Advanced Grid Technologies, Services & Systems: Research Priorities and Objectives of WP

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1 Advanced Grid Technologies, Services & Systems: Research Priorities and Objectives of WP IST Call 5 Preparatory Workshop Brussels, 31 Jan 1 Feb 2005 Enabling application Max Lemke Deputy Head of Unit F2 max.lemke@cec.eu.int Architecture, Design and Development of the next generation GRID technologies

2 Scope 1. FP6 Grid Research Vision 2. FP5 Results and on-going FP6 Projects 3. Work Programme 2005 / 2006 Call 5 Year 2003 Year 2004 Year 2005 Expert Group Report: Next Generation Grids 1 European Grid Research , June 2003 Expert Group Report: Next Generation Grids 2 - Requirements and Options for European Grid Research and beyond, August 2004

3 Grid Research - the Challenge Complexity - Interoperability - Ease of Use -... Evolution of HPCN Knowledge Technologies Complex Systems Computing Architectures Current Grids Next Generation Grids Service- Oriented Knowledge Utility Evolution of the Web Software Technologies Mobile Services Global Computing

4 Next Generation Grid(s) Expert Group Report 3-fold vision Next Generation Grid(s) - European Grid Research , June 2003 Next Generation Grids 2 Requirements and Options for European Grids Research and beyond, August 2004 Simplification End-User Vision End-user empowerment Life-support to business processes Next Generation Grids Continuously changing requirements Grid services development environments Software Vision Architectural Vision Societal behaviour (millions of self-organising nodes) Computational semantics, ontologies, meta-descriptions Pervasive virtual organisations Abstraction Virtualization

5 FP5 EU Grid Research Achievements Creation of a strong Grid research community Europe s position strengthened related to Grid middleware development Contribution to standardisation Leading position established for vertical Grid MW oriented towards specific application requirements 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 Identified weaknesses in commercial exploitation Emergent opportunities for service providers

6 New Grid Research Projects in FP6 EU Funding: 52 MILLION GridCoord Building the ERA in Grid research (under negotiation) Towards EU-Asian Co-operation Started: SUMMER 2004 K-WF Grid Knowledge based workflow & collaboration UniGridS Extended OGSA Implementation based on UNICORE 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 inteligrid Semantic Grid based virtual organisations OntoGrid Knowledge Services for the semantic Grid DataminingGrid Datamining tools & services Provenance Trust and provenance for Grids Specific support action Integrated project Network of excellence Specific targeted research project

7 Analysis of Portfolio Participation along the value chain Universities & Research organisations well represented Strong participation of Large IT multinationals and EU niche SME technology providers Moderate participation of IT and Telco service providers Good participation of early adopter users (auto, aero, pharma,, finance, ) Future Opportunities Broaden scope to include web, agent, knowledge technologies and socio- economic expertise Reconsider licensing schemes and business models to allow for better capitalisation on research Increase commitment to the evolution of the Grid as a potential paradigm for future value-added added service provision Broader take-up with increased maturity - pilots / demonstrators - vertical Grid service consortia

8 IST Call 5 Open May 2005 Close Sept 2005 Budget: ~70M Application Pull Work Programme Advanced Grid Technologies, Systems and Services Application Sector 1 Application Sector 2 Application Sector 3 Grid-enabled Applications & Services for business and society Research, development, validation and take-up of generic environments and tools Grid Foundations Architecture, design and development of technologies and systems for building the invisible Grid Application Sector n e-bus, e-health, e-goy, e-learning Environment, Advanced Grid Technologies, Systems and Services Technology Push Network-centric Grid Operating Systems Potential new fabric layer for future distributed systems and services

9 WP Advanced Grid Technologies, Systems and Services Focus 1 Grid Foundations Architecture, design and development of technologies and systems for building the invisible Grid Scale-independent, adaptive and dependable Grid architectures enabling the management of large networked distributed resources characterised by evolutionary, non-functional behaviours Agent-based approaches and peer-to-peer technologies Self-organising, fault-tolerant autonomous systems virtualisation New models and environments for programming the Grid Semantic & agent technologies for resource brokering / management

10 WP Advanced Grid Technologies, Systems and Services Focus 2 Grid-enabled Applications and Services for business and society Research, development, validation, take-up of generic environments / tools Grid-based environments for dynamic service creation and provision supporting distributed collaborations spanning multiple administrative domains Grid business models and Grid economics Intelligent tools and interfaces supporting ubiquitous Grid access Grid-enabled decision support services

11 WP Advanced Grid Technologies, Systems and Services Focus 3 Network-centric Grid Operating Systems Research and development on new or enhanced fabrics layer for future distributed systems and services New approaches to system management/operation Global state, resource lifetime, replication control, scheduling, synchronization, service response time, security, scalability, interoperability, Where and how to implement Grid functionalities (MW vs. OS)? Twofold scope: Development, testing validation of an enhanced fabrics based on existing OSs (Grid built-in functions or modules leading to a meta OS) Research and conceptualization an new fabrics replacing existing OSs Simplify the use of Grid systems and services, supporting mobility and pervasiveness, enhancing performance Building on EU strengths on existing and emerging embedded and mobile OSs

12 IPs Focus 1, 2, 3 Instruments Multidisciplinary and comprehensive Include industrial stakeholders from all relevant levels of the value chain IPs Focus 2 User-driven Generic technologies addressing common requirements across different disciplines and applications in business, e-science, and society Include a technology take-up phase Emphasise SME participation as technology providers, service providers, and end-users STREPS Longer term research issues Conceptionalisation Advanced Grid technologies in innovative applications

13 WP Call 5 Advanced Grid Technologies, Systems and Services Focus 4: Horizontal Issues Coordination of research activities within Europe (ERA) and beyond (international collaboration) Preparing future research agenda and building research community Creating EU-wide stakeholder initiatives supporting early and wide adoption Actions supporting the collaboration of running and future IST Grid projects on horizontal and strategic issues

14 Other Relevant Strategic Objectives Call 4 (close March 2005) Towards a global dependability and security framework Semantic-based knowledge and content systems FET: Advanced Computing Architectures Application-oriented oriented SOs (health, e-learning, e e-gov, transport-safety) safety) Call 5 (close Sept. 2005) Embedded Systems Software and Services Research Networking Testbeds Collaborative working environments FET: Simulating emergent properties in complex systems Application-oriented oriented SOs (e-bus, environmental risk management, e-inclusion) e

15 Tentative Timetable WP IST Call 5 Grid Technologies, Systems & Services Jan 2005: May 2005: Preparatory workshop Opening Call 5 «Advanced Grid Technologies, Systems and Services» (~( 70 M ) May/June 2005: Information Day Sept 2005: Closing Call 5 Oct/Nov 2005: Evaluation Q1-Q2 Q2 2006: Project launch

16 Conclusions Workshop and technical sessions are just a start for the constituency to get prepared Follow-up actions include Information Day May/June 2005 European Grid Technology Days April 2005 Possibly specialised workshop organised by the constituency Structure of the meeting in 6 workshops does not indicate any message on size, structure or scope of potential IPs Proposals are welcome both: - across research foci (WP ) - across and beyond topics of this workshop

17 References /Background Information Brochure: Building Grids for Europe FP6 Grid Project Fact Sheets, FP5 Grid Project Achievements Expert Group Reports Next Generation Grid(s) European Grid Research , 2003 Next Generation Grids 2 Requirements and Options for European Grids Research and beyond, August 2004 FP5 Gridstart IST Grid Projects Inventory and Roadmap Exploitation Review on FP5 Grid projects IST Work Programme 2005/ Upcoming Events (planned): April 2005 European Grid Technology Days: Industry Forum, European Research Area Forum, Concertation May/June Information Day Call 5 Strategic Objective Advanced Grid Technologies, Systems & Services and more: