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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 6 Historical overview of Grid Research in GridCoord Countries 6 Grid Initiatives and Research Directions 9 Funding Summary 15 Member States Strategy and co-ordination 19 Industry and Business Involvement 20 Conclusion 22
Short History 23 Research lines and approaches 23 Funding Structure and Co-ordination 24 Annex: current projects 24
Short history of the Grid initiatives in the past 25 Research lines or approaches to the past or current initiatives 26 Funding structure and co-ordination 27 Annex: Tables of current projects for the French GRID 5000 Testbed 29
History 32 Research Focus in the Past and Current 32 Funding Structure and Coordination 32 Recommendations 34 Annex: Projects 34 Annex D - Hungary 36 Short History 36 Research initiatives and approaches 36 Funding Structure and Co-ordination 37 Links to International and EU activities 38 Links to Industry and Business 39 Future Activities 40 Annex: Projects 40 Annex E - Italy 41 Short history of the Grid initiatives in Italy 41 Research lines and approaches to past and current initiatives 43 Funding structure and coordination 45 Annex: current projects and efforts 46
Short history of Grid initiatives 48 Informal view of research lines 48 Funding structures and coordination 49 Annex: current projects 50
Short history 51 Research lines and approaches – past and current 51 Funding Structure and Co-ordination 52 Links to International and EU activities 53 Links to Industry and Business 53 Future Activities 53 Annex: Projects 53 Annex H - Spain 55 Short History 55 Future Initiatives 56 Funding Structure and Co-ordination 56 Annex - Current Projects and Investment 58
Short history 61 Research lines and approaches – past and current 61 Funding Structure and Co-ordination 61 Annex: Projects 62
History 63 Research Approach 63 Funding Structure and Coordination 65 Future Activities 67 Annex 67
Annex K - Grids in Industry 72 Assessment 72 Usage of and demand for Grids 72 Perspectives 73 Summary 73
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 beenwere 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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