1. Interoperability of Virtual Organizations on Complex Semantic Grid construction + grid Robert Balder OBERMEYER Planen+Beraten GmbH Munich, June 2005

2. www.InteliGrid.com Inteligrid target  Semantic grid  for Virtual Organizations  with focus on AEC

3. www.InteliGrid.com Contents  Where are we now?  Concerns about grid  What is a “nice to have”  What is really needed  User requirements

4. www.InteliGrid.com Where are we now?  No real grid running in construction  Server clusters for the CAD data  Project spaces for data sharing in Virtual Organisations  Special “grid-like” applications  seti@home

5. www.InteliGrid.com Concerns  Serious problems in the current IT structure  Viruses, Worms  Spam  This costs a lot of money  A grid is designed to do support remote processing and information sharing

6. www.InteliGrid.com Concerns  The opportunity of the grid is that we think about information sharing and remote processes when designing it

7. www.InteliGrid.com What is a “nice to have”  There are several areas where “High Performance Computing” would help  Rendering  Sonic computations  Special problems in static's  These are not the killer applications

8. www.InteliGrid.com What we need from a Grid  Sharing of data models and documents/plans is very complex  A project space is the right step, but still works with copies  A Semantic Project Grid for Virtual Organizations has a great potential  But don‘t forget the users...

9. www.InteliGrid.com User requirements  User types  „typical“ end user (Engineer)  Real Company CIO  VO Project Manager  Grid CIO

10. www.InteliGrid.com Typical industrial end user  Consider user interface  HPC  Storage, semantic data

11. www.InteliGrid.com User interface Space for semantic data

12. www.InteliGrid.com Company CIO/Sysad  Has to support one grid for every Virtual Organization  Responsible for  Loss of data  Quality of service  Long term data management

13. www.InteliGrid.com VO project manager  Setting up VO  Running VO  Terminate VO!  Responsible for?  Long term data management  Not only one VO

14. www.InteliGrid.com Grid CIO/Sysad  Setting up VO  Running VO  Terminate VO!  Responsible for?  Loss of data  Quality of service  Long term data management

15. www.InteliGrid.com Developer  IDE integration  Open grids or proprietary grids?  The best offer for software development will win

16. www.InteliGrid.com Conclusions  A semantic grid has the potential to take a key role in construction  Controlled information sharing is the „killer application“ for the grid  A VO grid corresponds to just one project, but there are more  Let the grid be as transparent as possible

17. www.InteliGrid.com Final remark  The ultimate killer application...  Let seti@home be successful The Extraterrestrial Intelligence should help us to solve our problems in constructionseti@home

18. Interoperability of Virtual Organizations on Complex Semantic Grid The end More information at www.InteliGrid.com