The EU Grid Technologies Programme Jorge Gass Grid

The EU Grid Technologies Programme Jorge Gasós Grid Technologies Unit European Commission jorge. gasos@cec. eu. int http: //www. cordis. lu/ist/grids Information Society and Media Directorate-General Grid Technologies Unit Grid@Asia - Beijing, 21 June 2005 1

Grid Research and Deployment in FP 6 Application-oriented Strategic Objectives e. g. e. Business, e. Gov, e. Work, e. Health, risks management Grid Technologies ð Architecture, design and R&D development of the next generation Grid ð Enabling application technologies Research Infrastructures ð Deployment of specific high performance Grids ð Deployment of high-capacity and high-speed communications network - GEANT ðIndustrial and business applications Research & Development Technology-oriented strategic objectives e. g. semantic web, software and services Deployment 125 M€ (IST) 200 M€ RI R&D Information Society and Media Directorate-General Grid Technologies Unit Grid@Asia - Beijing, 21 June 2005 2

What is the Grid ? “A Grid provides an abstraction for resource sharing and collaboration across multiple administrative domains…” (Source: NGG Expert Group, 16 June 2003 “European Grid Research 2005 -2010) Benefits Ø Increased productivity by reducing Total Cost of Ownership Ø Any-type, anywhere, anytime services by/for all Ø Infrastructure for dynamic virtual organizations Ø Backbone for future service-oriented utility Industry & Business Grids Examples Ø Ad-hoc Grid services for emergency response Ø Cost-effective simulation for automotive and finance Ø More efficient drug design and healthcare Information Society and Media Directorate-General Grid Technologies Unit Grid@Asia - Beijing, 21 June 2005 3 e-Science

EU FP 5 Grid Projects (58 M€) – 2000 -2004 Applications Euro. Grid Middleware DAMIEN Data. Grid Infrastructure 1/10/2000 1/10/2001 • Infrastructure Data. Tag • Computing Mammo. Grid Euro. Grid, Data. Grid, GEMSS Damien Se. Le. Ne Bio. Grid AVO Open. Mol. Grid • Tools and Middleware EGSO Flow. Grid. Lab, GRIP GRIA MOSES COG • Applications GRACE Cross. Grid EGSO, Cross. Grid, Bio. Grid, Flow. Grid, Grid. Lab Moses, COG, GEMSS, Grace, Mammogrid, GRIP Open. Mol. Grid, Selene, • P 2 P / ASP / Webservices P 2 People, ASP-BP, Data. TAG GRIA, MMAPS, GRASP, GRIP, WEBSI • Clustering 1/10/2002 Grid. Start Information Society and Media Directorate-General Grid Technologies Unit Grid@Asia - Beijing, 21 June 2005 4

FP 5 EU Grid Research Achievements • Creation of a strong Grid research community • Europe’s position strengthened related to ð Grid middleware development ð Contribution to standardisation • Grid concept proven in e. Science application pilots -> deployment in research infrastructures • First steps taken towards maturing Grid technologies for industrial and business use • Identified weaknesses in commercial exploitation • Emergent opportunities for service providers Information Society and Media Directorate-General Grid Technologies Unit Grid@Asia - Beijing, 21 June 2005 5

Next Generation Grid(s) – Expert Group Report 3 -fold vision es ss isi on • E • L nd ife -u -s ser up e po mp rt ow t En o bu erm si en d. Us ness t pr er oc V e S Simplification ts nts en e m nm ire iro qu v re t en ng n gi me an op ch el n ly ev us s d sio uo ice Vi tin rv re on se • C rid wa • G oft “Next Generation Grid(s) - European Grid Research 2005 - 2010”, June 2003 “Next Generation Grids 2 – Requirements and Options for European Grids Research 2005– 2010 and beyond”, August 2004 Next Generation Grids Abstraction Architectural Vision • Societal behaviour (millions of self-organising nodes) • Computational semantics, ontologies, meta-descriptions • Pervasive virtual organisations Virtualization Information Society and Media Directorate-General Grid Technologies Unit Grid@Asia - Beijing, 21 June 2005 6

Grid Research Projects in FP 6 EU Funding: 53 MILLION Start: SUMMER 2004 Grid@Asia (Spring 2005) GRIDCOORD Towards EU-Asian Co-operation Building the ERA in Grid research K-WF Grid inteli. GRID Knowledge based workflow & collaboration Grid-based generic enabling application technologies to facilitate solution of industrial problems Onto. Grid SIMDAT Uni. Grid. S Extended OGSA Implementation based on UNICORE EU-driven Grid services architecture for busines. S and industry Mobile Grid architecture and services for dynamic virtual organisations Next. GRID HPC 4 U Fault tolerance, dependability for Grid Semantic Grid based virtual organisations Akogrimo European-wide virtual laboratory for longer term Grid research-creating the foundation for next generation Grids Core. GRID Specific support action Integrated project Network of excellence Information Society and Media Directorate-General Grid Technologies Unit Grid@Asia - Beijing, 21 June 2005 7 Knowledge Services for the semantic Grid Datamining tools & services Provenance Trust and provenance for Grids Specific targeted research project

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IP Main Research and Development Areas: Main Application Areas: Data mining legal sector Broadcasting and entertainment Financial modelling Digital media Supply chain management 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 Research org. : EPCC FZJ KTH QUB CNR-ISTI IT Innov. USTUTT NTUA Uv. A Technology providers: Grid Systems HP Intel Microsoft Nec Service providers: Fujitsu BT T-Systems Datamat Information Society and Media Directorate-General Grid Technologies Unit Grid@Asia - Beijing, 21 June 2005 9 Application developers / users: SAP First derivatives Kino

IP Two testbeds - E-Learning - Hospital - Generalisation to other applications Technology Vision NGG based on next generation IPv 6 networks and supporting security, Qo. S, accounting /billing, user & context awareness. Use of mobile comm’s beyond 3 G. Dynamic Virtual Organisations based on trust management Mobile Grid architectures and services for dynamic virtual organisations Grid Providers & Industry Universities IT Industry (tools Telcom operators - Telefonica I&D (SP) - Telnor (N) - Tel Inst (P) - HLRS (D) - CCLRC (UK) - Uni Hohenheim (D) - Datamat (I) - Uni BW München (D) - CRMPA (I) - NTUA (Gr) - UPC(SP) Information Society and Media Directorate-General Grid Technologies Unit Grid@Asia - Beijing, 21 June 2005 10 & services) - BOC (UK) - Schlumberger. SEMA

IP SIMDAT Seven Grid-technology development areas: Grid infrastructure Distributed Data Access VO Administration Workflows Ontologies Analysis Services Knowledge Services Four sectors of international economic importance: Automotive Pharmaceutical Aerospace Meteorology The solution of industrially relevant complex problems using data-centric Grid technology Grid Technologists Capability Providers Information Society and Media Directorate-General Grid Technologies Unit Grid@Asia - Beijing, 21 June 2005 11 End Users

Work Programme 2005 -2006 Advanced Grid Technologies, Systems and Services IST Call 5 Application Sector n Application Sector 3 Application Pull Application Sector 2 Budget: ~70 M€ Application Sector 1 Open May 2005 Close Sept 2005 Grid-enabled Applications & Services for business and society Research, development, validation and take-up of generic environments and tools Grid Foundations Architecture, design and development of technologies and systems for building the invisible Grid Technology Push e-bus, e-health, egoy, e-learning Environment, … Network-centric Grid Operating Systems Potential new fabric layer for future distributed systems and services Information Society and Media Directorate-General Grid Technologies Unit Grid@Asia - Beijing, 21 June 2005 12 Advanced Grid Technologies, Systems and Services

International co-operation (I) Collaboration between individual projects : ð Co-operation with running projects ð Involvement in new proposals Grid@Asia: support action for EU - China collaboration Towards an institutional co-operation framework ð To set-up a long-term and sustainable collaborations Information Society and Media Directorate-General Grid Technologies Unit Grid@Asia - Beijing, 21 June 2005 13

Establishing a co-operation framework Focused research co-operation: ð Collaboration at the level of initiatives ð Develop a shared R&D agenda for a given Grid research priority ð Grid foundations and Grid business applications ð Collaboration on non-technical issues (e. g. , standards) ð Institutional framework for co-operation Information Society and Media Directorate-General Grid Technologies Unit Grid@Asia - Beijing, 21 June 2005 14

Conclusions • The EU IST Programme addresses both ð Deployment of Grid-enabled e. Infrastructures ð Grid Technologies research relevant for industry & take-up ð it strives towards co-ordination and integration of national European Grid initiatives • Grids, web and knowledge technologies ð driver for the evolution of the Internet and future serviceoriented business IT infrastructures • EU needs to capitalize on its strength in Grid research and applications ð To identify new research challenges – explore new ideas ð Improve market take-up • Increased contribution to global developments and standardisation Information Society and Media Directorate-General Grid Technologies Unit Grid@Asia - Beijing, 21 June 2005 15

Further Info on Grid Research • Brochure: Building Grids for Europe FP 6 Grid Project Fact Sheets, FP 5 Grid Project Result Sheets • Expert Group Reports ð “Next Generation Grid(s) – European Grid Research 2005 -2010”, 2003 ð “Next Generation Grids 2 – Requirements and Options for European Grids Research 2005– 2010 and beyond”, August 2004 • FP 5 Gridstart “IST Grid Projects Inventory and Roadmap” • Brochure: “Achievements of EU Grid Projects” and more: www. cordis. lu/ist/grids • IST Work Programme 2005/2006 Information Society and Media Directorate-General Grid Technologies Unit Grid@Asia - Beijing, 21 June 2005 16 www. cordis. lu/ist