Centre d’Excellence en Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication EC Workshop Delivery of industrial-strength Grid middleware: establishing an effective European approach The distribution of roles and functions between the private and public sectors in supporting exploitation and commercial take-up Pierre Guisset, Brussels, Jan 21, 2004 www.cetic.be

Commercial exploitation for Europe’s benefit Position Objective Focus grid research to really impact european industry Take the lead – develop European expertise and new business lines Perform more and better, create more Business Added Value with less HW investment Commercial exploitation for Europe’s benefit Janvier 2004 www.cetic.be

The Players, the problem to solve… Huge research effort (FP5, FP6, nat.) Marginal involvement of software editors and ICT service companies Is it beyond a marketing & communication action? New solution paradigm Small impact on EU industry Where is grid today? “It’s not for me…” Perform more and better with less HW investment Research Org. Software Dev. Org. Industrial End Users Research efforts In software technology - next generation grid - enabling application technologies In infrastructure - Higt performance grid, high capacity, high speed network Soft Editors: new solution paradigm: traditional parallel processing approach are not appropriate anymore. From HPC to Grid… End User: today, grid is almost nowhere. It is time to deploy grid solutions, in order to identify the bottlenecks and solve those. Currently, either large HPC specific machines (supercomputers, clusters) for specific business critical or science strategic appl., run in a controlled environment… this is not really grid. Or, some org. Are recycling their old PC in their computing centre, in order to build processing power. But still huge obstacles to fully exploit the opportunity: data confidentiality, use comfort, quality… Janvier 2004 www.cetic.be

Recommended set of actions Focus Research on Industry requirements Including real life constraints: Security, data confidentiality, fault tolerance, flexible and adaptive scheduling Effective standardisation and quality Technology bridging: Support technology transfer centres, network them Initiatives grouping end-users, software companies and research organisations, driven by technology transfer centres Clear positioning for Open Source models for grid middleware, to favour local EU business Web site for hosting Open Source grid middleware, grid-enabled applications, quality indicators, and for disseminating white papers, experience reports… Janvier 2004 www.cetic.be