The Importance of Business Grid in Korea

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The Importance of Business Grid in Korea

• Seoul National University
• Junseok Hwang

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Table of Contents

• The Meaning of Grid Computing in Convergence Era
• Introduction of Business Grid
• World-wide Business Grid Cases
• Requirements for promoting Business Grid in Korea
• The vision of Business Grid

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Computing Communication Convergence

• The present immense notice for convergence really
  began with the popularization of internet because
  World Wide Web enabled the creation of services
  integrating computing, communications and data
• More recently, Grid computing began to gather the
  interest of researchers as the enabler of full
  convergence for all kinds of resources including
  computing and networking devices

Source CERN
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What Is Grid Computing?

• The definition of Grid is scattered until now,
  but it will converge to the achievement of the
  orchestrated scalable entity for heterogeneous
  networked resources
• The present recognition for the concept of Grid
  includes utility computing, on-demand computing,
  internet computing, network computing, enterprise
  resource integration, global load balancing, and
  so on.
• Grid computing mainly means
• to reduce total cost of ownership(TCO)
• to aggregate and improve efficiency of computing,
  data, and storage resource
• to enable the creation of virtual organizations
  for applications and data sharing

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The importance of Grid in Korea

• The importance of Grid in Korea is larger than
  other countries possessing strong
  telecommunication industry
• In case of Korea, computing industry is
  relatively weaker than telecommunication industry
• Grid can be the stepping stone for strengthening
  Korean computing industry based on current IT
  capability of Korea through computing and
  communication convergence services

Convergence
Communication Industry
Computing Industry
GRID
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Worldwide Grid Spending

• After year 2006, the popularization of Grid
  computing is expected to be accelerated
• Especially, the financial services and ERP
  services is expected to take major parts in the
  expense

Source Insight Research Corp.
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Business Grid

• Definition
• Business activities through commercialized IT
  services based on Grid technologies
• Scattered areas of Business Grid
• Utility computing, Grid CDN, eHealth, eLearning,
  eManufacturing and so on

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Business Grid Cases (1)

• Financial Grid

Source Financial Information Grid an ESRC
e-Social Science Pilot, ESRC
(Economic Social Research Council), 2004
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Business Grid Cases (2)

• Biomedical Grid

Source J-start project, IBM japan, 2003
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Business Grid Cases (3)

• Learning Grid

Source ELeGI(European Learning Grid
Infrastructure)
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Business Grid Cases (4)

• Traffic Information Grid

Source ShanghaiGrid
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Business Grid Cases (5)

• Grid CDN (Grid Delivery)

Source Kontiki
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Business Grid Cases (6)

• Game Grid

Source Emergent Game Technologies
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Business Grid Cases (7)

• eGovernment Grid

Source IBM
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Business Grid Cases (8)

• Grid ASP

Source Grid report, NEC, 2004
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Business Grid Cases (9)

• Automotive/Aerospace Application
• IPG (Information Power Grid)
• DAMIEN
• GEODISE (Grid Enabled Optimization and Design
  Search For Engineering)
• MAGNA STEYR
• Landrover
• Industries that are currently using Grid
  Technology are Life Science, Engineering,
  Commerce, Financial, Electronic Design
  Automation, Digital content creation, Testing,
  Server/Storage, Batch processing, Decision
  support/data mining and so on

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Requirements Of Potential Grid Adopters

• Following Business benefits of Grid computing
  have been presented by Grid service providers
• Accelerate time to results
• Enable collaboration and promote operational
  flexibility
• Efficiently scale to meet variable business
  demands
• Increases productivity
• Leverage existing capital investments
• However, potential Grid adopters needs more
• Enlarging technological feasibility of the Grid
  to guarantee quality of service with cost
  efficiency
• Providing clear economical advantages and vivid
  value creation to the Grid adopters, compared to
  possible alternatives
• Securing the Grid system to ensure safe and
  stable trusted collaboration of various resource
  owners and service users.

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Hurdles in Grid Business Promotion

• Current Grid players need to pursue the service
  discovery and development, satisfying the
  requirements of potential stakeholders in all IT
  areas
• The necessity of ubiquitous Grid adoption is
  increasing, but we need more efforts for
  satisfying requirements of potential Grid
  adopters
• Easing customer/industry specific application
  development, deployment, management and
  maintenance
• Enabling global resource orchestration with open
  standard
• Customer-centered Grid service policy and SLA
• Securing resource sharing and transaction

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Collaborative Service Creation of Grid Business

• Collaborative value creation with business
  players and potential customers should be
  processed in developing new Grid business models
  and Grid services
• The ubiquitous success of Grid depends on the
  activities for eliciting, validating and
  harmonizing the requirements of potential Grid
  adopters
• We need to enlarge participants of Business Grid
  activities
• Enterprises, government agencies and academic
  institutes in all over the IT sectors need to
  cooperate and compete

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Vision of Business Grid
U-Korea Global Competitiveness in Advanced
Ubiquitous Services
Cooperative IT environments for knowledge sharing
National competitiveness for advanced IT services
Grid based BcN Business Grid Services
Maximization of cost-efficiency in existing IT
infrastructure
Vitalization of new IT services and business
models
BcN (Broadband Convergence Network) aims to
achieve 50100Mbps broadband networks supporting
IPv6 with guaranteed quality and security. It
pursues the interoperable fixed-mobile
convergence network integrating voice, data and
broadcasting services.