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FP6 SSAI Collaboration and Technical Groups
Collaboration Groups
Technical Concertation
The collaboration with other IST Grid-related projects was and is a major topic of SIMDAT.In order to avoid duplication of work, reuse designs and software components, agree on architectures and exchange experiences collaboration task among these projects is implemented: a number of technical groups have been set up for exchange of information. The structure and focus of these technical groups will be adjusted to the changing needs by a steering committee.
- to exchange information between the different projects
- to initiate and facilitate technical collaboration
- to review and assess these technical collaboration tasks
- to avoid duplication of work
- to harmonize research and development activities
- to share detailed experiences
Current Collaboration Task Group:
CT1 – Exploitation of Synergies / Technical Concertation - Contact: Clemens-August Thole (remove NOSPAM from the address)
Dissemination
There are numerous projects and initiatives active in the field of Service and Software Architectures, Infrastructure and Engineering. The collaboration group “Dissemination”, lead by the 3S-project, will assist these projects in their dissemination efforts.
The focus is on establishing a joint platform for the stakeholders in the field of Software & Software Services, where they can not only access information on related projects and events but also disseminate their own activities, knowledge and outcomes.
Current Collaboration Task Group:
CT2 - Collaboration on Dissemination - Contact: M Pilar de Miguel (remove NOSPAM from the address)
Co-ordination of standardisation efforts
European ICT development is at a tipping point with the adoption of Grid and related distribution system technologies like virtualisation, automation and service orientation transforming the IT landscape in the shift towards an increasingly global, knowledge-based economy. These technologies can help to clear major hurdles that inhibit information flow and innovation by enabling new, more flexible ways to procure, deploy and use IT services provided they are based on globally accepted, interoperable software standards. Interoperable software standards are especially important for broader, more mainstream adoption, enabling speedy and inexpensive connection of Grids within organisations and/or inter-operation with external Grids with important implications for the SME players dominating the EU software industry.
Current Collaboration Task Group:
CT3 - Co-ordination of standardisation efforts – Contact: Philipp Wieder (remove NOSPAM from the address)
Repository
There is a desire to build a Repository of OSS reference implementations for software emanating from the FP6 Grid Projects.
This will maximise the impact of the projects by focusing on innovative research rather than repetitive software development. This Repository could also become a key component for dissemination and exploitation within a future technology platform such as NESSI.
Current Collaboration Task Group:
CT4 - Repository - Contact: Kostas Kavoussanakis (remove NOSPAM from the address)
Collaboration on Roadmaps
Collaborations between EU Funded Projects has become a common aim for several years now. The aim of a common European Grid Roadmap (EGR) is not only to take snapshots of on-going research activities and breakthroughs, but also to stimulate further co-operation between these projects. The European Grid Roadmap Group (EGRG) will be responsible for the release of an updated version of the roadmap, which will include a SWOT analysis of the European funded Grid researches and developments.
Current Collaboration Task Group:
CT5 - Collaboration on Roadmaps - Contact: Wolfgang Ziegler (remove NOSPAM from the address)
Training activities
Training is a must in all research projects since it enables the acquisition of knowledge, skills, and competencies.
The goal of this task collaboration task is to co-ordinate the different training activities organized by the different projects in such a way that the impact of these activities is increased and the costs reduced, and to facilitate access to training activities in order to enable all the interested parties to acquire rapidly relevant skills in Grid computing.
Current Technical Group:
CT7 – Collaboration on Training Activities – Contac: Rosa M. Badia (remove NOSPAM from the address)
Technical Groups
Grid Architecture
The Grid Architecture Technical Working Group (TG1) focuses on architectural challenges from the FP5, FP6 and FP7 EU projects, gathering the requirements, from an architectural point of view, and investigating the transition from the Now-Grid to the Next Generation Grids. This group is one of the technical groups in Concertation Task 1 of grid related European Projects.
Current Technical Group:
TG1 - Grid Architecture - Contact: Juanjo Hierro (remove NOSPAM from the address)
Ontologies
The Semantic Grid is perceived as an extension of current Grids in which information and services are given a well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation. Ontologies are among the key building blocks for the semantic Grid. They determine the terms of Grid entities, resources,
capabilities and the relationships between them, in which any kind of content can be meaningful by the addition of Ontological annotations.
The Ontologies Technical Group aims at creating a community for the dissemination of Semantic Grid activities and for the sharing of technology, Ontologies and lessons learned, joining efforts in the development of a common set of Ontologies about Grid resources, to support annotation and description of resources and the provision of Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
Current Technical Group:
TG2 - Ontologies - Contact: Ioannis Kotsiopoulos ; John Domingue j.b.domingue@NOSPAMopen.ac.uk (remove NOSPAM from the address)
Service Composition, SLA usage and Workflow
The focus themes of the Technical Working Group includes several aspects ranging from business process description languages for Grid and Web Services, to solutions for Business Processes enactment, from SLA negotiation and QoS monitoring of composite services to semantic enrichment. Since the scope is very wide we will focus our attention on Workflows aspects such us description languages, engines, fault recovery, automatic service composition (choreography and orchestration) and optimisation, end to end Management including SLA. For the other aspects such us resource discovery and indexing, Security and Semantics we will provide requirements to other TWGs (namely Architecture, Fabric Management & Monitoring, Trust and Security and Ontologies). It is clear that the TWG, could further develop the results produced by the other TWGs in order to address some specific research aspects peculiar to the focus themes.
Current Technical Group:TG3 - Service Composition, SLA usage and Workflow - Contact: Pierluigi Ritrovato (remove NOSPAM from the address)
Grid Fabric and Monitoring
Grid Monitoring and Grid Fabric Management are huge research and development areas. Fabric management includes such issues as fabric fault tolerance, fabric monitoring, resource management, installation and configuration management, local resource management systems, logging and information services, performance monitoring etc.
Grid monitoring can be considered on the levels of grid application monitoring and resource, or fabric monitoring. The accuracy of measures strongly influences the performance of tools and services that use it, especially Grid resource management services.
Current Technical Group:TG4 - Grid Monitoring and Fabric Management - Contact: Jarek Nabrzyski , Krzysztof Kurowski (remove NOSPAM from the addresses)
Data Management
With the quantity of data that have to be stored, protected, shared, transferred, searched for and restored every day in every kind of business, Data Management is playing an important role, especially when you deal with large amounts of data that circulate all over the world.
Data Management deals with the development and improvement of the architectures, policies, practices and procedures that properly manage the full data lifecycle needs of an enterprise. Data Storage has a key position in the Data Management strategies and experts are trying to study an application that will allow storage manager to configure the storage infrastructure to automatically store data appropriately based on its properties.
Current Technical Group:
TG5 - Data Management - Contact: Mario Antonioletti (remove NOSPAM from the address)
Trust and Security
'Security and Trust' is a very broad area that includes technical issues such as the need and mechanisms for authentication, business issues such as the grounding of trust in business processes or in Virtual Organisations, and operational issues such as the need for user training and software maintenance.
It is clear that there are distinctive requirements for dealing with trust in industrial or commercial projects such as those from the IST programme, when compared with more established Grid-based academic research activities. This makes it inappropriate to focus on the much narrower topic of Security technologies, as Trust plays a crucial role differentiating FP6 IST Grid projects from previous and ongoing e-Science work in EU and National programmes.
TG6 recognises with this wide remit, it will not be possible to find a common technical approach addressing all project requirements. The emphasis is therefore to identify more focused topics where there are common interests across multiple projects, and discussion can lead to benefits for these projects. TG6 maintains a list of current topics and circulates summary information about their scope and eventual conclusions to all TG6 participants.
TG6 - Trust and Security - Contact: Mike Surridge (remove NOSPAM from the address)
Business Models and Service Level Agreement
While there are still many technical impediments to Grid Computing, it is increasingly business model issues and SLA issues which are slowing adoption of Grid technology. Therefore, a strong focus around real user requirements from an economic point of view is necessary. The user requirements include understanding of business models, risk management, trust, markets for trading of resources (i.e. data, software, bandwidth, storage, and computing power), legal issues, regulatory issues, taxation, economically efficient scheduling as well as service level agreements and user expectations. The technical working group TG7 addresses these requirements by providing a forum for exchanging results and new ideas on these topics.
Current Technical Group:TG7 - Business Models and Service Level Agreements - Contact: Jörn Altmann (remove NOSPAM from the address)
Virtual Organisations
As Computer technology grows and more and more users begin to share computer resources, the topic of Virtual Organsations (VO) becomes ever so important. Issues like VO Management and VO Support become more complex. The questions arise of how can scientists, groups of Grid users, resource sharers and collaborations between individuals and/or institutes be handled more efficiently. Today, scientists are taking an active approach in tackling these issues head on by organising specific technical groups to handle just these issues.
Current Technical Group:
TG8 – Virtual Organisations - Contact: Christine Morin (remove NO SPAM from the address)
Grid Portals and User Interfaces
Grid Portals provide an efficient infrastructure to put Grid-empowered applications to allow everyone to use Grid resources, and provide excellent ways to collect and trivially distribute functionality on a corporate or personal desktop. These allow personal systems to move from computer to computer and develop common APIs between portals and desktop tools in order to maximise the reuse of non-display aspects of software. The importance lies in staying one step ahead of the current market or consistently understanding new ways of improving the technology to allow easier access to users. Through specific Technical Groups, these aspects are explored.
Current Technical Group:
TG9 - Grid Portals and User Interfaces – Contact: Björn Hagemeier (remove NO SPAM from the address)
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