driving progress: a possible “business model” for the open grid forum

© 2006 Open Grid Forum

Driving Progress:A possible “business model” for the Open Grid Forum

Craig A. Lee, President, OGF

September 15, 2008

2© 2006 Open Grid Forum

Why Standardize?

• Need for commonality and best practices across a significant user community

• Technical Requirements• Feasible & appropriate to codify in the technical design

• Marketplace Drivers• User community must have critical mass• Major stakeholders will have no motivation to standardize

otherwise

• Genuine standardization (with wide-scale adoption) will only occur when all of these conditions are met

• How can we drive this process?


A Case Study: HPC Basic Profile

• 2006• Key stakeholders decided to demonstrate interoperability between their

existing job submission infrastructures

• November 2006 (SC06)• Prototype implementations demonstrated

• 28-August-2007• HPC Basic Profile, Version 1.0, published• http://www.ogf.org/documents/GFD.114.pdf

• November 2007 (SC07)• Interoperability demonstrated by Altair, Microsoft, Platform, OMII-UK, OMII-

Europe, EGEE, UVa

• 21-February-2008• Interoperability Experiences with HPCBP, Version 1.0, published

http://www.ogf.org/documents/GFD.124.pdf

• Commercial adoption plans by Altair, Microsoft & Platform


How to “Bottle” this Process??

• Build Critical Mass of Key StakeholdersBuild Critical Mass of Key Stakeholders• Continual polling and coordination across Continual polling and coordination across

the communitythe community

• They must agree on:They must agree on:• Clear GoalsClear Goals• Clear Schedule (“time-box” the process)Clear Schedule (“time-box” the process)• Clear ResponsibilitiesClear Responsibilities• Properly Provisioning the EffortProperly Provisioning the Effort


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A General Process ModelA General Process Model

*RFQ/CFP = Request for Quotation/Call for Participation*RFQ/CFP = Request for Quotation/Call for Participation

Develop & Develop & TestTest

Task DTask D

Selection & Selection & Kick-offKick-off

Task CTask C

RFQ/CFP*RFQ/CFP*DevelopmentDevelopment

Task BTask B

ConceptConceptDevelopmentDevelopment

Task ATask A

Deploy & Deploy & PersistPersist

Task ETask E

Clear Schedule, Deliverables and Clear Schedule, Deliverables and Project ResponsibilitiesProject Responsibilities

OGF FacilitatesOGF Facilitates

Stakeholders ManageStakeholders Manage


Return on Investment

• What are the “carrots” to build the critical mass of stakeholders?• Get early influence in specification development, early

skills building, visibility, and opportunity for early market deployment of standards, but just as important…

• Return on Investment (ROI)Return on Investment (ROI)

• Investment• Time, Money & People• Both Monetary and In-Kind (labor & materials)

• Timely Connection to Concrete Results• Stakeholders benefit from collaboration• Get more than they put in


Targeted Project Issues

• Can we find those key projects, build critical mass, and effectively execute?

• Can we “turn the crank” to make this happen on a routine basis?

• What resources must OGF invest to make this happen -- and can OGF get an ROI?

• Can we make this a feasible and desirable “business model” for OGF?


A Case Study: OWS

• The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web Services (OWS) Testbed is a (roughly) annual effort whereby sponsors can define focused, near-term projects to achieve key technical developments• OWS-5 Statistics (completed March 2008):

• Multiple technical “threads” around important topics• 7 Sponsors, 35 participants• 52 Components, 24 reports, 13 demonstrations• $1.2M sponsorship, $4M in-kind contributions• 3.3x ROI

• OWS-6 is in the planning stageOWS-6 is in the planning stage• Key opportunity for the grid and geospatial communities to engage on critical Key opportunity for the grid and geospatial communities to engage on critical

topics of mutual interesttopics of mutual interest


OWS-5 Example: NASA Sensor Web DemoOWS-5 Example: NASA Sensor Web Demo

Satellite EO-1 tasked to collect imagery on Northern San Diego County Wildfires that was integrated with UAV track data (red lines) in Google Earth. Demo drove issues around sensor networks, data interoperability, and command & control.


A Possible “Business Model” A Possible “Business Model” for OGFfor OGF

• This process could be used to drive:• Best practices• Standards• Interoperability testing• Compliance testing• … anything that requires collaboration among

stakeholders to drive progress

• Key Process Issues:• Building critical mass of key stakeholders• Clearly identified schedule, goals, and responsibilities• Properly provisioning the effort

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Update on OGC OWS-6 RFQ/CFP

• OWS-6 RFQ/CFP closed on Sept. 5• OGF and specific OGF standards were mentioned in Thread

2: GeoProcessing Workflows

• OGC leadership is reviewing response• Briefing to Sponsors was Thursday, Sept. 11• Information on any possible grid or OGF involvement

could be available soon thereafter• Side note: S. Sekiguchi (AIST) representing OGF at

first meeting of OGC’s Workflow Domain WG at Tech. Committee meeting Sept. 17 in Atlanta• Thanks!


Update on Green VM project

• Effort to coordinate existing projects on virtualization, clouds and green IT under the OGF umbrella

• First telecon on Sept 4, 2008• 7 attendees from 6 organizations

• Atos Origin, IBM Haifa, UCM, ENS Lyon, Platform Computing, Aerospace

• Possible next steps• Development of a "reference model" for energy monitoring

and policy enforcement engine• Enable a "common framework" in which to coordinate

projects, e.g., Reservoir, OpenNebula, Green-Net

• Three Main Issues• Money, funding & support


An Energy Management Arch.

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Anne-Cecile Orgerie, Laurent Lefèvre, and Jean-Patrick Gelas, Save Watts in your Grid:Green Strategies for Energy-Aware Framework in Large Scale Distributed Systems.14th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Melbourne, Australia, December 2008.


Key Engagement Issues• How to engage business units?• How to get visibility for this work?

• Targeted Projects “business model”• Specific PR/Outreach campaigns?

• Speakers Bureau?• NCOIC (Darema), OGC (Sekiguchi), Financial Services Tech Forum (Walter), NOAA

(Lee)

• What segment of the "market" to go after?• What are the "most natural" adjacencies for the current core

constituency?• Application domains that require HPC• National projects, e.g., disaster recovery & mitigation, environmental,

aviation, …

• Does HPC need green? A cluster rack that can be turned off is a cluster in need of more users


Potential Engagement Areas

• Clouds and virtualization• Green IT• Grid Sustainability• Financial Services• Life Sciences• Geospatial• Data, Digital Repositories, Digital Libraries• Compliance Testing/Certification• Public Administration & e-Government


Summary

• How to engage major stakeholders?• Contact me: [email protected]

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