SIMDAT: Virtual Organisations Supporting
Product Design in Industry
Mike Boniface
(mjb@it-innovation.soton.ac.uk)
IT Innovation Centre
Virtual Organisations and Grids
Nesc, Edinburgh
21-22 November 2006
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IST EU SIMDAT Project (Sep 2004 – Aug 2008)
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
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Who are the SIMDAT Partners?
End Users
Capability Providers
Grid Technologists
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Demanding Application Drivers
• Integration of the product design process chain
(CAE/CAD/CAT) including external engineering
companies, developers and suppliers
• Multi-disciplinary collaborative configuration
design of complex aerospace products
• Drug discovery environment managing the
distribution of both public and commercial
bioinformatics data and analysis services
• Virtual Global Information System Centre
supporting the distribution and integration of
large scale meteorology data providers
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Collaborative Aerospace Design Testcase
• Multi-disciplinary inter-enterprise
collaborative design of a low noise
high lift system
• Based on a BAE Systems Regional
Jet test case
• Engineering capabilities shared
between organisations
• Distributed engineering workflows
and data management over the
Internet
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What has been achieved so far?
Aerodynamics
Service
(Model Center,
SunGridEngine, GRIA)
(Taverna,
Torque, GRIA)
Design
Optimisation
Service
(Taverna, OGSA-DAI,
Condor, GRIA)
(Patran, GRIA)
Acoustics
Service
Structures
Service
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Characteristics of Business Grids
• Customers control which services they consume, how
much they are used, and by whom
• Service providers operate independently and compete to
provide service
• Service providers operate within the terms of relevant
application software licenses
• Services are subject to Service Level Agreements
• Security to commercial standards
• Heterogeneous infrastructures
• Maintenance should be cost-effective
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How do we validate our approach?
Business
Requirements
Technology
Capabilities
Technology
Gaps
Infrastructure
Accreditation
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collaboration patterns
operational security policies
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dynamic trust (GRIA)
SLA management and accounting (GRIA)
E2E Toolkit (NEC)
Dynamic Access Control (NEC, IT Innov)
•
Transatlantic Secure Collaboration
Programme (www.tscp.org)
risk analysis
•
Grid Technology
Uptake
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GRIA: A Grid for business
• Open Source Grid middleware for supporting B2B
collaborations based on a service-oriented architecture
• Easy to use yet powerful functionality
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business-to-business accounting and service level agreements
dynamic trust and security
distributed file transfer, storage and processing
distributed database access using OGSA-DAI
distributed inter-domain workflow composition, enactment and
publication using Taverna/Freefluo
– cross-platform, running on Windows XP and various Linux
distributions
– developers kit for new managed application services
• Available free and open source from http://www.gria.org
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I want to manage
my organisation’s
relationships, and
decide who in my
team (and partners
teams) can access
my resources
Operational Scenarios
Service Level
Agreement
Client
Management
Project Manager
Service
Provider
Management
Administrator
I want to use high-end
applications, but I don’t
have enough processing
power
Access
Constraints
Client
Engineer
I want to provide
applications and data
services and specify
terms and conditions
for using them
Usage
Constraints
Basic
Application
Services
I hate all this
management stuff
anyway, it gets in
the way of my work
Data
Storage
Data
Processing
Applications
Client Organisation
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Service Provider
Managing Relationships
Client Organisation A
Service Provider A
Project A
Trade Acc 1
Trade Acc 2
Project Manager A
Project Manager B
Client Mgmt
Service
Trade Account
Service
Project B
Trade Acc 3
Project C
Trade Acc 4
Project D
Client Mgmt
Service
Administrator A
Administrator B
Trade Account
Service
Service Provider B
Client Organisation B
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Application Service Management
I define my overall
I record and constrain
metric usage against
SLA terms and service
provider capacity
Propose SLA
Trade
Account
Service
SLA
Management
Service
Check SLA
Client
Engineer
Capacity
SLA
Templates
Administrator
Notify Usage Reports
Client
Management
Project Manager
capacity model and
SLA templates using
metric constraints
plus pricing terms
Basic
Application
Services
Manage Applications
I generate usage
metrics (CPU time,
number of active
Bespoke
OGSA-DAIapplication license,
Application
number
of jobs,
Service
Service
transaction time,
data storage, etc)
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Conclusions
• SIMDAT is delivering Business Grid middleware...today
• Infrastructure developments are driven by industrial
requirements
• GRIA satisfies the core requirements for relationships
management
– dynamic trust and security using commercial bestpractice
– SLA based monitoring, management and billing
– accounting
• Infrastructure accreditation is being used to validate our
approach
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Thank you for listening!
• www.simdat.eu
• www.gria.org
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