EGEE-II INFSO-RI Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE and gLite are registered trademarks EGEE and Industry uptake Gabriel Zaquine EGEE Industry Task Force Coordinator CS SI EchoGRID, Beijing, October 2007

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI Gabriel Zaquine - EGEE/ Industry - EchoGRID, Beijing, October Contents EGEE and Industry –EGEE overview –EGEE Business structures –gLite for Business –Barriers for grid adoption –Going forward gLite case studies for SMEs –Grid on-demand & Collaborative Grid for Plastic industry SMEs –Expanding Geosciences-On-Demand services to Oil & Gaz SMEs

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI Gabriel Zaquine - EGEE/ Industry - EchoGRID, Beijing, October EGEE Main Objectives Operate a large-scale, production quality grid infrastructure for e-Science Attract new resources and users from industry as well as sciences EGEE-II review successfully passed in May’07 “…having achieved an operational infrastructure delivering production services to a broadly distributed and diverse user community is a remarkable achievement.” Flagship grid infrastructure project co-funded by the European Commission Now in 2 nd phase with 91 partners in 32 countries

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI Gabriel Zaquine - EGEE/ Industry - EchoGRID, Beijing, October EGEE – What do we deliver? Infrastructure operation –Currently includes ~240 sites across 45 countries  ~ CPUs and ~5 PBytes of storage  Continuous monitoring of grid services & automated site configuration/management  Support >200 Virtual Organisations from diverse research disciplines Middleware –Production quality middleware distributed under business friendly open source licence  Implements a service-oriented architecture that virtualises resources  Adheres to recommendations on web service inter-operability and evolving towards emerging standards User Support - Managed process from first contact through to production usage –Training –Expertise in grid-enabling applications –Online helpdesk –Networking events (User Forum, Conferences etc.)

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI Gabriel Zaquine - EGEE/ Industry - EchoGRID, Beijing, October sites 45 countries 41,000 CPUs 5 PetaBytes >10,000 users >150 VOs >100,000 jobs/day Archeology Astronomy Astrophysics Civil Protection Comp. Chemistry Earth Sciences Finance Fusion Geophysics High Energy Physics Life Sciences Multimedia Material Sciences …

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI Gabriel Zaquine - EGEE/ Industry - EchoGRID, Beijing, October Registered Collaborating Projects Applications improved services for academia, industry and the public Support Actions key complementary functions Infrastructures geographical or thematic coverage

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI Gabriel Zaquine - EGEE/ Industry - EchoGRID, Beijing, October EGEE working with collaborating infrastructure projects

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI Gabriel Zaquine - EGEE/ Industry - EchoGRID, Beijing, October EGEE road map & European Grid Initiative Need to prepare permanent, common Grid infrastructure Ensure the long-term sustainability of the European e-Infrastructure independent of short project funding cycles Coordinate the integration and interaction between National Grid Infrastructures (NGIs) Operate the production Grid infrastructure on a European level for a wide range of scientific disciplines Must be no gap in the support of the production grid

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI Gabriel Zaquine - EGEE/ Industry - EchoGRID, Beijing, October EGEE-II in an Industrial Context EGEE’s Programme for Industry aims to: 1.Formulate strategies to improve the uptake of EGEE-II in Industry 2.Attract and Support Business Applications using gLite 3.Identify and target new user communities from Industry & suggest means to overcome the obstacles industry face when adopting Grid technologies 4.Attract industrial stakeholders to the opportunities available within EGEE-II 5.Facilitate a fruitful, dynamic exchange between current Grid users and potential new industry Grid users

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI Gabriel Zaquine - EGEE/ Industry - EchoGRID, Beijing, October Business Structures in EGEE Business Partners Business Associates Industry Forum & Task Force

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI Gabriel Zaquine - EGEE/ Industry - EchoGRID, Beijing, October Sample of Business Applications BEinGRID –3 different applications  Earth Sciences – seismic imaging & reservoir simulation  Earth Observation – atmospheric retrieval parameters  Finance and Insurance – Risk Management SMEs –OpenPlast project - Develop and deploy Grid platform for plastics industry –Cambridge Ontology - Ported gLite application and GridPP sites Health –Health-e-Child – Biomedical information platform for Paediatrics –WISDOM – using EGEE infrastructure for drug discovery Energy –TOTAL, UK - Ported application using GILDA testbed CERN Openlab –Collaboration between CERN and industrial partners to develop data-intensive Grid solutions

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI Gabriel Zaquine - EGEE/ Industry - EchoGRID, Beijing, October Why gLite for Business? Middleware tested in large scale - gLite –Range of higher-level services (Workload management, Data management, …) –Proven foundation Grid Middleware  CE, SE  Security model with authentication, authorisation and audit trails  Information system, Monitoring, Accounting –API to both higher-level services and foundation Grid Middleware Follows Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) making it easy to connect the software with other Grid services –Compliance with Web Service Interoperability Business friendly open source Apache-2 license Credible –Supporting applications from a wide range of domains –Mission-critical for the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) - Starting 2008 –Interoperable with other grids –Available expertise, support and user- and operator-level guides –Long-terms plans means it will still be here in the future GINGIN

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI Gabriel Zaquine - EGEE/ Industry - EchoGRID, Beijing, October Barriers for grid adoption Security – control/secure access to data/applications as well as “privacy” for sensitive data with sensitive applications –gLite has prototype secure data management facilities –Favourable security review performed by CNES Standards & Policies – to encourage long-term investment –EGEE driving standards via Open Grid Forum Software license management – how users access commercial packages & how ISPs generate revenue –Working with ISVs to explore grid licence management possibilities Networking – costs of network services is prohibitive –In contact with networking companies to determine if dual network sites are feasible Portability on various platforms –Porting gLite to Windows environment is foreseen by partners

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI Gabriel Zaquine - EGEE/ Industry - EchoGRID, Beijing, October Going Forward The EGEE infrastructure as a whole cannot become a pay-for-usage service due to funding of the resources and restrictions on commercial use of the GEANT network –EGEE-II experience shows potential for regional pay-for-usage services for SMEs EGEE will continue to provide open source middleware components and facilitate access to commercial alternatives –EGEE-II surveys (Qi3, UK) show there is a market for standards-compliant, open source middleware with commercial support and training backed-up by a large community of developers and users EGEE intends to confirm and implement this strategy in the context of the European 7 th Framework: Technology Transfer and potential commercial exploitation –Survey and assess the market of middleware sold/used in business contexts to position EGEE technology (not only gLite) on the market –Develop a network of companies to prepare the future commercial exploitation of EGEE technology  EGEE Business Associates; ISVs; Software integrators and IT Services providers Further developing EGEE business outreach best practices –Based on a targeted approach defined above Provide solutions to challenges for Business adoption –Analyse the business requirements gathered and identify higher-level services to be prototyped (e.g. SLA; billing/accounting,...)

EGEE-II INFSO-RI Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE and gLite are registered trademarks Case studies gLite for SMEs Grid on-demand & Collaborative Grid for Plastic industry SMEs Expanding Geosciences-On-Demand services to Oil & Gaz SMEs

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI Gabriel Zaquine - EGEE/ Industry - EchoGRID, Beijing, October SMEs needs SMEs require computational resources flexibility SMEs have a limited number of software licences to achieve computational tasks They are not able to smooth peaks of activity due to new business Company A (Integrator) Company B (Engineering) Company C (part x) Up-to-Date data ? Automotive Aeronautic Medical, … New product development Submission Subcontractors Engineering and design Part x Part y Small and Medium Entreprise (<250 employees) Integrator (>5000 employees) Large industry sectors In many case they need collaborative workspace and workflow capabilities

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI Gabriel Zaquine - EGEE/ Industry - EchoGRID, Beijing, October Plastics SMEs needs Company B (Engineering) Company C (Moldmaker) Remote HPC platform (Grid) Plastic product are very complex system : multipart and multifunction system –e.g. Car front bumper Time-to-market is about 4 years Plastic product development activities produce large data set. SMEs have difficulties to manage it. Problems of data integrity often occur, data management and data exchange between subcontractors are not yet efficient… –For a car Bumper we estimate size of data closed to 1 Tb On-demand (Services Grid) Collaborative Grid (Partners Grid)

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI Gabriel Zaquine - EGEE/ Industry - EchoGRID, Beijing, October Plastics SMEs - Solution Grid on-demand: Resources & applications Applicative services specific to applicative areas such as : –Mechanic; Molecular Modelling; Plastic Simulation; Other Cooperative project management within the supply chain from the contractor to sub-contractors Open source portal Virtualisation of computer resources and storage Generic and Interoperable workflow engine : Globus 2.4, 4.0, EGEE (gLite), etc Workflow submission, monitoring, accounting/billing, etc Enterprise grid with Local Infrastructure and Services for Applications Issued from National R&D project in collaboration the French Plasturgy Fedaration

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI Gabriel Zaquine - EGEE/ Industry - EchoGRID, Beijing, October OpenPlast Grid >128 CPUs 1 To PEP (Oyonnax) CS SI (Grenoble, Paris) 10 CPUs (Opteron) 2.6 To 20 CPUs (Opteron) 5,2 To 2 MBytes CC-IN2P3 (Lyon) >> 10 MBytes IN2P3 (Clermont) >20 CPUs 1 To >> 10 MBytes EGEE

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI Gabriel Zaquine - EGEE/ Industry - EchoGRID, Beijing, October Attempt to pricing Models and attempt to pricing: 1.Payment on usage: CPU; Storage; Commercial software 2.Fixed price: full Application suit usage ( Fluent, Moldflow 2D, Ansys non parallel, Cast3M) Depending on the model: From 500€ to 4000€ per user per month Discussion are on going with commercial software editors in order to improve the Grid licensing –Make available license tokens shared within several customers –Distinction of the licensing for pre/post treatment from main treatment

EGEE-II INFSO-RI Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE and gLite are registered trademarks Expanding Geosciences-On-Demand services to SMEs

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI Gabriel Zaquine - EGEE/ Industry - EchoGRID, Beijing, October Expanding Geosciences-On-Demand (EGEODE) services to SMEs (1/3) Modern seismic data processing and geophysical simulations require greater amounts of computing power, data storage and sophisticated software This resulting in difficulties for Oil&Gaz SMEs to exploit innovative algorithms SME Market: small O&G structures –1035 O&G companies in EU –93% are SMEs; 63% < 10 employees  Research labs  Very small projects of large firms Conventional High Tech. SMEs market CGGVeritas market

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI Gabriel Zaquine - EGEE/ Industry - EchoGRID, Beijing, October Expanding Geosciences-On-Demand (EGEODE) services to SMEs (2/3) A cooperation between EU projects Under the “umbrella” of the EGEE was created EGEODE, “Expanding Geosciences On Demand” Open Virtual Organization Within BEinGRID framework the goal is to consolidated EGEODE applications and model for economics for SMEs A cooperation between large and SMEs partners CGGVeritas is the world’s leading international pure-play geophysical company delivering seismic processing and analysis to the oil and gas industry. 20 Computers Centres worldwide –Provides Seismic generic processing platform (Geocluster) TNO is a Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research with a staff of about 5400 –Provides Reservoir simulation application NICE is a Italian SME providing IT solutions. NICE flagship product is EnginFrame –Provides the Portal Petrosoft is a Czech SME, with long-time experience in a research and development of Seismic Data Processing software. –Provides end to end services to O&G SME, including analyse by Petrosoft geophysicists  O&G SMEs provide row data to be analysed on a payment basis

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI Gabriel Zaquine - EGEE/ Industry - EchoGRID, Beijing, October Expanding Geosciences-On-Demand (EGEODE) services to SMEs (3/3) Portal Seismic processing simulation platform Reservoir processing simulation platform Internet T Oil & Gaz SMEs Raw dataResults Geophysicists Target market: East Europe Czech FranceNetherlands

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI Gabriel Zaquine - EGEE/ Industry - EchoGRID, Beijing, October Thank You