Nextgeneration IT infrastructure: status and opportunities

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Next-generation IT infrastructure status and
opportunities

• Dave Berry
• Grid Computing Now!
• National e-Science Centre
• AHM 2007 11th September 2007

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Overview

• What industry cares about
• - and what it doesnt care about
• Underestimating the industrial state of the art
• - and overestimating industrys needs
• - some examples from Grids Mean Business
• How GCN! can help
• - active areas of interest
• My focus on IT infrastructure
• - there are, of course, other areas of e-science
  that have plenty to offer UK industry

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What does a business really care about?

• Cost of ownership

• Of little interest
• What the technology is called
• Technology for its own sake
• Technological purity

Time to market
Service levels
John Easton, CoreGRID
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Trends in IT infrastructure
Grid Applying the resources of many computers in
a distributed network, in parallel, to a single
problem
SaaS Providing software capability as a
consumable commodity, at commodity prices
SOA Delivering IT functionality as reusable,
interoperable, location independent services
Service Oriented Architecture
VirtualisedResources
Virtualisation Providing an IT platform
independent of the hardware underlying it.
Software as a Service
Utility giving users all the resources they need
at the time they are needed, at a cost that is
related to the business value delivered
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Academia under-estimates industry

• Multi-thousand node grids are relatively
  commonplace
• Geographic grids are becoming more common
• Ultra-bleeding edge solutions are already being
  implemented
• but you wont necessarily hear about them
  except maybe rumours
• Dont underestimate what is achievable today
• This is the benchmark that a new solution has to
  beat.

John Easton, CoreGRID
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Academia over-estimates industry

• Multi-organisation systems are extremely rare
• Those that do exist are usually master-slave
  relationships rather than peer-to-peer
  relationships
• Web Services will not happen in the foreseeable
  future for most companies
• Most grids are inside the firewall
• Security is NOT an issue for these

John Easton, CoreGRID
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Using 15,000 CPUs 66 of the Time Micron Grid
Overview
Brooklin Gore, OGF20
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Roadmap and Design
Move to shared resource environment in a
controlled manner
End State all resources are shared with grid
scheduling and policies ensuring SLAs are met
Andrew Dolan, OGF20
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Virtual Resource Market - Details
/Unit Performance
/Virtual Unit Performance
for SLAs (Budget)
Match for SLA to /Virtual Unit Performance
/Fabric
Compute Fabrics
Compute Fabric C1
Bid for Compute Fabric
Offers of C1
Compute Fabric C2
Bid for Network Fabric
Offers of C2
Bid for Storage Fabric

Canonical Architecture A
Network Fabrics
Network Fabric N1
Offers of N1
Bid for Compute Fabric
Bids
Offers
Network Fabric N2
Bid for Network Fabric
Canonical Architecture B
Offers of N2
SLA
Storage Fabrics
Storage Fabric S1
Bid for Storage Fabric
Offers of S1
Bid for Compute Fabric
Storage Fabric S2
Bid for Network Fabric
Offers of S2
Canonical Architecture C
Canonical Application Architectures
Time Slice Offers
Time Slice Bids
Physical Resources
Virtualized Resources
Minimize /Unit Performance Maintain SLAs
Chris Swan, OGF20
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What can GCN! offer e-scientists?

• Potential collaborators
• Via Advisory Council, GCN! membership, personal
  contacts, other KTNs, etc.
• Kick-off Meetings
• Bringing potential collaborators together to form
  study groups or discuss funding proposals
• Dissemination
• Webinars, events, web site
• Knowledge Transfer Networks exist to share
  information and bring people together

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Road traffic modelling
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Software Licensing
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Green IT
Utilisation optimisation via virtualisation
Modelling power management cooling,
Need 2xProcessing Capacity per annum Target
60 Energy Reduction by 2050
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GCN! Roadmapping Event

• The Next Information Infrastructure
• Workshop, May 30th, Intellect
• 25 attendees representing high-tech users
  KTNs Government
• Excellent feedback from vast majority
• Generating insight on potential innovations
  promoters and next steps for KTN
• Report available soon

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Some suggested innovations

• Security threat detection and response
• New Infrastructure
• Wrapping applications for Grid deployment
• Energy-efficient IT
• Smart travel
• Traffic modelling in real time signage control
• Dynamic journey planning
• Dial-a-ride public transport
• Proactive health care
• 24/7 monitoring
• At-home advisory services (web 3.0)
• Personal MOT
• Integrative biology driving personalised
  medicine

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More possible gaps in near-market RD

• Application design for next generation
  infrastructures
• Applications may have multiple instances, run
  anywhere
• Migration techniques
• Dynamic integration
• Managing large-scale infrastructures
• Dynamic, possibly conflicting, policies
• Data provisioning
• Green IT
• Modelling of power management, cooling, etc
• Utilisation optimisation
• Markets, brokering, security, etc.
• Data licensing security
• Micro-payments
• SLA QoS management

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Upcoming Events

• GCN! Technical Webinars
• Green IT Webinar
• 25 October 2007
• Software Licensing Webinar
• November 2007

• What people say about our webinars
• The event was very useful - content and speakers
  very good - format fine Oracle
•  I would recommend this webinar Distributed
  Systems in e-Health to a colleague.- IBM
• Excellent - Platform