1. European Commission Directorate-General Information Society Unit F2 – Grid Technologies ML / 1 EU Grid Research: Projects and Visions Dr. Max Lemke Deputy Head of Unit DG Information Society Grid Technologies http://www.cordis.lu/ist/grids CRIS Seminar 21 September 2004 Architecture, of the next generation GRID Enabling application technologies Design and Development

2. European Commission Directorate-General Information Society Unit F2 – Grid Technologies ML / 2 1.Grid Research in IST 2.Initial FP5 results & Lessons Learnt (2000-02) 3.Grid Vision: Towards the « Invisible Grid » 4.The EU Grid Research Initiative in FP6 (2002-06) 5.Future Challenges 6.Conclusions Scope

3. European Commission Directorate-General Information Society Unit F2 – Grid Technologies ML / 3 What is Grid ? Benefits Benefits  Increased productivity by reducing Total Cost of Ownership  Any-type, anywhere, anytime services by/for all  Infrastructure for dynamic virtual organisations  Next generation Internet services backbone e-Science Industry & Business Grids “A Grid provides an abstraction for resource sharing and collaboration across multiple administrative domains…” (Source: NGG Expert Group, 16 June 2003 “European Grid Research 2005-2010)

4. European Commission Directorate-General Information Society Unit F2 – Grid Technologies ML / 4 « The Internet will eventually emerge as a global networked utility, replacing computing as we know it today » PriceWaterhouseCoopers Technology Forecast 2002

5. European Commission Directorate-General Information Society Unit F2 – Grid Technologies ML / 5 Information Society Programme Vision ‘Ambient Intelligence (AmI)’ Grid empowering AmI

6. European Commission Directorate-General Information Society Unit F2 – Grid Technologies ML / 6 Grid Technologies  Grid-enabled applications and services for business society  Technologies and systems for building the invisible Grid  Network-centric Grid operating systems Industrial / Societal Applications eBusiness, eGov, eWork, eHealth, risks management, … Research Infrastructures  Deployment of high-capacity/speed communications network – GÉANT  Deployment in Research of Grids Software-, Web-, Knowledge Technologies, Broadband-, Mobile Communication Technologies, Security Application Research & Deployment Grid RTD Related Research 125 M€ Grid Research in FP6 - IST

7. European Commission Directorate-General Information Society Unit F2 – Grid Technologies ML / 7 IST-FP6 commitment to Grid research Seed Grid actions launched in IST-FP5 Grid research is a strategic objective IST-FP6, 1st wave Grid projects started IST-FP6, 2nd wave Grid projects started First tangible results & exploitation Becoming a world leading force in Grid? Final results & full exploitation Lisbon’s objective is agreed Early adoption & exploitation plans 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Grid Research Research Infrastructures National Programmes Grid Research Research Infrastructures National Programmes 1998-2002 2002-2006 Budget Time

8. European Commission Directorate-General Information Society Unit F2 – Grid Technologies ML / 8 Applications Infrastructure Middleware Current EU FP5 Grid Projects (58M€) – 2000-2004 Current EU FP5 Grid Projects (58M€) – 2000-2004 Examples of FP5/Grid results Infrastructure DataTag Computing EuroGrid, DataGrid, Damien Tools and Middleware GridLab, GRIP Applications EGSO, CrossGrid, BioGrid, FlowGrid, Moses, COG, GEMSS, Grace, Mammogrid, OpenMolGrid, Selene, P2P / ASP / Webservices P2People, ASP-BP, GRIA, MMAPS, GRASP, GRIP, WEBSI Clustering GridStart EGSO AVO GRIA CrossGrid GridLab GRIP DataTAG EuroGrid DAMIEN DataGrid GEMSS MammoGrid BioGrid SeLeNe OpenMolGrid COG FlowGrid GRACE MOSES 1/10/20001/10/20011/10/2002

9. European Commission Directorate-General Information Society Unit F2 – Grid Technologies ML / 9 FP5 EU Grid Research Achievements Creation of a strong Grid research community Creation of a strong Grid research community Europe’s position strengthened related to Europe’s position strengthened related to  Grid middleware development  Contribution to standardisation Leading position established for vertical Grid MW oriented towards specific application requirements Leading position established for vertical Grid MW oriented towards specific application requirements First steps taken towards maturing Grid technologies for industrial and business use First steps taken towards maturing Grid technologies for industrial and business use Grid concept proven in eScience application pilots followed by deployment in research infrastructures Grid concept proven in eScience application pilots followed by deployment in research infrastructures Identified weaknesses in commercial exploitation Identified weaknesses in commercial exploitation Emergent opportunities for service providers Emergent opportunities for service providers

10. European Commission Directorate-General Information Society Unit F2 – Grid Technologies ML / 10 Next Generation Grids Software Technologies Knowledge Technologies Service- Oriented Knowledge Utility Evolution of HPCN Current Grids Grid Research - the Challenge Complexity - Interoperability - Ease of Use -... Complex Systems Computing Architectures Mobile Services Global Computing Evolution of the Web

11. European Commission Directorate-General Information Society Unit F2 – Grid Technologies ML / 11 Next Generation Grids End-user empowerment Life-support to business processes Societal behaviour (millions of self-organising nodes) Computational semantics, ontologies, meta-descriptions Pervasive virtual organisations Continuously changing requirements Grid services development environments Virtualization End-User Vision Software Vision Architectural Vision Simplification Abstraction Expert Group Report: “Next Generation Grid(s) - European Grid Research 2005 - 2010”, June 2003 Next Generation Grid(s): 3-fold vision

12. European Commission Directorate-General Information Society Unit F2 – Grid Technologies ML / 12 Open Reliable Scalable Persistent Transparent Person-centric Pervasive Secure / trusted Standards-based User Interface Grid Economies Business models Properties Facilities Models Virtual Organisation Systems Management Co-ord. and orchestration Information representation Research Themes Next Generation Grid(s) Next Generation Grid(s): Identified Research Themes NGG2 reinforced: Network-centric Grid OSs Making Grids mobile Mastering complexity based on scenarios for crisis management / pro-active PDA

13. European Commission Directorate-General Information Society Unit F2 – Grid Technologies ML / 13 Grid research vision - 2007 and beyond Building the Invisible Grid Building the Invisible Grid Mastering ICT complexity Mastering ICT complexity Grids of mobile and embedded systems Grids of mobile and embedded systems From to self-healing systems From to self-healing systems From plug & play to connect & share From plug & play to connect & share Meta Operating System architecture Meta Operating System architecture Knowledge at the fingertips Knowledge at the fingertips CtrlAltDel ++ network-centric person-centric Grid empowers AmI (Ambient Intelligence) Towards a Global Grid Services Infrastructure for Business & Industry local global AmI AmI +Grid

14. European Commission Directorate-General Information Society Unit F2 – Grid Technologies ML / 14 WP 2005-2006 Advanced Grid Technologies, Systems and Services Application Pull Technology Push Network-centric Grid Operating Systems Potential new fabric layer for future distributed systems and services Grid Foundations Architecture, design and development of technologies and systems for building the invisible Grid Grid-enabled Applications & Services for business and society Research, development, validation and take-up of generic environments and tools Applications e-business e-health, e-goy e-learning Environment Advanced Grid Technologies, Systems and Services Application Sector 3 Application Sector 2 Application Sector n Application Sector 1

15. European Commission Directorate-General Information Society Unit F2 – Grid Technologies ML / 15 inteliGRID Semantic Grid based virtual organisations Provenance Trust and provenance for Grids DataminingGrid Datamining tools & services UniGridS Extended OGSA Implementation based on UNICORE K-WF Grid Knowledge based workflow & collaboration GRIDCOORD Building the ERA in Grid research New Grid Research Projects in FP6 Start: SUMMER 2004 EU Funding:52 MILLION OntoGrid Knowledge Services for the semantic Grid HPC4U Fault tolerance, dependability for Grid Grid-based generic enabling application technologies to facilitate solution of industrial problems SIMDAT EU-driven Grid services architecture for businesS and industry NextGRID Mobile Grid architecture and services for dynamic virtual organisations Akogrimo European-wide virtual laboratory for longer term Grid research-creating the foundation for next generation Grids CoreGRID Specific support actionIntegrated projectNetwork of excellenceSpecific targeted research project

16. European Commission Directorate-General Information Society Unit F2 – Grid Technologies ML / 16 Network of Excellence Objectives   Build S&T excellency on Grid - EU-wide virtual laboratory   Achieve sustainable restructuring and integration   Disseminate EU research on Grid   Set-up a think-tank to create spin-off projects   Create the European “Grid Lighthouse” Research Focus   Knowledge and data management   Programming models   System architecture   Resource management   Scheduling   Problem solving environments ACI GRID E-SCIENCE DAS BE-GRID D-GRID METACENTER SWISSGRID HELLAS-GRID GRID.IT IRISGRID BG-GRID SGIGRID H-GRID NORDUGRID CYGRID 42 Partners European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for Large Scale Distributed, Grid and Peer-to-Peer Technologies 6 EU Virtual Institutes

17. European Commission Directorate-General Information Society Unit F2 – Grid Technologies ML / 17 Integrated Project Main Research and Development Areas:  Grid architecture  Foundations & core services  Dynamic federation and VO  Grid business models  Reference implementations  Standards and applications Next Generation Grid services architecture for business and industry Service providers: FujitsuBT T-Systems Datamat Application developers / users: SAP First derivatives Kino Technology providers: Grid Systems HPIntel MicrosoftNec Research org.: EPCCIT Innov. FZJUSTUTT KTHNTUA QUBUvA CNR-ISTI Main Application Areas:  Data mining legal sector  Broadcasting and entertainment  Financial modelling  Digital media  Supply chain management Feedback for next iteration Analysis Conceptualisation Implementation Design Evaluation

18. European Commission Directorate-General Information Society Unit F2 – Grid Technologies ML / 18 Integrated Project Two testbeds  E-Learning  Hospital  Generalisation to  other applications Mobile Grid architectures and services for dynamic virtual organisations Grid Providers & Industry - HLRS (D) - CCLRC (UK) - Uni Hohenheim (D) - Datamat (I) Universities - Uni BW München (D) - CRMPA (I) - NTUA (Gr) UPC(SP) IT Industry (tools & services) - BOC (UK) - SchlumbergerSEMA Telcom operators - Telefonica I&D (SP) - Telnor (N) - Tel Inst (P) Technology Vision  NGG based on next generation IPv6 networks and supporting security, QoS, accounting /billing, user & context awareness.  Use of mobile comm’s beyond 3G.  Dynamic Virtual Organisations based on trust management The Next Generation ”GRIDNET” AKoGriMo Focus Mobile Internet Network Middleware Core Grid Services Complex Grid Services Domain and Application Specific Services

19. European Commission Directorate-General Information Society Unit F2 – Grid Technologies ML / 19 Integrated Project Four sectors of international economic importance:  Automotive  Pharmaceutical  Aerospace  Meteorology Seven Grid-technology development areas:  Grid infrastructure  Distributed Data Access  VO Administration  Workflows  Ontologies  Analysis Services  Knowledge Services The solution of industrially relevant complex problems using data-centric Grid technology SIMDAT End Users Capability Providers Grid Technologists

20. European Commission Directorate-General Information Society Unit F2 – Grid Technologies ML / 20 Creation of a European Research Area for Grid Research Objectives and Benefits Objectives and Benefits  Overcome fragmentation and dispersion across EU to reinforce impact of national and Community research  Strengthen Europe’s position on Grid Research and its exploitation Requirements endorsed by 10 Member States – July 2003 Requirements endorsed by 10 Member States – July 2003  Inventory and analysis of national and EU initiatives  Establishment of a regular forum on European Grid Research  Better co-ordination of fragmented national and EU efforts  Further investigation on the development and delivery of industrial-strength Grid MW  Actions towards the use of Grid in business and industry Support for implementation by project GridCoord

21. European Commission Directorate-General Information Society Unit F2 – Grid Technologies ML / 21 Analysis of Portfolio Strengthening Europe’s position in Grid Research and its exploitation  Building on achievements of FP5  Increasing position and weight in Grid research  Broadening research community: integrate with software and knowledge technologies  Increasing Europe’s weight in standardisation  Maturing Grid technologies beyond e-science - industrial use  Reinforcing early adoption by Europe’s core industry  Improving Europe’s capacity to capitalise on Grid technologies

22. European Commission Directorate-General Information Society Unit F2 – Grid Technologies Analysis of partcipants along the Grid value chain  Research organisations: well represented  Technology providers: large multinationals + European SMEs (niche technologies)  Service providers: moderate number of IT + Telco Service providers  End-users: early adopter industry (auto, aero, pharma, health, construction, finance, media, etc) Analysis of Portfolio

23. European Commission Directorate-General Information Society Unit F2 – Grid Technologies ML / 23 Policy context Capitalise on Europe’s strengths in Grid Research  Vision 2010 and beyond  From eScience to business & industry  Strengthen EU leadership on Grid  Build the ERA for Grid research  International collaboration  Technology providers: Grid MW + higher-level services  Service providers: value-added Grid services as a utility  Users: Gain competitive advantage though early use of Grid Research Policy Research Policy Industrial Policy Industrial Policy  Strengthen EU competitiveness

24. European Commission Directorate-General Information Society Unit F2 – Grid Technologies ML / 24 Exploiting the Economic Potential of Grid Grid-aware ICT Grid-enabled Services Grid: a key enabling technology Information and Communication Technologies Media Pharma Finance Automotive Aerospace e-Science Research Innovation Competitiveness Growth

25. European Commission Directorate-General Information Society Unit F2 – Grid Technologies ML / 25 FP6-IST project launch: a milestone in reinforcing EU position in Grid Technology “These projects will accelerate Europe’s drive to turn its substantial Grid research investment into tangible economic benefits” “Greater use of Grid tools is key for mobilising Europe’s scientific and technological capital to deliver greater competitiveness and better products” Enterprise and Information Society Commissioner Olli Rehn

26. European Commission Directorate-General Information Society Unit F2 – Grid Technologies ML / 26 Grid as a utility: a new paradigm for service delivery Grids: a key building block of the knowledge economy Grids: as an enabler for innovation Grids: a new service and business model for IT and Telco service providers Conclusions (1) Grid Potential

27. European Commission Directorate-General Information Society Unit F2 – Grid Technologies ML / 27 EU expects to capitalise on its strengths in Grid research and applications through strategic portfolio of new FP6 Grid Research projects launched September 2004 ERA Pilot ‘GridCoord’ and NoE ‘CoreGrid’ are essential building blocks for a European Research Area for Grids More coherent approaches and joint longer-term strategies supported by commitments from all key stakeholders is required to secure commercial benefits The Grid of the future is a global challenge, thus International co-operation and standards are essential Conclusions (2) IST Grid Programme

28. European Commission Directorate-General Information Society Unit F2 – Grid Technologies ML / 28 References /Background Information Brochure: Building Grids for Europe Brochure: Building Grids for Europe Expert Group Reports Expert Group Reports  “Next Generation Grid(s) - European Grid Research 2005 - 2010”, June 2003  “Next Generation Grids 2 – Requirements and Options for European Grids Research 2005–2010 and beyond”, August 2004 FP5 “IST Grid Projects Inventory and Roadmap” FP5 “IST Grid Projects Inventory and Roadmap”  GRIDSTART Project, April 2004 IST 2003 Conference Spotlight Topic IST 2003 Conference Spotlight Topic  “Harnessing Computing and Knowledge Resources”, Oct. 2003, Book of session summaries and presentations www.cordis.lu/ist/grids www.cordis.lu/ist/grids and more: www.cordis.lu/ist/grids www.cordis.lu/ist/grids