October 25, 2008 NETWORKED EUROPEAN SOFTWARE & SERVICES INITIATIVE Andrea Manieri Engineering Ingegneria Informatica s.p.a. NESSI-Grid’s Strategic Research Agenda for Business Grids

Content NESSIGrid contributing to NESSI, What’s NESSI? NESSIGrid Research Agenda – final version Make it happen, contributing to NESSI Announcement: Service Wave 2008

What’s NESSI?

The story of NESSI The context - European Technology Platform Private-public partnership Industrial leadership Uniting all stakeholders Around a key, strategic area Strategic? Europe’s future growth Europe’s competitiveness Link? Requires major research and technological advances In the medium to long term NESSI aims to provide a unified view for European research in Services Architectures and Software Infrastructures Today, NESSI partners represent 1.7 Million strong workforce and 490 B€ in revenues NESSI has presented an initial Strategic Research Agenda that represents a global investment of 2.5 B€

In a world of convergence Internet of things Internet of Users Internet of Contents Internet of Services Services Data & Contents Things & sensors Users & Knowledge AMBIENT NETWORKS & PERVASIVE COMPUTING REAL VIRTUAL Tomorrow the Internet will be strategic because of “services”

The challenge of NESSI Transforming the Internet to service your life … ensuring that services can be provided to all, citizens and businesses alike, in safe, secure, reliable, extensible, scalable environments

The vision of NESSI This evolution requires a service oriented environment NESSI companies have recognised that no single company can or should harness the power of such an environment NESSI is a partnership that will ensure the emergence of a service environment allowing for

NESSI Research Structure Coordination mechanisms -ensure coherence and consistency -ensure openness -open participation -open utilisation -open to evolution - attract contributions

Research Projects The NESSI Research Structure NESSI Strategic Projects Strategic to the delivery of NEXOF Compliant Projects Delivering to NEXOF or Compliant to NEXOF

Delivering NEXOF NESSI Open Service Framework Open Reference Model  Concept and Principles Open Reference Architecture  Standards Open Reference Implementation Conformance Test Suite Validation of NEXOF instances in real scenarios

NESSI Strategic Projects 6 NESSI Strategic Projects EzWeb MASTER NEXOF-RA Reservoir SOA4ALL Key contributors to the delivery of NEXOF Acronym: NSP

The NEXOF-RA Strategic Project Managing contributions to NEXOF Invitations to Contribute 1st invitation 21/7/2008 publication 3/10/2008closing 20-21/10/2008kick-off of the investigation teams Selected topics Service User interaction research area Service platform research area Service oriented infrastructure research area Scalable approaches to SOA

NESSIGrid Research Agenda – Final version

13 Introduction: Goal & Evolution Goal: A Vision & SRA for a grid-like service-oriented infrastructure for business environments and business applications Evolution from adhoc view out of the consortium… … to a broad perspective from the European community… … to a consolidated roadmap. Timeline May 06Sep06Oct06May 07Oct07 June 08 Sep 08 Oct 08 v0.9v1.0v1.5v2.0 v2.5 …v3.0 projectearlyinternalSOI-WGcommunity publicroadmap startdrafteditiondraftedition draftedition

14 SRA 3.0 in a nutshell SRA version 3.0 … and the most important new features: clear vision for future service-oriented infrastructure comprehensive methodology approach considering heterogeneous viewpoints clear specification of business application context 9 core business scenarios: Enterprise, Hierarchical Enterprise, Hosting, Extended enterprise, Dynamic Outsourcing, Mergers & acquisitions, Virtual organizations, Business value networks, Mega Services SotA analysis including ~180 references on related infrastructure technologies, research fields and technology trends Derivation of 47 challenges with clear traceability Specification and assessment of 17 business indicators Roadmap analysis of scenario relevance & challenge characteristics

Context Context: Business Applications Online applications: Most business applications are online. Clients of business applications care about the response time they observe. Industrial benchmarks for online applications set strict statistical distribution thresholds for the provided response times. Stateful nature: Business applications are typically stateful: Conversational (sessions) or persistent state. Persistent state is updateable with typical workloads ranging from 20-50% of updates. Transactional Semantics: State belongs to business so it requires consistency guarantees. In the advent of concurrent accesses to shared state isolation should be provided. In the advent of failures, all-or-nothing semantics should be guaranteed. The outcome of successful transactions should be durable despite failures. Multi-Tier Architectures Business applications are typically constructed on top of multi-tier architectures. Their gridification should be transparent. 15

Context Context: What is Different from Scientific Applications? Online vs. offline: Scientific applications are characterized by being batch applications. The main concern is high utilization of the underlying infrastructure. No concern about response time of individual requests. Stateful vs. stateless: Scientific applications typically stateless. Persistent state typically read-only, in some cases write-once read-many. Read-only workloads. Transactional Semantics: Scientific applications are not concerned about transactional semantics. Scientific grids are not aware of transactions. Multi-Tier Architectures: Scientific applications are not typically built on top of multi-tier architectures. Scientific grids are not aware of multiple tiers. 16

17 Business Scenarios Business scenarios Enterprise: core scenario for traditional infrastructures Hierarchical Enterprise: includes notion of enterprise policy hierarchies Hosting: special case of enterprise & virtual organisation Extended enterprise: includes devices beyond the traditional backend (pervasive, sensors, …) Dynamic Outsourcing: dynamic migration of IT resources between administrative domains Mergers & acquisitions: merge of previously separated administrative domains Virtual organizations: multi-party (at least 3) collaboration and resource/service sharing Business value networks: complex chains including multiple providers/administrative domains Mega Services: services to millions of customers across the globe

18 State of the Art Considered under 3 main perspectives: Infrastructures Research and Scientific Grids Enterprise Grids Virtual-machines based Grids Mobile Grids Research fields Data Grids, Data Replication, Multitier Systems, Application Development, Performance Engineering, Cost & Revenue Management, Autonomic Computing, Virtualisation, Security, Interoperatiblity New Technology Trends Storage and Data Management; Processor Technology; Virtualisation; Network Connectivity; Mobile devices; Sustainability

19 Research Challenges 47 research challenges Data Management (scalability, low latency geo, autonomy) Application Development (automatic parallelism, mobility app support, automatic distribution) Network Connectivity (end2end, heterogeneity, mobility, adaptiveMiddleware) Accounting and SLAs (transparent, holistic) Dependability (self healing, cost awareness, mobile) Security (isolated zones, policies, identity mngmt, reputation&trust) Performance (predictable virtualisation, integrated scheduling, prediction, resource mng) Interoperability (standards, composed multi tiers, dynamic, non functional) Manageability (mng4Business, new devices, virtualisation&deploy, ctrl&monitor, multiple domains, mediation conflict, self management) Governance (specifications, enforcement, translation) Flexibility (support changes, autonomy, scalability, dynamic allocation, large scale, dynamic security) Mastering Complex Systems (holistic modelling, flexible simulation, integrated tooling) Overarching Challenges (business value, complexity, architecture driven)

Research Challenges: Example Example: Predictable Virtualization

21 Roadmap Enterprise Hierarchical Enterprise Extended Enterprise Virtual Organization Hosting Dynamic Outsourcing Mega Services Value Networks technical reach service enabling organizational complexity Roadmap dimensions Merger & Acquisition

22 Conclusions: Key Challenges New system architectures harmonize & advance SOA, SOI, multi-tier, federated and Internet scale support all kinds of business models, applications and emerging HW env. provide transparent and integrated access for all relevant stakeholders Advanced system lifecycle approaches support transparent knowledge tracking, feedback loops, prediction and simulation from engineering to decommissioning clear separation of concerns between different stakeholders (Biz vs. IT, …) adhering to overarching sustainability req. for full variety of Biz scenarios Advanced infrastructure technologies in terms of hardware (energy efficient, flexible allocation, virtualization …) middleware (scalability, new multi-tier system design, flexible storage systems, harmonized virtualization on all layers) related programming models (parallel & distributed programming, multi-core)

Make it happen Contributing to NESSI

Collaboration opportunities As a NESSI member Become a member Contribute through a Working Group Outputs SRA evolution NEXOF architecture Through NESSI contributing projects Strategic Projects Extend your project to contribute to NEXOF

National NESSI initiatives Existing in Norway Poland Slovenia Spain Emerging in Hungary Bulgaria Italy Netherlands

Nanoelectronics Mobile Communications Networked and Electronic Media Mobility, Transport, Personal environment, etc. Competitiven ess Innovation Speed Individual Consumer Citizen Worker etc. … Embedded Systems ARTEMIS Manufacturing industries, Automotive, Aerospace, Electro- technical, etc. Home, Media, Content, Learning, Culture, etc. eBusiness, eAdministration, eGovernment, etc. Health, Inclusion, User Communities, etc. Transforming the Internet from information to services The ETPs Software & Services Moving beyond relative roles into “synergistic implementation”

The inter-ETPs collaboration Convergence topic: « Future Internet » Modalities Define a common vision of the Future Internet Investigate opportunity of setting a JTI – Joint Technology Initiative In addition Created a common information booth and session at upcoming ICT 2008 Signed a joint statement with the FP6 and FP7 projects in March 2008 Collaborating on upcoming ServiceWave 2008

Information about NESSI? Online Web site Public documents: SRA, governance, compliance checklist NESSI position papers One click online membership Working Groups contacts NESSI Scenarios Movie Quarterly NESSI newsletters NESSI events NESSI Office support team ICT 2008 – 25 to 27/11/2008, Lyon, France ServiceWave 2008 – 10 to 13/12/2008, Madrid, Spain

Announcement:

ServiceWave ServiceWave fosters the creation of cross-community scientific excellence by gathering industrial and academic experts from various disciplines such as business process management, distributed systems, computer networks, wireless & mobile communication networks, grid computing, networking, service science and software engineering.

ServiceWave

Conclusions Many collaboration opportunities Participate to NEXOF’s « Invitation to Contribute » Join NESSI Working Groups, in particular SOI-WG Participate to NESSI Strategic Projects on addressing NESSIGrid Key Challenges Adapt existing projects to become compliant to NEXOF architecture Participate to NESSI events Andrea Manieri  Véronique Pevtschin 

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