F. Gagliardi - CERN/IT 1

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RTD efforts in Europe by Kyriakos Baxevanidis
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Examples of large National efforts
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

• Main on-going projects DataGrid, EUROGRID,
  DAMIEN
• Six new initiatives are starting (GridLab, GRIA,
  GRIP, DataTAG, EGSO, CrossGrid)
• ?35m IST-funding for above initiatives
• - the main underlying
  connectivity platform

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A new IST Grid project space
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• Infrastructure across
• 17 European States
• Cross-Atlantic link
• Application requirements
• Computing gt 20 TFlops/s
• Downloads gt 0.5PBytes/day
• Network speeds at 10Gbit/s
• Collaborations of more
• than 2000 scientists

2. EUROGRID, GRIP

• Infrastructure across
• 6 European States
• Industrial design, simulations
• (as well as scientific applications)
• Globus - Unicore interface
• Application requirements
• Real-time, Resource brokerage,
• Portals, Coupled applications

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Major impact to Application Communities

• Virtual collaboratories lead to new work models
  application community structures.
• In IST
• High Energy Physics
• Earth Space Observation
• Environment, Weather forecast
• Bio-sciences and Health
• Industrial design/simulation/visualization
• ASP

CERN-LHC
ESA
Bio-Sciences
EADS-Aerospace
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Commercial Perspectives

• 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
CPA9 GRID Technologies their applications

• 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-to-Peer)
• Knowledge Grids (e.g. links to Semantic Web)
• Demonstration Training facilities
• Accompanying Measures, Social aspects

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Future EU RTD Framework (y2003-2006)
Grid technology