EU and Italian GRID
Initiatives at University of
Salerno
SAVERIO SALERNO
Coordinator Centre of Excellence “Learning & Knowledge”
Scientific Coordinator of the PON Project “e-Science”
Member of the Committee for Industrial Research at MIUR
Agenda
 Our initiatives on Learning and GRID
 National
 European
 Our Vision on Learning GRID
Our Italian Initiatives
PON Projects (UniSA and UniBN) –GRID
Infrastructure for e-Science
 Main Objective
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 To create an infrastructure based on GRID tecnologies, that
provides the researchers of the University of Salerno with
advanced tools for the scientifc cooperation with italian and
european research structures in the sectors of simulation,
optimization, mechanical engineering, learning and knowledge
management
Duration: 24 Months
Budget PON UniSA: 2.000.000€
Budget PON UniBN: 1.000.000€
Scientific Coordinator (SA): Saverio Salerno
Scientific Coordinator (BN): Aniello Cimitile
GRID Infrastructure for e-science
 The infrastructure aims at creating a scientific
cooperation environment putting at the researchers’
disposal:
 Services for communication, data and resources
sharing, and cooperation at application level.
 Facilities for distributed calculation, virtual
laboratories, digital libraries, simulation.
GRID Infrastructure for e-Science
1/2
 The infrastructure will be used for the development of the
following research themes:
 Study and experimentation of GRID and commodity technologies
for infrastructures oriented to the scientific and technological
cooperation in Virtual Organizations
 Study and experimentation of environments and platforms for the
services oriented application cooperation (intelligent agents,
semantic web, …), based on commodity technologies.
 Study and definition of methodologies and techniques to make
the existing applications GRID-aware
 Experimentation of advanced and innovative methods and
systems for the collaborative-experiential didactics
GRID Infrastructure for e-Science
2/2
 Study and definition of GRID domain-specific
platforms for the high-performance distributed
elaboration, on the following domains
 techniques and problems of Mathematical Simulation and
Optimization;
 economic simulation;
 structural problems of Civil Engineering
 Techniques of mechanical computer aided engineering
(MCAE).
 Study and experimentation of models and systems for
the Net Economy, with particular reference to logistics
and supply-chain
Our Italian Initiatives
Centre of Excellence on Learning and Knowledge
 Main Objective
 To study, apply and verify the use of a unitary approach
for learning and knowledge, based on the experience
and induction approaches in various fields, and
according to different didactical models
 Duration: 36 Months (from 1/4/2001 to 30/3/2004)
 Budget: 1.230.000€
 Scientific Coordinator: Saverio Salerno
Our Italian Initiatives
Centre of Excellence on Software tecnologies (RCOST)
of the University of Sannio
 The University of Salerno has the responsability
of the WP “Advanced Simulation Models and
Environments in Grid Architecture”
 The objective is to study and define a GRID
domain specific architecture based on Microsoft
tecnologies for the scientific simulation (HLA)
and the optimization
 Duration: 36 Months (from 1/4/2001 to
30/3/2003)
 Budget (WP): 800.000€
Our European Initiatives
GRASP – Grid based Application Service Provision
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Main Objective
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Consortium
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To design and implement an innovative infrastructure
for the ASP based on GRID middleware suitably
integrated with Commodity Technologies (in particular
Microsoft .NET) investigating the use of new business
models
To validate it through the realization of three test-beds:
e-Learning, ERP in the financial sector, data mining in
the medical sector
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LogicDIS (GR – Financial Coordinator and Industrial
Partner)
CRMPA (IT –Scientific Coordinator)
CLRC (UK – Technological Partner)
University of Stuttgart (D –Technological Partner)
CS - Systèmes d’Information CSSI (F – Tech. and Ind.
Partner)
SchlumbergerSema (E – Industrial Partner)
Duration: 30 Months (from 1/4/2002 to 30/9/2004)
Budget – 3.056.274€
To realize a technological
infrastructure based on the
integration of GRID general
purpose services and emerging
technologies for the creation of
GRID domain specific in non
scientific sectors (e-Business, eLearning, e-Health, ...)
Our European Initiatives
LeGE-WG – Learning GRID Excellence Working Group
 Main Objective
 To facilitate the
implementation of a GRID
infrastructure for Learning
through an intense
dissemination activity that
foresees the organization of
thematic workshops (on
learning and GRID) and a
closing event in which a
demonstration will be carried
out
 Consortium
 23 partners from 9 European
countries + USA (NCSA)
 Duration: 24 Months
 Budget: 700.000€
The Anatomy of the Learning GRID
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Learning Grid Applications
Application Specific
Services
Learning GRID Specific
Services
GRASP Common
Services
Common GRID Services (e.g. OGSA)
Web Services
Implementation Platforms
Operating Systems
Physical Resources
Virtual Campus,
Virtual Lab.,
Mobile Learning,
etc.
Trainee profiling
Skill assessment,
LO management,
LG Ontologies,
etc.
Grid Service Workflow,
SLA Management,
QoS Management,
ASP Ontologies,
etc.
Factory,
Registry,
GSH Mapper,
etc
SOAP, WSIF,WSDL,
etc
Web Service
run time engine
.Net, J2EE, SunOne,
etc
Windows, UNIX,
HPC, etc.
...
The Physiology of the Learning GRID
GRID and .NET
IP Proposals for FP6
1st Call – E-LeGI (European Learning GRID
Infrastructure)
Priority: Technology-enhanced learning and access to
cultural heritage
 Three main Objectives
 To study and define new learning paradigms enabling the
ubiquitous and collaborative learning, merging experimental,
personalised and contextualised learning approaches.
 To study, design and implement a GRID based technology
infrastructure for implementing virtual collaborative learning
communities and apply the new paradigms and related learning
approaches.
 To experiment through three major test-beds (alphabetisation in
developing countries, learning and training of chemistry
researchers and certification in the Open Universities) the
applicability of these new learning paradigms together with the
GRID infrastructure and validate the effectiveness of our
solutions both from the pedagogical and business point of view
IP Proposals for FP6
2nd Call – (GRASP follow-up)
Priority: GRID-based Systems for solving
complex problems
 Based on GRASP project experience and in relation
with TrustCoM proposal (aiming at solving
trust&security issues in all layers that may damage
the take-up of Grid technology in business
environment)
 The aim will be to provide architecture, design and
development of Grid Service Providers for gBusiness, also thanks to the extension of existing
building blocks for enabling “collaborative business in
dynamic virtual organization”
 The involved activities will contribute to lead to
industry open standards