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© 2006 Open Grid Forum

Grid – path to pervasive adoptionMark Linesch - President, Open Grid Forum

Hewlett Packard

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The industry is on a journey

Old World New World

Static

Silo

Physical

Manual

Application

Dynamic

Shared

Virtual

Automated

Service

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Technology will continue to mature

Maturity

Vis

ibili

ty

Slope ofenlightenment

Plateau ofproductivity

Technologytrigger

Peak of inflated

expectations

Source: Gartner inspired

“Wild Exuberance”

“Disillusionment”

“Step-by-Step Measured Progress”

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Adoption will occur in stages

Scientific/ Technical Grids

Commercial/ Enterprise Grids

Early Deploymen

ts

Momentum Building

(Proven Solutions)

Broad Adoptio

n

We are somewhere

around here

Pervasive Adoption

“breaking through non-standard

barriers”

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Challenge/Opportunity

1. Bring diverse communities together and reduce overlap

2. Align technical directions and requirements

3. Mature grids

standards and best practices

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Education

ScienceScienceBusiness

Government

Education

1. Bring diverse communities together …

GGF and EGA announce merger to form Open Grid Forum

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… and reduce overlap

HP, IBM, Intel, and MS announce converged web services roadmap

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2. Align technical directions and requirements

Research/Community Groups & Workshops

Uses Cases

Requirements

Best Practices

OGF Technical Strategy & Roadmap

Alignment & Prioritization

Alignment & Prioritization

Technical Strategy Committee

Architectures

Specifications

MilestonesStandards Groups

& Workshops

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3. Mature Grid Standards and Best Practices

Grid APIsSAGA, DRMAA

Job SubmitJSDL 1.0, OGSA-BES, HPC Profile

File Movement GridFTP, DMI, ByteIO

Data Provisioning and Data GridsWS-DAI, WS-DAIR, WS-DAIX

Application ProvisioningCDDLM, ACS

Secure Channel EstablishmentOGSA-SBP-Core, OGSA-SBP-SecChan

Attribute-Based AuthorizationOGSA-AuthZ, SAML

OGF Document Series

• 13 docs published since GGF17, 5/06

• 4 documents in public comment

• 25 docs published in 2006 to date

OGF Specifications

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Mission -accelerating adoption

Open forum for grid innovation and outreach

Open standards for grid software interoperability

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Organization

Enterprise Standards Marketing RegionaleScience

President

Board

Operations

Editor

Nominating Committee

Technical Strategy Committee

Advisory Committee

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2007 Strategic Priorities

Open Forum - provide a more productive environment for grid innovation, outreach and communication

Open Standards - redouble efforts to deliver specifications that enable grid software interoperability

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OGF19January 29 - February 2

• The Friday Center, UNC, Chapel Hill, NC

• Hosted by RENCI

• Group sessions, Workshops

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OGF20 7-11 May 2007

• Manchester, UK• Manchester International Convention Centre

• Co-located with 2nd EGEE User Forum

• Hosted by UK e-Science• local support from the University of Manchester

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• Opening doors to …

• Business Value

• Scientific Discovery

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