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EU Workshop. Delivery of Industrial-strength Grid Middleware: establishing an effective European approach 21 January 2004, Brussels W. Boch, M. Campolargo European Commission DG Information Society. Motivation for Workshop.
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EU Workshop Delivery of Industrial-strength GridMiddleware: establishing an effective European approach21 January 2004, BrusselsW. Boch, M. Campolargo European CommissionDG Information Society
Motivation for Workshop • Need to improve exploitation of EU research results and commercial impact • Identify appropriate support actions in FP6 (considering the role and the existence of the new instruments IPs and I3s) • Identify EU requirements in view of UK-OMII and other international initiatives • Reflect on EU-wide approaches towards standardisation & international co-operation
FP6 New Instruments - Expectations Integrated Projects – IPs Integrated Infrastructure Initiatives – I3s IPs • covering the entire R&D lifecycle of products and services including the pre-competitive stages of productising and marketing • IPs with strong industrial involvement • more mature and • near to market product prototypes and pilot services expected • faster or earlier exploitation and take-up in commercial terms I3s provision of ICT research infrastructures throughout Europe (so called e-Infrastructure) for e-Science • I3s to evolve the networking infrastructure, Grid middleware and Application services • towards the realisation of production-level Grid enabled infrastructures
GRID RESEARCH GRID INFRASTRUCTURE Grid R&D and Deployment in FP6, ... From R&D results to industrial-strength GRID middleware GRID INDUSTRY & SERVICES
Emerging FP 6 GRID Research Topics Building the ERAin Grid research SemanticGrid Knowledgebasedworkflow & collaboration Dataminingtools & services Dependability, Trust, Provenance Extended OGSAImplementation Evaluation results Call 2(ranked proposals)
Requirements for Grids in Industry & Business • Reliability • Security and trust across multiple admin domains • Persistence • Scalability • Open to wide user communities • Pervasive and ubiquitous • Transparent and easy to program • Person-centric • Based on Standards for software and protocols
GRID Infrastructure networking specific services GRID . INFRASTRUCTURE joint research activities networking specific services GÉANT . INFRASTRUCTURE joint research activities research results EU policies
GRID Infrastructure Requirements The Grids empowered e-Infrastructure is an enabling tool for research Middleware becomes an infrastructure, as much as hardware and networks e-Infrastructures require therefore an emphasis on a number of aspects related to the “industrial-strength of Grid middleware” • robustness • functionality • interoperability • evolution • standards conformity (e.g. compliance with open source, OGSA) • maintenance • persistence • availability (e.g. through repositories) • ….
GRID RESEARCH Grid R&D and Deployment in FP6, ... From R&D results to industrial-strength GRID middleware GRID INFRASTRUCTURE • Standardisation? • Reference Implementation? • License schemes? • Interoperability tests? GRID INDUSTRY & SERVICES
Workshop Objectives • To facilitate an open debate between industry and research on most effective routes, approaches and methods towards the delivery of industrial-strength Grid middleware • To reflect on the respective roles of research, industry and public authorities in promoting exploitation, take-up and technology transfer to industry • To identify emerging Grid software and service business models • To elaborate on requirement and options towards standardisation and collaboration with other international Grid initiatives • To recommend a set of actions relevant for implementation by the IST and the Research Infrastructures Work Programmes
List of topics / themes proposed • The Grid software engineering, production and commercialisation process • The distribution of roles and functions between the private and public sectors in supporting exploitation and commercial take-up • The Grid software and service business models • The context of International Collaboration
Participants • Grid researchers • Industrial stakeholders both as suppliers and users of Grid • Grid Application Service Providers • Developers of Grid programming environments • IT industry leaders in GRID technology
Modus Operandi Participatory approach for open debate Report to summarize recommendations & draft Action Plan
Expected Workshop Results • Better understanding of the process leading to improved exploitation of research results • Set of recommendations and a draft action plan: • requirements to be considered for implementation in future IST/RI Calls • proposals for actions with a view of strengthening the EU position in global context