Dr. Max Lemke Deputy Head of Unit DG Information Society Grids for Complex Problem solving Catal-IST FP6UK Workshop Future Research for Ambient Intelligence DTI London, February 2004 European Grid Research

Catal-IST FP6UK Workshop: Future Research for Ambient Intelligence DTI London, February 2004 Max Lemke, European Commission Outline Introduction Grid in FP5 Grid in FP6: From vision to implementation Supplementary Activities: Call 3, ERA,... Grid Vision 2007 and beyond Conclusion

Catal-IST FP6UK Workshop: Future Research for Ambient Intelligence DTI London, February 2004 Max Lemke, European Commission What is the Grid ? “A Grid provides an abstraction for resource sharing and collaboration across multiple administrative domains…” (Source: NGG Expert Group, 16 June 2003 “European Grid Research ) Benefits:  Increased productivity by reducing Total Cost of Ownership  Any-type, anywhere, anytime services by/for all  Infrastructure for dynamic virtual organizations  Next generation Internet services backbone e-Science Industry & Business Grids

Catal-IST FP6UK Workshop: Future Research for Ambient Intelligence DTI London, February 2004 Max Lemke, European Commission Outline Introduction Grid in FP5 Grid in FP6: From vision to implementation Supplementary Activities: Call 3, ERA,... Grid Vision 2007 and beyond Conclusion

Catal-IST FP6UK Workshop: Future Research for Ambient Intelligence DTI London, February 2004 Max Lemke, European Commission Applications Infrastructure Middleware Infrastructure DataTag Computing EuroGrid, DataGrid, Damien Tools and Middleware GridLab, GRIP Applications EGSO, CrossGrid, BioGrid, FlowGrid, Moses, COG, GEMSS, Grace, Mammogrid, OpenMolGrid, Selene, P2P / ASP / Webservices P2People, ASP-BP, GRIA, MMAPS, GRASP, GRIP, WEBSI Clustering GridStart Focus of FP5 IST Grid Projects (58 M€)

Catal-IST FP6UK Workshop: Future Research for Ambient Intelligence DTI London, February 2004 Max Lemke, European Commission Creation of a strong research community on Grid research Europe’s position strengthened in Grid middleware development Grid concept proven in eScience application pilots First steps taken towards maturing Grid technologies for industrial use Strengthened European contribution to standardisation Grid deployment in research infrastructures FP5 Grid Research - Achievements

Catal-IST FP6UK Workshop: Future Research for Ambient Intelligence DTI London, February 2004 Max Lemke, European Commission Outline Introduction Grid in FP5 Grid in FP6: From vision to implementation Supplementary Activities: Call 3, ERA,... Grid Vision 2007 and beyond Conclusion

Catal-IST FP6UK Workshop: Future Research for Ambient Intelligence DTI London, February 2004 Max Lemke, European Commission CPA 9 actions launched in IST-FP5 Proposals under Selection from IST-FP6 Call 2 Strategic Objective “Grids for Complex Problem Solving” FP5 FP6 125M€ 58M€ From FP5 to FP6 Grid research funding more than doubles IST-FP6 commitment to Grid research

Catal-IST FP6UK Workshop: Future Research for Ambient Intelligence DTI London, February 2004 Max Lemke, European Commission Grids for Complex Problem Solving  Architecture, design and development of the next generation Grid  Enabling application technologies DG IST - F2 DG IST - F2 Research Infrastructure  Deployment of specific high performance Grids  Deployment of high- capacity and high-speed communications network - GEANT DG IST - F3 Research & Development Deployment Application-oriented Strategic Objectives e.g. eBusiness, eGov, eWork, eHealth, risks management Technology-oriented strategic objectives e.g. semantic web, software and services R&D 200 M€ RI 125 M€ (IST) Grid Research and Deployment in FP6

Catal-IST FP6UK Workshop: Future Research for Ambient Intelligence DTI London, February 2004 Max Lemke, European Commission Next Generation Grids Global Computing Complex Systems Global Grid Services Infrastructure? Evolution of the Web Evolution of HPCN Current Grids Empowering AmI The Challenge (1) Complexity - Interoperability - Ease of Use -...

Catal-IST FP6UK Workshop: Future Research for Ambient Intelligence DTI London, February 2004 Max Lemke, European Commission Promote Grid research to  Solve new complex problems with high economic and societal impact  Exploit the potential of Grids beyond e-Science e-Science Industry & Business Grids The Challenge in FP6 (2) Moving Grid from e-Science to Industry

Catal-IST FP6UK Workshop: Future Research for Ambient Intelligence DTI London, February 2004 Max Lemke, European Commission End-user empowerment Life-support to business processes Societal behaviour (millions of self-organising nodes) Computational semantics, ontologies, meta-descriptions Pervasive virtual organisations Continuously changing requirements Grid services development environments Virtualization Next Generation Grids End-UserVision Software vision Architectural Vision Simplification Abstraction Expert Group Report: “Next Generation Grid(s) - European Grid Research ”, June 2003 Next Generation Grid(s): 3-fold vision

Catal-IST FP6UK Workshop: Future Research for Ambient Intelligence DTI London, February 2004 Max Lemke, European Commission Research Themes Open Reliable Scalable Persistent Transparent Person-centric Pervasive Secure / trusted Standards-based User Interface Grid Economies Business models Properties FacilitiesModels Virtual Organisation Systems Management Co-ord. and orchestration Information representation Next Generation Grid(s) Expert Group Report: “Next Generation Grid(s) - European Grid Research ”, June 2003 Next Generation Grid(s): Identified Research Themes

Catal-IST FP6UK Workshop: Future Research for Ambient Intelligence DTI London, February 2004 Max Lemke, European Commission Application Pull Technology Push FP6 Research Focus: WorkProgramme 2003/2004

Catal-IST FP6UK Workshop: Future Research for Ambient Intelligence DTI London, February 2004 Max Lemke, European Commission Semantic Grid Dependability, Trust, Provenance Datamining tools & services Extended OGSA Implementation Knowledge based workflow & collaboration Building the ERA in Grid research Evaluation results Call 2 (ranked proposals) Call 2 - Ranked proposals NoE IP STREP SSA IP

Catal-IST FP6UK Workshop: Future Research for Ambient Intelligence DTI London, February 2004 Max Lemke, European Commission Outline Introduction Grid in FP5 Grid in FP6: From vision to implementation Supplementary Activities: Call 3, ERA, … Grid Vision 2007 and beyond Conclusion

Catal-IST FP6UK Workshop: Future Research for Ambient Intelligence DTI London, February 2004 Max Lemke, European Commission To expand the scope of FP6 actions already under way to cover new activities which are expected to involve new participants from the new Member States of the EU and the Associated Candidate Countries To improve partnerships with small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) by expanding the scope of FP6 actions already under way To increase co-operation with partners from target countries for international co-operation (INCO) e.g. Latin America, India, China To progress towards the achievement of the objectives of a European Research Area in a given field  Objectives:  Opening Date:  Closing Date:  Total indicative budget: ~70 million Euro TENTATIVE INFORMATION IST - Call 3

Catal-IST FP6UK Workshop: Future Research for Ambient Intelligence DTI London, February 2004 Max Lemke, European Commission Objectives and Benefits   Overcome fragmentation and dispersion across EU to reinforce impact of national and Community research   Strengthen Europe’s position on Grid Research and its exploitation ERA for Grid Research Requirements endorsed by 10 Member States – July 2003  Better co-ordination of fragmented national and EU efforts by putting them in EU context towards achieving critical mass / higher impact on international level  Further investigation on how to best stimulate the development and delivery of production-level / industrial-strength Grid MW  Actions towards broadening the use of Grid beyond eScience towards its use in business and industry  Inventory of national and EU initiatives including analysis of strength, weaknesses, gaps and synergies on EU-scale  Establishment of a regular forum on Grid Research of European funding bodies and research leaders Implementation to be supported by SSA GridCoord

Catal-IST FP6UK Workshop: Future Research for Ambient Intelligence DTI London, February 2004 Max Lemke, European Commission Workshop: Establishing a European Approach towards Delivery of Industrial Strength GRID Middleware – Jan 04 Conclusions:   Open Source Software built using proven distributed software engineering & process models is an economically viable approach facilitating further exploitation & innovation   Appropriate licensing models needed   Software quality standards should be enhanced in FP6 projects   Grid infrastructures need to address security, identity management, certification.   Create an industry association to build Grid-infrastructures (“Grid commons”)   Build (de-facto) standards through critical mass - developer & user communities   More effective participation of EU Industry to standardization needed (GGF,OASIS, W3C,…) Motivation:  Need to improve exploitation of EU research results and commercial impact  Identify EU requirements in view of UK-OMII  Reflect on EU-wide approaches towards standardisation & international co-operation

Catal-IST FP6UK Workshop: Future Research for Ambient Intelligence DTI London, February 2004 Max Lemke, European Commission Outline Introduction Grid in FP5 Grid in FP6: From vision to implementation Supplementary Activities: Call 3, ERA,... Grid Vision 2007 and beyond Conclusion

Catal-IST FP6UK Workshop: Future Research for Ambient Intelligence DTI London, February 2004 Max Lemke, European Commission FP 7 Grid vision and beyond  Building the Invisible Grid  Mastering ICT complexity  Grids of mobile and embedded systems  From to self-healing systems  From plug & play to connect & share  Meta Operating System architecture  Knowledge at the fingertips CtrlAltDel ++ network-centric person-centric Grid empowers AmI Towards a Global Grid Services Infrastructure for Business & Industry local global AmI AmI +Grid

Catal-IST FP6UK Workshop: Future Research for Ambient Intelligence DTI London, February 2004 Max Lemke, European Commission Grid: a future EU success story ? A potential new success story of European ICT? Opportunities Strengths – Vision 2010 and beyond – From eScience to business & industry – Strengthen EU leadership on Grid – Build the ERA for Grid research – International collaboration – ERA Grid Pilot Action Strengthen EU competitiveness – Supporting industry & business users – Revitalizing secondary SW industry – Boosting EU primary SW industry – Build and exploit the Grid services utility Research PolicyIndustrial policy

Catal-IST FP6UK Workshop: Future Research for Ambient Intelligence DTI London, February 2004 Max Lemke, European Commission Outline Introduction Grid in FP5 Grid in FP6: From vision to implementation Supplementary Activities: Call 3, ERA,... Grid Vision 2007 and beyond Conclusion

Catal-IST FP6UK Workshop: Future Research for Ambient Intelligence DTI London, February 2004 Max Lemke, European Commission Conclusions  Grid as a utility: a new paradigm for service delivery  Grid: a key building block of the knowledge economy  Grid empowers AmI  EU needs to better capitalise on its strengths in Grid research and applications  Support exploitation and commercial take-up through policy measures  EU and MSs to better co-ordinate their efforts towards achieving critical mass / higher impact internationally