RTD efforts in Europe by Kyriakos Baxevanidis
EU
CERN
•Foster cohesion,
interoperability, crossfertilization of
knowledge, economies
of scale
•Increase value
•Multiply impact
National
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Examples of large National efforts
CERN
UK - eScience Programme (£80 M)
Italy - INFN Grid (25 M Euros)
Netherlands - DutchGrid
Germany - Unicore plus
France - Grid funding approved
Ireland - Grid-Ireland
Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic - seed funding
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Current IST effort on Grids
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CERN
Main on-going projects: DataGrid, EUROGRID, DAMIEN
Six new initiatives are starting (GridLab, GRIA, GRIP, DataTAG, EGSO,
CrossGrid)
~Є35m IST-funding for above initiatives
- the main underlying connectivity platform
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US
Canada
Japan
Є80m EC funding
10 Gbit/s
2,5Gbit/s
<2,5Gbit/s
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A new IST Grid project space
- Links with European National efforts
- Links with US projects (GriPhyN, PPDG, iVDGL,…)
Applications
EGSO
CROSSGRID
GRIA
GRIP
Middleware
& Tools
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EUROGRID
DAMIEN
GRIDLAB
DATAGRID
DATATAG
Underlying
Infrastructures
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Industry / business
Science
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Major Infrastructure deployments
CERN
•Infrastructure across
17 European States
•Cross-Atlantic link
Examples:
1. DATAGRID, CROSSGRID,
DATATAG
Application requirements:
•Computing > 20 TFlops/s
•Downloads > 0.5PBytes/day
•Network speeds at 10Gbit/s
(2Gbit/s)
2. EUROGRID, GRIP
Image courtesy EUROGRID project
Image courtesy DataGrid project
•Infrastructure across
6 European States
•Industrial design, simulations
(as well as scientific applications)
•Collaborations of more
than 2000 scientists
Links to National Grid
infrastructures
•Globus - Unicore interface
Application requirements:
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•Real-time, Resource brokerage,
Portals, Coupled applications
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Major impact to Application Communities
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Virtual collaboratories lead to new work
models & application
community structures.
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In IST:
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High Energy Physics
Earth & Space Observation
Environment, Weather forecast
Bio-sciences and Health
Industrial design/simulation/visualization
ASP
Bio-Sciences
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CERN-LHC
ESA
EADS-Aerospace
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Commercial Perspectives
CERN
Grid concepts address industry concerns, like:
 Resources ‘on demand’, resource brokerage (xSP)
 Direct communication between applications / transparent access to each
other (P2P)
 Internet/distributed computing & simulations (industrial design &
verification)
 Connection of greater range of access facilities to the internet (the
non-PC Internet market)
Examples of areas addressed in IST:
 ASP services for industrial HPC-service users
 Virtual digital studio (film industry)
 Distributed computing/simulations for industrial design & verification
(automotive, aerospace)
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A new IST Action-line for year 2002
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CPA9: “GRID Technologies & their applications”
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Maintain current focus in solving complex scientific application problems address new disciplines
Interoperability, Standards, Infrastructures
Put new emphasis on:
Fast uptake across many industrial & commercial applications (e.g. Peer-toPeer)
Knowledge Grids (e.g. links to Semantic Web)
Demonstration & Training facilities
Accompanying Measures, Social aspects
International participation is encouraged in IST
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Future EU RTD Framework (y2003-2006)
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Grid-based systems to solve complex application problems
Industrial
Design
Environment
Transport
Health
Energy
Grid technology
Internet
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Large-capacity and high speed communication
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