1. EGEE and Industry Bob Jones EGEE Project Director CERN
EGEE Final EU Review
23-24 May 2006

2. Business and EGEE Industry participation in EGEE in a variety of roles
As a partner
Tune the project to industrial needs and pass on knowledge
Bring a "customer"-driven industrial ICT approach in gLite development
As a user
R&D, using EGEE products/services for enterprise grids
As a provider
Transfer knowledge on how to provide Grid services
As affiliate
Feedback, exchange of knowledge
Partner: in the EGEE-II Consortium
User: examples: CGG, others, this afternoon
Provider: HP (Sites)
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3. Environment & Strategy
Limits on commercial exploitation of EGEE infrastructure
GÉANT/NREN restrictions on network usage
we cannot offer a commercial Grid service to companies
Many resource providers are not in a position to charge for usage
Short-term funding cycle of EGEE
uncertainty of long-term sustainability
Hence EGEE focuses on
Users – at a pre-competitive stage
Technology providers – links with IT vendors, service providers and system integrators
Transfer of technology to create commercial products and services
gLite middleware distributed under business-friendly open source license
Grid operations procedures, practices & tools as best-of-breed examples
Structures set in place for collaboration between EGEE and Industry on various levels of commitment
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4. EGEE Business Partners (I)
DATAMAT (Italy)
gLite middleware development & testing (JRA1)
resource access, brokering, and accounting
Using gLite in European Space Agency related projects
THE VOICE, Grid support at ESRIN & potentially GDCD
EGEE infrastructure for industrial test-bed and demonstrator
Grid services
Workload Management, dynamic and semantic workflow (leadership), Grid Economies
User Interfaces
Grid expertise at service of Finmeccanica group (aerospace, defence, security)
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5. EGEE Business Partners (II)
NICE (Italy)
GENIUS Grid portal and EnginFrame
Evolution of GENIUS-GILDA
Adoption of Web Service technologies and GGF trends and standards
Adoption of new and emerging Grid technologies
Working with automotive, oil & gas and manufacturing sectors
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6. EGEE Business Partners (III)
CS-SI (France)
Activity manager for Quality Assurance (JRA2)
Middleware application validation
CNES intranet Grid based on gLite
Operation of Regional Operation Centre
Technology transfer to SMEs, e.g. interface Openplast to EGEE
Support Fusion community
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7. Industry applications
EGEODE
Industrial application from Compagnie Générale de Géophysique running on EGEE infrastructure
Seismic processing platform
Based on industrial application Geocluster© used at CGG
Being ported to EGEE for Industry and Academia
OpenPlast project
French R&D programme to develop and deploy Grid platform for plastic industry (SMEs)
Based on experience from EGEE (supported by CS)
Next: Interoperability with other Grids
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8. Recommendations wrt Industry
Recommendation 8 (NA3)
Mandate the Industry Forum to gather and consolidate input from industrial users to prepare course material specifically tailored to industrial user needs.
Recommendation 9 (NA3)
Mandate the industrial partner DATAMAT to fulfil its role as an active link to industry as this is the case in other major international Grid project.
Recommendation 32 (JRA1)
Make more effective use of the Industry Forum to realize industrial involvement in the development to achieve smoother technology transfer.
Recommendation 40 (NA2)
Mandate the Industry Forum to fulfil its important role. If this appears to be impossible, think of substituting the Industry Forum by another organisation or different organisations which are more willing to take the responsibility of interfacing with the industry.
Recommendation 41 (NA2)
Start small when conveying the vision of Grid computing to industry. Do not forget to address the cultural, personnel and organisational aspects. Present a “road map” on how commercial Grid computing can become a reality.
Recommendation 44 (NA2)
Encourage more participation from the Industry Forum.
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9. Industry and EGEE
Industry Forum (representatives in most European countries)
Led by Industry to improve Grid take-up in Industry
Organises industry events and disseminates Grid information
Synthesis of Industry Forum in reviewers pack
Collaboration with CERN openlab project
Description in reviewers pack
Industry Task Force
Group of industry partners in the project
Links related industry projects (NESSI, BEinGRID, …)
Works with EGEE’s Technical Coordination Group (TCG) to place industry requirements on equal footing
EGEE Business Associates (EBA)
Companies sponsoring work on joint-interest subjects
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10. Industry Forum in EGEE-II
Continue its mission of two-way communication between Industry and EGEE
For Industry: learn about EGEE and latest Grid developments
Members
Companies experimenting with or interested in Grid technologies
Representatives in most European countries
>150 individual members from ~ 100 institutes
Summary of actions document in reviewers pack
Activities
Expanded for the second 2-year phase of EGEE
Moved from NA4 to NA2
Recognises that outreach is the first step in establishing contact
Benefit from NA2 partner network to assign representatives in most countries
Led by industrial partner Metaware
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11. EGEE Industry Days Organised by Industry Forum 27 April, Paris
70 participants
31 companies, 16 Research institutes & EU
ICT (39) – Research (19) – Users (12),
Participation from EGEE industry partners
NICE, DATAMAT, CS-SI
Compagnie Générale de Géophysique
Associates, such as the OpenPlast Project
Results
Installation of gLite in different scenarios (Astronomy etc)
Training (CETIC)
Application prototype on GILDA (Total UK)
Follow-up technical exchange meetings between participants
19%
46%
13%
10% 6% 3%
HW manuf. & SW vendors: 6
IT consulting & service providers: 14
Energy, geosciences, oil and gas: 4
Finance & Insurance: 3
Networks & Telecom: 2
Plasturgy: 1
Space: 1
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12. EGEE Industry Days (cont.)
Organised by PPARC and Industry Forum 16 May, Cambridge
Focus on Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs)
8 companies represented
Presentations by EGEE, GridPP, Cambridge Ontology, Geneservice
Results
Requests to use GILDA for prototyping and training services
UK (PPARC KITE Club Innovation Advisory Service) is funding Qi3 company to perform a Technology Market Evaluation (18 days of consultancy) of EGEE
Technology Assessment, Strategic Market Analysis, Recommendations
Future Events & Considerations
Organise every 1-2 months, shorter one-day, federation based, domain based, ideally max. 50 participants, further practical success stories
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13. EGEE and openlab Links between EGEE-II and openlab student programme
openlab is listed as contributing to the programme of work in the EGEE-II contract
Links between EGEE-II and openlab student programme
Milestones MNA (July’06 & ’07)
Linked to EGEE-II SA3 activity (integration testing and certification)
Work on Grid interoperability and integration centre (GCC) and platform competence centre (PCC)
Example: HP sponsored event (16-17 June)
What is required of gLite on QA, certification & maturity for it to be handed over to the industry?
What could be the killer applications for the Grid?
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14. Industry Task Force Goals Members
Builds on the work of the Industry Forum Working Groups
Brings together industrial applications using EGEE
Interact with EGEE’s Technical Coordination Group (TCG)
Industry requirements on equal footing with scientific applications
Concrete technical work for applications
Members
Industry partners in the project
Representatives from industrial applications on the EGEE infrastructure
Links with related industry projects
BEinGRID
NESSI
Etc.
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15. EGEE IF member/ attendee/sponsor
BEinGRID
Business Experiments in Grid (BEinGRID)
Coordinated by ATOS Origin (Spain)
BE01
BE10
BE02
BE03
BE15
BE05
BE07
BE14
BE08
BE16
BE09
BE11
BE18
BE12
BE13
BE17
BE04
BE19
BUSINESS EXPERIMENTS
CORE PARTNERS
BE6
Credit: Josep Martrat - ATOS ORIGIN
In all experiments there is at least one coreteam member participating or leading except for 4 cases. They have been assigned to several coreteam members
BE4 – Innova (Italian) => ENEA
BE14 BSC (spanish) => ATOS
BE15 Logica => high comittement => assigned to BE general coordinator CETIC
B18 CGG (French) => EPC
In addition,
the core team partners who are involved in a particular BE have a requirement to support the small end-users and help them with the project beauraucracy
EGEE IF member/ attendee/sponsor
EGEE partner
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16. BEinGRID and EGEE-II There are 3 experiments based on gLite middleware
Financial Portfolio Management (Financial sector)
INNOVA, FINNAT, MPSF, SPACI, UNICAL
Insurance Risk management (Insurance sector)
AXA, FININFO, CRSA, TID
Seismic imaging & reservoir simulation (Industry sector Oil & Gas)
CGG, PETROSOFT, NICE, TNO
Others under consideration (Earth Observation services) and migration of certain tools and components
Regular exchange between EGEE and BEinGRID
EGEE partners to support gLite use in BEinGRID (private infrastructure)
BEinGRID to evaluate gLite for commercial contexts
Training courses focussed for industry users
Important note: to develop “a new Grid middleware for business is not the project’s remit!
Credit: Josep Martrat - ATOS ORIGIN
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17. EGEE Business Associates
Opportunity to sponsor work on joint-interest subjects
Technical developments
Market Surveys
Business modelling
Exploitation strategies
Transfer of know-how and services to industry
Cases under discussion: Commercial training service (GridWise), security audit (PriceWaterhouseCoopers), middleware interface (Sun)
Benefits to EBAs
Technical know-how
Early access to documentation and key project deliverables
Sponsorship and visibility at EGEE events
Influence programme of industrial events as members of IF Steering Committee
Participate early-on in process to define a sustainable infrastructure after EGEE-II
Example: Companies that want to do Grid consultancy, training – support, make material available to us
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18. Summary EGEE has established links with many companies
As partners, users, resource providers, affiliates
All industrial partners have actively contributed to the promotion of EGEE in business sectors
The relative maturity of EGEE now makes it possible to further pursue commercial exploitation of its products and services
The structures used in EGEE have been reinforced and expanded
Industry Forum, industry task force, links to related projects, business associates programme
EGEE-II builds on the ground-work of EGEE and marks a significant increase in the priority and resources invested by the project in industrial exploitation
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