Grids in Industry: Lost in Transition? Mike Boniface IT Innovation Business Track: Solutions and Barriers to Grid Adoption in Business EGEE-07, Budapest, Hungary, 2 Oct 2007

© University of Southampton IT Innovation Centre 2007 Grid Research Projects under FP6 Wave2 – start 2006 Wave 2 – start 2006 Degree Datamining Grid data, knowledge, semantics OntoGridInteliGrid K-WF Grid Chemomen tum A-WareSorma platforms, user environments CoreGRID virtual laboratories UniGridsHPC4Ug-EclipseGrediaGridComp QosCosGrid Grid4all ProvenanceAssessGrid GridTrust trust, security Grid services, business models ArguGrid Grid GridEcon GridCoordNessi-Grid Challengers NextGRID service architecture Akogrimo mobile services BREIN agents & semantics BeinGrid business experiments supporting the Grid community SIMDAT industrial simulations XtreemOS Linux based Grid operating system BeinGrid business experiments KnowArcEC-GinBridge international cooperation Specific support action Integrated project Network of excellence Specific targeted research project Wave 1 – start 2004 EU Funding: 130 M€

© University of Southampton IT Innovation Centre 2007 Contents Once upon a time... Overview of the current condition Diagnosis, treatment and prognosis

© University of Southampton IT Innovation Centre 2007 Once upon a time = GRID (c) 1999 "Fred Gannett"

© University of Southampton IT Innovation Centre 2007 A commonly accepted early vision... Foster, Kesselman, Tueke Virtual organisations but not the only view

Diagnosis: What is the condition?

© University of Southampton IT Innovation Centre 2007 Traditional virtual organisation model Traditional Virtual Organisation –persistent –resourceful –manages federated resources –optimises to achieve shared goals Good for long-lived trusting communities –e.g. academic collaborations –business cooperatives Not so good for service provision –too trusting, too open

© University of Southampton IT Innovation Centre 2007 An alternative model for industry Client federation –user-driven, transient –no prior infrastructure –resources managed by providers based on SLA –optimises provider-consumer value exchanges Service Level Agreements –regulate use of resources –replace VO-level controls Good for fast collaborations –market-based services –lightweight, short-lived project collaborations Bi-lateral Service Level Agreement

© University of Southampton IT Innovation Centre 2007 Differences in perspective Businesse-Science Barriers

© University of Southampton IT Innovation Centre 2007 Infrastructure tensions Site Independence Best-practicesecurity COTS and enterprise integration Regulation and legal Maintainability Business Risks Business Models Heterogeneity Competition

Treatment

© University of Southampton IT Innovation Centre 2007 A treatment based on design principles Customers control which services they consume, how much they are used, and by whom Service providers operate independently and maintain control of their own resources Services are subject to Service Level Agreements Service providers operate within the terms of relevant application software licenses Security to commercial standards Heterogeneous infrastructures Maintenance should be cost-effective

© University of Southampton IT Innovation Centre 2007 GRIA: Secure service-oriented collaborations Open source service-oriented infrastructure supporting B2B collaborations across organisation boundaries Easy to use yet powerful functionality –business-to-business accounting and service level agreements –dynamic trust and security –distributed file transfer, storage and processing –distributed database access using OGSA-DAI –distributed inter-domain workflow composition, enactment and publication using Taverna/Freefluo –cross-platform (Windows, Linux) and interoperable (.NET) –developers kit for new managed application services Available free and open source from

©2007 University of Southampton IT Innovation Centre and other members of the SIMDAT consortium A typical enterprise scenario Acoustics Service Design Optimisation Service Structures Service Aerodynamics Service (Matlab, OGSA-DAI, Condor, GRIA) (Model Center, SunGridEngine, GRIA) (iSightFD, Torque/LSF, GRIA) (Patran, GRIA)

©2007 University of Southampton IT Innovation Centre and other members of the SIMDAT consortium Future scenario: Automotive Crash Compatibility Testing ©ESI Group PAMCRASH

Standards and interoperability WSE 3.0 Hardware.NET FrameworkWS-IJava WS-Security WS-Addressing WS-I Basic Security Profile WSS4J.NET 2.0WS-I Basic ProfileAxis 1.4 Windows XP/Server 2003/Vista Platform Independent Windows XP/ Linux/ Mac OS X.NET 3.0 WCF WPF/ Silverl ight WF

© University of Southampton IT Innovation Centre 2007 Validation through accreditation Collaboration patterns Operational security policies Business Requirements Technology Capabilities Infrastructure Accreditation Technology Gaps Dynamic trust and security SLA management and accounting Contextualised discovery Transatlantic Secure Collaboration Programme ( Risk analysis Grid Technology Uptake

© University of Southampton IT Innovation Centre and the prognosis Theory of evolution applies Enterprise Grids were solved a few years ago Inter-enterprise service- oriented infrastructures are largely solved Some operational and cultural challenges remain Production deployment will be seen within the next 12 months in some industries