent
TransparentPerson-centric Pervasive Secure /
trusted Standards-based
Research Themes
NextGenerationGrid(s)
Facilities
Models
User Interface Grid Economies Business models
Virtual Organisation Systems Management Co-ord.
and orchestrationInformation representation
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FP6 Research Focus WorkProgramme 2003/2004
ApplicationSector 1
ApplicationSector 3
ApplicationSector 2
ApplicationSector n
ApplicationSector 1
Applications e-business, e-health,
e-gov, e-learning, environment
Grids for CPS focus
Generic enabling application technologies Tools
and environments for simulation, data mining,
knowledge discovery, collaborative working, ...
Next generation Grid Architecture, design and
development addressing security, business
models, open source/standards,interoperability,
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Call 2 - Ranked proposals
Building the ERAin Grid research
SemanticGrid
Knowledgebasedworkflow collaboration
Dataminingtools services
Dependability, Trust, Provenance
Extended OGSAImplementation
Evaluation results Call 2(ranked proposals)
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Outline

• Introduction
• Grid in PF5
• Grid in FP6 From vision to implementation
• Next steps Call 3
• Grid Vision 2007 and beyond
• ERA Pilot on Grid Research - towards a technology
  platform
• Conclusion

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IST - Call 3

• Opening Date22.05.2004
• Closing Date22.09.2004
• Total indicative budget70 million Euro

• Objectives

• To expand the scope of FP6 actions already under
  way to cover new activities which are expected to
  involve new participants from the new Member
  States of the EU and the Associated Candidate
  Countries
• To improve partnerships with small and
  medium-sized enterprises (SME) by expanding the
  scope of FP6 actions already under way
• To increase co-operation with partners from
  target countries for international co-operation
  (INCO) e.g. Latin America, India, China
• To progress towards the achievement of the
  objectives of a European Research Area in a given
  field

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Outline

• Introduction
• Grid in PF5
• Grid in FP6 From vision to implementation
• Next steps Call 3
• Grid Vision 2007 and beyond
• ERA Pilot on Grid Research - towards a technology
  platform
• Conclusion

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FP 7 Grid vision - 2007 and beyond
Grid empowers AmI Towards a Global Grid
Services Infrastructurefor Business Industry
person-centric

• Building the Invisible Grid
• Mastering ICT complexity
• Grids of mobile and embedded systems
• From to self-healing systems
• From plug play to connect share
• Meta Operating System architecture
• Knowledge at the fingertips

local
AmI

AmIGrid


network-centric
global
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Outline

• Introduction
• Grid in PF5
• Grid in FP6 From vision to implementation
• Next steps Call 3
• Grid Vision 2007 and beyond
• ERA Pilot on Grid Research - towards a technology
  platform
• Conclusion

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An ERA Pilot for Grid Research (1)
Objectives and Benefits

• Overcome fragmentation and dispersion across EU
  to reinforce impact of national and Community
  research
• Facilitate stronger co-operation between MSs and
  Community activities
• Support the MSs in developing shared visions /
  common planning / joint programmes
• Provide assistance for the co-ordination of
  future research initiatives
• Identify topics of mutual interest for Community
  and National Level
• Strengthen Europes position on Grid Research and
  its exploitation
• Pooling of expertise and creation of critical
  mass
• Focussing and co-ordinating national priorities
  in European / world-wide context

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An ERA Pilot for Grid Research (2)

• Requirements

• Inventory of national and EU initiatives
  including analysis of strength, weaknesses, gaps
  and synergies on EU-scale
• Establishment of a regular forum on Grid Research
  of European funding bodies and research leaders
• Better co-ordination of fragmented national and
  EU efforts by putting them in EU context towards
  achieving critical mass / higher impact on
  international level

• Further investigation on how to best stimulate
  the development and delivery of production-level
  / industrial-strength Grid MW
• Actions towards broadening the use of Grid beyond
  eScience towards its use in business and
  industry

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Delivery of Industrial Strength GRID Middleware
Establishing an Effective European Approach (1)

• Workshop January 21 2004 in Brussels
• Motivation
• Need to improve exploitation of EU research
  results and commercial impact
• Identify appropriate support actions in FP6
• Identify EU requirements in view of UK-OMII
• Reflect on EU-wide approaches towards
  standardisation international co-operation
• Participants
• Grid researchers
• Industrial stakeholders both as suppliers and
  users of Grid
• Grid Application Service Providers
• Developers of Grid programming environments
• IT industry leaders in GRID technology

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Workshop Conclusions (2)

• Open Source Software built using sound and proven
  distributed software engineering and process
  models is an economically viable approach as it
  facilitates further exploitation innovation
• Appropriate licensing models providing the legal
  framework for various exploitation options are
  needed
• Software quality standards should be enhanced in
  FP6 projects
• Grid infrastructure built on open standards needs
  to provide solutions to security, identity
  management, certification authority, etc.
• Create an industry association to build
  Grid-infrastructures (Grid commons) - EU joint
  or federated approach
• Build (de-facto) standards through critical mass,
  bringing developer user communities together
• More effective participation of European Industry
  on standardization is necessary. Co-ordination
  with other standards bodies (OASIS, W3C) should
  be pursued
• Public Report March 2004 (www.cordis.lu/ist/grids
  )

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Outline

• Introduction
• Grid in PF5
• Grid in FP6 From vision to implementation
• Next steps Call 3
• Grid Vision 2007 and beyond
• ERA Pilot on Grid Research - towards a technology
  platform
• Conclusion

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Grid a future EU success story ?
Research Policy
Industrial policy

• Vision 2010 and beyond
• From eScience to business industry
• Strengthen EU leadership on Grid
• Build the ERA for Grid research
• International collaboration
• ERA Grid Pilot Action

• Strengthen EU competitiveness
• Supporting industry and business users
• Revitalizing secondary SW industry
• Boosting EU primary SW industry
• Build and exploit the Grid services utility

Strengths
Opportunities
A potential new success story of European ICT?
W Boch - F2
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Conclusions

• Grid as a utility a new paradigm for service
  delivery
• Grid a key building block of the knowledge
  economy
• Grid empowers AmI
• EU needs to better capitalise on its strengths in
  Grid research and applications
• Support exploitation and commercial take-up
  through policy measures
• Promote and report strategic achievements and
  impact of research results

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Concertation - Objectives

• Identify achievements and impact of FP5 projects
• Success stories
• Inside and in particular outside the project
• Exploit synergies and opportunities for
  co-operation
• join forces / collaboration across projects
• take up of Grid technologies
• Establish a European route to standardisation
• increase effectiveness by collaboration and joint
  positioning
• increase Europes weight (GGF, W3C, OMG, OASIS,
  )

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Questions for TWGs

• What progress in terms of collaboration and
  exploitation of synergies between projects was
  made since the last meeting?
• What are the core technical issues (3) addressed
  by FP5 projects in the area of the TWG how is
  Europe positioned?
• What are the major achievements and impacts of
  FP5 projects until now / to be expected beyond
  creating a strong research community?
• How were/are standards impacted does EU
  contribution to standards get appropriate
  visibility?

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Working Groups