New
Ideas for
Computing
Environments
EnginFrame Grid Portal
Success Stories
Portal & Portlets Workshop
July 14, 2003
bruno.franzini@nice-italy.com
NICE Mission
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Comprehensive Grid Solutions
– Industrial & Research Grids
» Middleware
» Administration
» Applications
– Grid Portals
– Grid Intelligence
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Address Customers Needs
– Look at Customers business process
– Add business value
7 years experience on Grid
NICE Customers
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Mechanical Ferrari, Audi, FIAT Auto, FIAT Avio, CRF, Iveco,
ELASIS, Marelli, UTS, Teksid, Brembo, Lear
Energy
ABB, Ansaldo, Nuovo Pignone, ENEL,
EniChem, Enterprise Oil
BioTech
Pharmacia, (ENEA)
Aerospace Alenia, CIRA, Galileo Avionica, IDS
Electronics STMicroelectronics, Accent, Alcatel, Ericsson,
Siemens
Telecom
Telecom Italia, Italtel, CSELT/TI-Lab, Pirelli
Research ENEA, ICTP, INFN, CASPUR, CILEA, CNR,
CRS4, Astronomical Obs.
Education Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Polit. Of Milan,
Universities
Contents
NICE Grid strategy
„ EnginFrame introduction
„ Success stories
„ Q&A
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Web front-end
Client
Grid Portal
Web Browser
Enterprise Portal
App. & Data Integr.
NICE Deliverables
GUI applications
Citrix ICA Client
Analysis
License Mgmt
Workload Mgmt
OGSA Clients
OGSA Servers
Grid
EnginFrame
Citrix MetaFrame
InfoMiner
PCC Intelligence
LicenseMiner*
LicenseBroker
S+C FlowGuide
LSF/Globus
System Admin
S+C VENUS - s.Cluster
Data Management
Avaki DataGrid / AFS
Operating System
Any OS
UNIX, Linux
UNIX, Linux, W2K
Hardware
PC, WS, Laptop, ...
Server, Web Farm
Server, WS, Rack, ...
EnginFrame in a nutshell
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Fully standards based Grid Portal
– J2EE, Java, Tomcat, XML/XSL
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Solves back-end integration problems
– Visual rendering for most Grid objects
» jobs, job arrays, hosts, etc.
– Multiple Grid technologies support
» Globus, LSF, SGE, LoadLeveler*, PBS*, even OS!
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Authentication delegation (GSI,NIS,NT,Krb5, ...)
Data management, UL/DL + remote file browsing
Flexible integration of batch & interactive apps
Grid Intelligence
End-user oriented focus!
– Commercial application integrations
Grid Portal with EnginFrame
X / ICA connections
Clients
Standard
Web
Browser
Browsing
request
HTML
Rendering
Web Server
Interactive
Applications
Service
request
EnginFrame
Server
XML Output
ASP
WebServices
Application
Servers
EnginFrame
Agents
Grid /
Compute
Farm
Why EnginFrame?
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Common problems:
– Grid solutions acceptance and usability
– Policy enforcement
» Methodologies, Data management
– Collaboration with customers or partners
– ROI/ROA measurement
– Pressure from Enterprise-wide projects
» Cut development => deployment time
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No expertise for Technical Computing
problems among “traditional” web players
EnginFrame user experience
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User logs in and
provides its
credentials
Browse through
service offerings
Fills the required
data form and (if
needed) specify
his/her input files
Submits his request
for the job
Industrial Grid Portals
Case study: ROA in IT
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Scenario:
– Automotive companies try to fill the gap with
competitors
– CAE becomes strategic investment
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Problem:
– expensive IT resources (HW, SW, storage)
– low ROA, unpredictable ROI
– complexity for managers
– complexity for users
Solution: EnginFrame
Grid Business Intelligence
EnginFrame benefits
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IT assets and project methodology consolidation
Enhanced collaboration with remote sites and partners
Intellectual Property protection
Automatic and transparent enforcement of company policies
Wealth of properly focused information for management
Ease deployment of new software and methodologies
Rapid migration to the Computing Portal paradigm from a
typical engineering environment
Enhance resource Manageability for System and Application
managers
Enable smooth NT-UNIX-appliance integration
Complexity reduction for Grid environments
Case study: Consolidation
Company in the Defense sector
„ Different companies have merged into one
„ Sites and customers spread over WAN
„ Projects need common coordination and
collaboration
– No common design methodology
– Duplicated licenses across different sites
– Insufficient local resources
– Limited communication
Solution: EnginFrame
Centralized eDesign Services
EnginFrame benefits
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IT assets and project methodology consolidation
Enhanced collaboration with remote sites and partners
Intellectual Property protection
Automatic and transparent enforcement of company policies
Wealth of properly focused information for management
Ease deployment of new software and methodologies
Rapid migration to the Computing Portal paradigm from a
typical engineering environment
Enhance resource Manageability for System and Application
managers
Enable smooth NT-UNIX-appliance integration
Complexity reduction for Grid environments
Case Study: Intellectual Property
Chipset IP +
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+ FirmWare
Scenario:
– Accent is designing a chipset for Siemens
– Siemens needs to test the firmware & software
for this chipset
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Problem:
– Intellectual Property cannot be disclosed
Solution: EnginFrame
Project-specific services/portals
EnginFrame benefits
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IT assets and project methodology consolidation
Enhanced collaboration with remote sites and partners
Intellectual Property protection
Automatic and transparent enforcement of company policies
Wealth of properly focused information for management
Ease deployment of new software and methodologies
Rapid migration to the Computing Portal paradigm from a
typical engineering environment
Enhance resource Manageability for System and Application
managers
Enable smooth NT-UNIX-appliance integration
Complexity reduction for Grid environments
Case Study: Data Exchange
Collaboration problem in the supply chain
„ Many suppliers with different supported 3D
models
„ Complex operations to convert files
„ Management not comfortable with
uncontrolled data exchange
„ User friendliness
Solution: EnginFrame DataGate
EnginFrame benefits
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IT assets and project methodology consolidation
Enhanced collaboration with remote sites and partners
Intellectual Property protection
Automatic and transparent enforcement of company policies
Wealth of properly focused information for management
Ease deployment of new software and methodologies
Rapid migration to the Computing Portal paradigm from a
typical engineering environment
Enhance resource Manageability for System and Application
managers
Enable smooth NT-UNIX-appliance integration
Complexity reduction for Grid environments
Thank you!