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Project no: IST-2003-511618 GridCoord ERA Pilot on a co-ordinated Europe-wide Initiative in Grid Research Instrument: Specific Support Action (SSA) Sixth Framework Programme – Priority 2 - IST Deliverable D.3.1.1 Survey of Funding Bodies and Industry Due Date: 31 March 2005 Actual first submission date: 28.06.2005
Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Analysis 5 Historical overview of Grid Research in GridCoord Countries 5 Grid Initiatives and Research Directions 7 Funding Summary 13 Member States Strategy and co-ordination 16 Industry and Business Involvement 17 Conclusion 19
Short History 20 Research lines and approaches 20 Funding Structure and Co-ordination 21 Annex: current projects 21
Short history of the Grid initiatives in the past 22 Research lines or approaches to the past or current initiatives 23 Funding structure and co-ordination 24 Annex: Tables of current projects for the French GRID 5000 Testbed 26
History 29 Research Focus in the Past and Current 29 Funding Structure and Coordination 29 Recommendations 31 Annex: Projects 31 Annex D - Hungary 33 Short History 33 Research initiatives and approaches 33 Funding Structure and Co-ordination 34 Links to International and EU activities 35 Links to Industry and Business 36 Future Activities 37 Annex: Projects 37 Annex E - Italy 38 Short history of the Grid initiatives in Italy 38 Research lines and approaches to past and current initiatives 40 Funding structure and coordination 42 Annex: current projects and efforts 43
Short history of Grid initiatives 45 Informal view of research lines 45 Funding structures and coordination 46 Annex: current projects 47
Short history 48 Research lines and approaches – past and current 48 Funding Structure and Co-ordination 49 Links to International and EU activities 50 Links to Industry and Business 50 Future Activities 50 Annex: Projects 50 Annex H - Spain 52 Short History 52 Future Initiatives 53 Funding Structure and Co-ordination 53 Annex - Current Projects and Investment 55
Short history 58 Research lines and approaches – past and current 58 Funding Structure and Co-ordination 58 Annex: Projects 59
History 60 Research Approach 60 Funding Structure and Coordination 62 Future Activities 64 Annex 64
Annex K - Grids in Industry 69 Assessment 69 Usage of and demand for Grids 69 Perspectives 70 Summary 70
Executive SummaryThe first objective of the GridCoord project is to strengthen co-operation amongst the funding authorities in order to better co-ordinate the planning of future activities in the field of Grid research, an ERA objective. This GridCoord report contains a compendium of national Grid R&D initiatives in Europe, with special emphasis on the structures, initiatives and coordination actions at the level of funding bodies. This analysis is related to the recent and current projects on Grid Computing and to the possible industrial impact of this technology. The study builds on contributions from GridCoord partners in an attempt to define and size the present and future Grid computing space in the nine GridCoord countries. The study further includes findings from a workshop on Grid activities in European industry that was held at Stuttgart/Germany March 7-8, 2005 (Task 4.1.1) in order to better understand the usage of Grid in industry and its connection with publicly funded research. The document contains a chapter for each country that is represented by partners in the GridCoord project. Each chapter is organized as follows:
The report shows that the European countries have a prestigious research tradition in the areas that contributed “to build” the Grid technology - high-performance computing, parallel and distributed processing, networking infrastructures, software engineering in objects/components platforms, data base and knowledge discovery, cooperative computing, peer-to-peer computing -, as well as in the scientific application sectors: computational physics, high-energy physics, computational chemistry, life sciences, genomics, medicine, astrophysics, geophysics, earth observation systems, weather prediction, astrobiology, while some significant industrial and commercial applications are emerging. In the second half of the 90s / at the beginning of 2000s, some important initiatives have been started, notably UK e-Science, ACI Grid and Grid 5000 in France, Unicore in Germany. They have been followed, or accompanied, by other significant initiatives in The Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Poland, Sweden, and Hungary. Each country is characterized by specific institutions and structures to support and to co-ordinate research, notably at the level of Government and/or Research Institutions or Agencies that are described in the various chapters of this report. In some countries, there has been a comprehensive national funding programme specifically for Grids, notably in UK and France. In many other cases, the co-ordination on Grid research has been through the spontaneous orientation of the research community exploiting public funds in ICT platforms/applications. However, in these cases there are some notable trends that could allow the various countries to achieve common Europe-wide strategies, leading to comprehensive and coherent funding programmes. One trend is related to recognition, by Governments or Research Institutions, of the role of informal co-ordination structures/committees, for example the D-Grid consortium in Germany. In other cases, also according to the results of past/current projects and informal co-ordination of the scientific community, some Governments governments or Rresearch Institution institutions have launched specific initiatives oriented to achieve a coherent national strategy for funding Grid research and its industrial impact: notable examples are the countries where the Technological Platform / Quick Start approach has been followed, e.g. by the Italian Ministry for University and Research. In industry the pickup of the Grid was much slower. This was shown in the discussions of the workshop held at Stuttgart in 2005 (Task 4.1.1). The main reasons here are that Grid was for long considered to be a research topic, hence industry was following a different path in order to meet user requirements of a broader market. The overall funding for Grid development in industry can therefore not be estimated but - as examples of software vendors show – has to be considered substantial. The chapters of this report show that in all the Member States Grid Computing is considered a high-priority technology with strategic impacts on the development of research and on industrial and e-business applications. It must be pointed out that, though there have been important advances in basic technologies (such as infrastructures, programming interfaces and tools, scheduling and resource management techniques, monitoring, static analysis, and the such), much remains to be done in basic and applied research in Grid Computing in order that this technology will be successfully exploited at the industrial level: open middleware, operating systems, programming environments, composition of complex applications, security, data bases, vertical integration, as well as in standardization. Though significant differences exist in the approaches currently applied in the various countries, the above mentioned initiatives and trends (that are described in detail in the following chapters) show that there are interesting opportunities in order to better co-ordinate Europe’s various, fragmented efforts towards achieving critical mass, the potential for a more visible impact at an international level, and strategic industrial impacts. Key findings
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