CoreGRID: European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for la

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CoreGRID European Research Network on
Foundations, Software Infrastructures and
Applications for large scale distributed, GRID
and Peer-to-Peer Technologies

• Thierry PRIOL
• IRISA/INRIA
• Thierry.Priol_at_inria.fr

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New Grid Research Projects (FP6) 2002-2006
Total EU Funding 52 M
GRIDCOORDBuilding the ERAin Grid research
inteliGRIDSemantic Gridbased virtual
organisations
Grid-based generic enabling application
technologies to facilitate solution of industrial
problemsSIMDAT
K-WF GridKnowledge basedworkflow
collaboration
OntoGridKnowledge Services forthe semantic Grid
UniGridSExtended OGSAImplementation based on
UNICORE
Mobile Grid architecture
EU
driven Grid services
DataminingGridDataminingtools services
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and services for dynamic
architecture for business
and industry NEXTGRID
virtual
Organisations AKOGRIMO
HPC4UFault tolerance,dependabilityfor Grid
ProvenanceProvenance for Grids
European
wide virtual laboratory for longer term Grid
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research
foundation for next generation Grids
COREGRID
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Network of Excellence (NoE) - objectives

• To reinforce or strengthen scientific and
  technological excellence on a given research
  topic
• By integrating the critical mass of expertise
  needed to provide European leadership and be a
  world force
• Around a Joint Programme of Activity (JPA)
• Structuring European research by integrating
  research capacities across Europe
• Strong and durable integration
• To progress knowledge on a particular theme
• Overcome the fragmentation of European research
• To act as a Virtual Centre of Excellence
• To spread excellence beyond the partners

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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
DAS
E-SCIENCE
SGIGRID
METACENTER
BE-GRID
D-GRID
H-GRID
ACI GRID
SWISSGRID
GRID.IT
IRISGRID
BG-GRID
HELLAS-GRID
CYGRID
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CoreGRID objectives

• To build a European-wide research laboratory
• 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,

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CoreGRID and the EU Grid vision
CoreGRID
to advance
to mature
to consolidate
2004
2006
2008
We are committed to making next generation grids
happen by overcoming the technological and
scientific obstacles ahead
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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 US and Japan
• 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

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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

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A NoE managed by ERCIM
ERCIM is a consortium of leading research
institutions from 18 Europeancountriescommitted
to information technology and applied
mathematics.
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CoreGRID membership
VTT
IC RAL-CCLRC U. Belfast U. Cambridge U.
Cardiff U. Manchester U. Newcastle U. Wesminster

• 42 partners
• 18 Countries (1 from S. America)
• 118 Researchers
• 163 PhD Students
• Budget 8.2 M for 4 years

KTH SICS
FhG FZ-Julich HLRS U. Munster U. Dortmund U.
Passau ZIB
Delft U. Vrije U.
PSC CYFRONET
U. Chile
CETIC UCL
Masaryk U.
INRIA CNRSERCIM
EPFL UASF
SZTAKI
CLPP-BAS
U. Coimbra
UPC
CNR-ISTI INFN U. Calabria U. Lecce U. Pisa
ICS-FORTH
U. Cyprus
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Joint Program of Activities
Joint Programme of Activities
Pierre Guisset
SergeiGorlatch
Integrated Activities
Jointly Executed Research
Spreading of Excellence
WP1
WP8
Knowledge Data Management
Coordinated Programming of Partners activities
Public Website
WP2
Technical report
Programming Model
Coordinated approach to prepare project proposals
Workshops conferences
WP3
Industry
System Architecture
Internal Collaboration and Dissemination
WP4
Industrial Advisory Board
GRID User community
Newsletter
Grid Information and Monitoring Service
Annual Integration Workshop
WP5
Conferences
Resource Management And Scheduling
Common Understanding Trust Security
Brochures
WP6
Training Education
PSE, tools and GRID systems
Grid Testbed
WP7
Mobility of researchers
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Collaboration with other EU Grid projects
Wolfgang Ziegler

• Subject to discussion in March 2004
• Subject of a two days meeting in September
  (16-17)

Collaboration Gateway
WP9
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
Indicators and impact assessment
Training activities
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Organizational map
Scientific Advisory Board
Industrial Advisory Board
Specific Task Forces
Integration Monitoring Committee
Members General Assembly
Chair R. Perrott (U. Belfast)
Executive Committee
Administrative Financial Co-ordinator B. Le
Dantec (ERCIM)
Scientific Co-ordinator T. Priol (INRIA)
Chair D. Laforenza(CNR-ISTI)
Collaboration Gateway W. Ziegler (FhG)