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WP3 plenary meetingLondon, Jan 17-18, 2006

Roadmap of the Virtual Institute

Marco DaneluttoWorkpackage leader

University of Pisa - Italy

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“The roadmap of the roadmap”

Version 1.0 of the roadmap (M6)

D.PM.01

discussed in Pisa meeting, Jan 2005

delivered in Feb 2005

Version 2.0 of the roadmap (M18)

D.PM.02

discussed/designed here

to be delivered in Feb 2005 --> is an assessment!

Responsibility UNIPI

cooperative writing process CVS based for D.PM.01

to be repeated for the second version

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Roadmap D.PM.01

Context & positioning

w.r.t. partners, partner’s projects, rest of the world

JPA1 structure kept

Steps assumed

consensus on the principles

lightweight specification of GCM

refinement (possibly through experiments and reference implementations)

partner consensus and GCM adoption

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Consensus

JPA1 derived structure

single component arbitrary with functional and non functional interfaces

hierarchical composition

parallel components

advanced component based programming models

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First roadmap

“formal step”

XML component specification as a Schema

API run time defined in several languages

Packaging XML as a Schema

Three key points by Denis at the Jan 05 meeting in Pisa

Fully implemented in D.PM.02 (reviewed version submitted these days)

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“Aside” topics consensus

Adaptivity

autonomic components, aspect oriented techniques, …

Performance modeling

to drive config/reconfig

Multi middleware component framework

to support interoperability and heterogeneity

Just to name a few

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Not completely specified in 1.0

Results in the tasks

(to be moved to research groups, actually)

- results/goals stated at the proper abstraction level

- With checkable features

- Possibly with volunteer responsible

- To support “non WP leader induced” activity :-)

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Not addressed in 1.0

Positioning w.r.t. current EU/foreign sensible initiatives

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More needed in 2.0

Interaction with other WPs

propagation of the GCM, once assessed

starts right now

feedback on “missing” specification/requirements

“Advertisement” activity

w.r.t. to other initiatives, projects, etc.

EU, industry, academia

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Definitely needed in 2.0

Roadmap to new projects

nationwide

follow up expected to the NoE

european level

EU projects, industrial projects/consortiums

Role of the open source sw (& consortiums)

formal vs. actual open source

should/could we involve industry in open source based projects?

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Definitely needed in 2.0

Standardization process

participation in open source consortiums with GCM sw

(funding?)

participation in EU initiatives

(NGG, interest groups, …)

participation in international bodies

(personal -> CoreGRID WP3 contributes !)

participation in national “standard decision committees”

force GCM adoption in proper places

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Harmonize statements in roadmap and JPAs

Stated in D.PM.01:

Differently in the JPA (later on)

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Plus any new, innovative “research topic”

Not unrelated to the Virtual institute mainstream

With adequate partner support (Res Group resp + participants !)

Correctly framed in the D.PM.01 activities

E.g. service oriented knowledge utilities exploitation in theGCM framework

links with WP2 (possibilities for new interaction/projects)

exploit meta info/knowledge to accomplish component

related tasks

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Take into account …

D.PM.01

set up the roadmap main ideas

D.PM.03

should assess and complete D.PM.01

not completely change it

unless evidence, of course …

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How to go on (today, tomorrow, …)

First phaseall partners make a general “position statement” concerning the way to proceed and the general roadmap ideas

all partners introduce specific topics to be discussed in the roadmap

we agree on the topics

prelimiary discussion on the topic (to be continued offline before deadline)

task assignment (sections of the roadmap! (still waiting for comments on the first roadmap documents …))