EU Workshop
This workshop held on January 21, 2004, in Brussels, aimed to enhance the exploitation of EU research results in industrial applications. It focused on identifying necessary support actions in FP6, especially regarding Integrated Projects (IPs) and Integrated Infrastructure Initiatives (I3s). Participants discussed the importance of robustness, interoperability, and standardization in Grid middleware. The workshop encouraged open debate among researchers and industry stakeholders to promote technology transfer and establish effective business models while addressing collaboration with international initiatives.
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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
