Enabling Grids for E-scienc E Getting EGEE closer

Enabling Grids for E-scienc. E Getting EGEE closer to Businesses Douglas Mc. Kinley, EGEE Industry Forum d. mckinley@metaware. it www. eu-egee. org INFSO-RI-031688

The EGEE project Enabling Grids for E-scienc. E • EGEE – Started in April 2004 – 2 nd phase (EGEE-II) started in April 2006, with 91 partners in 32 countries, federated in regional Grids • Objectives – Large-scale, production-quality grid infrastructure for e-Science – Attracting new resources and users from industry as well as science – Maintain and further improve “g. Lite” Grid middleware INFSO-RI-031688 2

What does EGEE Grid deliver? Enabling Grids for E-scienc. E - - - over 20, 000 CPU plus 5 Petabytes (5 million Gigabytes) of storage, 20, 000 concurrent jobs on average a seamless infrastructure available to users 24 hours/day, 7 days/week continuous monitoring of grid services & automated site configuration & management quality OS middleware with technical training & support Ø demanding scientific research now stimulating advances in the EGEE Grid that can be transferred to industry, government & healthcare with enormous potential return INFSO-RI-031688 3

Mapping EGEE to Industry Enabling Grids for E-scienc. E • EGEE Grid has more than 20 applications in 7 domains, including - Financial Simulation (E-Grid) Life Sciences: Bio-Informatics & Medical Imaging Multimedia Material Sciences Ø A number of large enterprises, banks & insurance groups intend to adopt the EGEE Grid first as Intranet Grid to optimise inter-site infrastructure & improve efficiency of existing resources - Focus on security aspects priority for this type of deployment Ø Current & Potential EGEE Grid Take-UP - Aerospace, Automotive, Government, Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals, Financial Services, Media & Telecommunications, Petroleum INFSO-RI-031688 4

What EGEE can offer your Business Enabling Grids for E-scienc. E • A flagship European project operating on a global scale – Access to a team of grid experts with proven deployment experience • Environment to gridify applications & get operations experience – Demonstrate them to your customers & bosses • Production quality middleware – Distributed under a business friendly open source license and supported by a large community • Evolutionary path to emerging grid standards – Backward-compatible upgrades • Visibility: ~200 sites in 40 countries, ~ 100 Virtual Organisations – An excellent shop-window for your products, services and expertise INFSO-RI-031688 5

EGEE Business Partners Enabling Grids for E-scienc. E Signatories of the project contract with responsibilities in EGEE • CS-SI (France) – Responsible for Quality Assurance and operation of Regional Operation Centre – Serving customers in the plastics industry (SMEs), large companies (CNES g. Lite prototype, etc. ) and Fusion community • DATAMAT (Italy) – g. Lite middleware development & testing – Grid expertise at service of Finmeccanica group (aerospace, defence, security) • Metaware (Italy) – Dissemination and outreach to Businesses and Industry – Leads the Industry Forum and organises Industry Events INFSO-RI-031688 6

EGEE Industry Forum Enabling Grids for E-scienc. E • Mission – Two-way communication between Industry and EGEE § For Industry: learn about EGEE and latest developments in the Grid field § For EGEE: learn about industrial requirements, ensuring EGEE’s industrial relevance • Members – Led by Metaware to improve Grid take-up in Industry – Representatives in most European countries – >200 individual members, ~ 100 institutes, ~20 sectors • Activities – Dedicated section on EGEE web portal, geared towards the interest and needs of industry – Organises meetings and industry events Sign up as EGEE community member www. eu-egee. org/create. Member or contact Douglas Mc. Kinley, d. mckinley@metaware. it INFSO-RI-031688 7

EGEE Industry Task Force Enabling Grids for E-scienc. E • Members – Business partners in the project (CS, DATAMAT, Metaware) – Representatives from industrial applications on the EGEE infrastructure or making use of g. Lite middleware – Links with related business-led projects Activities – Orchestrates support within EGEE for business applications – Interact with EGEE’s Technical Coordination Group (TCG) to place industry requirements on equal footing with scientific applications – Ensure that EGEE-II is aware of industrial requirements contact Gabriel Zaquine, gabriel. zaquine@cern. ch INFSO-RI-031688 8

EGEE Business Associates Enabling Grids for E-scienc. E First wave of EGEE Business Associates announced at EGEE’ 06 Conference 25 -29 September 2006 (NICE, Platform Computing) • Opportunity to work on joint-interest subjects – Technical developments, Market Surveys, Business modelling & Exploitation strategies, Transfer of know -how and services to industry • NICE – Developing EGEE compatible GENIUS Grid portal and Engin. Frame • Platform Computing – Making g. Lite middleware better exploit the LSF local resources management system • Pricewaterhouse. Coopers – Collaborating on security policies and approaches contact Hannelore Hämmerle, hannelore. hammerle@cern. ch INFSO-RI-031688 9

EGEE and CERN openlab project Enabling Grids for E-scienc. E CERN openlab is contributing to the EGEE programme of work • Linked to EGEE – Via the Grid interoperability & integration centre (GCC) and platform competence centre (PCC) • Example: HP sponsored event – What is required of g. Lite on QA, certification & maturity for it to be handed over to the industry? – What could be the killer applications for the Grid? INFSO-RI-031688 10

Industry Forum Steering Committee (IFSC) Enabling Grids for E-scienc. E - Collaborates closely with Industry Forum - Made up of EGEE-II project partners & industry experts. - IFSC members active in different Grid sectors & provide feedback on industry related topics to EGEE – Contributes & offers expert advice providing case studies, presentations, speakers names and participants for the organisation of EGEE events – Actively takes part in EGEE industry based events such as Industry Days and EGEE Conferences. To find out more about the EGEE-II Industry Forum Steering Committee contact : Douglas Mc. Kinley, d. mckinley@metaware. it INFSO-RI-031688 11

Industry Related Events Enabling Grids for E-scienc. E • OGF 20 May 2007 Manchester UK • EGEE User Forum May 2007 – Research and Business Applications • EGEE’ 07 – Budapest, Autumn 2007 • EGEE’ 06 – Geneva September 2006, 700+ participants & dedicated business track • EGEE Industry Days - Paris France April 2006 - Petroleum industry to experiment on GILDA (Total UK) - Cambridge UK May 2006 - Qi 3 producing TME Report on SME take-up of Grid - Ischia, Italy July 2006 - 69% of attendants from SME/industry, - Catania, Italy 100+ European participants - Helsinki (IST 2006) - Bioinfomratics INFSO-RI-031688 12

Training and User Support Enabling Grids for E-scienc. E EGEE-II provides user support from first contact through to production usage. • Expert-led Training (from installation to admin) • Documentation via a Digital Library • Expertise in Grid-enabling applications • Online helpdesk • Networking events (User forum, conferences, events for industry, etc) Current Events: http: //www. egee. nesc. ac. uk/schedreg/index. cfm Brendan Hamill, NESC, brendan@nesc. ac. uk Ruediger Berlich, FZK, ruediger. berlich@iwr. fzk. de INFSO-RI-031688 13

Example Business Applications on EGEE Enabling Grids for E-scienc. E • EGEODE – Business application from Companie Generale de Geophysique running on EGEE infrastructure § Seismic processing platform § Based on industrial application Geocluster© used at CGG § Being ported to EGEE for Industry and Academia • Open. Plast project – French R&D programme to develop and deploy Grid platform for plastic industry (SMEs) – Based on experience from EGEE (supported by CS) – Next: Interoperability with other Grids INFSO-RI-031688 14

Example Business Applications on EGEE Enabling Grids for E-scienc. E - Grid. Wise. Tech - Development of EGEE LCG API & web portal with user-friendly access to EGEE infrastructure - Grid. Wise. Tech client used resources to create new medical device, - Saving time & reaching higher quality already at the prototype stage INFSO-RI-031688 15

Businesses @ EGEE 06 Enabling Grids for E-scienc. E Capitalising on e-Science to make e-Business INFSO-RI-031688 16

EGEE Community Members Enabling Grids for E-scienc. E • EGEE Industry Forum is Creating an active Industry Community in Grid • Be a part of this community; Register at http: //www. eu-egee. org/create. Member – Upload a profile, and areas of interest on the Community members’ area; – Register to Future Industry days in 2006 include: Biomedical Challenges, 24 Nov 2006, Helsinki, FI; potentially Budapest HU, 29 November 2006; – View other member and contact them ; – Find out how to get more involved with Industry - learn about EGEE ; – Read the regular newsletters for updates; – Pose a question to the User Forum and request advice from fellow ; INFSO-RI-031688 17