EGEE-II INFSO-RI Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE and gLite are registered trademarks EGEE Industrial Applications Gabriel Zaquine EGEE Industry Task Force Coordination CS SI Grid Crunching Day - Fribourg - 07/12/2006

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI EGEE-Industry - Grid CrunchingDay Contents EGEE and Industry gLite industrial applications Case study: Grid for plastic industry SMEs –Grid on-demand / Collaborative Grid –Business model approach Going forward

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI EGEE-Industry - Grid CrunchingDay The EGEE project EGEE –Started in April 2004 –Now in 2 nd phase with 91 partners in 32 countries Objectives –Large-scale, production-quality grid infrastructure for e-Science –Attracting new resources and users from industry as well as science –Maintain and further improve “gLite” Grid middleware

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI EGEE-Industry - Grid CrunchingDay EGEE – What do we deliver? Infrastructure operation –Currently includes ~200 sites across 40 countries –Continuous monitoring of grid services & automated site configuration/management Middleware –Production quality middleware distributed under business friendly open source licence User Support - Managed process from first contact through to production usage –Training –Expertise in grid-enabling applications –Online helpdesk –Networking events (User Forum, Conferences etc.) Interoperability –Expanding geographical reach and interoperability with collaborating e-infrastructures

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI EGEE-Industry - Grid CrunchingDay Why you should do Business with EGEE Credible –Mission-critical for the LHC accelerator (starting 2007) Stable –Long-terms plans means it will still be here in the future Flexible –Supporting applications from a wide range of domains Secure –Security model with authentication, authorization and audit trails Dynamic –New applications, resources, services and users can be easily added Open –Allows groups to work in multi-administered domains, deploy additional services and interoperate with other infrastructures

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI EGEE-Industry - Grid CrunchingDay What EGEE can offer your Business A flagship European project operating on a global scale –Access to a team of grid experts with proven deployment experience Environment to gridify applications & get operations experience –Demonstrate them to your customers & bosses Production quality middleware –Distributed under a business friendly open source license and supported by a large community Evolutionary path to emerging grid standards –Backward-compatible upgrades Visibility: ~200 sites in 40 countries, ~ 100 Virtual Organisations –An excellent shop-window for your products, services and expertise

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI EGEE-Industry - Grid CrunchingDay Collaboration opportunities Businesses collaborate with EGEE in a variety of roles –As a partner  Tune the project to business needs and pass on knowledge  CEA, CGG, CNES, CRSA, CS-SI, DATAMAT, MetaWare –As a user  Prototype applications on EGEE infrastructure or deploy gLite middleware –As associate  Collaborate on subjects of joint interest  NICE, Platform Computing, PriceWaterhouseCoopers –As attendee at future events

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI EGEE-Industry - Grid CrunchingDay EGEE Industry Task Force Members –Business partners in the project –Representatives from industrial applications on the EGEE infrastructure or making use of gLite middleware –Links with related business-led projects Activities –Orchestrates support within EGEE for business applications –Interact with EGEE’s Technical Coordination Group (TCG) to place industry requirements on equal footing with scientific applications contact Gabriel Zaquine,

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI EGEE-Industry - Grid CrunchingDay EGEE Industry Forum Mission –Two-way communication between Industry and EGEE  For Industry: learn about EGEE and latest developments in the Grid field  For EGEE: learn about industrial requirements, ensuring EGEE’s industrial relevance Members –Led by Metaware to improve Grid take-up in Industry –Representatives in most European countries –>150 individual members, ~ 100 institutes, ~20 sectors Activities –Dedicated section on EGEE web portal, geared towards the interest and needs of industry –Organises meetings and industry events Sign up as EGEE community member or contact Douglas McKinley,

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI EGEE-Industry - Grid CrunchingDay gLite Industry Applications Earth Sciences –BE18-EGEODE Seismic imaging & reservoir simulation (CGG; TNO; PetroSoft NICE) –External Grid Computing Project (TOTAL UK) Earth Observation –BE07-Earth Observation (GMV;ESRIN-ESA; ATOS ORIGIN; CNR; TERRADUE) - GRID enabled services for atmospheric retrieval parameters of importance for pollution, health and meteorological applications –gLite prototype as CNES intranet Grid (CNES; CS SI) Finance and insurance –BE11-Risk Management in Finance (ECP-CRSA; Fininfo; AXA;Telefonica ID): Grid for financial products pricing Health care –Health-e-Child: Grid-based biomedical information platform for Paediatrics (SIEMENS AG; Lynkeus Srl; …) Fusion –Grid gateway for addressing EGEE and super computers (DEISA) SMEs and small ISV –Grid platform for plastic industry (CS SI; CNRS; PEP) –Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) application (Cambridge Ontology Ltd) Portals (based Grid engine) –Genious (INFN; NICE); P-Grade (Sztaki); Elisa (CS SI; CNRS) project-eu-egee-itf.web.cern.ch/project-eu-egee-ITF/Applications/Applications.htm

EGEE-II INFSO-RI Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE and gLite are registered trademarks Case study Grid for plastic industry SMEs Grid on-demand – Collaborative Grid The business model adopted

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI EGEE-Industry - Grid CrunchingDay Context SMEs require computational resources flexibility SMEs have a limited number of software licences to achieve computational tasks They are not able to smooth peaks of activity due to new business Automotive Aeronautic Medical, … Plastic Omnium, Faurecia Visteon, … New product development Submission Subcontractors Engineering and design Mouldmakers Polymer molding manufacturer Small and Medium Entreprise (<250 employees) Plastic industry companies (>5000 employees) Large industry sectors

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI EGEE-Industry - Grid CrunchingDay Needs Company B (Engineering) Company C (Moldmaker) Remote HPC platform (Grid) SMEs need to have access to: –additional and complementary computational resources –additional application licences –collaborative workspace On-demand (Services Grid) Collaborative Grid (Partner Grid)

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI EGEE-Industry - Grid CrunchingDay Solution Grid on-demand: Resources & applications Applicative services specific to applicative areas such as : –Mechanic; Molecular Modelling; Plastic Simulation; Other Cooperative project management within the supply chain from the contractor to sub-contractors Open source portal Data management MMI : Virtualised view of grid storage Generic and Interoperable workflow engine : Globus 2.4, 4.0, EGEE (gLite), etc Workflow submission, monitoring, accounting/billing, etc Enterprise grid with Local Infrastructure and Services for Applications Issued from National R&D project : OpenPlast Grid services have been developed by CS SI Workflow Engine have been developed by CNRS-IN2P3 Plasturgy and SMEs knowledge:PEP (Plasturgy Fedaration)

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI EGEE-Industry - Grid CrunchingDay Screenshots  Examples:  Resources  Job Submission  Statistics

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI EGEE-Industry - Grid CrunchingDay OpenPlast Grid >128 CPUs 1 To PEP (Oyonnax) CS SI (Grenoble, Paris) 10 CPUs (Opteron) 2.6 To 20 CPUs (Opteron) 5,2 To 2 MBytes CC-IN2P3 (Lyon) >> 10 MBytes IN2P3 (Clermont) >20 CPUs 1 To >> 10 MBytes EGEE

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI EGEE-Industry - Grid CrunchingDay Business model for SMEs: e.g Plasturgy (OpenPlast) Starting point: The Business Plan –Based on well knowledge of application needs and usage. Integrates:  Hosting basis costs (exploitation, administration, …)  Licences costs  CPU and storage costs  Other costs (network, dissemination, sustainability, dissemination, …) –Business perspectives; Period Models and attempt to pricing: 1.Basic subscription including hosting  On demand: CPU; Storage; Commercial software 2.Fixed price: 1 + mono CPU usage  On demand: Commercial software 3.Fixed price: 2 + full Application suit usage ( Fluent, Moldflow 2D, Ansys non parallel, Cast3M) Depending on the model: From 500€ to 4000€ per user per month Discussion are on going with commercial software editors in order to improve the Grid licensing –Make available license tokens shared within several customers –Distinction of the licensing for pre/post treatment from main treatment

Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE-II INFSO-RI EGEE-Industry - Grid CrunchingDay Going Forward EGEE intends to build on it initial successes with various business sectors in the context of the European 7 th Framework Foster relations between industry and EGEE based on targeted approach to business –Targeted sectors (Earth observation, Finance, Bio, etc) –More attention in SME, start-up (innovative applications and portals) and collaborative projects (Partner grids) –Innovative solutions & policies & funding schemes & collaboration between industry and Research in commercial Grid adoption Set the way for commercial exploitation of EGEE technology –Provide solutions in challenges for grid adoption by Industry: Business model; Accounting/billing; Commercial software license policy; Security; SLA; Standardization; etc –Prepare the future for commercial exploitation of EGEE (Red-Hatting of gLite; Network; IT Providers) Create self-sustainable EGEE Grid\e-Infrastructure Competence Centres “for Industry” in order to provide technical support to the business community EGEE welcomes your feedback and input