WP3 Summary INRIA Denis Caromel

European and Chinese Cooperation on Grid

Co-operation Success Stories & Future Visions for Cloud Computing

Andrea ManieriEchogrid Industry ManagerEngineering Ingegneria Informatica s.p.a.

EchoGRID 2 Conference Shenzhen, PRC 24-25 October 2008*

Industrial Cooperation
Introduction on perspectives from Industry in the EchoGRID Roadmap for EU-China Cooperation in Grid.

EU-China Co-operation Success Stories, Gilbert Kalb, Cognitive Systems using clouds, Ignacio Soler, Atos Origin Spain China Mobile Communications, Leitao Guo, China Mobile Toward a service-oriented economy, the NESSIGRID perspective, Andrea Manieri Engineering Ingegneria Informatica s.p.a. (20 minutes)

Interactive Panel Discussion

EchoGRID 2 Conference Shenzhen, PRC 24-25 October 2008*

Echogrid - five items for collaboration
New programming paradigmsGrid architecturesGrid managementVirtual organisationsThe component modelWorkflow business processes

EchoGRID 2 Conference Shenzhen, PRC 24-25 October 2008*

New Programming paradigms
Too much details exposed to programmersToo complex model to learn and to reuseWorkflow based on XML, not suitable for humans, or GUIs not scaling at large numbers

Echogrid collaboration roadmap suggests :To explore Chemical programming, such as HOCL, due to the non-deterministic aspect of computation (reaction) and high expressivenessTo explore Autonomic element programming, very similar to the agent-oriented programming paradigm in the heart of the programming model, due to the capability to support data resource aggregation tasks with a property of best-effortTo explore pipe-based programming, such as GSML proposed by ICT/CAS, due to the concept of resource virtualization and abstraction, loosely coupled component architecture and high-level reusability.

EchoGRID 2 Conference Shenzhen, PRC 24-25 October 2008*

Grid architectures
Grids are too complex: SOA and WSA will reduce such conceptual complexity, what about interoperability?Current Grids are not suitable for Web2.0 conceptsGrids vs Cloud

Echogrid collaboration roadmap suggests :To continue exploring the ways for reducing complexity and improve interoperability by mean of Service concept (SOA, SOI, SaaS, etc)To concentrate on better and scalable Resource Management toolsTo evolve the GRIA and XService solution to be able to compete at large scale with proprietary solutionsTo investigate the Cloud concept and the relations with existing grids

EchoGRID 2 Conference Shenzhen, PRC 24-25 October 2008*

Grid Management
Large scale grids difficult to manage Multi-domain grids suffer from missing interoperability and trustOther cross-issuesa)Local provision considering security and privacy issues.b)On-demand access to content and adaptation of the content to context (be also users, devices, location and policies)c)An ecosystem of autonomic, self managed systems.e)Capabilities of handling very large data volumes with long term digital curation f)Implementing dynamic business models with clear accountability and pricing issues g)Economy of scale considering factors like cost, GreenIT, energy, cooling Echogrid collaboration roadmap suggestsTo promote Regulation around Grids with emphasis on Certification, Accounting rules, establishing trust domains.To reinforce effort on standardization of interfaces and protocols.To explores solutions for Management of Fault, Configuration, Accounting, Performance, Security and Dynamic capabilities dependent on resource, environment or the object.

EchoGRID 2 Conference Shenzhen, PRC 24-25 October 2008*

Virtual Organisations
For the functionalities, current VO lacks of:Supporting from the underlying OS and Grid middlewareSupporting of commercial applicationsUnderlying administration facilities for VO bootstrappingCurrent VO lacks some good properties for better resource sharing and better user usages: Consuming too much resources, heavy-weighted;QoS guaranteesDynamic mechanismsScalabilityEchogrid collaboration roadmap suggestsTo provide a clear definition of VO framework on the functionalities and management infrastructuresTo investigate advanced functionalities of VO cross platform VO and high efficient VO should be provided to the usersTo explore autonomic capabilities for full life-cycle management of VO

EchoGRID 2 Conference Shenzhen, PRC 24-25 October 2008*

The Component Model
Component-based approaches allows reusability and improve adaptation. However some limitations occur inIntegrating with SOA concept for a comprehensive modelmechanisms to support adaptation and reconfiguration of components during executionToo much complexity for adoption in business enviroment

Echogrid collaboration roadmap suggestsTo clarify the relationships among component-based and service-based modelsTo explore new features of component models such as:Lightweight autonomic support of grid applicationsRun-time Service compositionPlatform independenceAspect-orientationQuality assurance at design time

EchoGRID 2 Conference Shenzhen, PRC 24-25 October 2008*

Workflow Business Processes
Too many workflow systems and languagesStill a gap between business process and implemented workflowDifficult to compare and evaluate different workflow systemDifficult to optimise workflows

Echogrid collaboration roadmap suggestsTo reinforce investigation on composition of servicesTo cross-fertilise the workflow and grids communitiesTo investigate interoperability or integration of existing workflow models and tools

EchoGRID 2 Conference Shenzhen, PRC 24-25 October 2008*

Which perspectives?

How much the Echogrid proposed roadmap meet Industry requirements?

How much Cloud Computing buzzword match with Echogrid proposed roadmap?

How much Industry requirements are addressed from the perceived Cloud computing?