1. CoreGRID: European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies Thierry PRIOL Scientific Coordinator INRIA/ERCIM http://www.coregrid.net Thierry.Priol@inria.fr

2. European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies 2 CoreGRID objectives To build a European-wide research laboratory –To avoid fragmentation of Grid research activities in Europe –Create the European “Grid Lighthouse” and be seen as such worldwide –To achieve integration and sustainability To build solid foundations for GRID and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) technologies –Both on a methodological basis and a technological basis. –Support medium and long term research activities Achieve and promote scientific and technological excellence within & beyond the Grid research community Gather and disseminate European research A think-tank for spin-off projects –EC funded, bilateral projects, international cooperations, …

3. European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies 3 A clear evidence of fragmentation Grid National initiatives: Belgium Be-GRID Bulgarian BG-Grid Cyprus CyGrid Czech Metacenter French ACI GRID German D-GRID Greek Hellas-GRID Hungarian Grid Italian GRID.IT Polish SGIGrid Scandinavian NORDUGRID Spanish IRISGrid Swiss SwissGRID The Netherlands DAS UK e-Science ACI GRID E-SCIENCE DAS BE-GRID D-GRID METACENTER SWISSGRID HELLAS-GRID GRID.IT IRISGRIDBG-GRID SGIGRID H-GRID NORDUGRID CYGRID

4. European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies 4 Network priorities Excellence –CoreGRID brings together a European critical mass of well-known experts in GRID and P2P research allowing to compete with research and development in North America and Asia –An ambitious joint program of activities to deal with well identified challenges Long-term integration & structuring –Set-up a sustainable European research laboratory with an associated management With several Institutes With research groups assigned to Institutes

5. European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies 5 A NoE managed by ERCIM ERCIM is a consortium of leading research institutions from 18 countries (17 European) committed to information technology and applied mathematics.

6. European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies 6 CoreGRID membership 42 partners 18 Countries (1 from S. America) 120 Researchers 165 PhD Students U. Cyprus INRIA CNRS ERCIM CETIC UCL CNR-ISTI INFN U. Calabria U. Lecce U. Pisa CLPP-BAS Delft U. Vrije U. EPFL UASF FhG FZJ USTUTT U. Muenster UNI DO U. Passau ZIB ICS-FORTH IC RAL-CCLRC U. Belfast U. Cambridge U. Cardiff U. Manchester U. Newcastle U. Wesminster KTH SICS SZTAKI VTT U. Coimbra UPC Masaryk U. U. Chile PSC CYFRONET

7. European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies 7 Joint Program of Activities Joint Programme of Activities Integrated Activities Jointly Executed Research Spreading of Excellence Excellence Spreading of Excellence Excellence Knowledge & Data Management Knowledge & Data Management Programming Model System Architecture Grid Information and Monitoring Service Grid Information and Monitoring Service Resource Management And Scheduling Resource Management And Scheduling Coordinated Programming of Partners’ activities Coordinated Programming of Partners’ activities Coordinated approach to prepare project proposals Internal Collaboration and Dissemination Internal Collaboration and Dissemination Annual Integration Workshop PSE, tools and GRID systems Public Website Technical reports Workshops & conferences NewsletterNewsletter IndustryIndustry GRID User community ConferencesConferences Common Understanding Trust & Security Common Understanding Trust & Security Grid Testbed Mobility of researchers Sergei Gorlatch Domenico Talia Marco Danelutto Artur Andrzejak Ludek Matyska Ramin Yahyapour Vladimir Getov Pierre Guisset BrochuresBrochures Training & Education

8. European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies 8 Collaboration with other EU Grid projects CoreGRID is participating to the Collaboration Gateway and leads two activities : Roadmaps Trainings Collaboration Gateway Exploitation of synergies / technical concertation Exploitation of synergies / technical concertation Joint fora for exchange and dissemination Joint fora for exchange and dissemination Co-ordination of standardisation efforts Co-ordination of standardisation efforts Repository of reference Implementations and Grid middleware Repository of reference Implementations and Grid middleware Collaboration on research Inventories and roadmaps Collaboration on research Inventories and roadmaps Indicators and impact assessment assessment Wolfgang Ziegler Training activities Leadership

9. European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies 9 A set of well identified research challenges Knowledge & Data Management –Handling information/data that are required/produced by a wide range of diverse processing power Programming Model –Making the programming of Grid infrastructures as simple and transparent as possible System Architecture –Designing the next generation Grid middleware Grid Information and Monitoring Services –Scalable information service to implement a service view of the Grid Resource Management & Scheduling –Scheduling jobs/applications/tasks/computation within a Grid environment Problem Solving Environments, tools and GRID systems –Integrating various middleware, tools and applications for problem solving

10. European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies 10 Knowledge & Data Management Integration of data management and knowledge discovery with GRID technologies for providing knowledge-based GRID services Define a unified vision of the data and knowledge management in Grids through a layered approach Research activities –Distributed data management Based on commodity storage devices and interconnects –Information and knowledge management Semantic modeling through metadata –Data mining and knowledge discovery Semantic description for service discovery

11. European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies 11 Programming Model Raise the level of abstraction to make the programming of grids easier –OGSA and WSRF are just the instruction set of grid computing infrastructures Definition of a lightweight component model for grid applications –A clear illustration of the research fragmentation At least 9 partners are working on component programming –Specific requirements: heterogeneity, dynamicity, scalability –Targeted applications: grid middleware & scientific computing Research activities –Application requirements –Communication between components –Component model definition and hierarchical composition –Advanced programming models based on components framework

12. European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies 12 System Architecture Next Generation Grid System Architecture –Implement the “invisible Grid” vision of the NGG report Focus on specific deficiencies of present day Grid systems –Today Grid middleware centralized or semi-centralized Short-term prediction models and tools Fault tolerance mechanisms only for small/medium scale systems –Specific requirements: scalability, adaptability and dependability Research activities –Definition of capabilities and architectural components of Grids –Scalable Grid Services follow a P2P approach instead of a client/server approach –Mechanism for adaptive Grids tools and models for long-term prediction –Dependability in Grids Fault tolerant middleware and runtime

13. European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies 13 Grid Information & Monitoring Service Improve various services such as monitoring, information and user/accounting management –Avoid centralized management as much as possible Research activities –Checkpointing services –Workflow services –Accounting and user management services in large scale system

14. European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies 14 Resource Management & Scheduling Develop generic solution for Grid scheduling and management –Not only able to manage computational resources Definition of a pervasive RMS middleware for different application scenarios –Consider different kind of resources –Common interface and models –Support business models Research activities –Grid scheduling architecture –Multi-level scheduling strategies –Workflow scheduling strategies for jobs with temporal dependencies –Fault-tolerance and reliability in scheduling –Coordinating scheduling with data management –Performance prediction for advanced scheduling

15. European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies 15 Problem Solving Environment, tools and applications for problem solving Develop a novel software environments and tools for Grid systems –Today Grid middleware systems are not component-based although their high-degree of complexity Definition of a generic component system to integrate applications, tools and system components –Based on the CoreGRID components model Research activities –Definition of a generic platform –Mediator components –Integrated toolkit –Advanced tools and environments

16. European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies 16 Organizational Map Executive Committee Scientific Advisory BoardIndustrial Advisory BoardSpecific Task Forces Integration Monitoring Committee Chair: R. Perrott (U. Belfast) Collaboration Gateway W. Ziegler (FhG) Administrative & Financial Co-ordinator B. Le Dantec (ERCIM) Scientific Co-ordinator T. Priol (INRIA) Members General Assembly Integrated Activities S. Gorlatch (U. Munster) Spreading Excellence P. Guisset (CETIC) Knowledge & Data Management D. Talia (U. Calabria) Scheduling R. Yahyapour (U. Dortmund) System Architecture A. Andrzejak (ZIB) CoreGRID Institutes Programming Model M. Danelutto (U. Pisa) Grid Information & Monitoring L. Matyska (U. Masaryk) PSE, tools and GRID systems V. Getov (U. Wesminster) Chair: D. Laforenza (CNR-ISTI)

17. European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies 17 Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) Objectives: –Annual external assessment of the scientific quality of the work –Provide guidance to the strategic orientations –Formulate recommendations  guard the excellence of the Network Three senior Network scientists and three external advisors Internal members: Jarek Nabrzyzki (PSNC - Poland) Henri Bal (Vrije U. - The Netherlands) Uwe Schwiegelshohn (Dortmund U. - Germany) External members: Dennis Gannon (Indiana U. - USA) Michel Cosnard (Nice U. - France) Sato Sekiguchi (AIST - Japan)

18. European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies 18 Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) IAB has four primary objectives: –To communicate to the Network European Industry’s long-term Grid-related technology needs and challenges –To provide the Network with Grid validation cases –To help identify the market sector(s) to be addressed within the Grid User Community, in order to ensure a quick adoption of next generation Grid technologies within European industry –To report to the Scientific Advisory Board its recommendation with respect to future strategic GRID-related research objectives IAB is composed of 15 members from the European industrial sector Confirmed members: Federico Rossi, DATAMAT (Italy) Yannis Perros, Algosystems (Greece) Bernd Kosch, FUJITSU SIEMENS COMPUTER (Germany) Mark Gilbert, European Microsoft Innovation Center (Germany) John Easton, IBM Grid Computing (UK) Anssi Karhinen, Nokia Research Center (Finland) Igor Klapka, SAMTECH (Belgium) Guillaume Alléon, EADS (France)

19. European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies 19 Some of the CoreGRID results http://www.coregrid.net NewsletterTechnical Report Workshop on Network Centric Operating systems March 16-17, Brussels Information available at the CoreGRID web site Announcement

20. European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructures and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologies 20 Conclusion CoreGRID started in September 1st, 2004 –A very active project although it is in its early stage –Funding from the EC: 8.2 M€ for the first 4 years –Involvement of the main European Key players in Grid computing (both institutions and researchers) –The only one Network of Excellence in Grid funded by the EU http://www.ercim.org/publication/Ercim_News/enw59/