1. EGEE and gLite: an opportunity for industries
Federico Rossi
Sales and Business Development Vice-President
Elsag Datamat spa – a Finmeccanica Company
Grid Open Days (Università di Messina)
17-18 June 2008

2. Contents EGEE in short: EGEE Evolution: EGI EGEE and business
The project
The infrastructure
The Middleware -> gLite
Application and User Communities
International Cooperation
EGEE Evolution: EGI
EGEE and business
Technology transfer
Sample of business applications
EGEE Business Forum
EGEE Business Associates
Conclusions
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3. EGEE in short

4. EGEE
Flagship Grid infrastructure project co-funded by the European Commission
Main Objectives
Expand/optimise existing EGEE infrastructure,
Operate a large-scale, production quality Grid infrastructure for e-Science
Attract new resources and users from sciences as well as business
Prepare migration from a project-based model to a sustainable federated infrastructure based on National Grid Initiatives
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5. EGEE-III EGEE-III Consortium Third phase of the EGEE programme:
EGEE: April 2004 – March 2006
EGEE-II: April 2006 – April 2008
Co-funded under European Commission under call INFRA
EC Requested Contribution : 32M€ - represents less than 1/3 of total project costs
9010 person months/375 FTEs
2 year period – 1 May 2008 to 30 April 2010
Consortium
Structured on a national basis (National Grid Initiatives/Joint Research Units)
42 beneficiaries (+ 100 JRU members)
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6. EGEE-III activities and leaders
NA1: Management of the project
Bob Jones, CERN
NA2: Dissemination, Communication and Outreach
Catherine Gater, CERN
SA1: Grid Operations
Maite Barroso Lopez, CERN
NA3: User Training and support
Robin McConnell, UEDIN
SA2: Networking Support
Xavier Jeannin, CNRS
NA4: User Community Support and Expansion
Cal Loomis, CNRS
SA3: Integration, testing & certification
Oliver Keeble, CERN
NA5: International Cooperation & Policy
Panos Louridas, GRNET
JRA1: Middleware engineering
Francesco Giacomini, INFN
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7. EGEE-III activities share
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8. EGEE – Results Infrastructure operation Middleware
Sites distributed across many countries
Large quantity of CPUs and storage
Continuous monitoring of Grid services & automated site configuration/management
Support multiple Virtual Organisations from diverse research disciplines
Middleware
Production quality middleware distributed under business friendly open source licence
Implements a service-oriented architecture that virtualises resources
Adheres to recommendations on web service inter- operability and evolving towards emerging standards
User Support - Managed process from first contact through to production usage
Training
Expertise in Grid-enabling applications
Online helpdesk
Networking events (User Forum, Conferences etc.)
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9. EGEE – Infrastructure http://gridportal.hep.ph.ic.ac.uk/rtm/
Archeology
Astronomy
Astrophysics
Civil Protection
Comp. Chemistry
Earth Sciences
Finance
Fusion
Geophysics
High Energy Physics
Life Sciences
Multimedia
Material Sciences …
>250 sites
48 countries
>68,000 CPUs
>20 PetaBytes
>10,000 users
>150 VOs
>150,000 jobs/day
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10. EGEE - Users and resources distribution
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11. EGEE - gLite Grid Middleware Services
Access
CLI
API
Security
Information & Monitoring
Authorization
Auditing
Information & Monitoring
Application
Monitoring
Authentication
Data Management
Workload Management
Metadata Catalog
File & Replica Catalog
Accounting
Job Provenance
Package Manager
Storage Element
Data Movement
Site Proxy
Computing Element
Workload Management
Overview paper
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12. EGEE – VO: Disciplines and users
All user communities are required to contribute resources to the infrastructure
~8500 users listed in registered VOs
Digital libraries, disaster recovery, computational sciences, etc.
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13. Estimated cost if performed with Amazon’s EC2 and S3: $58,688,679.08
EGEE workload in 2007
Data:
25Pb stored
11Pb transferred
CPU: 114 Million hours
Estimated cost if performed with Amazon’s EC2 and S3: $58,688,679.08
/05/08
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14. Why users like the EGEE Grid
Share more than information
Efficient use of resources at many institutes
Leverage other sources of funding
Data, computing power, applications
Join local communities
Challenges:
share data between thousands of scientists with multiple interests
link major and minor computer centres
ensure all data accessible anywhere, anytime
grow rapidly, yet remain reliable for more than a decade
cope with different management policies of different centres
ensure data security
Continuous, production service
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15. Collaborating e-Infrastructures
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16. EGEE Evolution

17. European e-Infrastructure
Evolution
National
European e-Infrastructure
Global
Testbeds
Utility Service
Routine Usage
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18. European Grid Initiative
Need to prepare permanent, common Grid infrastructure
Ensure the long-term sustainability of the European e-Infrastructure independent of short project funding cycles
Coordinate the integration and interaction between National Grid Infrastructures (NGIs)
Operate the production Grid infrastructure on a European level for a wide range of user communities
Must be no gap in the support of the production Grid
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19. EGEE and business

20. EGEE and business
Technology Transfer and potential commercial exploitation
The Business Forum as a means of dialog with business actors
Specific attention to
SMEs
start-ups (innovative applications and portals)
collaborative projects (partner grids)
Develop a network of companies to prepare the future commercial exploitation of EGEE technology
Business Forum; EGEE Business Associates; ISVs; Software integrators and IT Services providers
Provide solutions to challenges for Business adoption
MoU’s signed with related projects and interested partners to develop identified higher-level services and solutions (e.g. SLA; Windows porting, ...)
Further develop EGEE technology to simplify the interaction between grids and commercial cloud services
Explain the advantages and limitations of grids & cloud computing to businesses
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21. Sample of Business Applications
BEinGRID
Earth Sciences – seismic imaging & reservoir simulation
Earth Observation – atmospheric retrieval parameters
Finance and Insurance – Risk Management
SMEs
OpenPlast project - Develop and deploy Grid platform for plastics industry
Imense Ltd - Ported gLite application and GridPP sites
Health
Health-e-Child – Biomedical information platform for Paediatrics
WISDOM – using EGEE infrastructure for drug discovery
Energy
TOTAL, UK - Ported application using GILDA testbed
CERN Openlab
Collaboration between CERN and industrial partners to develop data-intensive Grid solutions
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22. Expanding Geosciences-On-Demand (EGEODE) services to SMEs
Modern seismic data processing and geophysical simulations require greater amounts of computing power, data storage and sophisticated software
Difficult for Oil & Gas Small & Medium size Enterprises (SMEs) to exploit innovative algorithms
SME Market: small O&G structures
1035 O&G companies in EU
93% are SMEs; 63% < 10 employees
Research labs
Very small projects of large firms
Conventional
High Tech.
SMEs market
CGGVeritas market
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23. Geocluster© Geocluster© - Seismic processing platform
First industrial application successfully running on the EGEE Grid Production Service
Developed by CGGVeritas
Leading supplier of geophysical products and services to the worldwide Oil and Gas, Mining and Environmental Industries
Enables researchers to process seismic data and to explore the composition of the Earth’s layers
Thanks to EGEE, providing the geosciences research community with easy access to comprehensive and commercial seismic processing software is now a reality
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24. EGEE Business Forum
EGEE's Business Forum reaches out to private & public sector organisations that are looking at Grid for their innovation.
The Forum interacts with current and new users, highlighting the benefits of Grid through user case studies and evaluating adoption potential across diverse vertical markets.
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25. EGEE Business Forum
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26. EGEE Business Associates
Provides opportunities for companies to engage in technical work in collaboration with EGEE, such as:
Coordinated technical developments
Market surveys
Exploitation strategies
General transfer of know-how and services to industry
6 EGEE Business Associates (EBAs)
Avanade
Excelian
GridwiseTech
Hitachi - Sophia Antipolis Laboratory
Nice
Platform
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27. EGEE Business Associates
Avanade
leverage expertise on .Net technologies to fully support gLite on Windows machines
Excelian
Shape EGEE infrastructure by bringing the problems facing businesses today to EGEE
Make EGEE technologies more relevant to current business needs
GridwiseTech
Developing Grid tutorials to Industrial Mgt.
Outreach to Business
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28. EGEE Business Associates
Hitachi – Sophia Antipolis Laboratory
Integrating their data Grid solution with the EGEE framework
NICE
Developing EGEE compatible GENIUS Grid portal and EnginFrame Framework
Platform Computing
Making gLite middleware better in exploiting the LSF local resources management system
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29. Summary www.eu-egee.org
EGEE operates the world’s largest multi-disciplinary Grid infrastructure for scientific research
In constant and significant production use, constantly growing in scale of resources and breadth of user communities supported
A third phase of EGEE has now started
EGEE-III
Need to prepare the long-term
EGEE, collaborating projects, National Grid Initiatives and user communities are working to define a model for a sustainable Grid infrastructure that is independent of short project cycles
Business applications are now on the spotlight then…
… we invite industries to get to us, tell us their needs and try our solutions!
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30. EGEE’08 Conference 3rd Dedicated Business Track
Business Task Force and Business Forum - Programme Committee
Presented results of last 12 months
EBAs and Business Applications
Sessions on specific topics (licensing, clouds, modelling, virtualisation…)
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31. Thank you! Thank you! Federico Rossi federico.rossi@elsagdatamat.com
Grid Open Days (Università di Messina, Italy)
17-18 June 2008
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