2.5.4 – Advanced Grid Technologies, Systems and Services

1. Jorge Gasós Grid Technologies Unit European Commission jorge.gasos@cec.eu.int http://www.cordis.lu/ist/grids 2.5.4 – Advanced Grid Technologies, Systems and Services

2. Industry& Business Grids e-Science What is the Grid ? “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) • Benefits • Increased productivity by reducing Total Cost of Ownership • Any-type, anywhere, anytime services by/for all • Infrastructure for dynamic virtual organizations • Backbone for future service-oriented utility • Examples • Ad-hoc Grid services for emergency response • Cost-effective simulation for automotive and finance • More efficient drug design and healthcare

3. Next Generation Grid(s) – Expert Group Report 3-fold vision “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 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 • Societal behaviour (millions of self-organising nodes) • Computational semantics, ontologies, meta-descriptions • Pervasive virtual organisations Virtualization

5. Application Pull Grid-enabled Applications & Services for business and society Research, development, validation and take-up of generic environments and tools TechnologyPush Work Programme 2005-2006Advanced Grid Technologies, Systems and Services IST Call 5Open May 2005Close Sept 2005Budget: ~70M€ e-bus, 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

6. WP 2005-2006Advanced 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

7. WP 2005-2006Advanced 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

8. WP 2005-2006Advanced 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 and new fabrics replacing existing OSs

9. Instruments • IPs – Focus 1, 2, 3 • To achieve ambitious scientific and technological objectives, integrating critical mass of activities and resources • 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

10. WP 2005-2006 – Call 5Advanced 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 • Fostering international collaboration

11. Conclusions • Continuation and consolidation of main Grid research topics; new area: network-centric operating systems • Grids as enabler for Service Oriented Architectures • Industrial involvement along the value chain • Grid “Business Pilots” with cross-sectoral technology Take-Up phase call for central role of service providers • Increased contribution to global developments and standardisation

12. Further Info on Grid Research • Brochure: Building Grids for Europe FP6 Grid Project Fact Sheets, FP5 Grid Project Result Sheets • Expert Group Reports • “Next Generation Grid(s) – European Grid Research 2005-2010”, 2003 • “Next Generation Grids 2 – Requirements and Options for European Grids Research 2005–2010 and beyond”, August 2004 • FP5 Gridstart “IST Grid Projects Inventory and Roadmap” • Brochure: “Achievements of EU Grid Projects” • IST Work Programme 2005/2006 www.cordis.lu/ist and more: www.cordis.lu/ist/grids