GRIDSTART an interface between FP5 and 6 Dr Mark Parsons Commercial Director EPCC & NeSC

GRIDSTART –is an Accompanying Measure Cluster project –cluster projects are Commission tool designed to encourage cross-project dialogue, community- building and co-ordinated dissemination –Specific Support Actions are AMs in FP6 started 1 st April 2002 for 3 years €1.5 million total funding EPCC are coordinating partner

Goals to encourage interaction between EU Grid projects to identify synergies between different Grid application areas to consolidate technical advances to play a full role in setting Grid standards to stimulate early takeup by industry and commerce to be inclusive

Partners formal –EPCC + CO partners of 10 EU Grid projects –DATAGRID, DATATAG, EUROGRID, GRIP, EGSO, CROSSGRID, AVO, DAMIEN, GRIA, GRIDLAB informal –CO partners of all 9 FP5 Call 8 EU Grid projects –BIOGRID, COG, FLOWGRID, GEMSS, GRACE, MAMMOGRID, MOSES, OPENMOLGRID, SELENE if your organisation is a partner of any of these projects – you’re a member of GRIDSTART

The EU Grid Space GRIADAMIENGRIPEUROGRIDDATATAG DATAGRIDGRIDLAB CROSSGRID Applications Industry/business Middleware & Tools Science GRIDSTART Middleware building blocks for simulation Middleware development, fabric & testbeds – PP, EO, Biomedics Testbed linking EU HPC centres and industryTools and Grid services for interactive applicationsTransatlantic Grid networking testbed European solar observatory virtual archive Testbed for industrial applications – focus on e-BusinessApplication toolkit for Grid simulation codes Interoperability between Unicore and Globus AVOEGSO Virtual observatory for astrophysics OPENMOLGRIDMOSES GRACE GEMSS BIOGRID COG MAMMOGRID FLOWGRID SELENE Unified environment for molecular design/engineering Modular, scalable management tools for Knowledge Grid Distributed search and categorization engine for Grid Testbed for medical computing and Gird service providers Trial introduction of Grid approach in biotech industry Grid ontologies of modelling of data in dispersed locations Grid enabled EU database of mammograms CFD virtual organisation using Grid infrastructure Bridge between semantic web and P2P in e-Learning

Framework 6 GRIDSTART bridges FP 5 and 6 –our technical and standards work is aimed at bridging frameworks identifying missing components avoiding duplication in FP 6 (hopefully) showing EU leadership in standards bodies –strong dissemination focus is also designed to ensuring dissemination of FP 5 results beyond lifetime of projects to ensure lessons of FP 5 are learnerd in FP 6

FP 6 (continued) in FP 6 the Grid is developing out of research and into serious use two clear directions –provision of production quality infrastructure for science and industry –enhanced industrial/commercial takeup through vendor quality middleware services solutions Europe must understand what its strengths are and build on them –we’re already doing well!

GRIDSTART in FP 6 clear need for a GRIDSTART type activity in FP 6 – but some differences –IPs and I3s are much larger and will have there own GRIDSTART-like activities –any activity must link these together across the Grid domain avoids replication of development ensures all large projects understand what is ongoing in European context – identification of synergies planned proposal for GS2 after first call(s)