Interoperability of Virtual Organizations on Complex Semantic Grid

construction + grid construction + grid

Robert Balder

OBERMEYER Planen+Beraten GmbH

Munich, June 2005

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Inteligrid target

Semantic grid for Virtual Organizations with focus on AEC

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Contents

Where are we now? Concerns about grid What is a “nice to have” What is really needed User requirements

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Where are we now?

No real grid running in construction Server clusters for the CAD data Project spaces for data sharing in

Virtual Organisations Special “grid-like” applications seti@home

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Concerns

Serious problems in the current IT structure Viruses, Worms Spam

This costs a lot of money A grid is designed to do support

remote processing and information sharing

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Concerns

The opportunity of the grid is that we think about information sharing and remote processes when designing it

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What is a “nice to have”

There are several areas where “High Performance Computing” would help Rendering Sonic computations Special problems in static's

These are not the killer applications

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What we need from a Grid

Sharing of data models and documents/plans is very complex

A project space is the right step, but still works with copies

A Semantic Project Grid for Virtual Organizations has a great potential

But don‘t forget the users...

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User requirements

User types „typical“ end user (Engineer) Real Company CIO VO Project Manager Grid CIO

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Typical industrial end user

Consider user interface HPC Storage, semantic data

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User interface

Space for semantic data

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Company CIO/Sysad

Has to support one grid for every Virtual Organization

Responsible for Loss of data Quality of service Long term data management

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VO project manager

Setting up VO Running VO Terminate VO! Responsible for?

Long term data management

Not only one VO

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Grid CIO/Sysad

Setting up VO Running VO Terminate VO! Responsible for?

Loss of data Quality of service Long term data management

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Developer

IDE integration Open grids or proprietary grids? The best offer for software

development will win

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Conclusions

A semantic grid has the potential to take a key role in construction

Controlled information sharing is the „killer application“ for the grid

A VO grid corresponds to just one project, but there are more

Let the grid be as transparent as possible

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Final remark

The ultimate killer application ... Let seti@home be successful

The Extraterrestrial Intelligence should help us to solve our problems in construction

Interoperability of Virtual Organizations on Complex Semantic Grid

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