GRIDSTART and
European Activities
Dr Mark Parsons
EPCC & The UK National e-Science Centre
The University of Edinburgh
Project summary
z European
very early
Commission funded Grid projects
– €15 million in 2000, €20 million in 2001
– 10 projects funded and running to date (8 more
2002 in negotiation)
– Many have a strong scientific focus
– EPCC leads GRIDSTART cluster project
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maximising impact of EU Grid projects –
consolidation of technical advances, providing a
coherent European voice
Pre-2001 projects
z 3 projects pre-2001
– DAMIEN
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Total costs €2million, 21 partners
Middleware building blocks for simulation and
visualisation
CAE (aerospace) and industrial simulations
– DATAGRID
z Total costs €15million, 21 partners
z European scale testbed and middleware
development
z Particle physics, Earth observation and Biology
Pre-2001 projects (cont)
– EUROGRID
z Total costs €3.5million, 11 partners
z Testbed linking EU HPC centres with industry
z Biology, Meteorology, Industrial design, ASP
z Total
funding €15million
2001 projects
z7
projects in 2001
– CROSSGRID
z Grid infrastructure component development
z 21 partners
z Large CERN centric project
– DATATAG
z Transatlantic Grid networking testbed
z 4 partners
z CERN networking focus
2001 projects (cont)
– EGSO
z European Solar Observatory virtual archive
z 10 partners
z Led by Bob Bentley from MSSL at UCL
– GRIA
z Testbed for industrial applications – focus on
eBusiness
z 5 partners
z One of the most commercially focussed projects
2001 projects (cont)
– GRIDLAB
z Application toolkit for simulation codes
z 11 partners
z Led by Jarek Nabryzski from PSNC
– GRIP
z Interoperability between UNICORE and GLOBUS
z 7 partners
z Increasing interest in UNICORE
z Total
funding €20million
EU Projects
Applications
GRIDSTART
GRIA
EGSO
EUROGRID
GRIP
GRIDLAB
DAMIEN
CROSSGRID
DATAGRID
DATATAG
Middleware & Tools
Industry/business
middleware
testbed
middleware
application
interoperability
testbed
Grid
European
fortransatlantic
building
infrastructure
industrial
linking
development
for
solar
toolkit
blocks
EU
applications
between
Grid
observatory
HPC
component
for
networking
&Grid
simulation
centres
Unicore
testbed
–virtual
simulation
focus
development
and
–and
testbed
PP,
and
archive
on
industry
Globus
EO,
e-Business
visualisation
codes
Bio
Science
2002 projects
z9
projects in 2002 (last call FP5)
– FLOWGRID
z Establishment of a CFD virtual organisation using
GRID infrastructure
z 6 partners
– OPENMOLGRID
z Development of a unified environment for solving
molecular design/engineering tasks
z 5 partners
2002 projects (cont)
– GRACE
z Development of a just in time distributed search and
categorization engine
z 6 partners (including CERN)
– COG
z Use of Grid technologies in industry. Ontologies of
modelling of data in dispersed locations.
z 4 partners
2002 projects (cont)
– MOSES
z Enabling content providers to build modular and
scalable Knowledge Grid - management tools etc.
z 7 partners
– GEMSS
z Testbed for medical computing and resource/service
provider to clinical environment.
z 10 partners
2002 projects (cont)
– BIOGRID
z Perform a trial for the introduction of the Grid
approach in biotechnology industry.
z 6 partners
– SELENE
z Bridging the gap between semantic web technology
and peer-to-peer computing.
z 5 partners
2002 projects (cont)
– MAMMOGRID
z Using Grid technology develop a EU wide database
of mammograms for healthcare research.
z 12 partners
z The
total value of these projects is not yet
known.
z We hope to cluster these new projects with
GRIDSTART - discussions are ongoing.
Summary
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Commission have funded a lot of interesting
projects – most are on the application side
GRIDSTART clusters many of these projects
Framework 6 will be interesting but
– First call will be delayed almost certainly
– Time between call and submission will be too short to
respond … whole process has to be questioned
– We should not let Framework 6 deflect the UK
programme