GRID and SMEs: the INQUADRO Strategy Angelo Zaia CEO INQUADRO – Insirio Innovations

Inquadro Srl It’s a Baby Company !  Born in May 2006 Built upon many solid rocks  New branch of the Insirio Group Spa  Spin-off of the University of Messina  Core Team: Mobile and Distributed Systems Lab of the University of Messina Wide frontiers  Headquarters: Messina – Roma – Milano  Demo Labs: Messina – Roma And Focal Business: Approaching Enterprises to new and consolidated innovations on ICT

The Group INSIRIO is a Business Solutions Integrator It provides ICT services and solutions for middle and large Companies, and for Government Institutions  Born in april 1976  250 specialists  A turnover of 18 M€

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The Group Portfolio

Inquadro Portfolio

The Engineering Faculty About sq.mt. Civil, Electronics, Informatics, Navals, CIO 2005 award for the innovative ICT infrastructure

The Mobile and Distributed System Lab 12 Researchers 15 running projects for an amount of 8 M€ covering many ICT areas such as Grid Computing, Ad- Hoc and Sensor Networks, and RFID

Focal Business Service Oriented Architecture RFID and Localization Systems Security Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks Grid Oriented Architecture

Inquadro and the Grid The Extension of the Grid to SMEs and in the next future, to the end-user through Grid Oriented Architecture Grid Licensing scheme Service Level Agreement Quality of Service

Grid: Two Examples GridSPN: Grid based tool for Petri Nets Evaluation GridVideo: how to provide a fully distributed video service

WebSPN Analysis tool for NMSPN (Non-Markovian Stochastic Petri Nets) ArgoPerformance

GridSPN Globus Toolkit 2.4 Security: X-509 certificats Load balancing: MDS-GRIS (Metacomputing Directory Services-Grid Resource Information Service) Fault Detection: GRAM (Globus Resource Allocation Manager) and plugins (HBM – HeartBeat Monitor)

Integration with the Genius Portal TriGridSPN

Future developments Adaptive load balancing algorithm Fault tolerance

GridVideo The idea: Use Grid technologies to deliver services to end users. GRIDVideo is a software infrastructure based on Grid services for the storage, adaptation and streaming of media content. Users shoudn’t be aware of all the technologies inside and should be able to use it in a friendly way eg. Web access!

Reasons In a heterogeneous environment a distributed transcoding system is needed to avoid limited resource devices (such as PDA and smarthphone) waste their resource and power supplies. Meanwhile, this system, allows not to generate useless traffic on the links involved in the communication.

Interaction Media adaptation and streaming. Upload of multimedia files on the Grid;

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