European and Chinese Cooperation on Grid

EU and China

Roadmapping the future cooperation

ENG

Andrea Manieri

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Summary

Project objectives The Chinese perspective The Roadmapping process The selected challenges

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EchoGRID – FP6 SSAEurope Chinese Co-Operation on the Grid

Consortium formed by major R&D organizations in EU and China

ERCIM FR (INRIA, STFC, CNR & FhG)

NTUA GR

Atos Origin SP

Engineering IT

THALES FR

Beihang University CN

ICT CN

CNIC CN

NUDT CN

HUAWEI CN

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EchoGRID Major Goals

Foster collaboration in Grid research and technologies by defining short-, mid-, and long-term vision in the field

Establish a common Grid Collaboration Roadmap, relying on European and Chinese experts, both from academia and industry;

Consolidate this vision and promote cross-fertilisation between Grid-related projects and initiatives in Europe and China by interacting with the GRID research and industrial communities;

Exchange experiences and best practices by selecting Grid Open Standards for Grid middleware and applications interoperability and by promoting the identification of guidelines for building a Standard Quality Assurance Process

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EchoGRID Outcomes

3, 5 and 10 years roadmaps developing a shared European and Chinese vision of future GRID research perspectives for both research and industrial communities on which both sides may collaborate;

a EU-China Interoperability Grid Plugtests to test and improve interoperability mechanisms of Grid middleware;

a series of conferences and workshops open to both European & Chinese participants from research, industry, government, SMEs and user communities;

a collaborative Multilingual Portal for grid-related resources

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Echogrid roadmap: toward interoperable grids

Interoperation between EU and Chinese grid systems in short, medium, long periods

Mutual areas of concerns New programming

paradigms Grid architectures Grid Management Virtual Organisations The Component Model Workflows – Business

processes

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Chinese perspective

China’s Medium to Long Term Plan for the Development of Science and Technology (2006 - 2020):

released in early 2006, calls for China to become “an innovation oriented nation” by the year

2020 and a world leader in science and technology by 2050.

China will – invest 2.5% of its increasing gross domestic product (GDP) in

research and development (R&D) by 2020, up from 1.34% in 2005; – derive more than 60% of economic growth from technological

advance; – limit its dependence on imported technology to no more than 30%

(from 50%); – become one of the top 5 countries in the world in the number of

invention patents granted to Chinese citizens and in the number of citations to Chinese authored scientific papers.

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Two very large Chinese Grids

CNGrid Funded by Ministry of

Science and Technology (MOST)

Contact: Depei Qian GOS developed by

12 universities

ChinaGrid Funded by the Ministry of Education 22 key universities CGSP V1.0, developed by a joint team

from 5 universities

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eScience in China

• China Science Grid– Funded by Natural Science

Foundation of China

– Connect different Grid platforms together

– Integrate resources from different Grids

– Contact: Guojie Li (lig@ict.ac.cn)

LCG / EGEE

China Science Grid

TeraGrid

SoftwareHPC Storage KnowledgeMedia

VEGA

CGSP

CROWN

Globus

...

CSGrid Gateway

Biology Astronomy(VO) Education Medical Manufacturing . . .

...

应用

平台

资源

Platforms

Resources

Applications

• Crown Grid– a Grid testbed that facilitates

scientific research

– Funded by Natural Science Foundation of China

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Virtual Air Plane Design Grid

Grid applications in China

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China Semantic Grid

China National Basic Research and Development Plan Program (973) Contact: Hai Zhuge (zhuge@ict.ac.cn)

Application in China: Dunhuang Culture Grid

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EchoGRID first year annual review Brussels – 13 March 200812

8 Governance

7 Financing

6 Vocabularies

5 IGTF

4 Tech.Standards

3 Plugtests

2 OMII Europe

1 EUCHinaGrid

ECHOgrid

EGI in Europe

EGEE projects

863 Prog CNGrid

2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018

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Drivers for the adoption – on going

DRIVERSMarket needs

Economic Reliable system (complete solution)

New Techno available(from eScience

to eBusiness) including Virtualisation

Better usage of ICT infrastr

New Applications

EU X X X X X

PRC X X X XDisclaimer (These initial results will be further validated by mean of an on-line survey in the next months)

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Barriers against the adoption– on going

BARRIERSOrganisational and clutural (less entusiasm in adopting new technology)

Business Legal Standardisation (lack of), by mean of interop and quality control

Security Grid system complexity

EU

X X X X X

PRC

X X XDisclaimer (These initial results will be further validated by mean of an on-line survey in the next months)

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Cooperation mechanisms

Develop gateways, Develop common components, Test interoperability, Develop common standards, Use common security and certification infrastructure

supported by the IGTF, Establish common controlled vocabularies for policies and

semantically rich descriptions, Agree common accounting mechanisms, Establish an international governance institution.

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Ways of roadmapping

By dividing the grid technological issues into six specific areas

New programming paradigms Grid architectures Grid management Virtual organisations The component model Workflow – business progress

By defining the expected progresses along the roadmap at three points

In three, Five, and Ten years.

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New programming paradigms

• Corba-like extensions to grids• RMI, socket –based

communitications• MPI

• Too many architectural details are exposed to programmers

• Difficulties in learning

• Unconventional approaches: Chemical programming; Autonomic Element Programming (exploiting Web 2.) , Pipe-based Programming (GSML – funnel)

• China– NSFC, 863, 973

• EU– More generally on “services”– Coregrid NoE initiatives

• Echogrids recommends– Support long-term research– Joint unconventional and grid

programming approaches

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Grid architectures

• OGSA and WSRF

• Lack of clear architectural model lead to wrong implementing assumptions

• Service-oriented Frameworks

• Resembling Enterprise Service Bus architecture

• Fully covered– “Software & Services– Architectures and

InfrastructuresPrograms and recommendations

• Echogrid recommends– Put effort in dynamism– Emphasize the development of

WS standards for grids (also supporting backwards compatibility)

– Develop open source competitors for tools supporting distribute SOA infrastructures (e.g. WebSphere)

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Grid management <management of grid through a “Utility” model>

• Several initiatives – EU( e.g.UK NGS)– China (iVCE, CNGrid, SDG,

etc)– SDO initative (OGF on

management area)

• Ideas and challenges:– Standardization and prototype– Declarative semantics based

management– Autonomic Grid management

• On-going projects both from EU and China

• Some SDO initiatives (OGF, OASIS, etc)

• Echogrid recommends– Explicite Grid management in

next FP7 and 863 programs– Take into consideration Telco

standards inputs– ETSI as standardisation and

regulatory body for Member States

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Virtual organisations

• VO – includes user/role management, resource

management, trust and security management functionalities

– should have the properties including: dynamic, QoS guarantee and scalable,

– wishes to exist stably for any (short or longer) time, it should have a business model

• Limitations– Supporting from the underlying OS and

Grid middleware– Supporting of commercial applications– Underlying administration facilities for

VO bootstrapping• Current VO lacks some good properties

for better resource sharing and better user usages:

– Consuming too much resources, heavy-weighted;

– QoS guarantees– Dynamic mechanisms– Scalability

• Many FP7 and 863 projects have new VO models and functionalities as part of their objectives

• Echogrid recommends– a clear definition of VO

framework– advanced functionalities of VO

except for semantic support– semantic support in VO should

be realized

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Workflow – business process

• Several implementation and model exists

• However:– gap between the business

process decision-maker and the application developer

– very difficult to precisely compare and evaluate the performance

– QoS-based resource scheduling, service selection and service composition, and the co-ordination of different distributed workflow

• Several ideas and running experiences

• Keywords present in both programs, – as part of other challenges

• Echogrid recommends EU and China– To identify a research challenge

on workflow/Business process per se

– To boost grids to take into consideration workflow and business process issues

– To investigate new approaches to merge high (different) level of abstraction workflows

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Component Model

• Component-based model effective to tackle SW complexity

• However:– Some component too complex– Dynamic allocation of components

to run– Programming Language complexity

• Open issues:– light-weight component model for

grids– Supporting service composition– Standard platform independent

model– Combine Aspect-oriented– Quality control on SW

• FP7 – CoreGrid NoE and 863 support some of these aspects

• Echogrid recommends– To clarify the relations

between component model and service model

– EC and Chinese cooperation of open issues

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Thanks for your attention

www.echogrid.ercim.orgProject Coordinator Patricia Ho-Hune (ERCIM)Scientific Coordinator Thierry Priol (ERCIM/INRIA)Industrial Manager Andrea Manieri (ENG)Cooperation Manager Quian Depei (BUAA)