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October 25, 2008NETWORKED EUROPEAN SOFTWARE & SERVICES INITIATIVE

Andrea ManieriEngineering Ingegneria Informatica s.p.a.
NESSI-Grids Strategic Research Agenda for Business Grids

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NESSIGrid contributing to NESSI, Whats NESSI?NESSIGrid Research Agenda final versionMake it happen, contributing to NESSIAnnouncement: Service Wave 2008

Whats NESSI?

The story of NESSI
The context - European Technology PlatformPrivate-public partnershipIndustrial leadershipUniting all stakeholdersAround a key, strategic area

Strategic?Europes future growthEuropes competitiveness

Link?Requires major research and technological advancesIn the medium to long term
NESSI aims to provide a unified view for European research in Services Architectures and Software Infrastructures
Today, NESSI partners represent 1.7 Million strong workforce and 490 B in revenues
NESSI has presented an initial Strategic Research Agenda that represents a global investment of 2.5 B

In a world of convergence
AMBIENT NETWORKS & PERVASIVE COMPUTING
REAL
VIRTUAL
Tomorrow the Internet will be strategic because of services

The challenge of NESSI

Transforming the Internet to service your life

ensuring that services can be provided to all, citizens and businesses alike, in safe, secure, reliable, extensible, scalable environments

The vision of NESSI
This evolution requires a service oriented environment

NESSI companies have recognised that no single company can or should harness the power of such an environment

NESSI is a partnership that will ensure the emergence of a service environment allowing for

NESSI Research Structure
Coordination mechanisms

ensure coherence and consistency

ensure opennessopen participationopen utilisationopen to evolution

attract contributions

Research Projects
The NESSI Research Structure

NESSI Strategic ProjectsStrategic to the delivery of NEXOF

Compliant ProjectsDelivering to NEXOForCompliant to NEXOF

Delivering NEXOF
NESSI Open Service Framework

Open Reference Model Concept and PrinciplesOpen Reference Architecture StandardsOpen Reference ImplementationConformance Test SuiteValidation of NEXOF instances in real scenarios

NESSI Strategic Projects
6 NESSI Strategic ProjectsEzWebMASTERNEXOF-RAReservoirSLA@SOISOA4ALLKey contributors to the delivery of NEXOFAcronym: NSP

The NEXOF-RA Strategic Project
Managing contributions to NEXOF

Invitations to Contribute1st invitation 21/7/2008 publication3/10/2008closing20-21/10/2008kick-off of the investigation teamsSelected topicsService User interaction research area Service platform research area Service oriented infrastructure research area Scalable approaches to SOA

NESSIGrid Research Agenda Final version

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Introduction: Goal & Evolution
Goal: A Vision & SRA fora grid-like service-oriented infrastructure for business environments and business applications

Evolutionfrom adhoc view out of the consortium to a broad perspective from the European community to a consolidated roadmap.

Timeline

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SRA 3.0 in a nutshell
SRA version 3.0 and the most important new features:clear vision for future service-oriented infrastructurecomprehensive methodology approach considering heterogeneous viewpointsclear specification of business application context9 core business scenarios: Enterprise, Hierarchical Enterprise, Hosting, Extended enterprise, Dynamic Outsourcing, Mergers & acquisitions, Virtual organizations, Business value networks, Mega ServicesSotA analysis including ~180 references on related infrastructure technologies, research fields and technology trendsDerivation of 47 challenges with clear traceabilitySpecification and assessment of 17 business indicatorsRoadmap analysis of scenario relevance & challenge characteristics

Context
Context: Business ApplicationsOnline applications: Most business applications are online.Clients of business applications care about the response time they observe.Industrial benchmarks for online applications set strict statistical distribution thresholds for the provided response times.Stateful nature:Business applications are typically stateful: Conversational (sessions) or persistent state.Persistent state is updateable with typical workloads ranging from 20-50% of updates.Transactional Semantics:State belongs to business so it requires consistency guarantees.In the advent of concurrent accesses to shared state isolation should be provided.In the advent of failures, all-or-nothing semantics should be guaranteed.The outcome of successful transactions should be durable despite failures.Multi-Tier ArchitecturesBusiness applications are typically constructed on top of multi-tier architectures.Their gridification should be transparent.
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Context
Context: What is Different from Scientific Applications?Online vs. offline: Scientific applications are characterized by being batch applications.The main concern is high utilization of the underlying infrastructure.No concern about response time of individual requests.Stateful vs. stateless:Scientific applications typically stateless.Persistent state typically read-only, in some cases write-once read-many.Read-only workloads.Transactional Semantics:Scientific applications are not concerned about transactional semantics.Scientific grids are not aware of transactions.Multi-Tier Architectures:Scientific applications are not typically built on top of multi-tier architectures.Scientific grids are not aware of multiple tiers.
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Business Scenarios
Business scenariosEnterprise: core scenario for traditional infrastructuresHierarchical Enterprise: includes notion of enterprise policy hierarchiesHosting: special case of enterprise & virtual organisationExtended enterprise: includes devices beyond the traditional backend (pervasive, sensors, )Dynamic Outsourcing: dynamic migration of IT resources between administrative domainsMergers & acquisitions: merge of previously separated administrative domainsVirtual organizations: multi-party (at least 3) collaboration and resource/service sharingBusiness value networks: complex chains including multiple providers/administrative domainsMega Services: services to millions of customers across the globe

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State of the Art
Considered under 3 main perspectives:InfrastructuresResearch and Scientific GridsEnterprise GridsVirtual-machines based GridsMobile GridsResearch fieldsData Grids, Data Replication, Multitier Systems, Application Development, Performance Engineering, Cost & Revenue Management, Autonomic Computing, Virtualisation, Security, InteroperatiblityNew Technology TrendsStorage and Data Management; Processor Technology; Virtualisation; Network Connectivity; Mobile devices; Sustainability

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Research Challenges
47 research challengesData Management (scalability, low latency geo, autonomy)Application Development (automatic parallelism, mobility app support, automatic distribution)Network Connectivity (end2end, heterogeneity, mobility, adaptiveMiddleware)Accounting and SLAs (transparent, holistic)Dependability (self healing, cost awareness, mobile)Security (isolated zones, policies, identity mngmt, reputation&trust)Performance (predictable virtualisation, integrated scheduling, prediction, resource mng)Interoperability (standards, composed multi tiers, dynamic, non functional)Manageability (mng4Business, new devices, virtualisation&deploy, ctrl&monitor, multiple domains, mediation conflict, self management)Governance (specifications, enforcement, translation)Flexibility (support changes, autonomy, scalability, dynamic allocation, large scale, dynamic security)Mastering Complex Systems (holistic modelling, flexible simulation, integrated tooling)Overarching Challenges (business value, complexity, architecture driven)

Research Challenges: Example
Example: Predictable Virtualization

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Roadmap
Enterprise
Hierarchical Enterprise
Extended Enterprise
Virtual Organization
Hosting
Dynamic Outsourcing
Mega Services
Value Networks
Merger & Acquisition

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Conclusions: Key Challenges
New system architecturesharmonize & advance SOA, SOI, multi-tier, federated and Internet scalesupport all kinds of business models, applications and emerging HW env.provide transparent and integrated access for all relevant stakeholders

Advanced system lifecycle approaches support transparent knowledge tracking, feedback loops, prediction and simulation from engineering to decommissioning clear separation of concerns between different stakeholders (Biz vs. IT, )adhering to overarching sustainability req. for full variety of Biz scenarios

Advanced infrastructure technologies in terms of hardware (energy efficient, flexible allocation, virtualization )middleware (scalability, new multi-tier system design, flexible storage systems, harmonized virtualization on all layers)related programming models (parallel & distributed programming, multi-core)

Make it happenContributing to NESSI

Collaboration opportunities
As a NESSI memberBecome a memberContribute through a Working GroupOutputsSRA evolutionNEXOF architecture

Through NESSI contributing projectsStrategic ProjectsExtend your project to contribute to NEXOF

National NESSI initiatives
Existing inNorwayPolandSloveniaSpainEmerging inHungaryBulgariaItalyNetherlands

Nanoelectronics
MobileCommunications
NetworkedandElectronicMedia
Competitiveness Innovation Speed
IndividualConsumerCitizenWorker etc.

Embedded SystemsARTEMIS
Manufacturing industries, Automotive, Aerospace, Electro- technical, etc.
The ETPs
Software &Services
Moving beyond relative roles into synergistic implementation

The inter-ETPs collaboration
Convergence topic: Future InternetModalitiesDefine a common vision of the Future InternetInvestigate opportunity of setting a JTI Joint Technology InitiativeIn additionCreated a common information booth and session at upcoming ICT 2008Signed a joint statement with the FP6 and FP7 projects in March 2008 Collaborating on upcoming ServiceWave 2008

Information about NESSI?
Online Web site www.nessi-europe.euPublic documents: SRA, governance, compliance checklistNESSI position papersOne click online membershipWorking Groups contactsNESSI Scenarios MovieQuarterly NESSI newslettersNESSI events

NESSI Office support teaminfo@nessi-europe.eu

ICT 2008 25 to 27/11/2008, Lyon, FranceServiceWave 2008 10 to 13/12/2008, Madrid, Spain

Announcement:

ServiceWave 2008
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ServiceWave fosters the creation of cross-community scientific excellence by gathering industrial and academic experts from various disciplines such as business process management, distributed systems, computer networks, wireless & mobile communication networks, grid computing, networking, service science and software engineering.

ServiceWave 2008
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Conclusions
Many collaboration opportunitiesParticipate to NEXOFs Invitation to ContributeJoin NESSI Working Groups, in particular SOI-WG http://www.soi-nwg.org/doku.phpParticipate to NESSI Strategic Projects on addressing NESSIGrid Key ChallengesAdapt existing projects to become compliant to NEXOF architectureParticipate to NESSI events

Andrea ManieriAndrea.manieri@eng.it +393492532491Vronique Pevtschinveronique.pevtschin@eng.it +32475413878

4/12/2007
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Enabling the next wave of services

NETWORKED EUROPEAN SOFTWARE & SERVICE INITIATIVE

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And today, the most important development is the move from this rather simple, relative positionning to active collaboration around the theme of Future Internet. Making the convergence a reality, from Internet of Things to Internet of Services.
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