CoreGRID: European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies Thierry PRIOL Scientific Coordinator INRIA/ERCIM

European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies 2 IST-FP6 commitment to Grid research First actions launched in IST-FP5 Grid research is a key strategic objective FP5 FP6 125M * 58M From FP5 to FP6 Grid research funding more than doubles * Grid Infrastructures funding not included

European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies 3 Grid Research and Deployment in FP6 Grids for Complex Problem Solving –Architecture, design and development of the next generation Grid –Enabling application technologies DG IST - F2 Research Infrastructure eInfrastructures –Deployment of specific high performance Grids –Deployment of high-capacity and high-speed communi- cations network - GEANT DG IST - F3 Research & DevelopmentDeployment Application-oriented Strategic Objectives e.g. eBusiness, eGov, eWork, eHealth, risks management, environment, transport Technology-oriented strategic objectives, e.g. semantic web, embedded systems software and services R&D 200 M RI125 M (IST)

European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies 4 Unit F3 - eInfrastructure Grid projects LOBSTER Traffic monitoring EUROLABS Experimental testbeds IPv6TF SC IPv6 Task Force support Specific Support Actions User involvement… …technology validation eInfrastructure EGEE DEISA SEE-GRID DILIGENT New user communities using Grids – Digital Libraries GRIDCC Real time Grid for remote control of instruments MUPPET Optical solutions for Grid infrastruct. EUQoS Flexible Quality of Service Assurance

European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies 5 eInfrastructure Grid infrastructures EGEE project led by CERN Pan-European Grid infrastructure EGEE + SEE-GRID Mission critical for very demanding research communities (e.g. High Energy Physics, biomedics) / operational support to users Structuring effect / largest international Grid infrastructure Capacity of over CPU's, federating 70 centers/20 countries Research in security, AAA and middleware aspects SEE-GRID, led by GRNet, expands EGEE to South Eastern Europe

European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies 6 eInfrastructure Grid infrastructures DEISA, led by CNRS Grid of supercomputers DEISA Distributed tera-scale supercomputing facility Serving user communities such as material sciences, plasma physics, cosmology, life science, etc… Six major supercomputing centers / 40 teraflops Gigabit interconnection Focus on Global File System

European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies 7 inteliGRID Semantic Grid based virtual organisations Provenance Trust and provenance for Grids DataminingGrid Datamining tools & services UniGridS Extended OGSA Implementation based on UNICORE K-WF Grid Knowledge based workflow & collaboration GRIDCOORD Building the ERA in Grid research Unit F2 - Grid Research Grid projects Started: SUMMER 2004 OntoGrid Knowledge Services for the semantic Grid HPC4U Fault tolerance, dependability for Grid Grid-based generic enabling application technologies to facilitate solution of industrial problems SIMDAT EU-driven Grid services architecture for businesS and industry NextGRID Mobile Grid architecture and services for dynamic virtual organisations Akogrimo European-wide virtual laboratory for longer term Grid research-creating the foundation for next generation Grids CoreGRID Specific support actionIntegrated projectNetwork of excellenceSpecific targeted research project

European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies 8 Integrated Project Main Research and Development Areas: Grid architecture Foundations & core services Dynamic federation and VO Grid business models Reference implementations Standards and applications Next Generation Grid services architecture for business and industry Service providers: FujitsuBT T-Systems Datamat Application developers / users: SAP First derivatives Kino Technology providers: Grid Systems HPIntel MicrosoftNec Research org.: EPCCIT Innov. FZJUSTUTT KTHNTUA QUBUvA CNR-ISTI Main Application Areas: Data mining legal sector Broadcasting and entertainment Financial modelling Digital media Supply chain management Feedback for next iteration Analysis Conceptualisation Implementation Design Evaluation

European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies 9 Integrated Project Two testbeds E-Learning Hospital Generalisation to other applications Mobile Grid architectures and services for dynamic virtual organisations Grid Providers & Industry - HLRS (D) - CCLRC (UK) - Uni Hohenheim (D) - Datamat (I) Universities - Uni BW München (D) - CRMPA (I) - NTUA (Gr) UPC(SP) IT Industry (tools & services) - BOC (UK) - SchlumbergerSEMA Telcom operators - Telefonica I&D (SP) - Telnor (N) - Tel Inst (P) Technology Vision NGG based on next generation IPv6 networks and supporting security, QoS, accounting /billing, user & context awareness. Use of mobile comms beyond 3G. Dynamic Virtual Organisations based on trust management The Next Generation GRIDNET AKoGriMo Focus Mobile Internet Network Middleware Core Grid Services Complex Grid Services Domain and Application Specific Services

European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies 10 Integrated Project Four sectors of international economic importance: Automotive Pharmaceutical Aerospace Meteorology Seven Grid-technology development areas: Grid infrastructure Distributed Data Access VO Administration Workflows Ontologies Analysis Services Knowledge Services The solution of industrially relevant complex problems using data-centric Grid technology SIMDAT End Users Capability Providers Grid Technologists

European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies 11 Objectives and Benefits –Overcome fragmentation and dispersion across EU to reinforce impact of national and Community research –Strengthen Europes position on Grid Research and its exploitation Requirements endorsed by 10 Member States – July 2003 –Inventory and analysis of national and EU initiatives –Establishment of a regular forum on European Grid Research –Better co-ordination of fragmented national and EU efforts –Further investigation on the development and delivery of industrial-strength Grid MW –Actions towards the use of Grid in business and industry Creation of a European Research Area for Grid Research GridCoord

European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies CoreGRID objectives To build a European-wide research laboratory –To avoid fragmentation of Grid research activities in Europe –Create the European Grid Lighthouse and be seen as such worldwide –To achieve integration and sustainability To build solid foundations for GRID and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) technologies –Both on a methodological basis and a technological basis. –Support medium and long term research activities Achieve and promote scientific and technological excellence within & beyond the Grid research community Gather and disseminate European research A think-tank for spin-off projects –EC funded, bilateral projects, international cooperations, …

European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies 13 A clear evidence of fragmentation Grid National initiatives: Belgium Be-GRID Bulgarian BG-Grid Cyprus CyGrid Czech Metacenter French ACI GRID German D-GRID Greek Hellas-GRID Hungarian Grid Italian GRID.IT Polish SGIGrid Scandinavian NORDUGRID Spanish IRISGrid Swiss SwissGRID The Netherlands DAS UK e-Science ACI GRID E-SCIENCE DAS BE-GRIDD-GRID METACENTER SWISSGRID HELLAS-GRID GRID.IT IRISGRIDBG-GRID SGIGRID H-GRID NORDUGRID CYGRID

European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies Network priorities Excellence –CoreGRID brings together a European critical mass of well-known experts in GRID and P2P research allowing to compete with research and development in US and Japan –An ambitious joint program of activities to deal with well identified challenges Long-term integration & structuring –Set-up a sustainable European research laboratory with an associated management With several Institutes With research groups assigned to Institutes

European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies 15 CoreGRID membership 42 partners 18 Countries (1 from S. America) 118 Researchers 163 PhD Students Budget: 8.2 M for 4 years U. Cyprus INRIA CNRS ERCIM CETIC UCL CNR-ISTI INFN U. Calabria U. Lecce U. Pisa CLPP-BAS Delft U. Vrije U. EPFL UASF FhG FZ-Julich HLRS U. Munster U. Dortmund U. Passau ZIB ICS-FORTH IC RAL-CCLRC U. Belfast U. Cambridge U. Cardiff U. Manchester U. Newcastle U. Wesminster KTH SICS SZTAKI VTT U. Coimbra UPC Masaryk U. U. Chile PSC CYFRONET

European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies A set of well identified research challenges Knowledge & Data Management –Handling information/data that are required/produced by a wide range of diverse processing power Programming Model –Making the programming of Grid infrastructures as simple and transparent as possible System Architecture –Designing the next generation Grid middleware Grid Information and Monitoring Services –Scalable information service to implement a service view of the Grid Resource Management & Scheduling –Scheduling jobs/applications/tasks/computation within a Grid environment Problem Solving Environments, tools and GRID systems –Integrating various middleware, tools and applications for problem solving

European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies 17 Joint Program of Activities Joint Programme of Activities Integrated Activities Jointly Executed Research Spreading of Excellence Spreading of Excellence Knowledge & Data Management Knowledge & Data Management Programming Model System Architecture Grid Information and Monitoring Service Grid Information and Monitoring Service Resource Management And Scheduling Resource Management And Scheduling Coordinated Programming of Partners activities Coordinated Programming of Partners activities Coordinated approach to prepare project proposals Internal Collaboration and Dissemination Internal Collaboration and Dissemination Annual Integration Workshop PSE, tools and GRID systems Public Website Technical report Workshops & conferences Industrial Advisory Board Newsletter Industry GRID User community Conferences Common Understanding Trust & Security Common Understanding Trust & Security Grid Testbed Mobility of researchers Sergei Gorlatch Domenico Talia Marco Danelutto Artur Andrzejak Ludek Matyska Ramin Yahyapour Vladimir Getov Pierre Guisset Brochures Training & Education

European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies 18 Collaboration with other EU Grid projects Imposed by unit F2 Subject to discussion in March 2004 Subject of a two days meeting in September (16-17) Collaboration Gateway Exploitation of synergies / technical concertation Exploitation of synergies / technical concertation Joint fora for exchange and dissemination Joint fora for exchange and dissemination Co-ordination of standardisation efforts Co-ordination of standardisation efforts Repository of reference Implementations and Grid middleware Repository of reference Implementations and Grid middleware Collaboration on research Inventories and roadmaps Collaboration on research Inventories and roadmaps Indicators and impact assessment Indicators and impact assessment Wolfgang Ziegler Training activities

European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies 19 A NoE managed by ERCIM ERCIM is a consortium of leading research institutions from 18 European countries committed to information technology and applied mathematics.

European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies 20 Organizational map Executive Committee Scientific Advisory BoardIndustrial Advisory BoardSpecific Task Forces Integration Monitoring Committee Chair: R. Perrott (U. Belfast) Collaboration Gateway W. Ziegler (FhG) Administrative & Financial Co-ordinator B. Le Dantec (ERCIM) Scientific Co-ordinator T. Priol (INRIA) Members General Assembly Integrated Activities S. Gorlatch (U. Munster) Spreading Excellence P. Guisset (CETIC) Knowledge & Data Management D. Talia (U. Calabria) Scheduling R. Yahyapour (U. Dortmund) System Architecture A. Andrzejak (ZIB) CoreGRID Institutes Programming Model M. Danelutto (U. Pisa) Grid Information & Monitoring L. Matyska (U. Masaryk) PSE, tools and GRID systems V. Getov (U. Wesminster) Chair: D. Laforenza (CNR-ISTI)

European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies 21 Conclusion EU is strongly investing in Grid Research CoreGRID started in September 1st, 2004 –A very active project although it is in its early stage –Involvement of the main European Key players in Grid computing (both institutions and researchers) –The only one Network of Excellence in Grid funded by the EU –International collaborations Still to be implemented High priorities for collaboration with Asia and North America Should be linked with one of six areas of the joint executed research programme Additional funding is required both from the EU and foreign countries