WP3 plenary meeting London, Jan 17-18, 2006 Roadmap of the Virtual Institute Marco Danelutto Workpackage leader University of Pisa - Italy

European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies Programming Model Virtual institute 2 “The roadmap of the roadmap” Version 1.0 of the roadmap (M6) D.PM.01 discussed in Pisa meeting, Jan 2005 delivered in Feb 2005 Version 2.0 of the roadmap (M18) D.PM.02 discussed/designed here to be delivered in Feb > is an assessment! Responsibility UNIPI cooperative writing process CVS based for D.PM.01 to be repeated for the second version

European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies Programming Model Virtual institute 3 Roadmap D.PM.01 Context & positioning w.r.t. partners, partner’s projects, rest of the world JPA1 structure kept Steps assumed consensus on the principles lightweight specification of GCM refinement (possibly through experiments and reference implementations) partner consensus and GCM adoption

European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies Programming Model Virtual institute 4 Consensus JPA1 derived structure single component arbitrary with functional and non functional interfaces hierarchical composition parallel components advanced component based programming models

European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies Programming Model Virtual institute 5 First roadmap “formal step” XML component specification as a Schema API run time defined in several languages Packaging XML as a Schema Three key points by Denis at the Jan 05 meeting in Pisa Fully implemented in D.PM.02 (reviewed version submitted these days)

European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies Programming Model Virtual institute 6 “Aside” topics consensus Adaptivity autonomic components, aspect oriented techniques, … Performance modeling to drive config/reconfig Multi middleware component framework to support interoperability and heterogeneity Just to name a few

European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies Programming Model Virtual institute 7 Not completely specified in 1.0 Results in the tasks (to be moved to research groups, actually) -results/goals stated at the proper abstraction level -With checkable features -Possibly with volunteer responsible -To support “non WP leader induced” activity :-)

European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies Programming Model Virtual institute 8 Not addressed in 1.0 Positioning w.r.t. current EU/foreign sensible initiatives

European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies Programming Model Virtual institute 9 More needed in 2.0 Interaction with other WPs propagation of the GCM, once assessed starts right now feedback on “missing” specification/requirements “Advertisement” activity w.r.t. to other initiatives, projects, etc. EU, industry, academia

European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies Programming Model Virtual institute 10 Definitely needed in 2.0 Roadmap to new projects nationwide follow up expected to the NoE european level EU projects, industrial projects/consortiums Role of the open source sw (& consortiums) formal vs. actual open source should/could we involve industry in open source based projects?

European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies Programming Model Virtual institute 11 Definitely needed in 2.0 Standardization process participation in open source consortiums with GCM sw (funding?) participation in EU initiatives (NGG, interest groups, …) participation in international bodies (personal -> CoreGRID WP3 contributes !) participation in national “standard decision committees” force GCM adoption in proper places

European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies Programming Model Virtual institute 12 Harmonize statements in roadmap and JPAs Stated in D.PM.01: Differently in the JPA (later on)

European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies Programming Model Virtual institute 13 Plus any new, innovative “research topic” Not unrelated to the Virtual institute mainstream With adequate partner support (Res Group resp + participants !) Correctly framed in the D.PM.01 activities E.g. service oriented knowledge utilities exploitation in the GCM framework links with WP2 (possibilities for new interaction/projects) exploit meta info/knowledge to accomplish component related tasks

European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies Programming Model Virtual institute 14 Take into account … D.PM.01 set up the roadmap main ideas D.PM.03 should assess and complete D.PM.01 not completely change it unless evidence, of course …

European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies Programming Model Virtual institute 15 How to go on (today, tomorrow, …) First phase all partners make a general “position statement” concerning the way to proceed and the general roadmap ideas all partners introduce specific topics to be discussed in the roadmap we agree on the topics prelimiary discussion on the topic (to be continued offline before deadline) task assignment (sections of the roadmap! (still waiting for comments on the first roadmap documents …))