1. 16 February 2006 ICTP/INFM Workshop on Porting Scientific Application on Computational Grids Pag 1 COMPANY PROFILE 2005 ENGINEERING GROUP Andrea Manieri Grid Initiatives Coordinator Andrea.manieri@eng.it

2. 16 February 2006 ICTP/INFM Workshop on Porting Scientific Application on Computational Grids Pag 2 100% 99,95% 55% 98% 100% 51% ENGINEERING SANITA’ ENTI LOCALI ENGINEERING PROGETTI SPECIALI ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT CONSULTING 100% 70% 100% 55% OVERIT 80% CARIDATA 55% NETA NEXEN SITEL ENGITECH LTD. ENGIWEB SECURITY SOFTLAB NuovaTREND BIP - BUSINESS INTEGRATION PARTNERS ENGINEERING INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA The Engineering Group

3. 16 February 2006 ICTP/INFM Workshop on Porting Scientific Application on Computational Grids Pag 3 ENGINEERING INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA System e Business Integration projects Application Management Services Outsourcing Stocks distribution The Group Leader

4. 16 February 2006 ICTP/INFM Workshop on Porting Scientific Application on Computational Grids Pag 4 System & Business Integration, Outsourcing ENGINEERING INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA ENGINEERING SANITÀ ENTI LOCALI CARIDATA ENGITECH LTD NETA Managerial Consultancy BIP-BUSINESS INTEGRATION PARTNERS ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT CONSULTING NEXEN Services and Software Development SOFTLAB ENGINEERING PROGETTI SPECIALI Security and Logistic ENGIWEB SECURITY SITEL Training SCUOLA DI FORMAZIONE ICT “Enrico Della Valle” Technologies and Products ENGINEERING SANITÀ ENTI LOCALI ENGIWEB SECURITY OVERIT NETA NUOVA TREND The business segments

5. 16 February 2006 ICTP/INFM Workshop on Porting Scientific Application on Computational Grids Pag 5 38 offices 4.100 employees About 750 customers More than 1400 consultants Dublino Bruxelles Engineering and the territory

6. 16 February 2006 ICTP/INFM Workshop on Porting Scientific Application on Computational Grids Pag 6 R&D Mission principles, methods and technologies to improve and expand the Business opportunities Study of “principles, methods and technologies to improve and expand the Business opportunities” and transfer of the acquired know-how to production departments and controlled companies. Concretely: Technical support to tenders and to development of new businesses Participating to research project co-financed by European and Italian funding bodies Disseminating and transferring of know-how through course tuition, papers, reports, ecc.

7. 16 February 2006 ICTP/INFM Workshop on Porting Scientific Application on Computational Grids Pag 7 Research Areas and related Projects Service-based Semantic-aware CCUBO FoodNet BRICKS CALLAS CASPAR Grid technology DILIGENT Belief Trustworthiness Discorso SeCSE SERENITY PEPERS SFORCE ETICS

8. 16 February 2006 ICTP/INFM Workshop on Porting Scientific Application on Computational Grids Pag 8 Present: System Integration Next Future: Distributed and heterogeneous Services Federation Past: Single Product Delivery The ITC evolution – our vision

9. 16 February 2006 ICTP/INFM Workshop on Porting Scientific Application on Computational Grids Pag 9 Grid The evolution of Enterprise ITC architecture Hw Mw App … … Mw App … Mw … Hw … Mw Hw … Centralisation Disintegration Integration (Font: I.Foster, S.Tuecke – The different faces of IT as service, ACM Queue July/August 2005)

10. 16 February 2006 ICTP/INFM Workshop on Porting Scientific Application on Computational Grids Pag 10 Open Issues for Commercialisation Lack Stable and proven version of grid middleware Unclear evidence of standards (OGSA, WSRF,…) Concrete demonstrations for final user benefits Reduction of HW costs by re-use and by optimisation Certainty of porting costs Usability of grids Infrastructure and related applications Security and Trustiness on The infrastructure itself Confidentiality and privacy of data and contents Workload measures for accounting (for multi-domain grids)

11. 16 February 2006 ICTP/INFM Workshop on Porting Scientific Application on Computational Grids Pag 11 GÉANT. INFRASTRUCTURE eInfrastructure GRID. INFRASTRUCTURE KNOWLEDGE. INFRASTRUCTURE 3D processing Speech recognition Feature extraction Supporting eScience First step:

12. 16 February 2006 ICTP/INFM Workshop on Porting Scientific Application on Computational Grids Pag 12 DILIGENT objectives Develop a Digital Library Test-bed Infrastructure that will allow members of dynamic virtual research organizations to create on-demand transient digital libraries based on shared computing, storage, multimedia, multi-type content and application resources “Digital libraries are not ends in themselves; rather they are enabling technologies for digital asset management, electronic commerce, electronic publishing, teaching and learning, and other activities.” Fourth DELOS Workshop, Budapest, 2002

13. 16 February 2006 ICTP/INFM Workshop on Porting Scientific Application on Computational Grids Pag 13 DL definition The Digital Library is: The collection of services And the collection of information objects That support users in dealing with information objects And the organization and presentation of those objects Available directly or indirectly Via electronic/digital means. (Dlib WG –1998)

14. 16 February 2006 ICTP/INFM Workshop on Porting Scientific Application on Computational Grids Pag 14 DL definition adopted by DILIGENT “A digital library is an institution which performs and/or supports (at least) the functions of a library in the context of distributed, networked collections of information objects in digital form. The functions meant are: selecting, collecting, preserving, organizing, representing, providing access to, ensuring knowledge of, and disseminating information objects, mediating and supporting interaction between information users and information objects.” By Nickolas Belkin

15. 16 February 2006 ICTP/INFM Workshop on Porting Scientific Application on Computational Grids Pag 15 DILIGENT Architecture Application Specific Functionality

16. 16 February 2006 ICTP/INFM Workshop on Porting Scientific Application on Computational Grids Pag 16 EGEE – DILIGENT resources VDL WEB data sources DLMS Interface D-Portal ImpECt Web Portal (public/private part) DL-Portal ImpECt community DILIGENT Web portal (public/private part) ImpECt Owner Login VDL creation Contents identification Services and Web Portal default configuration Users identification Access to VDL contents and services ImpECt community data sources DILIGENT Scenario

17. 16 February 2006 ICTP/INFM Workshop on Porting Scientific Application on Computational Grids Pag 17 CERN, INFN, Engineering, 4D Soft, University of Wisconsin Using grid for Integration, testing and quality assurance

18. 16 February 2006 ICTP/INFM Workshop on Porting Scientific Application on Computational Grids Pag 18 ETICS in a Nutshell ETICS stands for e-Infrastructure for Testing, Integration and Configuration of Software It has been allocated 1.4 M€ It has a duration of two years The starting date was January 1 st, 2006

19. 16 February 2006 ICTP/INFM Workshop on Porting Scientific Application on Computational Grids Pag 19 The ETICS Consortium Build system, software configuration, service infrastructure, dissemination, EGEE, gLite, project coord. Software configuration, service infrastructure, dissemination Web portals and tools, quality process, dissemination, DILIGENT Test methods and metrics, unit testing tools, EBIT The Condor batch system, distributed testing tools, service infrastructure, NMI

20. 16 February 2006 ICTP/INFM Workshop on Porting Scientific Application on Computational Grids Pag 20 The ETICS Principles Operations ETICS will run a comprehensive software engineering service for other projects to use it. All services are accessible from a web portal and can run locally or remotely Information ETICS will collect and share information about the software it hosts, its characteristics, configuration, requirements to help users and developers make informed, interoperable choices Certification ETICS will conduct a feasibility study on a QA process for distributed software that will lead to a future Certification Process

21. 16 February 2006 ICTP/INFM Workshop on Porting Scientific Application on Computational Grids Pag 21 I - Operations Infrastructure Reporting Services Software Configuration and Repository Build System Distributed Test System CLI / Web Portal

22. 16 February 2006 ICTP/INFM Workshop on Porting Scientific Application on Computational Grids Pag 22 II - Information Interoperability Benchmarks and test results Package repository Guidelines, how-to’s and best-practice recipes Software configuration, requirements and dependencies Standards compliance Tools Quality Assurance and metrics Projects managers, integrators, testers Application developers Certification process

23. 16 February 2006 ICTP/INFM Workshop on Porting Scientific Application on Computational Grids Pag 23 III - Certification Standards, QA, interoperability, … In what sense software is “good”? The software adheres to agreed standards, it does what it is supposed to do, satisfied a number of qualitative and quantitative requirements, etc, etc, etc ETICS PAB User communities ETICS

24. 16 February 2006 ICTP/INFM Workshop on Porting Scientific Application on Computational Grids Pag 24 EGEE2 and Other Collaborations The ETICS services are intended to provide from the start the integration, testing and QA tools for EGEE2, Diligent and other projects Part of the infrastructure and tools are the same already used by project like Condor and GT4. It’s the NMI service run by the UoW Other projects developing software and in particular applications providers are more than welcome to use the services and tests their products with ETICS ETICS has an explicit mandate to provide training and promote dissemination activities related to the ETICS services, but also to software processes and quality assurance in general One of the major goals of ETICS is to strengthen the interoperability and quality of middleware and applications developed for the Grid and other complex distributed environments

25. 16 February 2006 ICTP/INFM Workshop on Porting Scientific Application on Computational Grids Pag 25 International Cooperation Grids (Computational, Data, Resource,…) have Net Externality-based value Italian, or European cannot see Emergent Economies such as India, China, Latin-America Countries Engineering consider that new form of business, based on services could happen from the cooperation with Emergent Economies and want to ride this opportunity.

26. 16 February 2006 ICTP/INFM Workshop on Porting Scientific Application on Computational Grids Pag 26 Belief Support Action T o deliver brainstorming events on strategic multidisciplinary topics; To deliver strategic networking workshops with major potential user communities; To deliver two international conferences in India and Latin America To develop, maintain and populate a multimedia Digital Library for any documentation produced by eInfrastructure projects and initiatives. http://www.beliefproject.org

27. 16 February 2006 ICTP/INFM Workshop on Porting Scientific Application on Computational Grids Pag 27 I-Ching proposal (IST call 6 th ) To build upon existing Chinese and European links for development of research and commercial opportunities; To leverage and collaborate together EU & China teams both from industries and academies: To define open-source and new licensing models strategies To exploit Scientific Repositories and Audiovisual Archives To move forward to a Standard Certification Process for Quality Assurance. To attract greater interest from Chinese Industry & researchers to use European Grid technologies & allow Europeans for strategic partnerships with China To execute on an adequate communication scheme that help the mutual understanding between two different culture.

28. 16 February 2006 ICTP/INFM Workshop on Porting Scientific Application on Computational Grids Pag 28 New fields of interest: Finance Using Grid to boost Financial Applications and, hence, renew the Banks and Insurance markets GRIFIN [MIUR] proposal for secure and trustiness of Grid infrastructure for Finance applications Univ. of Lecce MONEY [IST-NEST] proposal for grid infrastructure to enable NLP analysis of market news for improving analysis on market values share Univ of Roma “La Sapienza” DFKI CELI CCFEA

29. 16 February 2006 ICTP/INFM Workshop on Porting Scientific Application on Computational Grids Pag 29 New fields of interest: Media Grid infrastructure to store, curate and delivere audiovisual and multimedia content DEMETRA [MIUR] proposal for using grids and satellite communication for a secondary schools networks accessing RAI archives DualTV RAI Educational Univ. of Trento (name TbD) [IST call 6th] Use Grid technology and existing grid-based Infrastructure to support Interactive TV Metaware Microsoft Other LAC partnerships

30. 16 February 2006 ICTP/INFM Workshop on Porting Scientific Application on Computational Grids Pag 30 Conclusions There can be concrete commercial exploitation behind the grid “buzzword”, provide that: will be defined Open Standards (I.e. Web-services) Will be created an “institution” at EU level to ensure the operation of a grid-based Infrastructure (not only for eScience) Will be achieved a widely accepted Quality Certification for grid applications

31. 16 February 2006 ICTP/INFM Workshop on Porting Scientific Application on Computational Grids Pag 31 Acknowledge Some slides have been kindly supplied by Luigi Fusco from - ESA/ESRIN Donatella Castelli – CNR ISTI Alberto Di Meglio - CERN Andrea Manieri (manieri@eng.it) ENG grid initiative coordinator Thanks for your attention