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Delivery of Industrial-strength Grid Middleware:

establishing an effective European approach

21 January 2004, Brussels

W. Boch, M. Campolargo European CommissionDG Information Society

EU Workshop

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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

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FP6 New Instruments - Expectations

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

Integrated Projects – IPsIntegrated Infrastructure Initiatives – I3s

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Grid R&D and Deployment in FP6, ...

GRID RESEARCHGRID INDUSTRY &

SERVICES

GRIDINFRASTRUCTURE

From R&D results to industrial-strength GRID middleware

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Emerging FP 6 GRID Research Topics

Grid-based generic enabling application technologies to facilitate

solution of industrial problems

European-wide virtual laboratory for longer term Grid research - foundation for next generation Grids

EU-driven Grid services architecture for business

and industry

Mobile Grid architecture and services for dynamic

virtual organisations

SemanticGrid

Dependability,Trust,

Provenance

Dataminingtools & services

Extended OGSAImplementation

Knowledgebased

workflow & collaboration

Building the ERAin Grid research

Evaluation results Call 2(ranked proposals)

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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

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networking

specific services

joint research activ

ities

GÉANT .

INFRASTRUCTURE

networking

specific services

joint research activ

ities

GRID .

INFRASTRUCTURE

research results

EU policies

GRID Infrastructure

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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 Infrastructure Requirements

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Grid R&D and Deployment in FP6, ...

GRID RESEARCH GRID INDUSTRY &

SERVICES

Standardisation? Reference Implementation? License schemes? Interoperability tests?

From R&D results to industrial-strength GRID middleware

GRIDINFRASTRUCTURE

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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

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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

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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

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Modus Operandi

Participatory approach for open debate

Report to summarize recommendations &

draft Action Plan

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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