ETSI Grid – Sophia Antipolis – 2005/05/24 A-WARE summary for ETSI Andrea Rodolico CTO, NICE srl, Italy

ETSI Grid – Sophia Antipolis – 2005/05/24 INSERT PROJECT ACRONYM HERE BY EDITING THE MASTER SLIDE (VIEW / MASTER / SLIDE MASTER) Overview of Project Project goals Project goals Simplify users life (focus on problems) way of perceiving the GRID Fill an existing gap between middleware and portals Portals + A-WARE + UNICORE/GS aim to be a completely integrated, commercially exploitable solution Contribute to the standards An easy Way to Access GRID REsources

ETSI Grid – Sophia Antipolis – 2005/05/24 The Grid Portal / Gateway Interactive Applications Intranet Clients Win LX UXMac Grid / Compute Farm Internal Users Batch Applications Storage, DataGrids Grid Portal / Gateway Home Users Managers Partners Standard protocols Licenses Enterprise Portals

ETSI Grid – Sophia Antipolis – 2005/05/24 Who uses EnginFrame Grid Portal? Mechanical Mechanical Audi, BMW, Delphi, Elasis, FIAT Auto, Ferrari, GDX Automotive, Magneti Marelli, P+Z, Simpson Strong-Tie, Swagelok, Toyota, TRW Manufacturing Manufacturing Bridgestone, Procter & Gamble, Galileo Avionica Oil&Gas Oil&Gas British Gas, Rosneft, Slavneft, Schlumberger, TOTAL, VNIIGaz Electronics Electronics STMicroelectronics, Accent, SensorDynamics, Motorola Others Others Telecom Italia Research Research ASSC, CCLRC, CERN, CILEA, CINECA, CNR, CNRS/IN2P3, ENEA, FzU, ICI, IFAE, INFN, ITEP, JSC G.G.M., KU Leuven, SSC-Russia, SDSC Education Education Dresda University, Ferrara University, ITU, Messina University, Politecnico of Milan, Technische Universität Dresden, Trinity College Dublin, Salerno University, S-PACI, Huazhong University

ETSI Grid – Sophia Antipolis – 2005/05/24 How users work with the Grid

ETSI Grid – Sophia Antipolis – 2005/05/24 INSERT PROJECT ACRONYM HERE BY EDITING THE MASTER SLIDE (VIEW / MASTER / SLIDE MASTER) Research Challenges

ETSI Grid – Sophia Antipolis – 2005/05/24 INSERT PROJECT ACRONYM HERE BY EDITING THE MASTER SLIDE (VIEW / MASTER / SLIDE MASTER) Research Challenges Research Challenges are related to A-WARE components: Research Challenges are related to A-WARE components: Workflow management of TSS invocations User focused workflow orchestration One-stop, fire-and-(almost) forget, dropping- off and rendezvous point a repository to store workflows; a workflow design application; TSS service for gLite.

ETSI Grid – Sophia Antipolis – 2005/05/24 INSERT PROJECT ACRONYM HERE BY EDITING THE MASTER SLIDE (VIEW / MASTER / SLIDE MASTER) Standardisation (requirements & use of) Standardisation (requirements & use of) Standardisation Goals: Standardisation Goals: Main goal is to influence standards proposing exemplar implementations Pertinent/required Standards: Pertinent/required Standards: WSRF / OGSA Suitable Workflow standard (WS-BPEL?) Job/service submission & control interfaces (ESI?) Grid objects representation (GridML?) Portlet standards (JSR168, WSRP?)

ETSI Grid – Sophia Antipolis – 2005/05/24 INSERT PROJECT ACRONYM HERE BY EDITING THE MASTER SLIDE (VIEW / MASTER / SLIDE MASTER) Standardisation (approach) Standardisation (approach) collaborate with other European projects to coordinate the standards activities focus project work within standards organisations GGF WGs: project partners representative participation ETSI collaboration?