Industry Science EGI Work Package 3 Industry TakeUp

Industry Science EGI Work Package 3: Industry Take-Up Function (#9) Antonio Candiello INFN candiello@pd. infn. it EGI Cons. Workshop, Cern, Jan 29 -31 th, 2008 Industry Take-Up Function, Antonio Candiello, INFN 1

The template 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Motivations Activities & I/O Subfunctions Actors, who, how many, triggers Goal Geo-distribution (central? distributed? ) Funding scenarios (external, NGIs, EU …) NGIs advantages & interest Reporting lines in EGI Cons. Workshop, Cern, Jan 29 -31 th, 2008 Industry Take-Up Function, Antonio Candiello, INFN 2

1. Motivations Why? • EGI long-term sustainability requires a persistent activity towards industry participation this is a key point • Critical points: – Business Model & private/public mixing – OS support outside SL 3 & 4 (Linux, Unix, … Windows? ) – Complexity, variety & low interoperability of current mw stacks could intimidate industrial partners • Industry roles (more on this later): – as resource, software or service providers – as test/research private VOs … ? EGI Cons. Workshop, Cern, Jan 29 -31 th, 2008 Industry Take-Up Function, Antonio Candiello, INFN 3

2. Activities What? 1. Promotion of the model in the business sectors Input: EGI management, NGIs business models, VOs use cases Output: business events, articles in business sector magazines, direct contacts 2. Technical Support for enterprises Input: EGI operations, EGI middleware Output: business developer’s kits, direct assistance, commercial OS support 3. Contracts, Legal & Licensing model support Input: current license models, legal & OS, EGI vision, EGI management & EGI legals Output: grid-compatible license models, standard contracts for grid providers, users & VOs, legal & OS guidelines EGI Cons. Workshop, Cern, Jan 29 -31 th, 2008 Industry Take-Up Function, Antonio Candiello, INFN 4

3. Subfunctions 1. 2. 3. Communication Office • promotion of mw & grid business models • catalyze a new “grid” business sector • connect online with interested business communities … spin-offs? Technical Support Office • help GC use in heterogeneous OS environments • promote cooperation on g. Lite extensions to other OS • technical support for industry (providers &) VOs Contracts, Legal & Licensing Support Office • assistance on license models for industries • administrative support for industry VOs EGI Cons. Workshop, Cern, Jan 29 -31 th, 2008 Industry Take-Up Function, Antonio Candiello, INFN How? Small staff: 1 person + webmaster, CMS, newsletter Mixed staff: 2 -3 pp + NGIs Mixed staff: 2 pp + NGIs 5

4. Actors 1. Sharing Partners – – Hardware Resource Providers Network Infrastructure Providers 2. “pure” Providers – – Middleware Developers Applications Developers 3. (VO) Users – Some problems for an e-Science infrastructure … only for testbed EGI Cons. Workshop, Cern, Jan 29 -31 th, 2008 Industry Take-Up Function, Antonio Candiello, INFN Who? Hardware Resources Industry Providers Network Infrastructure Industry Providers Middleware Industry Developers Applications Industry Developers VO Industry Users ? 6

4 … providers in some detail new grid-specific sw Comp Services CPUs Str Services Resources Storage Net Services Software, Middleware & Services Infrastructure operating systems sw services basic utility sw sw packages mw-specific sw Network full mw stacks Computing grid application sw Hardware, Network & Infrastructure Services Possible services / products • The grid is alredy using commercial products/services (eg. LRMSs, remedy, …) • Sharing or providing ? EGI Cons. Workshop, Cern, Jan 29 -31 th, 2008 Industry Take-Up Function, Antonio Candiello, INFN 7

4 … Actors Scientific VOs s. VO business providers s. VO EGI s. VO users NGI 1 NGIs NGI 3 NGI 2 business providers Business VOs s. VO ? b. VO business providers s. VO EGI Cons. Workshop, Cern, Jan 29 -31 th, 2008 Industry Take-Up Function, Antonio Candiello, INFN 8

5. Goals Will … 1. Communication Office • promote industry collaborations • suggest new GC business models • find new sources of financial support 2. Technical Support Office • collect business community needs • facilitate the adoption of the mw by the biz 3. Contracts, Legal & Licensing Support Office • suggest & define appropriate licensing & business models • help to create an effective mixed GC EGI Cons. Workshop, Cern, Jan 29 -31 th, 2008 Industry Take-Up Function, Antonio Candiello, INFN 9

5 … the matching matrix EGI Cons. Workshop, Cern, Jan 29 -31 th, 2008 Industry Take-Up Function, Antonio Candiello, INFN 10

5… focus: Application Clusters CPU STO NET XXX XX XX Industry Potential Application Clusters Environment Pollution, climate prediction, energy XXX X X Engineering CAD, CAM, FEM, building, engines, mechanical XXX XX X Finance Trading, insurance, asset management X XX X Business Intelligence Data warehouse, customer relationship management, data mining XXX XX XX Biomed Medical imaging, biochemistry & biology XX XX Multimedia Video storage/streaming, e-Learning, digital libraries EGI Cons. Workshop, Cern, Jan 29 -31 th, 2008 Industry Take-Up Function, Antonio Candiello, INFN 11

6. Geo-distribution Where? Central - EGI Local – NGIs Communication Office better done centrally Technical Support Office only coordination mainly locally, & portal/cms through NGIs and management here VOs Contracts, Legal mainly here & Licensing EGI Cons. Workshop, Cern, Jan 29 -31 th, 2008 only periodical consultations with local experts/NGIs Industry Take-Up Function, Antonio Candiello, INFN 12

7. The case for business use/sharing Who pays? • EGI could (only for test/research) leave space for commercial usage of shared resources • Funding for IT innovation could support the unorthodox sharing modeling between public & private sectors • See WP 4 for legal options rearding this kind of sharing • See WP 2 for existing use cases in NGIs collaborating with the private sector • Calls for function 11 (“strategy”) EGI Cons. Workshop, Cern, Jan 29 -31 th, 2008 Industry Take-Up Function, Antonio Candiello, INFN 13

7 … funding scenarios using, sharing or providing? big problems EGI Cons. Workshop, Cern, Jan 29 -31 th, 2008 Industry Take-Up Function, Antonio Candiello, INFN problems no problems 14

7 … EGI mixed funding scenarios • … the point requires some analysis EGI Cons. Workshop, Cern, Jan 29 -31 th, 2008 Industry Take-Up Function, Antonio Candiello, INFN 15

7 … the utilities business model • The user’s “plug” device needed to consume the resource • The common network the enabling infrastructure A consolidated business model to distribute economic resources through a common network • The resources exchanged contain the economic value • The provider’s production plant to make available the resources EGI Cons. Workshop, Cern, Jan 29 -31 th, 2008 Industry Take-Up Function, Antonio Candiello, INFN 16

7 … the three-layered utilities model Application Prodotti Application APplication Application To be heavily customized for the specific sector Prodotti Users Layer (Applications) In perspective a standard industry market EGI Cons. Workshop, Cern, Jan 29 -31 th, 2008 Industry Take-Up Function, Antonio Candiello, INFN Resource Plant Providers Layer (CPU/Storage) CPU Power Plant Infrastructure (resource acquisition & immission) Pnat Prodotti Infrastructure (resource transfer & distribution) Resource Infrastructure Layer To be highly regulated users providers 17

8. Advantages for NGIs • In perspective, to be less dipendent by public funding “+” for NGIs? • A business market could easy the satisfaction of the NGIs technology needs • More positive connections between industry & NGIs (job positions in industry, lower cost on basic grid services through industry providers …) EGI Cons. Workshop, Cern, Jan 29 -31 th, 2008 Industry Take-Up Function, Antonio Candiello, INFN 18

ne nt ia lg ro wt h 8 … the internet growth ex po WWW Web 2. 0 ttp CERN: html & h commercial phase scientific development 1970 • • 1980 1990 2000 2010 Two main phases: – development in scientific communities – commercial phase The change favoured by the killer application (the web browser developed at Cern) EGI Cons. Workshop, Cern, Jan 29 -31 th, 2008 Industry Take-Up Function, Antonio Candiello, INFN 19

? ex ? ? ? ? Ian Foster’s GC po ne nt ia lg ro wt h 8 … grid like Internet? EGI EDG … EGEE wth ? o r g low S ? commercial phase MPI/PVM & RMI scientific development 1990 2000 2010 2020 2030 • The grid is now near to the transition phase that can be sustained mainly by the business communities • ? ? ? Which “killer application” ? EGI Cons. Workshop, Cern, Jan 29 -31 th, 2008 Industry Take-Up Function, Antonio Candiello, INFN 20

8 … the HPC / GC see-saw High Performance Computing (centralized model) Frequently used by big companies Grid Computing (distributed model) Less used now Computing Storage Network • … with time the convenience shifts towards more distributed models thanks to the faster growth of the network growth (“gilder’s law”) against cpu (“moore’s law”) & storage EGI Cons. Workshop, Cern, Jan 29 -31 th, 2008 Industry Take-Up Function, Antonio Candiello, INFN 21

9. Links with other EGI functions EGI Cons. Workshop, Cern, Jan 29 -31 th, 2008 Industry Take-Up Function, Antonio Candiello, INFN 22

Thanks for your attention Antonio Candiello, Ph. D INFN Sezione di Padova email: candiello@pd. infn. it EGI Cons. Workshop, Cern, Jan 29 -31 th, 2008 Industry Take-Up Function, Antonio Candiello, INFN 23