Delivery of industrial-strengthGrid Middleware:

Establishing an effective European Approach

Delivery of industrial-strengthGrid Middleware:

Establishing an effective European Approach

The distribution of roles and functions between the private and public sectors

in supporting exploitation and commercial take-up

21 January 2004

The distribution of roles and functions between the private and public sectors

in supporting exploitation and commercial take-up

21 January 2004

Dr. Stefan Mayer, MSC.Software GmbH

Introductory Remarks

Compare equivalence between Grid middleware and MPI MPI available in open source and proprietary

implementations In industrial environments, MPI is mainly

deployed on homogeneous systems Platform interoperability is a major new aspect

and challenge for grid middleware View on role of open source and proprietary

implementations strongly influenced by experiences with MPI

Exploitation and Commercial Take-up

Moving grid software from research into business critical industrial environments will be the major driving force for exploitation and commercial take-up

This will happen by integrating grid middleware into commercial software systems for complex problem solving environments

Exploitation and Commercial Take-up

Grid standards are public New standards or extensions should typically first be

implemented in open source Advantages are speed of implementation, availability of software

on multiple relevant computer architectures Recommended for early exploitation of research projects Public funding important

Take-up by commercial middleware providers desired Advantages are tuned and stable versions, guaranteed support,

and most importantly, clear legal conditions Competition with open source implementations is fruitful Commercial providers with a multi platform view preferred to

avoid proprietary implementation for each platform Challenge is interoperability of the different implementations

Distributed official testbed? Which gremium is the test authority?

Action Plan

Suggestions Grid Standard Base (GSB)

Official grid QA tests and certifications including interoperability

Grid Benchmark Suite