1. Information Society and Media Directorate-General – European Commission Unit Grid Technologies IST-Call 5 Grid Information Day - Brussels, 30 May 2005 Call 5 - Strategic Objective: Advanced Grid Technologies, Systems and Service Architecture, of the next generation Grid Enabling application technologies Design and Development Franco Accordino Scientific Officer European Commission franco.accordino@cec.eu.int http://www.cordis.lu/ist/grids Focus 3: Network-centric Grid Operating Systems Disclaimer: The call text in the Official Journal, the Work Programme and the Specific Programme are the only legal basis.

2. Information Society and Media Directorate-General – European Commission Unit Grid Technologies IST-Call 5 Grid Information Day - Brussels, 30 May 2005 Long-term Grids challenges +Pervasive +Mobile +Heterogeneous +Dynamic +… +Abstraction +Self-* +Virtualisation +Simplification +… The computing and knowledge capabilities of the Information Society are escaping from the “bottle” to pervade our everyday lives. Will Grids “orchestrate” this immense power in the same way that Operating Systems did in the past 30 years for the capabilities “in-the-box”? Trade-offs to ensure: interoperability, scalability, performance, security, QoS, easy of use-program-install-configure-upgrade, decreasing TCO, …

3. Information Society and Media Directorate-General – European Commission Unit Grid Technologies IST-Call 5 Grid Information Day - Brussels, 30 May 2005 Focus 3 – Network-centric Grid Operating Systems Research and development on new or enhanced fabrics layer for future distributed systems and services Two alternative approaches:  Development, testing and validation of an enhanced fabrics based on existing OSs (Grid built-in functions or modules leading to a meta OS)  Research and conceptualization on new fabrics replacing existing OSs (Network-centric Grid Operating Systems) Simplify the use, management and programmability of Grid systems and services, supporting mobility and pervasiveness, enhancing performance and security WP 2005-2006 Advanced Grid Technologies, Systems and Services

4. Information Society and Media Directorate-General – European Commission Unit Grid Technologies IST-Call 5 Grid Information Day - Brussels, 30 May 2005 Grid-enabled Service Oriented Architectures Meta – Operating System Environment Server OS Desktop OS Mobile OSEmbedded OS … Approach 1: “Making existing Operating Systems Grid-aware” Services Grid extension Res 1 Res 2Res 3Res 4Res n … Integrated Hardware & Networking Infrastructure

5. Information Society and Media Directorate-General – European Commission Unit Grid Technologies IST-Call 5 Grid Information Day - Brussels, 30 May 2005 Service oriented architectures and service platforms System software including Network-centric Grid Operating Systems Services Res 1 Res 2Res 3Res 4Res n … Complexity Standards Trust & Security Approach 2: “Crossing the border of the box” Integrated Hardware & Networking Infrastructure

6. Information Society and Media Directorate-General – European Commission Unit Grid Technologies IST-Call 5 Grid Information Day - Brussels, 30 May 2005 Instruments IPs IPs  Include a clear strategy on how to increase European competitiveness in Grid / OS capitalising on EU strengths (e.g. embedded, mobile).  Include industrial stakeholders from all relevant levels of the value chain  Emphasise participation of application / service integrators and generic software / technology providers as “users” STREPs/SSAs STREPs/SSAs  Longer term research issues + conceptualisation phase to prepare possible FP7 initiatives  Coordination among different stakeholders / sectors within and across the value-chain