Information Society and Media Directorate-General Unit Grid Technologies NCP Info Day Call5 - Brussels, 02 June – Advanced Grid Technologies, Systems and Services Jorge Gasós Grid Technologies Unit European Commission

Information Society and Media Directorate-General Unit Grid Technologies NCP Info Day Call5 - Brussels, 02 June Benefits  Increased productivity by reducing Total Cost of Ownership  Any-type, anywhere, anytime services by/for all  Infrastructure for dynamic virtual organizations  Backbone for future service-oriented utility Examples  Ad-hoc Grid services for emergency response  Cost-effective simulation for automotive and finance  More efficient drug design and healthcare e-Science Industry & Business Grids 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 )

Information Society and Media Directorate-General Unit Grid Technologies NCP Info Day Call5 - Brussels, 02 June Next Generation Grids 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 End-User Vision Software Vision Architectural Vision Simplification Abstraction “Next Generation Grid(s) - European Grid Research ”, June 2003 “Next Generation Grids 2 – Requirements and Options for European Grids Research 2005–2010 and beyond”, August 2004 Next Generation Grid(s) – Expert Group Report 3-fold vision

Information Society and Media Directorate-General Unit Grid Technologies NCP Info Day Call5 - Brussels, 02 June

Information Society and Media Directorate-General Unit Grid Technologies NCP Info Day Call5 - Brussels, 02 June Work Programme Advanced Grid Technologies, Systems and Services Application Pull Technology Push Network-centric Grid Operating Systems Potential new fabric layer for future distributed systems and services Grid Foundations Architecture, design and development of technologies and systems for building the invisible Grid Grid-enabled Applications & Services for business and society Research, development, validation and take-up of generic environments and tools e-bus, e-health, e-goy, e-learning Environment, … Advanced Grid Technologies, Systems and Services Application Sector 3 Application Sector 2 Application Sector n Application Sector 1 IST Call 5 Open May 2005 Close Sept 2005 Budget: ~70M€

Information Society and Media Directorate-General Unit Grid Technologies NCP Info Day Call5 - Brussels, 02 June Focus 1 – Grid Foundations Architecture, design and development of technologies and systems for building the invisible Grid  Scale-independent, adaptive and dependable Grid architectures enabling the management of large networked distributed resources characterised by evolutionary, non-functional behaviours  Agent-based approaches and peer-to-peer technologies  Self-organising, fault-tolerant autonomous systems  virtualisation  New models and environments for programming the Grid  Semantic & agent technologies for resource brokering / management WP Advanced Grid Technologies, Systems and Services

Information Society and Media Directorate-General Unit Grid Technologies NCP Info Day Call5 - Brussels, 02 June Focus 2 – Grid-enabled Applications and Services for business and society Research, development, validation, take-up of generic environments / tools  Grid-based environments for dynamic service creation and provision supporting distributed collaborations spanning multiple administrative domains  Grid business models and Grid economics  Intelligent tools and interfaces supporting ubiquitous Grid access  Grid-enabled decision support services WP Advanced Grid Technologies, Systems and Services

Information Society and Media Directorate-General Unit Grid Technologies NCP Info Day Call5 - Brussels, 02 June Focus 3 – Network-centric Grid Operating Systems Research and development on new or enhanced fabrics layer for future distributed systems and services New approaches to system management/operation  Global state, resource lifetime, replication control, scheduling, synchronization, service response time, security, scalability, interoperability,…  Where and how to implement Grid functionalities (MW vs. OS)? Twofold scope:  Development, testing validation of an enhanced fabrics based on existing OSs (Grid built-in functions or modules leading to a meta OS)  Research and conceptualization and new fabrics replacing existing OSs WP Advanced Grid Technologies, Systems and Services

Information Society and Media Directorate-General Unit Grid Technologies NCP Info Day Call5 - Brussels, 02 June Instruments IPs – Focus 1, 2, 3 IPs – Focus 1, 2, 3  To achieve ambitious scientific and technological objectives, integrating critical mass of activities and resources  Include industrial stakeholders from all relevant levels of the value chain IPs – Focus 2 IPs – Focus 2  User-driven  Generic technologies addressing common requirements across different disciplines and applications in business, e-science, and society  Include a technology take-up phase  Emphasise SME participation as technology providers, service providers, and end-users STREPS STREPS  Longer term research issues  Conceptionalisation  Advanced Grid technologies in innovative applications

Information Society and Media Directorate-General Unit Grid Technologies NCP Info Day Call5 - Brussels, 02 June Focus 4: Horizontal Issues   Coordination of research activities within Europe (ERA) and beyond (international collaboration)   Preparing future research agenda and building research community   Creating EU-wide stakeholder initiatives supporting early and wide adoption   Actions supporting the collaboration of running and future IST Grid projects on horizontal and strategic issues   Fostering international collaboration WP – Call 5 Advanced Grid Technologies, Systems and Services

Information Society and Media Directorate-General Unit Grid Technologies NCP Info Day Call5 - Brussels, 02 June Conclusions Continuation and consolidation of main Grid research topics; new area: network-centric operating systems Continuation and consolidation of main Grid research topics; new area: network-centric operating systems Grids as enabler for Service Oriented Architectures Grids as enabler for Service Oriented Architectures Industrial involvement along the value chain Industrial involvement along the value chain Grid “Business Pilots” with cross-sectoral technology Take-Up phase call for central role of service providers Grid “Business Pilots” with cross-sectoral technology Take-Up phase call for central role of service providers Increased contribution to global developments and standardisation Increased contribution to global developments and standardisation

Information Society and Media Directorate-General Unit Grid Technologies NCP Info Day Call5 - Brussels, 02 June Further Info on Grid Research Brochure: Building Grids for Europe Brochure: Building Grids for Europe FP6 Grid Project Fact Sheets, FP5 Grid Project Result Sheets Expert Group Reports Expert Group Reports  “Next Generation Grid(s) – European Grid Research ”, 2003  “Next Generation Grids 2 – Requirements and Options for European Grids Research 2005–2010 and beyond”, August 2004 FP5 Gridstart “IST Grid Projects Inventory and Roadmap” FP5 Gridstart “IST Grid Projects Inventory and Roadmap” Brochure: “Achievements of EU Grid Projects” Brochure: “Achievements of EU Grid Projects” IST Work Programme 2005/ IST Work Programme 2005/ and more: