Grid Applications: Trends, Requirement, and evalution Prof. Qian Depei Director, Sino-German Joint Software Institute (JSI) Beihang University Beijing, June 22, 2005

Trends in Applications (1) Critical applications rely on the network Related to daily life of ordinary people Pervasive and Ubiquitous Penetrate to every corner of the society Featured by massive users, massive equipment, massive information Mobility Nature of modern society Change in both working and living styles new application characteristics

Trends in Applications (2) Perceptive to the environment Location-based Context-aware Sensor networks based Rapid and dynamic change Ever-growing of new applications Upgrading and evolution of current applications

Applications cover broad range (1) Scientific research e-Science DEISA Government functions e-Government e-Customs E-XX Industrial applications Design, Manufacturing, Simulation SIMDAT, AVIGRID

Applications cover broad range (2) Social and economical development Crisis response Environmental issues Daily life of ordinary people Entertainment--game education Culture digital lib DLLIGENT Healthcare DDG

Requirement from applications large scale data exchange and sharing Sharing of computing power and other computing resources in large geographical area Collaboration between distributed and large scale applications Interaction and collaboration between people who are geographically separated Management of dynamically changing resources Rapid generation and dynamic deployment of applications …

How to judge the success of Grid? Application is the most important criteria Improves the quality? Increase the efficiency? Lower the cost? Reduce the complexity?

Improve the quality Enabling applications which are impossible before Nation-wide applications Cross-domain applications Collaboration between applications Better utilization of resources and easier access

Increase efficiency Development stage Operational stage Maintenance

Lower the cost Lower the cost by Efficient usage of resources Reduction in man-power Reducing the development cost Reducing the operation and maintenance cost

Reduce complexity Oriented to end users who are not expert in information technology Effectively reduce the development complexity Providing higher level tools and abstraction Hiding the heterogeneity Facilitate implementation of large scale projects Reusable services More systematic approach for development

Grid applications session agenda (1) SIMDAT - Data grids for process and product development using numerical simulation and knowledge discovery - (i) Overview - Marije Geldof - FhG, Germany - (ii) Aerospace activity - Jamil Appa - BAE Systems, UK - (iii) Audi use case for distributed simulation data and process management - Jason Li & Yimin Jin, MSC, China Aviation Grid - Degang Cui - Beihang University, China DILIGENT - A digital libray insfrastructure on grid enable technology - Peter Fankhauser - FhG, Germany

Grid applications session agenda (2) eScience in China - Baoping Yan, Computer Network and Information Center, CAS, China The eScience applications in DEISA - Hermann Lederer - RZG-Garching, Germany New Drug Discovery Grid - Jianhua Shen, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, CAS China Invited Talk: Asian Grid Activities overview - Satoshi Sekiguchi, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan

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