EU Grid research activities and future challenges

1. Enabling application technologies Architecture, Design and Development of the next generation GRID EU Grid research activities and future challenges euroCRIS Seminar20 September 2005 Franco Accordino DG Information Society and Media Grid Technologies http://www.cordis.lu/ist/grids

2. Summary • What is Grid and what is for? • Grid Research in FP6-IST • The vision: from Grids towards « Service-Oriented Knowledge Utilities » • Grid-related research in FP7 • Current issues and research challenges beyond Next Generation Grids • Conclusions

3. What is Grid and what is for? The Grid is an infrastructure for coordinated sharing of disparate resources to solveproblems that cannot be tackled with other technologies … Complex Simple Problem: how long does it take to fall down? h t = f (X1, …, Xn) t = (2h)/g Non-parametric model Parametric model (g=9,8)

4. Grids at the service of citizens, researchers, industry and business • 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 “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) Industry& Business Grids e-Science

5. Grid Research in FP6 - IST • Research Infrastructures • Deployment of high-capacity/speed communications network – GÉANT • Deployment in Research of Grids Industrial / SocietalApplications eBusiness, eGov, eWork, eHealth, risks management, … Application Research & Deployment • Grid Technologies • Grid-enabled applications and services for business society • Technologies and systems for building the invisible Grid • Network-centric Grid operating systems 125 M€ Grid RTD Software-, Web-, Knowledge Technologies, Broadband-, Mobile Communication Technologies, Security Related Research

6. NationalProgrammes ResearchInfrastructures NationalProgrammes GridResearch ResearchInfrastructures Budget GridResearch Time 1998-2002 2002-2006 IST-FP6 commitment to Grid research IST-FP6, 2nd wave Grid projects started IST-FP6, 1st wave Grid projects started Seed Grid actions launched in IST-FP5 Grid research is a strategic objective Early adoption & exploitation plans First tangible results & exploitation Becoming a world leading force in Grid? Final results & full exploitation Lisbon’s objective is agreed 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

7. FP6-Call2 Grid Research Projects EU Funding:52 MILLION Start: SUMMER 2004 GRIDCOORDBuilding the ERA in Grid research K-WF GridKnowledge basedworkflow & collaboration inteliGRIDSemantic Grid based virtual organisations Grid-based generic enabling application technologies to facilitate solution of industrial problemsSIMDAT OntoGridKnowledge Services for the semantic Grid UniGridSExtended OGSAImplementation based on UNICORE EU-driven Grid services architecture for businesS and industry NextGRID Mobile Grid architecture and services for dynamic virtual organisations Akogrimo DataminingGridDataminingtools & services HPC4UFault tolerance,dependabilityfor Grid European-wide virtual laboratory for longer term Grid research-creating the foundation for next generation Grids CoreGRID ProvenanceTrust and provenance for Grids Specific support action Integrated project Network of excellence Specific targeted research project

8. Application Pull Grid-enabled Applications & Services for business and society Research, development, validation and take-up of generic environments and tools TechnologyPush FP6 - Call 5 (WP 2005-06)“Advanced Grid Technologies, Systems and Services” Applications e-business e-health, e-goy e-learning Environment Application Sector 1 Application Application Sector 3 Application Sector 2 Sector n Advanced Grid Technologies, Systems and Services Grid Foundations Architecture, design and development of technologies and systems for building the invisible Grid Network-centric Grid Operating Systems Potential new fabric layer for future distributed systems and services

9. Grid Research - the ChallengeComplexity - Interoperability - Ease of Use - ... Computing Architectures KnowledgeTechnologies Complex Systems Evolution of HPCN Next Generation Grids Service-OrientedKnowledge Utility Current Grids Evolution of the Web MobileServices Global Computing SoftwareTechnologies

10. Next Generation Grid(s): 3-fold vision Expert Group Report: “Next Generation Grid(s) - European Grid Research 2005 - 2010”, June 2003 Simplification Abstraction NextGenerationGrids • End-user empowerment • Life-support to business processes Software Vision End-User Vision • Continuously changing requirements • Grid services development environments Architectural Vision • Evolutionary behaviour (millions of self-organising nodes) • Computational semantics, ontologies, meta-descriptions • Pervasive virtual organisations Virtualization

11. Next Generation Grid(s):Identified Research Themes • NGG2 reinforced: • Network-centric Grid OSs • Making Grids mobile & embedded • Mastering complexity • based on scenarios for crisis management / pro-active PDA Properties Open Reliable ScalablePersistent TransparentPerson-centric Pervasive Secure / trusted Standards-based Research Themes NextGenerationGrid(s) Virtual Organisation Systems Management Co-ord. and orchestrationInformation representation User Interface Grid Economies Business models Models Facilities

12. Enabling people to live with the technology that will perform complex tasks for them Providing new perspectives to technology exploitation across complex socio-economic value chains Creating new opportunities to Europe to strengthen its competitive position in ICT Commission Proposal on FP7 (April 2005)BUILDING THE EUROPE OF KNOWLEDGE • Information & Communication Technologies • ICT Technology Pillars • Software, Grids, Security and Dependability: dynamic, adaptive, dependable and trusted software and services, and new processing architectures, including their provision as a utility. ICT SGSD

13. Grid-related research in FP7 proposal Draft Specific Programme: Software, Grids, security and dependability: technologies, tools and methods for dynamic and trusted software, architectures and middleware systems that underpin knowledge-intensive services, including their provision as utilities. Service-oriented, interoperable and scale-free infrastructures, grid-like virtualisation of resources, network-centric operating systems; open platforms and collaborative approaches for development of software, services and systems; composition tools; mastering emergent behaviours of complex systems; improving dependability and resilience of large-scale, distributed and intermittently connected systems and services; secure and trusted systems and services, including privacy-aware access control and authentication, dynamic security and trust policies, dependability and trust meta-models. GridTechnologies ICT for Trust & Security SoftwareTechnologies FP7-Technology Pillar “Software, Grids, Security and Dependability”

14. FP7 consultation is ongoing • 2003: Next Generation Grids Expert Group • Report: “Next Generation Grids European Grid Research 2005 – 2010”, June 2003 • 2004: Next Generation Grids 2 Expert Group • Report: “Next Generation Grids 2 - Requirements and Options for European Grid Research 2005 – 2010 and beyond”, August 2004 • 2005: 1st FP7 Consultation Workshop on FP7 ICT Technology Pillar “Software, Grids. Security and Dependability” • Report: September 2005 • 2005: 2nd FP7 Consultation Workshop on FP7 ICT Technology Pillar “Software, Grids. Security and Dependability”. Title: ”From Grids towards service-oriented knowledge utilities” • Report: Dec 2005/Jan 2006 • 1st Draft FP7 work programme: 1st half 2006

15. Networked European Software and Services Initiative A European Technology Platform for SW, Grids & e-Services Mission:Develop a visionary strategy for Software and Services driven by a common European Research Agenda where innovation and business strengths are reinforced launched in Brussels on 7 September 2005 www.nessi-europe.com

16. Ctrl Alt Del + + Grid research vision - 2007 and beyond Grid empowers AmI (Ambient Intelligence)Towards a Global Service-Oriented Knowledge Utility person-centric • Building the Invisible Grid ! • Mastering ICT complexity • Grids of mobile and embedded systems • Fromto self-healing systems • From plug & play to connect & share • Meta Operating System architecture • Knowledge at the fingertips local AmI AmI+Grid network-centric global

17. Grid research vision - 2007 and beyond Some R&D issues & technological requirements • Making Grids secure technologies • Trust (do you trust Grids?) • Scale-free (computational semantics?) • Managing the ‘state’ • Autonomic, Self-*... • Degree of fulfillment of Grid properties • Grids vs. Operating Systems • Grids vs. SOA + Web Services

18. Long-term Grids challenges The computing and knowledge capabilities of the Information Society are escaping from the “bottle” to pervade our everyday lives. Will Grids “orchestrate” this immense power in the same way that Operating Systems did in the past 30 years for the capabilities “in-the-box”? +… +… +Dynamic +Abstraction +Mobile +Virtualisation +Heterogeneous +Simplification +Self-* +Pervasive Trade-offs to ensure: interoperability, scalability, performance, security, QoS, easy of use-program-install-configure-upgrade, decreasing TCO, …

19. Service Oriented Architectures:Adding flexibility to business IT • A Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an architectural concept • Most popular implementation through web services (SOAP, WSDL, UDDI) • Standardized use of services to meet the requirements of business applications • Highly-interoperable over different implementations (e.g. Java and .NET), including legacy solutions • Re-usability of software components, transforming monolithic applications into services • Loosely coupled services  Business agility!

20. Service Oriented Architectures:Complementing and exploiting the added value of Grids “…while SOAs may be the conceptual framework for increased agility on the application layer, the actual execution of modularized services requires a much better command of enterprise resources than the typical organization has today. SOA can use common Web services protocols (XML, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI) to distribute processes, but it in and of itself doesn't describe the distribution and management of the resources.” Ian Foster (Computerworld, 29 Nov. 2004) Is Service-Oriented Architectures on the critical path in the move of Grids from e-Science to Business ? SOAs Grids • Resources shielded by Services • Re-use of business IT components • Loose-coupling • Standards • … • Making business IT & processes Agile • Virtualisation of resources • Resilience • Persistent data • Security • Self-management • Load balancing • … •  Reducing TCO

21. Conclusions • Grids: a new paradigm for utility-like service delivery • Grids: enablers for innovationand key building blocks of theknowledge economy • Grids: a new service and business model for IT and Telco service providers • More coherent approaches and joint longer-term strategies are required tosecure commercial benefits • The Grid of the future is a global challenge, thusEU coordinated approach, international co-operation and standards are essential • EU expects tocapitaliseon its strengths in Grid research andapplicationsthroughstrategic portfolio of FP6 Grid Research projects

22. References /Background Information • Brochure: Building Grids for Europe • 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 • IST 2003 Conference Spotlight Topic • “Harnessing Computing and Knowledge Resources”, Oct. 2003, Book of session summaries and presentations • Reports of FP7 Consultation Workshops • To be published soon on www.cordis.lu/ist/grids • FP7 and future of EU research policy • www.cordis.lu/fp7 • europa.eu.int/comm/research/future/index_en.cfm and more:www.cordis.lu/ist/grids