DG INFSO- Grid Research & Infrastructures: W. Boch, M. Campolargo 1 Delivery of Industrial-strength Grid Middleware: establishing an effective European approach 21 January 2004, Brussels W. Boch, M. Campolargo European Commission DG Information Society EU Workshop

DG INFSO- Grid Research & Infrastructures: W. Boch, M. Campolargo 2 Motivation for Workshop Need to improve exploitation of EU research results and commercial impact Identify appropriate support actions in FP6 (considering the role and the existence of the new instruments IPs and I3s) Identify EU requirements in view of UK-OMII and other international initiatives Reflect on EU-wide approaches towards standardisation & international co-operation

DG INFSO- Grid Research & Infrastructures: W. Boch, M. Campolargo 3 FP6 New Instruments - Expectations IPs covering the entire R&D lifecycle of products and services including the pre-competitive stages of productising and marketing IPs with strong industrial involvement more mature and near to market product prototypes and pilot services expected faster or earlier exploitation and take-up in commercial terms I3s provision of ICT research infrastructures throughout Europe (so called e-Infrastructure) for e-Science I3s to evolve the networking infrastructure, Grid middleware and Application services towards the realisation of production-level Grid enabled infrastructures Integrated Projects – IPs Integrated Infrastructure Initiatives – I3s

DG INFSO- Grid Research & Infrastructures: W. Boch, M. Campolargo 4 Grid R&D and Deployment in FP6,... GRID RESEARCH GRID INDUSTRY & SERVICES GRID INFRASTRUCTURE From R&D results to industrial-strength GRID middleware

DG INFSO- Grid Research & Infrastructures: W. Boch, M. Campolargo 5 Emerging FP 6 GRID Research Topics 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)

DG INFSO- Grid Research & Infrastructures: W. Boch, M. Campolargo 6 Requirements for Grids in Industry & Business Reliability Security and trust across multiple admin domains Persistence Scalability Open to wide user communities Pervasive and ubiquitous Transparent and easy to program Person-centric Based on Standards for software and protocols

DG INFSO- Grid Research & Infrastructures: W. Boch, M. Campolargo 7 networking specific services joint research activities G É ANT. INFRASTRUCTURE networking specific services joint research activities GRID. INFRASTRUCTURE research results EU policies GRID Infrastructure

DG INFSO- Grid Research & Infrastructures: W. Boch, M. Campolargo 8 The Grids empowered e-Infrastructure is an enabling tool for research Middleware becomes an infrastructure, as much as hardware and networks e-Infrastructures require therefore an emphasis on a number of aspects related to the industrial-strength of Grid middleware robustness functionality interoperability evolution standards conformity (e.g. compliance with open source, OGSA) maintenance persistence availability (e.g. through repositories) …. GRID Infrastructure Requirements

DG INFSO- Grid Research & Infrastructures: W. Boch, M. Campolargo 9 Grid R&D and Deployment in FP6,... GRID RESEARCH GRID INDUSTRY & SERVICES Standardisation? Reference Implementation? License schemes? Interoperability tests? From R&D results to industrial-strength GRID middleware GRID INFRASTRUCTURE

DG INFSO- Grid Research & Infrastructures: W. Boch, M. Campolargo 10 Workshop Objectives To facilitate an open debate between industry and research on most effective routes, approaches and methods towards the delivery of industrial-strength Grid middleware To reflect on the respective roles of research, industry and public authorities in promoting exploitation, take-up and technology transfer to industry To identify emerging Grid software and service business models To elaborate on requirement and options towards standardisation and collaboration with other international Grid initiatives To recommend a set of actions relevant for implementation by the IST and the Research Infrastructures Work Programmes

DG INFSO- Grid Research & Infrastructures: W. Boch, M. Campolargo 11 List of topics / themes proposed The Grid software engineering, production and commercialisation process The distribution of roles and functions between the private and public sectors in supporting exploitation and commercial take-up The Grid software and service business models The context of International Collaboration

DG INFSO- Grid Research & Infrastructures: W. Boch, M. Campolargo 12 Participants Grid researchers Industrial stakeholders both as suppliers and users of Grid Grid Application Service Providers Developers of Grid programming environments IT industry leaders in GRID technology

DG INFSO- Grid Research & Infrastructures: W. Boch, M. Campolargo 13 Modus Operandi Participatory approach for open debate Report to summarize recommendations & draft Action Plan

DG INFSO- Grid Research & Infrastructures: W. Boch, M. Campolargo 14 Expected Workshop Results Better understanding of the process leading to improved exploitation of research results Set of recommendations and a draft action plan: requirements to be considered for implementation in future IST/RI Calls proposals for actions with a view of strengthening the EU position in global context