2. Managing Director Oracle Hungary
Péter Füzes
Managing Director Oracle Hungary

3. Grid Computing Many different views on what this is.
Science Grids, Compute Grids, Data Grids, Enterprise Girds, Commerical Grids
They all enable “Pools of Resource” to be virtualized & abstracted, then shared amongst users.
Oracle Technology has a role to play in all of these.
The next 3 slides position Oracle technology in the Grid Computing space.
Its really important not to get too hung up about what Grid Computing is. The Science world / EGEE have quite a differing view of what a Grid is compared to Oracle.
My Point here is that regardless of what the definition is they are all about “Pools of Resource” that can be shared. Also, regardless of the Grid definition Oracle Technology has a role to play as part of the building blocks for Grid.
I’m also deliberately trying to blur the line between Virtualisation and Grid.

4. Oracle Grid Technology
Oracle 10g, 11g
First commercially available database grid technology
Oracle RAC & ASM
Real Application Cluster, Automated Storage Management
Virtualized Pools of Disk and Database.
Widely used in Commerce and also eScience Grids
Oracle Coherence
Truely Scalable Data Grid technology.
Oracle SOA Suite
Service Oriented Architecture
Virtualizing the Application.
This slide mentions our main technologies that can be described as Grid.
RAC & ASM are the main ones. Obviously widely used in the commercial worlds but also in the eScience world - see CERN and NGS from earlier slide.
Coherence is the new one - Previously Tangosol. Its widely used in the Financial Services world to bring data closer to their Compute Grids.
I’ve mentioned SOA as it can be viewed as a Virtualisation technology at the Application Tier.

5. S Oracle in R&D - Major Grid-related Projects Sicilia
SLA/QoS Management in Grid Environment S
Sicilia
Applicable to eScience & Commerce.
Focus on Services rather than individual grid components
CERN Services - LCG
Oracle is at the heart of the LCG 3D project.
LCG is major EGEE application
National Grid Service
Service for UK eScience
Expanding Oracle Database and Middleware use under the service.
VitalIT
Vital – IT
Exploring the use of Oracle in Life Science and Drug Discovery
New Oracle Semantic technologies
This slide highlights 4 examples of what we are doing right now.
S-Sicilia : This is based in Sicily, Italy. We are working with the University of Messina, who have eScience Grid expertise, to explore the management of Service Level Agreements & Quality of Service issues within a grid. These topics need to be better understood for wider Grid
adoption in both Science and Commercial worlds. It is focussed at the Services level rather than the lower level grid components that most similar studies currently are.
CERN : CERN is the major contributer to EGEE – most of the code and management team are from CERN. CERN have been building out their Grid infrastructure which will support their new particle accelerator ( the LHC ), which goes live next year. Oracle RAC, ASM, OEM and Streams are core technologies with this infrastructure. We have been working with US Product Development to support them on this. The LCG 3D project is CERN’s name for the Oracle part.
NGS: the National Grid Service, is an UK eScience facility for use by any UK science or research facility. Most of it is pure Science Grid. However, there is an Oracle part of the service, which is now beginning to get used by scientists across the UK. The NGS provides Oracle RAC, ASM and FMW hosted services for use across the country.
Vital-IT: This is less about GRID than the other, but is still one of out major Research projects. The main project is using the SWISSPROT database to test out the new Oracle Semantic technologies. SwissProt is the, publically available, database of Human Proteins. It is used by the worlds major Life Science organisations. Vital-IT are also migrating their key applications from MySQL to Oracle for scalability reasons.

6. Global Oracle Grid Index = 5.4

7. How would you describe the current status of your adoption of Grid Computing?

8. Telecoms leads in Grid - Overall

9. Country Rankings
Europe now has two countries in top 3

10. Oracle in R&D across Europe
EMEA Oracle in Research & Development Programme
To foster & coordinate Oracle activity in the R&D sector.
To establish long-term partnerships with key R&D organisations in both Science & Commerce.
Grid is only one focus. The programme covers the whole Oracle offering, across both technology & applications.
This slide is an Introduction to what the EMEA Oracle in R&D Programme is.

11. Resources Oracle in R&D across Europe Oracle in R&D Programme
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