DataGrid is a project funded by the European Commission under contract IST rd EU Review – 19-20/02/2004 Work Package 11 Dissemination and Exploitation Author: Roberto Puccinelli

Dissemination and exploitation - n° 2 Outline u Objectives u Achievements u Lessons learned u Future & Exploitation u Questions

Dissemination and exploitation - n° 3 Tasks for the third year u Task maintenance of the dissemination e-environment: n Maintenance of the “DataGrid” dissemination portal; n Design, development and maintenance of the “European Grid Industry and Research Forum” website; n Deployment and management of the “Dissemination testbed” (GriDis). u Task local dissemination: n Live demonstrations and participation to relevant events. u Task support of the open software adoption and contribution to international standards: n Software and documentation download site. n Report about contributions to international standards (deliverable 11.9). u Task industrial deployment: n Improve the I&R Forum initiative, increasing the number of subscribers; n Organize dissemination events targeted to Industry; n Establish a network of DataGrid Point of Contacts.

Dissemination and exploitation - n° 4 Maintenance of the dissemination e-environment

Dissemination and exploitation - n° 5 Maintenance of the dissemination web portal u Work Package 11 staff has continued to search, collect and publish papers, news, promotional material and multimedia contents on the dissemination portal. u At the end of 2003 the dissemination web portal contained: n 187 events in the calendar; n 63 technical papers; n 42 slide presentations; n 44 news; n 85 press articles; n 15 FAQs; n 40 links to related projects.

Dissemination and exploitation - n° 6 Dissemination web portal visits u Geographical distribution of the visits during the year 2003: 1. United States (8857) 2. Italy (2386) 3. Europe (1577) 4. UK (822) 5. Switzerland (737) 6. China (614) 7. France (521) 8. Germany (489) 9. Netherlands (343) 10. Japan (339) Target: 6800 visits during 2003

Dissemination and exploitation - n° 7 Dissemination testbed u A dissemination testbed, called GriDis, has been deployed and maintained in order to provide a permanent infrastructure for tutorials and live demos. u Important contributions have been made by several members of other WPs. u The dissemination testbed, whose core components are hosted at CNR in Rome, has been adopted as the official platform for EDG tutorial road show. u It has also been used by the “Grid Café” initiative to develop and demonstrate some sample grid-enabled applications. u Grid accounts have been created on the GriDis testbed for some members of the “Grace” project for self-training purposes.

Dissemination and exploitation - n° 8 Local dissemination

Dissemination and exploitation - n° 9 Events organization/participation u WP11 staff contributed to the organization of 13 events during 2003 in one or more of the following forms: n attendance; n provision of dissemination material; n booth organization; n public talks; n live demos; n logistic organization. u About 1060 “official” EDG brochures distributed during public events, about 100 in face to face meetings (overall target was 1100). u Ad hoc flyers produced for particular events and/or demos.

Dissemination and exploitation - n° 10 Live demos u The dissemination testbed has been effectively used to demonstrate the project results. u 6 live demos held during 2003: n 14 May 2003, web-based live demo during the “6th EDG Conference” (Barcelona – Spain) n 22 May 2003, Perugia University (Perugia - Italy); n 19 June 2003, “Experts Day” of Surfnet GiGaPort (The Netherlands); n July 2003, Demo for Wolfgang Boch, head of unit for DG-INFSO- F2 “Complex Problem Solving”; n 1 October 2003, wizard-based job submission at the “German Grid Day” following the “7th EDG Conference”, (Heidelberg – Germany). n 1 December 2003, live demo for the “Grid Café” one-day event at the Microcosm museum of CERN, (Switzerland/France)

Dissemination and exploitation - n° 11 Tutorials u A major dissemination achievement with contributions from the whole project u GriDis testbed adopted as the official training facility. u Two formats: n Two full days with lectures and hands-on exercises n One day with only lectures

Dissemination and exploitation - n° 12 The tutorial road show  14 tutorials during 2003 in 12 different countries: Italy (including International Grid School of Computing - Vico Equense), Switzerland, France, Greece, Spain, Austria, Portugal, UK. Pakistan Japan (GGF7) USA (GGF8) Austria (CERN School of Computing 2003)  ~600 students trained  Tutorial material now included in some university level courses

Dissemination and exploitation - n° 13 Video material u About 50 hours of video material u About 980 photos u About 370 photos published on the dissemination portal

Dissemination and exploitation - n° 14 Support of the open software adoption and contribution to international standards

Dissemination and exploitation - n° 15 Software and documentation download website u The EDG software and documentation can be downloaded from the URL u Software and Documentation repositories maintained by WP6 u The EDG software is also included in the Grid Technology Repository (

Dissemination and exploitation - n° 16 Contributions to international standards u The DataGrid project contributed to the establishment of international standards in the following ways: n Participation to GGF activities: EDG members made substantial contributions to 16 GGF working and research groups. n Papers: ~90 papers have been published in the proceedings of international conferences or in high level scientific journals. n Inter-project collaborations: EDG established successful collaborations with DataTAG, CrossGrid, Gridstart, iVDGL, PPDG, GriPhyN, Internet2, Dante, UK GridMon and the Storage Resource Manager initiative. u An exhaustive report about the contributions to international standards can be found in D11.9 u Special issue of the “Journal of Grid Computing” dedicated to EDG outcomes.

Dissemination and exploitation - n° 17 Industrial deployment

Dissemination and exploitation - n° 18 European Grid Industry and Research Forum u The European DataGrid Industry and Research Forum is the result of the merger of the DataGrid and CrossGrid Industry and Research Fora u It now counts 283 members coming both from Industry and Research. Target was 280 u ~40% coming from Industry (target was 60%), mostly from the IT sector. u The majority of the subscriptions have been collected during events and conferences. u Work Package 11 has designed, developed and maintained the new “European Grid Industry and Research forum” website which includes an on line subscription form.

Dissemination and exploitation - n° 19 Industry and Research events u During 2003 WP11 supported the organization of the following two “European DataGrid Industry and Research Forum” events: n February 2003: Santiago de Compostela, Spain s within the framework of the “Across Grids Conference”; n June 2003: Barcelona, Spain s within the framework of the “6th EDG project conference”.

Dissemination and exploitation - n° 20 Industrial exploitation u Contacts have been established by staff with Industrial representatives of the following sectors: n automotive, n aerospace, n defence, n energy, n government n IT n pharmacy, n plastic industry, n microelectronics, u Formal collaboration agreement between CS-SI and CNRS-IN2P3. u Two new project based on EDG middleware started by CS-SI: Rugbi (large-scale analysis of proteins structure) and OpenPlast (design of plastic products). u Contacts established with “Polo Oncologico S. Raffaele” (Milan) which stimulted the proposal of the “e-Oncology” project. u Contacts ongoing with “Presidenza del Consiglio Italiano” to explore the possibility of applying Grid technology to Critical Infrastructure Protection.

Dissemination and exploitation - n° 21 Plans for Industrial exploitation u Two possible Industrial actors: users and providers. u The strategy of the the providers at the moment is to acquire expertise in grid computing and create “Grid operative divisions”. u Three possible (non mutually exclusive) business models: n Provide expertise (consultancy) n Develop/Provide grid-enabled applications n Provide grid infrastructure.

Dissemination and exploitation - n° 22 Lessons learned u Tutorials with hands-on practice, live demos and a rich web portal are effective dissemination instruments; u The deployment of a dedicated training facility (e.g. the dissemination testbed) is the only way to assure the availability of a testbed during tutorials and dissemination events. But … u The funding level for dissemination need to be carefully reviewed in order to keep pace with the interest that an important project like DataGrid can arouse: n Manpower and computing infrastructure need to be allocated in advance for tutorial activities. n The establishment of a network of point of contacts can be achieved only with the allocation of dedicated human resources.

Dissemination and exploitation - n° 23 Future and exploitation of the dissemination activity u The dissemination website will be archived and turned into a static repository which will be maintained by CNRS. u EDG results will remain available in the static repository. u All the dissemination experience acquired during the DataGrid project will be fed into the EGEE project.