information society and media directorate-general grid technologies unit grid@asia - beijing, 21...

1

Information Society and Media Directorate-General Grid Technologies Unit

Grid@Asia - Beijing, 21 June 2005

The EU Grid Technologies ProgrammeThe EU Grid Technologies Programme

Jorge GasósGrid Technologies UnitEuropean Commission

[email protected]://www.cordis.lu/ist/grids

Architecture,

of the next generation GRID

Enabling

application

technologies

Design and

Development

2



Grid Research and Deployment in FP6Grid Research and Deployment in FP6

Grid TechnologiesGrid TechnologiesArchitecture, design and

development of the next generation Grid

Enabling application technologies

Industrial and business applications

Research Research InfrastructuresInfrastructures

Deployment of specifichigh performance Grids

Deployment of high-capacityand high-speed communi-cations network - GEANT

Research & Development

Deployment

Application-orientedStrategic Objectives

e.g. eBusiness, eGov, eWork,

eHealth, risks management

Technology-orientedstrategic objectivese.g. semantic web,

software and servicesR&D

R&D

200 M€ RI125 M€ (IST)

3



Benefits Increased productivity by reducing Total Cost of Ownership Any-type, anywhere, anytime services by/for all Infrastructure for dynamic virtual organizations Backbone for future service-oriented utility

Benefits Increased productivity by reducing Total Cost of Ownership Any-type, anywhere, anytime services by/for all Infrastructure for dynamic virtual organizations Backbone for future service-oriented utility

Examples Ad-hoc Grid services for emergency response Cost-effective simulation for automotive and finance More efficient drug design and healthcare

Examples Ad-hoc Grid services for emergency response Cost-effective simulation for automotive and finance More efficient drug design and healthcare

e-Science

Industry & Business

GridsGrids

What is the Grid ?What is the Grid ?

““A Grid provides an abstraction for resource sharing andA Grid provides an abstraction for resource sharing andcollaboration across multiple administrative domains…”collaboration across multiple administrative domains…”

(Source: NGG Expert Group, 16 June 2003 “European Grid Research 2005-2010)(Source: NGG Expert Group, 16 June 2003 “European Grid Research 2005-2010)

4



Applications

Infrastructure

Middleware

EU FP5 Grid Projects (58M€) – 2000-2004EU FP5 Grid Projects (58M€) – 2000-2004

•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

EGSO

AVO

GRIA

CrossGrid

GridLab

GRIP

DataTAG

EuroGrid

DAMIEN

DataGrid

GEMSSMammoGrid

BioGridSeLeNe

OpenMolGrid

COG

FlowGrid

GRACE

MOSES

1/10/2000 1/10/2001 1/10/2002

5



FP5 EU Grid Research AchievementsFP5 EU Grid Research Achievements

• Creation of Creation of a strong Grid research community a strong Grid research community

• Europe’s Europe’s position strengthened related toposition strengthened related to

Grid middleware development Contribution to standardisation

• Grid concept proven in eScience application Grid concept proven in eScience application pilots -> deployment in research infrastructurespilots -> deployment in research infrastructures

• First steps taken towards maturing Grid First steps taken towards maturing Grid technologies for industrial and business usetechnologies for industrial and business use

• Identified weaknesses in commercial exploitationIdentified weaknesses in commercial exploitation

• Emergent opportunities for service providersEmergent opportunities for service providers

6



NextGeneration

Grids

• End

-use

r em

pow

erm

ent

• Life

-sup

port

to b

usin

ess

proc

esse

s

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

• Continuously changing requirem

ents

• Grid services developm

ent environments

Virtualization

End-U

ser V

ision

Software Vision

Architectural Vision

Simplification Abstraction

““Next Generation Grid(s) - European Grid Research 2005 - 2010”, June 2003Next Generation Grid(s) - European Grid Research 2005 - 2010”, June 2003 “Next Generation Grids 2 – Requirements and Options for European Grids “Next Generation Grids 2 – Requirements and Options for European Grids

Research 2005–2010 and beyond”, August 2004Research 2005–2010 and beyond”, August 2004

Next Generation Grid(s) – Expert Group Report Next Generation Grid(s) – Expert Group Report 3-fold vision3-fold vision

7



inteliGRIDSemantic Grid based virtual organisations

ProvenanceTrust and provenance

for Grids

DataminingGridDatamining

tools & services

UniGridSExtended OGSA

Implementation based on UNICORE

K-WF GridKnowledge based

workflow & collaboration

GRIDCOORDBuilding the ERA in Grid research

Grid Research Projects in FP6Grid Research Projects in FP6

Start: SUMMER 2004Start: SUMMER 2004EU Funding: 53 MILLIONEU Funding: 53 MILLION

OntoGridKnowledge Services for the semantic Grid

HPC4UFault tolerance,dependability

for Grid

Grid-based generic enabling application technologies to facilitate

solution of industrial problemsSIMDAT

EU-driven Grid services architecture for businesS

and industry NextGRID

Mobile Grid architecture and services for dynamic

virtual organisations Akogrimo

European-wide virtual laboratory for longer term Grid research-creating the foundation for next generation Grids

CoreGRID

Specific support action Integrated project Network of excellence Specific targeted research project

Grid@Asia (Spring 2005) Towards EU-Asian Co-operation

8



ACI GRID

E-SCIENCE

DAS

BE-GRIDD-GRID METACENTER

SWISSGRID

HELLAS-GRID

GRID.ITIRISGRID BG-GRID

SGIGRID

H-GRID

NORDUGRID

CYGRID

ACI GRID

E-SCIENCE

DAS

BE-GRIDD-GRID METACENTER

SWISSGRID

HELLAS-GRID

GRID.ITIRISGRID BG-GRID

SGIGRID

H-GRID

NORDUGRID

CYGRID

Objectives

Build S&T excellency on Grid -EU-wide virtual laboratory

Achieve sustainable restructuring and integration

Disseminate EU research on Grid

Set-up a think-tank to create spin-off projects

Create the European “Grid Lighthouse”

Research Focus Knowledge and data management

Programming models

System architecture

Resource management

Scheduling

Problem solving environments

42 Partners

European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for Large Scale Distributed,

Grid and Peer-to-Peer Technologies

CoreGRIDCoreGRIDCoreGRIDCoreGRIDCoreGRIDCoreGRID

6 E

U V

irtua

l Ins

titut

es

NoE

9



Main Research and Development Areas:

Grid architecture

Foundations & core services

Dynamic federation and VO

Grid business models

Reference implementations

Standards and applications

Next Generation Grid services architecture for business and industry

Feedback fornext iteration

Analysis

Conceptualisation

Implementation

Design

Evaluation

Service providers:

Fujitsu BT

T-Systems

Datamat

Application developers / users:

SAP

First derivatives

Kino

Technology providers:

Grid Systems

HP Intel

Microsoft Nec

Research org.:EPCC IT Innov.

FZJ USTUTT

KTH NTUA

QUB UvA

CNR-ISTI

Main Application Areas:

Data mining legal sector

Broadcasting and entertainment

Financial modelling

Digital media

Supply chain management

IP

10



Two testbeds

- E-Learning

- Hospital

- Generalisation to

other applications

Telcom operators- Telefonica I&D (SP)- Telnor (N)- Tel Inst (P)

Grid Providers & Industry- HLRS (D)- CCLRC (UK)- Uni Hohenheim (D)- Datamat (I)

Universities- Uni BW München (D)- CRMPA (I)- NTUA (Gr)- UPC(SP)

IT Industry (tools & services)- BOC (UK) - SchlumbergerSEMA

The Next Generation ”GRIDNET”

AKoGriMo Focus

Mobile Internet

Network Middleware

Core Grid Services

Complex Grid Services

Domain and Application Specific Services

Technology Vision

NGG based on next generation IPv6 networks

and supporting security, QoS, accounting /billing,

user & context awareness.Use of mobile comm’s

beyond 3G.

Dynamic Virtual Organisations based on

trust management

Mobile Grid architectures and services for dynamic virtual organisations

IP

11



Four sectors of international economic importance:

Automotive

Pharmaceutical

Aerospace

Meteorology

Seven Grid-technology development areas:

Grid infrastructure

Distributed Data Access

VO Administration

Workflows

Ontologies

Analysis Services

Knowledge Services

The solution of industrially relevant complex problems using data-centric Grid technology

SIMDAT

End UsersCapability ProvidersGrid Technologists

IP

12



Work Programme 2005-2006Work Programme 2005-2006Advanced Grid Technologies, Systems and ServicesAdvanced Grid Technologies, Systems and Services

Application Pull

TechnologyPush

Network-centric Grid Operating SystemsPotential new fabric layer for future

distributed systems and services

Grid FoundationsArchitecture, design and development of technologies

and systems for building the invisible Grid

Grid-enabled Applications & Servicesfor business and society

Research, development, validation and take-up of generic environments and tools

e-bus, e-health, e-goy, e-learning

Environment, …

Advanced Grid

Technologies,Systems

and ServicesA

pplication

Sector 3

Ap

plicationSector 2

Ap

plicationSector n

Ap

plicationSector 1

IST Call 5Open May 2005Close Sept 2005

Budget: ~70M€

13



International co-operation (I)International co-operation (I)

Collaboration between individual projects :Collaboration between individual projects : Co-operation with running projects

Involvement in new proposals

Grid@Asia: support action for EU - China Grid@Asia: support action for EU - China collaborationcollaboration

Towards an institutional co-operation frameworkTowards an institutional co-operation framework

To set-up a long-term and sustainable collaborations

14



Establishing a co-operation frameworkEstablishing a co-operation framework

Focused research co-operation:Focused research co-operation:

Collaboration at the level of initiatives

Develop a shared R&D agenda for a given Grid research priority

Grid foundations and Grid business applications

Collaboration on non-technical issues (e.g., standards)

Institutional framework for co-operation

15



ConclusionsConclusions

• The EU IST Programme addresses bothThe EU IST Programme addresses both Deployment of Grid-enabled eInfrastructures Grid Technologies research relevant for industry & take-up it strives towards co-ordination and integration of national

European Grid initiatives

• Grids, web and knowledge technologiesGrids, web and knowledge technologies driver for the evolution of the Internet and future service-

oriented business IT infrastructures

• EU needs to capitalize on its strength in Grid EU needs to capitalize on its strength in Grid research and applicationsresearch and applications To identify new research challenges – explore new ideas Improve market take-up

• Increased contribution to global developments and Increased contribution to global developments and standardisationstandardisation

16



Further Info on Grid ResearchFurther Info on Grid Research

• Brochure: Building Grids for EuropeBrochure: Building Grids for EuropeFP6 Grid Project Fact Sheets, FP5 Grid Project Result Sheets

• Expert Group ReportsExpert Group Reports “Next Generation Grid(s) – European Grid Research 2005-2010”, 2003

“Next Generation Grids 2 – Requirements and Options for European Grids Research 2005–2010 and beyond”, August 2004

• FP5 Gridstart “IST Grid Projects Inventory and FP5 Gridstart “IST Grid Projects Inventory and Roadmap”Roadmap”

• Brochure: “Achievements of EU Grid Projects”Brochure: “Achievements of EU Grid Projects”

• IST Work Programme 2005/2006 IST Work Programme 2005/2006 www.cordis.lu/istwww.cordis.lu/ist

and more: www.cordis.lu/ist/gridswww.cordis.lu/ist/grids

information society and media directorate-general grid technologies unit grid@asia - beijing, 21...

Documents

grid services

generation grid

maturing grid technologies

european grid research

standardisation grid

information society

asia beijing

business use