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New Ideas for Computing Environments
NICE Overview and experiences
e-mail info_at_nice-italy.com
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NICE Mission

• Help our customers to address IT governance
  problems in
• Application delivery in distributed environment
• HW/SW monitoring information extraction to
  support decisions
• HW/SW resource optimisation orchestration
• using reliable, scalable and innovative
• GRID technologies

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NICE Customers

• Mechanical Ferrari, Audi, BMW, FIAT Auto, CRF,
  Iveco, Elasis, UTS,FG-Powertrain, Marelli,
  Teksid, Brembo, Lear
• Electronics STMicroelectronics, Accent, Alcatel,
  Ericsson, Micron, Siemens, SensorDynamics
• Aerospace Alenia, Avio, CIRA, Galileo Avionica,
  IDS
• BioTech Pharmacia, (ENEA)
• Telecom Telecom Italia Lab, Pirelli
• Energy Agip, Shell, Ansaldo, ENEL, EniChem
• Research ENEA, ICTP, INFN, CASPUR, CILEA, CNR,
  CRS4, Astronomical Obs.
• Education Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa,
  Polit. Of Milan, Universities

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NICE and EGEE

• HEP scientists are committed to EU DataGrid/EGEE
  projects
• projects focus on the infrastructure
• scientists focus on practical results
• Globus infrastructure evolves quickly
• How can scientists start their production jobs
  without reading Globus daily?

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GENIUS - Usable Grid services...
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NICE Solution Components
Grid Portal
Global Resource Brokering
Security / Authorization
ROI Analysis - BI
Applications (commercial)
License Management
CPU Workload Management
Data Management
Host OS Management
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Grid access via EnginFrame
GRIDs
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Grid Portal with EnginFrame
Application Servers
Interactive Applications
Web Server
Clients
EnginFrame Server
Standard Web Browser
Grid / Compute Farm
ASP on the Internet
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Grid Portal benefits

• Standardization of access to applications
• Controlled standardized data management
• End user productivity improvement
• Enables collaboration inside the company and with
  customers or partners
• Resource usage policy enforcement
• Client TCO reduction
• Easy integration in Enterprise Portals

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HW/SW resource optimisation
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Grid benefits

• Maximize ROI/ROA for HW/SW resources
• End user productivity boost with compute
  intensive applications
• Enables controlled HW/SW resource sharing inside
  the extended company
• Refined resource usage policy management
• Enable new design methodologies (e.g. design
  optimisation) on an unlimited capacity
  infrastructure
• HW platform virtualization and optimization

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Case study ROI

• Scenario
• automotive companies need to stay ahead in a
  competitive market
• CAE identified as strategic investment
• Problem
• expensive IT resources (HW, SW, storage)
• unpredictable ROI
• complexity for managers
• complexity for users

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Usable CAE
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Information to support decisions
License usage
HW Application usage
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Benefits

• IT assets and job flow consolidation and
  optimisation
• Automatic and transparent enforcement of company
  policies
• Wealth of properly focused information for
  management
• Enhance resource Manageability for System
  Administrators
• Enable smooth Windows-UNIX integration
• Complexity reduction for CAE environments
• Fault tolerance

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Case study Consolidation

• Company in the Defense sector
• Different companies have merged into one
• Sites and customers spread over WAN
• Projects need common coordination and
  collaboration
• No common design methodology
• Duplicated licenses across different sites
• Insufficient local resources
• Limited communication

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Virtual Competence Centers

• integrated in the Enterprise Portal

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Benefits

• Project methodology consolidation and
  harmonization
• Enhanced collaboration with remote sites and
  customers
• Includes concurrent engineering on legacy
  applications
• Automatic and transparent enforcement of company
  policies
• Focused information for project and system
  managers
• Ease deployment of new software and methodologies
• Enhance resource Manageability for System and
  Application managers
• Enable smooth Windows-UNIX integration

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Case Study Intellectual Property

• Scenario
• Accent is designing a chipset for a customer
• The customer needs to test the firmware
  software for this chipset
• Problem
• Intellectual Property cannot be disclosed

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Focused collaboration
Black-box for Firmware simulation
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Smooth collaboration
Internet
Firewall
Internal users
IntraGrid
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Benefits

• Intellectual Property protection
• Enhanced collaboration with partners
• Strict enforcement of company policies
• Focused information for management
• Ease deployment of new software and methodologies
• Rapid migration to the Computing Portal paradigm
  from a typical engineering environment

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Job flow and Grid
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