BREIN

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• BREIN
• Towards an intelligent Grid for Business
• Eduardo Oliveros
• Telefonica ID

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Agenda

• BREIN in a nutshell
• The market current situation and what BREIN
  offers
• BREIN scenarios and current status (architecture,
  implementation).

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BREIN General description

• Coordinated by Telefonica RD and technical
  leadership of HLRS (Univ. Stuttgart)
• Funded by the EC 6,6Mill
• Duration of 3 years Sep06 to Aug09
• 17 partners
• www.eu-brein.com

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BREIN main objective

• Create an infrastructure that will increase the
  level and dynamism of collaborations among
  companies, with special focus on SMEs
• or
• BREIN will realise the flexible, intelligent
  Virtual Organisation support to significantly
  reduce the complexity of modern day
  business-to-business collaborations. Companies
  and enterprises of any size will be able to
  compete equally in a complex and demanding
  market.
• Technical perspective The use of Grid, semantic
  web and multi-agents concepts to create this
  dynamic, intelligent and adaptable infrastructure.

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Market current situation

• The relations among companies is mostly static.
• The deployment of inter-domain SOA is very
  limited. There are good examples of SOA and Grid
  implementations inside organizations
• Science
• Companies
• Financial sector
• Pharmaceutical
• Oil companies
• e.g. Micron
• but not involving different companies why?

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Barriers for the adoption of Grid

• Security application designed with security in
  mind are accessible outside the initial
  environment(department).
• Lack of standards -gt interoperability (WS-
  standards are complex)
• Complexity of Grid middleware -gt selection of
  other alternatives.
• Reliability, risk of rely on external Service
  Providers, (out of your control)
• License issue, the current schema is extremely
  costly to be used in a virtualized
  infrastructure.
• Cultural barrier of the IT staff.

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There is a trend The Clouds...

• But there is a trend in the market e.g. new
  Cloud services
• (Amazon, IBM, Sun, EMC/SAP, HP)
• Is this used by companies?
• Trafic of Amazon web services is higher than
  traditional service
• Amazon Customer Case Studies close 40
  organizations using Amazon Web services and
  others like the The New York Times.
• The problem of outsourcing company-critical
  functions...
• The 15th February the Amazon Storage service went
  down, the problem affected a host of start-ups
  (like messaging service Twitter).

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BREIN collaboration model

• The customer defines its business processes
  abstract workflow describing the orchestration
  of services of external service providers

SP
Service Provider 1
VO1
VO2
SP
SP
Customer
Service Provider 2
Service Provider 3
Business relations are established between two
parties SLA, security,
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How BREIN is tackling business needs?

• Two industrial partners ANSYS and the Stuttgart
  Airport have defined the visionary scenarios (10
  years vision) and the validation scenarios.
• ANSYS is leading the Virtual Engineering
  Scenario related with HPC, and traditional
  computational Grid
• Airport Scenario new approach. Resources Buses,
  passengers, airplanes, catering, Fuelling,
  Luggage transportation, etc.?

Extend the scope
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Virtual Engineering Scenario

• Design Calculations require heavy resources
  (software licences, cpu cycles) during particular
  phases of the design/product life cycle, and
  limited resources in between.
• The market needs are too diverse to provide
  single Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) software
  to cover all requirements. Flexible workflows are
  therefore required to capture the essentials of
  the design processes, linking together different
  software packages.
• Many companies do not have the expertise and
  resources to set up the required infrastructure,
  and will need to bring in additional consultants
  and resources to collaborate.
• Each End User Company may wish to outsource the
  service, and not keep an up to date capability
  for the expertise, software, hardware and
  infrastructure underpinning the simulations.

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BREIN Airport Scenario

• To became a Virtual Hub combining low cost
  airlines destinations.
• new approach. Resources Buses, passengers,
  airplanes, catering, Fuelling, Luggage
  transportation, etc.
• Resource scheduling considering the consequences
  (e.g. cost) , based on the SLAs negotiated with
  the suppliers and passangers.
• Current implementation focused on how agents
  could help in the task scheduling.
• Agents supervising the normal execution and
  perform changes.

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What is the benefice?

• Reduce cost license of the software is very
  expensive. You pay want you use (dont care
  about software updates, data centre
  improvements).? Give SME the opportunity to
  enter in the market.
• For the Service Provider Economy of scale.
• More efficient use of your own infrastructure and
  resources better adaptability, more efficient
  planning, taking into account the SLA with your
  customers.

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Business needs covered by BREIN

• Security Ensure identities of participants,
  encrypt communications and apply security
  policies.
• Trust SLA Negotiation and Management. Establish
  QoS level and the penalties in case of SLA
  violation.
• Simplicity Focus on the SME that doesnt have
  the knowledge or the resources to participate in
  this kind of environment. ? Abstraction of low
  level tasks. (like workflow definition).
• Interoperability Communication based on Web
  Services. Apply semantic web technologies to
  improve collaboration SLA Negotiation, Service
  Discovery, etc.
• Self-Management, Self-Configuration Adaptation
  to unexpected events (multi-agent technologies)?
  Reliability

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Architecture building blocks
Track and memory
Business Relationships Management
driver
Planning Adaptation
Security
Workflow Management
SLA Management
Virtualization
Infrastructure capabilities
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BREIN current status and plan

• Rapid prototyping During the first year testing
  the integration of the different technologies
  Grid, semantic web, multi-agent technologies
• Workflow and service discovery
• SLA negotiation
• Task scheduling
• Security
• Implementation of the BREIN Framework First
  implementation now. Two different scenarios that
  will be extended and will evolve in different
  cycles to eventually produce the BREIN Framework.
  
• Installation Software packages of the Framework
  will be available on the website.

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BREIN on going activities

• Allow legacy applications and tools to work
  integrated with the BREIN Framework Integration
  Roadmap.
• Future demonstrator, more linked with final users
  (ANSYS / Stuttgart Airport)
• Conceptualization set of ontologies for the
  scenarios and a glossary of terms that will be
  available in a wiki.
• Workshops eChallenges, October 2008 (in
  Stockholm, Sweden)
• Contracting in an eBusiness Environment (on
  SLA)
• Experiences on Service Oriented Infrastructure
  and the Grid as foundation for the next
  generation of Business Solutions (Service
  Oriented Infrastructures based on the Grid
  Computing paradigm as an emerging ICT foundation
  for business in the 21st century)

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• Thank you!
• www.eu-brein.com or www.gridsforbusiness.eu