Dr' Max Lemke

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Grids for Complex Problem Solving - Research in
the IST Programme -

• Dr. Max Lemke
• Deputy Head of Unit
• DG Information Society
• Unit F2 - Grids for Complex Problem solving
• http//www.cordis.lu/ist/grids

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Outline

• Introduction
• On-going Grid Research in the FP5 IST Programme
• Grids for Complex Problem Solving,a Strategic
  Objective in FP6 IST
• Conclusions and Workshop Reflections

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ERA a new context for EU supported RTD

• Moving towards a European level Research policy
• Strengthen co-operation between National and EU
  Activities
• Improve links between National and EU policies
  and schemes
• Development of a shared vision on European RTD
• Potential for co-funding arrangements
• FP6 is a major instrument to realise ERA
• Realising ERA will require
• New thinking more strategic and goal oriented
• from project-thinking to initiative-thinking
• New approach concentration, critical mass and
  flexibility
• New scope taking account of the international
  dimension of RTD(greater awareness of whos
  doing what)
• New instruments Integrated Projects (IPs)
  Networks of Excellence (NoEs)

FP6 is not business as usual!
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Information Society in 2010Ambient Intelligence
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Knowledge Infrastructure
Grids empowered
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Grid Research and Deployment in FP6
Application-orientedStrategic Objectives e.g.
eBusiness, eGov, eWork, eHealth, risks
management

• Research Infrastructure
• Deployment of specifichigh performance Grids
• Deployment of high-capacityand high-speed
  communi-cations network - GEANT DG IST -
  F3

• Grids for Complex Problem Solving
• Architecture, design and development of the next
  generation Grid
• Enabling application technologies
• DG IST - F2

RD
Research Development
Deployment
125 M (IST)
200 M RI
Technology-orientedstrategic objectives e.g.
semantic web, software and services
RD
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GÉANT Grids implementation
Structuring ERA
100 M
100 M
GÉANT
Grids
Grids
Grids

• I3
• CA
• SSA

RI
Integrating Strengthening ERA
RN testbeds
Grids for complex problem solving
gtgt100 M

• IP
• NoE
• STREPs
• CA
• SSA

Grids
IST
125 M
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Outline

• Introduction
• On-going Grid Research in the FP5 IST Programme
• Grids for Complex Problem Solving,a Strategic
  Objective in FP6 IST
• Conclusions and Workshop Reflections

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FP5 IST - Grid -related Projects

• Grid Project Portfolio
• Infrastructure
• DataTag
• Computing
• EuroGrid, DataGrid, Damien
• Tools and Middleware
• GridLab, GRIP
• Applications
• EGSO, CrossGrid, FlowGrid, BioGrid, OpenMolGrid,
  Moses, COG, GEMSS, Grace, Mammogrid, Selene
• P2P / ASP / Webservices
• P2People, ASP-BP, WEBSI, MMAPS, GRASP, GRIA
• Clustering
• GridStart

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Focus of IST Grid Projects
Applications
Middleware
Infrastructure
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GRID based Application Service Provision

• Shift to industrial/business use of Grid
• Industrial strength service provision middleware
  for Grids
• resource management
• security
• Service Level Agreements (SLA), Quality of
  Service (QoS)
• business models and pricing
• Pilot applications
• biomedicine
• finance
• e-learning

Start 1 April 2002 End 30 September
2004 Partners LogicDIS (GR) CRMPA (I) CCLRC
(UK) Univ. of Stuttgart (D) CSSI
(FR) SchlumbergerSema (E)
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GRID Interoperability Project

• Grid Interoperability enabling applications and
  virtual organisations to use simultaneously
  different Grid middleware based on common open
  standards
• German-based development with EUsupport
• open standards
• US-dominated effort with EU contributions
• open source
• Contribute to Standardisation Global Grid Forum
  (GGF)
• Pilot applications
• meteorology
• molecular biology

• Start 1 January 2002
• End 31 December 2003
• Partners
• FZ Jülich (D)
• Pallas (D)
• Univ. of Manchester (UK)
• Univ. of Warsaw (PL)
• Deutscher Wetterdienst (D)
• Univ. of Southampton (UK)

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Outline

• Introduction
• On-going Grid Research in the FP5 IST Programme
• Grids for Complex Problem Solving,a Strategic
  Objective in FP6 IST
• Conclusions and Workshop Reflections

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The Challenge (1)
Hypermedia
Next Generation Grids
Web Services
Web Semantic Web
Semantic Grid
OGSA
Information Retrieval
CurrentGrids
Database
Authentication Scheduling
Metacomputing
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The Challenge (2)Moving Grid from e-Science to
Industry

• Promote Grid research to
• Solve complex problems with high economic and
  societal impact
• Exploit the potential of Grids beyond e-Science
• Ease access and use of Grids

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The Challenge (3)Grids for Complex Problem
Solving
ApplicationSector 1
ApplicationSector 3
ApplicationSector 2
ApplicationSector n
ApplicationSector 1
Applications e-business, e-health,
e-gov, e-learning, environment
Grids for CPS focus
Generic enabling application technologies Tools
and environments for simulation, data mining,
knowledge discovery, collaborative working, ...
Next generation Grid Architecture, design and
development addressing security, business
models, open source/standards,interoperability,
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Grids for Complex Problem SolvingResearch Focus

• Architecture, design and development of the next
  generation GRID
• beyond extensions of existing technologies based
  on a meaning-oriented information model leading
  to
• open standards
• including security built-in at all levels,
  programming environments, customisable
  middleware, resource management
• economic and business models for new services
• interoperability with existing GRID and Web
  services

• Enabling Application technologies
• for solution of complex problems requiring a
  grid-based approach
• tools environments for
• Modelling, simulation, visualisation, data
  mining,
• process control, remote operation,
• Collaborative work in dynamic virtual
  organisations
• exploiting synergies across different application
  sectors

A multi-disciplinary approach across the relevant
levels of the value chain is required.Co-operatio
n with research activities in the Member States
is necessary for building critical mass.
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Generic Enabling Application Technologies
Sector 1applic.
Sector 2applic.
Sector Napplic.
complexproblemsolving
PSE/Portal
PSE/Portal
PSE/Portal
. . .
Sector-specificcomps.
Sector-specificcomps.
Sector-specificcomps.
Scope of future projects
enablingtechnologies
enabling technologieshigh level Grid services -
generic components -
Low level Grid services
Infra-structure
Grid-type environment
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IST-FP6 commitment to Grid research

• First actions launched in IST-FP5
• Grid research is a strategic objective
• New Unit dedicated to Grid research

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Grids in Call 2 of IST WP2003-2004

• Call 2 of FP6 - IST (planned)
• opening 17th June 2003 / closure 15th October
  2003
• Indicative budget
• Call 2 45 M / total FP6 125 M
• Budget vs. Instruments (tentative)

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Grid FP6 Preparatory Activities 2003

• Workshop focusing on constituency building, EC,
  January 2003
• Launch of Next Generation Grid Expert Group,
  EC, April 2003
• Establish an inventory of on-going Grid research
  in IST,GRIDSTART Project, draft planned for July
  2003
• Workshop Grids for Integrated Problem Solving
  Environments, organised by Fraunhofer-SCAI, St.
  Augustin, April 2003
• Workshop Grid-based Virtual Organisations and
  collaborative e-Enterprise Applications,
  co-organised by BAe Systems, IT Innovation,
  Fraunhofer-IAO, INRIA, SchlumbergerSEMA, Univ. of
  Salerno London, 30 May 2003
• First IST Concertation Meeting on Grid Research,
  EC,18-19 June 2003
• Info Day FP6 IST Call 2 Grids for CPS, EC, 20
  June 2003
• Grid-related Spotlight topic at IST2003, Milano,
  October 2-4 2003
• Participation of Grid Unit representatives at
  Workshops, etc. e.g.GGF7, ESA - SpaceGRID, W3C
  Semantic GRID Workshop, ...

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Outline

• Introduction
• On-going Grid Research in the FP5 IST Programme
• Grids for Complex Problem Solving,a Strategic
  Objective in FP6 IST
• Conclusions and Workshop Reflections

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General Conclusions

• Grid technologies have the potential to
  revolutionise the Internet of tomorrow as the Web
  did for the Internet of today
• Grid research represents a key priority in
  IST-FP6 and will serve as a means for the
  evolution of ERA
• Need for stronger co-ordination of existing
  Community, Member States and international Grid
  research initiatives, e.g. through a Virtual
  Grid Middleware Laboratory
• The shift of Grids from e-Science to industry
  will in future reap the benefits for European
  business, industry and society

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Some Reflections from iPSE Workshop

• Computing Grids expected to become available in
  short term
• Different industrial sectors share synergetical
  requirements for future industrial-strength
  Knowledge Grids supporting their integrated
  PSEs - significant research needed - e.g.
• data integration (medium term)
• access to/sharing of knowledge/tools with
  suppliers (medium to long term)
• semantics-based knowledge discovery (longer term)
• Potential lead sectors with complementary
  strengths shape up
• bio/pharma, aeronautics/satellite/space,
  automotive, ...
• to reach a good deployment potential, there is a
  need to reach broad coverage of relevant
  industrial sectors, however
• capacity of industrial sectors in visionary
  research is on different levels, e.g.
• innovators involved in the actual research and
  development
• early adopters involved in requirements
  specification and demonstration phase

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Some Reflections related to the research focus on
generic enabling application technologies

• Derive a vision by thinking laterally
• exploit opportunities arising through evolving
  Grid technologies
• seek and identify new working paradigms
• Innovation achieved through proper balance
  between application pull and technology push
• demands from various applications / industrial
  sectors
• new perspectives offered by innovative Grid
  technologies
• Exploit synergies leading to generic developments
• identify synergies between applications / sectors
• judicious balance between generic and specific
  development

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IST Grid Research - Sources of Information

• Grids in IST-FP6 http//www.cordis.lu/ist/grids/
  
• IST on CORDIS http//www.cordis.lu/ist
• FP6 web main page http//europa.eu.int/comm/resea
  rch/fp6/index_en.html
• New Instruments http//europa.eu.int/comm/researc
  h/fp6/networks-ip.html
• Model Contracts http//europa.eu.int/comm/researc
  h/fp6/working-groups/model-contract/index_en.html
• Frequently asked Questions http//europa.eu.int/c
  omm/research/faq.html
• The European Research Area http//europa.eu.int/c
  omm/research/era/index_en.html
• CORDIS RTD beyond 2002 http//www.cordis.lu/rtd20
  02/
• FP6 on CORDIS http//www.cordis.lu/fp6
• Expressions of interest http//www.cordis.lu/sear
  ch_form.cfm
• IST roadmap workshopshttp//www.cordis.lu/fp6/c
  alls.cfm
• IST in FP6
• http//www.cordis.lu/ist/fp6/fp6.htm
• http//www.cordis.lu/ist/fp6/pcms.htm
• http//www.cordis.lu/ist/fp6/workshops.htm
• Registration for FP6 database of experts
  http//www.cordis.lu/experts/fp6_candidature.htm
• Re-registration of FP5 experts for FP6
  http//candidature.cordis.lu/expert-evaluators/