INFSO-RI-508833 Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE and Industry Bob Jones EGEE Project Director CERN EGEE Final EU Review 23-24 May 2006

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Enabling Grids for E-sciencE

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EGEE and Industry

Bob JonesEGEE Project DirectorCERN EGEE Final EU Review23-24 May 2006

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Business and EGEE

• Industry participation in EGEE in a variety of roles– As a partner

Tune the project to industrial needs and pass on knowledge Bring a "customer"-driven industrial ICT approach in gLite

development

– As a user R&D, using EGEE products/services for enterprise grids

– As a provider Transfer knowledge on how to provide Grid services

– As affiliate Feedback, exchange of knowledge



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Environment & Strategy

• Limits on commercial exploitation of EGEE infrastructure• GÉANT/NREN restrictions on network usage

• we cannot offer a commercial Grid service to companies

– Many resource providers are not in a position to charge for usage– Short-term funding cycle of EGEE

uncertainty of long-term sustainability

• Hence EGEE focuses on – Users – at a pre-competitive stage– Technology providers – links with IT vendors, service providers and

system integrators– Transfer of technology to create commercial products and services

gLite middleware distributed under business-friendly open source license Grid operations procedures, practices & tools as best-of-breed examples

• Structures set in place for collaboration between EGEE and Industry on various levels of commitment



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EGEE Business Partners (I)

• DATAMAT (Italy)– gLite middleware development & testing (JRA1)

resource access, brokering, and accounting

– Using gLite in European Space Agency related projects THE VOICE, Grid support at ESRIN & potentially GDCD

– EGEE infrastructure for industrial test-bed and demonstrator– Grid services

Workload Management, dynamic and semantic workflow (leadership), Grid Economies

– User Interfaces– Grid expertise at service of Finmeccanica group (aerospace,

defence, security)



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EGEE Business Partners (II)

• NICE (Italy)– GENIUS Grid portal and EnginFrame

Evolution of GENIUS-GILDA

– Adoption of Web Service technologies and GGF trends and standards

– Adoption of new and emerging Grid technologies– Working with automotive, oil & gas and manufacturing sectors



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EGEE Business Partners (III)

• CS-SI (France)– Activity manager for Quality Assurance (JRA2)– Middleware application validation– CNES intranet Grid based on gLite– Operation of Regional Operation Centre– Technology transfer to SMEs, e.g. interface Openplast to EGEE– Support Fusion community



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Industry applications

• EGEODE– Industrial application from Compagnie Générale de Géophysique

running on EGEE infrastructure Seismic processing platform Based on industrial application Geocluster© used at CGG Being ported to EGEE for Industry and Academia

• OpenPlast project– French R&D programme to develop and deploy Grid platform for

plastic industry (SMEs)– Based on experience from EGEE (supported by CS)– Next: Interoperability with other Grids



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Recommendations wrt Industry

• Recommendation 8 (NA3)– Mandate the Industry Forum to gather and consolidate input from industrial

users to prepare course material specifically tailored to industrial user needs.• Recommendation 9 (NA3)

– Mandate the industrial partner DATAMAT to fulfil its role as an active link to industry as this is the case in other major international Grid project.

• Recommendation 32 (JRA1)– Make more effective use of the Industry Forum to realize industrial involvement

in the development to achieve smoother technology transfer.• Recommendation 40 (NA2)

– Mandate the Industry Forum to fulfil its important role. If this appears to be impossible, think of substituting the Industry Forum by another organisation or different organisations which are more willing to take the responsibility of interfacing with the industry.

• Recommendation 41 (NA2)– Start small when conveying the vision of Grid computing to industry. Do not

forget to address the cultural, personnel and organisational aspects. Present a “road map” on how commercial Grid computing can become a reality.

• Recommendation 44 (NA2)– Encourage more participation from the Industry Forum.



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Industry and EGEE

• Industry Forum (representatives in most European countries)– Led by Industry to improve Grid take-up in Industry– Organises industry events and disseminates

Grid information– Synthesis of Industry Forum in reviewers pack

• Collaboration with CERN openlab project– Description in reviewers pack

• Industry Task Force– Group of industry partners in the project– Links related industry projects (NESSI, BEinGRID, …)– Works with EGEE’s Technical Coordination

Group (TCG) to place industry requirements on equal footing

• EGEE Business Associates (EBA)– Companies sponsoring work on joint-interest subjects



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Industry Forum in EGEE-II

• Continue its mission of two-way communication between Industry and EGEE – For Industry: learn about EGEE and latest Grid developments– Members

Companies experimenting with or interested in Grid technologies Representatives in most European countries >150 individual members from ~ 100 institutes Summary of actions document in reviewers pack

• Activities– Expanded for the second 2-year phase of EGEE– Moved from NA4 to NA2

Recognises that outreach is the first step in establishing contact Benefit from NA2 partner network to assign representatives in most countries

– Led by industrial partner Metaware



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EGEE Industry Days

Organised by Industry Forum 27 April, Paris• 70 participants

– 31 companies, 16 Research institutes & EU – ICT (39) – Research (19) – Users (12),

• Participation from EGEE industry partners – NICE, DATAMAT, CS-SI– Compagnie Générale de Géophysique– Associates, such as the OpenPlast Project

• Results– Installation of gLite in different scenarios

(Astronomy etc)– Training (CETIC)– Application prototype on GILDA (Total UK)– Follow-up technical exchange meetings

between participants

•19%

•46%

•13%

•10%

•6%•3% •3%

HW manuf. & SW vendors: 6

IT consulting & service providers: 14

Energy, geosciences, oil and gas: 4

Finance & Insurance: 3

Networks & Telecom: 2

Plasturgy: 1

Space: 1



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EGEE Industry Days (cont.)

• Organised by PPARC and Industry Forum 16 May, Cambridge – Focus on Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs)– 8 companies represented– Presentations by EGEE, GridPP, Cambridge Ontology,

Geneservice

• Results– Requests to use GILDA for prototyping and training services

• Future Events & Considerations– Organise every 1-2 months, shorter one-day, federation based,

domain based, ideally max. 50 participants, further practical success stories.



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EGEE and openlab

• Links between EGEE-II and openlab student programme– Milestones MNA2.5.1-2 (July’06 & ’07)

• Linked to EGEE-II SA3 activity (integration testing and certification)– Work on Grid interoperability and integration

centre (GCC) and platform competence centre (PCC)

• Example: HP sponsored event (16-17 June)– What is required of gLite on QA, certification &

maturity for it to be handed over to the industry?– What could be the killer applications for the Grid?

openlab is listed as contributing to the programme of work in the EGEE-II contract



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Industry Task Force

• Goals– Builds on the work of the Industry Forum Working Groups– Brings together industrial applications using EGEE– Interact with EGEE’s Technical Coordination Group (TCG)

Industry requirements on equal footing with scientific applications

– Concrete technical work for applications

• Members– Industry partners in the project– Representatives from industrial applications on the EGEE

infrastructure – Links with related industry projects

BEinGRID NESSI Etc.



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BEinGRID

BE01

BE10BE02

BE03

BE15

BE05

BE07

BE14

BE08

BE16BE09

BE11

BE18

BE12

BE13

BE17

BE04

BE19

BUSINESS EXPERIMENTS

CORE PARTNERS

BE6

Business Experiments in Grid (BEinGRID) http://www.beingrid.com/

Coordinated by ATOS Origin (Spain)

Credit: Josep Martrat - ATOS ORIGIN



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• There are 3 experiments based on gLite middleware

– Financial Portfolio Management (Financial sector) INNOVA, FINNAT, MPSF, SPACI, UNICAL

– Insurance Risk management (Insurance sector) AXA, FININFO, CRSA, TID

– Seismic imaging & reservoir simulation (Industry sector Oil & Gas) CGG, PETROSOFT, NICE, TNO

– Others under consideration (Earth Observation services) and migration of certain tools and components

• Regular exchange between EGEE and BEinGRID– EGEE partners to support gLite use in BEinGRID (private infrastructure)– BEinGRID to evaluate gLite for commercial contexts– Training courses focussed for industry users

BEinGRID and EGEE-II

Credit: Josep Martrat - ATOS ORIGIN



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EGEE Business Associates

• Opportunity to sponsor work on joint-interest subjects– Technical developments– Market Surveys– Business modelling– Exploitation strategies– Transfer of know-how and services to industry– Cases under discussion: Commercial training service (GridWise),

security audit (PriceWaterhouseCoopers), middleware interface (Sun)

• Benefits to EBAs– Technical know-how– Early access to documentation and key project deliverables– Sponsorship and visibility at EGEE events– Influence programme of industrial events as members of IF Steering

Committee– Participate early-on in process to define a sustainable infrastructure

after EGEE-II



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Summary

• EGEE has established links with many companies– As partners, users, resource providers, affiliates

• All industrial partners have actively contributed to the promotion of EGEE in business sectors

• The relative maturity of EGEE now makes it possible to further pursue commercial exploitation of its products and services

• The structures used in EGEE have been reinforced and expanded– Industry Forum, industry task force, links to related projects, business

associates programme

• EGEE-II builds on the ground-work of EGEE and marks a significant increase in the priority and resources invested by the project in industrial exploitation

Documents

INFSO-RI-508833 Enabling Grids for E-sciencE EGEE and Industry Bob Jones EGEE Project Director CERN EGEE Final EU Review 23-24 May 2006