Hans –Christian Hoppe
Intel GmbH, Bruehl
SIMDAT
Edinburgh, April 7, 2004

Four sectors of international economic importance:
Automotive
Pharmaceutical
Aerospace
Meteorology
Seven Grid-technology development areas:
Grid infrastructure
Distributed Data Access
VO Administration
Workflows
Ontologies
Analysis Services
Knowledge Services
The solution of industrially relevant complex problems using data-centric Grid technology.
SIMDAT is coordinated by Fraunhofer SCAI
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(Clemens Thole)

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Knowledge Services
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Integration of Analysis Services
 Ontologies
 Workflow
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Administration of Virtual Organizations
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Access to Remote Data Repositories
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Integrated Grid Infrastructures
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 SIMDAT takes an ambitious route to drive Grid technology to the heart of industrial process:
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Phase 1
: Connectivity
Phase 2
: Interoperability
Phase 3
: Knowledge
•Grid infrastructure operational
•Distributed DB access operational
•Base on WSRF or WS
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•Federate data repositories
•Initial virtual data repository
•Pull in NextGRID results
(and others)
•Operate knowledge capture, discovery&mining
•Leverage NG workflow capabilities
•Base on NG Grid stuff

Project Structure
Automotive
Pharma Aerospace
Meteo Grid technology research
Knowledge Discovery
Analysis Services
Ontologies
Workflow
Virtual Organisations
Distributed Data Access
Integrated Grid
Infrastructure Prototypes
Technology
Champions
Fraunhofer
MSC
Ontoprise
Inforsense
BAE Systems
Intel
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End Users
SIMDAT Partners
Capability Providers
Grid Technologists
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 Distributed access to (central) databases
 unlimited distributed read access

(limited) distributed upgrades/writes
 use DB to store small–medium datasets
 use DB to store references to large datasets
 provide monitoring, auditing
 Start integrating with upper layers
 engineering PSE, PDM systems
 bioscience middleware (Lion SRS, ...)
 meteo prediction and archival systems
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 Work towards virtualization
 federate DBs distributed across partners/sites
 unlimited distributed read access

(limited) distributed update/write
 virtualize SQL queries and data formats
 support different DB implementations (IBM Oracle, ...)
 integrate provenance information
 accommodate large entries
 introduce messaging layer?
 Integrate Grid developments
 other FP6 projects (NextGRID, ...)
 rest of the world
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 Complete virtualization
 unlimited distributed read, update, write
 distributed DB management
 integration of ontology–based data/query processing
 integration of advanced workflow techniques
 identify and start to address performance issues
 Integrate Grid developments
 results of FP6 projects
 rest of the world
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 consolidate requirements by application areas
 provide gap analysis with OGSA–DAI
 prioritize requirements and produce roadmap
 identify risks and setup mitigation strategy
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 integrate first Grid infrastructure&data access functionality
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