GRID03r1 GRID Project Discussion 24 May 2006

ETSI Sophia Antipolis 24 May 2006 GRID-WORKSHOP Author: Patrick Guillemin page of 11 GRID03r1 GRID Project Discussion 24 May 2006.doc ETSI, European Telecommunication Standards Institute, Open ETSI GRID-WORKSHOP Standardization meeting Wednesday 24 May 2006, at ETSI in Sophia Antipolis France http://webapp.etsi.org/meetingcalendar/MeetingDetails.asp?mid=25853 http://portal.etsi.org/docbox/workshop/grid/ Moderated by BT/Mike Fisher Alcatel/Bela Berde and Patrick Guillemin/ETSI Agenda 09:00 - 12:00 13:30 - 17:00, Coffee Breaks, Lunch at France Telecom Cantine 1) Introduction, Karl Heinz Rosenbrock ETSI Director General (GRID06) Tour de table, Participant List (GRID01a1) Agenda revision (GRID01r1) and presentation planning (GRID03r1) 2) EC support in GRID standardization, IST Projects and European Technology platform NESSI GRID STF, GRID new work item, Plan or 2007 (GRID04) GSCG here on 24 May NextGRID Mike Fischer (BT) Akogrimo Julian Gallop, CCLRC (co-chair) CoreGRID Wolfgang Ziegler, Fraunhofer SCAI DataMiningGrid Vlado Stankovski InteliGrid Matevz Dolenc UniGrids Daniel Mallmann Rigo Wenning W3C/ERCIM, COPRAS contact GSCG not here on 24 May 2006 GridCoord Roman Tirler, University of Pisa HPC4U Rolf Welde Skeie, Scali K-Wf Grid Marian Bubak, CYFRONET OntoGrid Sean Bechhofer, University of Manchester Provenance Luc Moreau, University of Southampton SIMDAT Jamil Appa, BEA David De Roure University of Southampton, GGF/W3C liaison 3) ETSI GRID Starter Group and its ETSI Members supporters Chairman appointment (GRID08), Draft GRID ToR (GRID09) => agenda item 7) Next GRID-SG contribution to ETSI Board (GRID10) => agenda item 7) 4) Existing GRID activities in SDOs and Fora GGF17 ETSI GRID BoF (GRID05a1) (GGF SCRM, Wiki + ETSI & GGF collaboration in Plugtests) 5) Participant’s presentations on GRID view and activities INRIA, CoreGRID, GRIDCoord, GRIDComp, Franỗoise BAUDE Akogrimo, Dr Martin Hafner NorduGRID Balazs Konya Alcatel Bela Berde NextGRID Mike Fischer (BT) ?NESSI Akogrimo Julian Gallop, CCLRC (co-chair) CoreGRID Wolfgang Ziegler, Fraunhofer SCAI DataMiningGrid Vlado Stankovski InteliGrid Matevz Dolenc UniGrids Daniel Mallmann ETSI GRID-WORKSHOP 24 May 2006 page of 11 6) Work programme of ETSI in GRID standardization, role of ETSI Services (Standards Production Area (SPA), PlugtestsTM and PTCC) Plugtests, PTCC (GRID07) Panel discussion on GRID standardization work programme Draft TC/WG GRID ToR (GRID09) 21-22 June Board contribution (GRID10) GRID-SG kick-off ETSI GRID Project – for discussion on 24 May 2006 GRID-WORKSHOP ETSI and GRID A GRID definition is given in annex, to make it short we can say: Like the word Web (or WWW), the GRID will be the new name of the Internet The potential benefits of ICT GRID technology are:  Democratize GRID applications and services (SME, government, education, healthcare etc)  increase productivity by reducing Total Cost of Ownership (both CAPEX and OPEX)  offers any-type, anywhere, anytime services by/for all (utility service vision)  offers dynamic virtual infrastructure for building variable sized virtual organisations  extensibility, since based on a converged infrastructure, including the next generation Internet services backbone and NGN ETSI GRID initial work project is to address, in general, the IT-Telecom (Information Technology and Telecommunications) convergence and, in particular, the lack of interoperable GRID solutions built by IT in conjunction with the Telecom industry This is called ICT GRID The project pushes the emphasis on GRID applications and services based on global standards and their associated validation tools The goal is to enlarge the sphere of, actively support, and involve GRID stakeholders in the standardization of GRID (test specifications first) in the IT-Telecom converged world ETSI will consider a broad context of interoperable GRID standards at extended levels:  resource and service access, protocol, middleware, security, service, application with a large panel of GRID actors in the GRID value chain  standardization bodies, FORA and organizations in conjunction with relevant industrial stakeholders, research and innovation actors considering broad convergence in: o Information Technology (IT) and Web Services o Electronic communication (Telecom) and IT o Fixed and Mobile Communications – such as electronic communication manufacturers (Telecom), network operators, service providers, end resource equipment manufacturers, and various IT actors o Mobile standards, broadband communications, and ubiquitous services ETSI will not address alone the entire GRID issues that may be identified but, from networking the involved standardization bodies to produce consensus based technical specifications and reports ETSI will propose a roadmap to interoperable ICT GRID standards GGF SCRM-WG initiated a GRID Landscape Wiki http://www.ggf.org/scrm-wiki/ referencing existing GRID standards: This is a repository of relevant standards from work by leading industry bodies including the Global Grid Forum (GGF), the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS), the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), the Tele Management Forum (TMF), the Internet Engineering ETSI GRID-WORKSHOP 24 May 2006 page of 11 Task Force (IETF), the International Telecommunication Union – Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T), and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) AT least, ETSI MTS, PTCC, Plugtests and GRID-SG should be added in this Landscape There is still a need to consolidate this Landscape with the White Paper produced by GSCG (*) and proceed to a neutral, consensus based analysis of the situation (*) GSCG: The IST FP6 Grid projects Collaboration Task ‘Co-ordination of Standardisation Efforts’ is fostered and managed by the GRID Standards Co-ordination Group, a forum which comprises representatives from all IST FP6 GRID projects and external experts in GRID standardization The number of GRID developments from diverse industry segments is rapidly growing The uptake of the resulting products by scientific and industrial users is significantly increasing At present the number of existing GRID solutions combined with the lack of proper testing and verification procedures limit the interoperability of GRID solutions and the generation of standards driven by interoperability requirements ETSI GRID standardization objective is to reduce its complexity, while empowering individuals and organizations to create, provide access to and use a variety of services, anywhere, anytime, in a transparent and cost-effective way, realizing the vision of a knowledge-based and ubiquitous utility Using “Making Better Standards” Methodology (mbs) The proposed approach could follow http://portal.etsi.org/mbs/Components/components.asp and the following approach applied to GRID: Inventory, Agreed Problems Identification, Consensus Based Requirements Specification, Architectures Requirement Specifications and only after, Protocol Requirements (interfaces, interoperability, QoS, Security, testing and validation) used to define consensus based and technology neutral ETSI GRID standards (TS, TR) ETSI GRID-WORKSHOP 24 May 2006 page of 11 How to work with ETSI in this open ETSI GRID Project? GRID Starter Group history  ETSI PlugtestsTM has already organized GRID Plugtests (interoperability events) in 2004 and 2005 (eEurope, FP6 Research Projects UniGrids, CoreGRID, NextGRID, GridCoord, Sponsored by Microsoft, IBM, SUN, Universities and research bodies INRIA…) The last GRID Plugtests event, Grids@Work, was very successful with 240 participants: http://www.etsi.org/plugtests/History/2005GRID.htm  EC presented DG INFSO GRID Service Oriented Knowledge Utility on 7-8 September 2005 (Lisbon) to ETSI Board#53 and invited ETSI to work on GRID interoperability, DG INFSO F2 GRID Unit Vision of the Role of ETSI:  European Strategy and Roadmap Building on EU strengths  Bring together the IT/traditional Grid world with the Telco world: Interoperability / Convergence ?  Conformity / compliance testing - Open test platform / validation toolkit for Grid and Utility Services Standards  (Open source) reference implementations + repository  Migration of Grid standards/ MW from IPv4 to IPv6 – « mobile » Grids  Link / collaboration with  Other standardisation bodies  NESSI (European Technology Platform)  European Research Area project GridCoord  IST Projects Grid Standards Collaboration Group  National and European OMII-type initiatives  COPRAS  ETSI GRID Workshop organized on 30 September 2005 http://portal.etsi.org/docbox/bran/BRAN/GRIDWorkshop/  INGRID SSA working proposal (finally not accepted by DG INFSO evaluators)  Identification of all ETSI Members involved in GRID, GRID momentum, Early Contributors to ETSI GRID project  GRID activities and ETSI Members report http://portal.etsi.org/docbox/bran/BRAN/GRIDWorkshop/04_ETSI%20Members %20and%20GRID%20PROJECTS%20v3.doc  Both GRID Technology and Interoperability are strategic for EC and ETSI It was decided at ETSI GA#46 that GRID and Interoperability Testing are two of the six major strategic topics for ETSI in 2006 (GRID, NGN, EMTEL, Interop&Testing, Security and Radio Spectrum usage) http://docbox.etsi.org/ga/ga_archives/ga46/ga46_13a1%20ETSI%20Strategy%202006.ppt  Strategic Topics for 2006  GRID  Next Generation Networks (NGN)  Emergency Telecommunications  Interoperability and Testing  Information Security  Radio Spectrum usage  28 February – 1st March Board#56, first ETSI GRID Strategic Topic presentation and initial GRIDSG ToR  http://docbox.etsi.org/board/Board56/b56_38%20GRID%20Strategy.ppt ETSI GRID-WORKSHOP 24 May 2006 page of 11  http://docbox.etsi.org/board/Board56/b56_46%20GRID%20starter.doc  April meeting between NESSI ETP, NESSI-GRID SSA, DG INFSO, DG ENTR and ETSI The ETP (European Technology Platform) NESSI (Networked European Software and Services Initiative)  DG INSFO F2 GRID UNIT support to ETSI GRID Project + DG ENTR  GGF17 Tokyo + ETSI collaboration facilitated  NESSI-GRID SSA Partners present involvement BT, Siemens, IBM, HP, Nokia, ObjectWeb, Telecom Italia, Telefonica, Thales…  25 April 2006, ETSI had submitted an SSA called GO4GRID(*) about EU and China collaboration with three GRID Middleware(**) and two GRID + IPv6 interoperability test events The GO4GRID SSA proposal is linked to running GO4IT Project (TTCN, IPv6 Open Development Platform) ETSI will synchronize this GRID Project with GO4GRID SSA if it is accepted (*) GO4GRID consortium with ETSI for GRID roadmap to standardization, testing forces (CETECOM, CATR), research and development in GRID technologies organizations (INRIA, Tsinghua University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology), communications networks (BUPT) and exploitation of innovation (Inno Group) (**) The middleware of CNGrid (China National Grid) is GOS (Grid Operation System) The CNgrid interoperability with EGEE has already started with the EUCHINAGRID project The middleware of ChinaGRID (China Education and Research Grid) is CGSP (ChinaGrid Support Platform) Regarding the ChinaGRID initiative, interoperability between the CGSP middleware and Globus (GGF, Globus Alliance) have already be proven The middleware of NSFGrid (Grid of National Science Foundation of China) is CROWN  ETSI GRID BoF presented at GGF17 Tokyo on 12 May 2006 http://www.ggf.org/gf/event_schedule/index.php?id=247  31 May GRID STF submission to EC DG ENTR in answer to 2006 ICT Standardization Action Plan o New Work Item proposal used in 2006 ICT Standardization Action Plan (GRID STF planned Q1 2007)  ETSI TR “Study of ICT GRID interoperability gaps”  Part1: Inventory of ICT Stakeholders  Part2: List of identified Gaps  ETSI TR “ICT GRID Interoperability Testing Framework”  24 May 2006 GRID Workshop http://docbox.etsi.org/workshop/grid Introduction EC support in GRID standardization, IST Projects and European Technology platform NESSI ETSI GRID Starter Group and its ETSI Members supporters Existing GRID activities in SDOs and Fora Participant’s presentations on GRID view and activities Work programme of ETSI in GRID standardization, role of ETSI Services (Standards Production Area (SPA), PlugtestsTM and PTCC) Panel discussion on GRID standardization work programme  21-22 June Board#57, ETSI GRID-SG Progress report  ETSI GRID SWOT Analysis, GRID-SG Chair  GRID-SG Progress Report + STF GRID Proposal + GGF17 discussions  ETSI Members expression of support and proposal for Work Program ETSI GRID-WORKSHOP 24 May 2006 page of 11 ETSI Resources In addition to ETSI GRID-SG, GRID Workshops, GRID Plugtests events, PTCC (experts in testing with great experience in IPv6, SIP, VoIP….) , SPA (Standards Production Area) Department, we have:        ETSI Technical Body TISPAN/NGN TISPAN architecture, security and QoS control can be extended to link GRID with telecom networks Also: STQ, BRAN, TM, AT etc ETSI MTS Technical Committee and PTCC Service providing expertise and resources in GRID Validation and Interoperability Testing already involved in IPv6 and NGN 60 ETSI Cooperation agreements + GGF17 discussions : o ETSI GRID BoF to link ETSI Interop service with GGF WG GGF working groups and chairs at GGF#17 in Tokyo discussed ETSI GRID Standardization collaboration http://www.ggf.org/gf/event_schedule/index.php?id=247 ETSI is already in IST Projects COPRAS and actively contributes to maintain the roadmap to standardization required by the IST Projects to capitalize the research effort into standards ETSI cooperates with GSCG ETSI Portal public and ETSI restricted GRID area http://docbox.etsi.org/grid GRID@list.etsi.org Open GRID standardization distribution list with on line web archives http://list.etsi.org/GRID.html o To subscribe to this open list, send a mail to listserv@list.etsi.org with the command SUB GRID (your_firstname your_lastname) in the body of the message Who’ Who in ETSI GRID Project ? ETSI Members involved or associated to this project are:  British Telecom : Mike Fisher (Keith Dickerson, Frank Falcon), Full ETSI Member, partner of NESSI and partner of NextGRID (NGG)  Alcatel : Bela Berde (Alistair Urie), , Full ETSI Member involved in NESSI  Siemens : Karlo Nemeth, Full ETSI Member partner of NESSI  MINEFI/ARCEP : Laurent Rojey (Didier Chauveau Jean-Pierre Henninot), (« Ministère des Finances du gouvernement franỗais ằ and Regulator) INRIA : Denis Caromel, Franỗoise Baude INRIA, Full ETSI Member is partner in GRIDCoord, CoreGRID, GRID@Asia, ObjectWeb, and GridComp  France Telecom (sukesh.garg@francetelecom.com)  IBM, Jean-Pierre Prost, Jay Unger  Parlay Group (API, WebServices), collaborating with ETSI and already involved in Web Services PlugtestsTM Alcatel and BT are the two leaders of GRID Strategic Topic at ETSI Siemens, MINEFI, EADS and INRIA already confirmed their full support to the proposal During the ETSI GRID Workshop organized on 30 September 2005 (*), the following actors were in favour to take part in ETSI GRID Standardization from the beginning  BT, France Telecom, Alcatel, Telefonica  IBM, SUN  Federal Ministry of Economics and Labor (about ITU-T Regulation)  W3C, COPRAS  INRIA, Inno, EADS, Fraunhofer SIT/TeleTrust, HITACHI ETSI GRID-WORKSHOP 24 May 2006 page of 11  GRIDCOORD, Universität Stuttgart - High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) Research Centre Juelich (FZJ) ETSI GRID Workshop organized on 30 September 2005, http://portal.etsi.org/docbox/bran/BRAN/GRIDWorkshop/  The following ETSI Members and organization are already ready to collaborate with ETSI GRID actions  EADS : Guillaume ALLEON (Walter Legrand), Full ETSI Member  IBM Jean-Pierre Prost, Jay Unger  France Telecom involved in GRID4ALL (and GGF Telco-CG like BT)  FUJITSU (Jacques Durand) already in past ebXML Plugetsts and FUJITSU Dr David Snelling (Vice Chair of Standards at GGF)  Telenor (involved in AKOGRIMOAkogrimo)  HITACHI present in Sophia Antipolis  HP, NESSI Partner  ORACLE (David Pearson representing EGA)  ObjectWeb with INRIA/ProActive Middleware, ObjectWeb is NESSI Partner  W3C (COPRAS) and common activities on XML Electronic Signatures  EGEE (Grids@Work, Bob Jones) ObjectWeb (Proactive GRID Middleware supported by INRIA) supported two ETSI GRID Plugtests in 2004 and 2005 At the time this proposal is written, contact with experts from the following companies has been established to take part in ICT ETSI GRID project:  GGF17 Steve Crumb, Joel Replogle, David Snelling  Intel (Hans-Christian Hoppe – GGF17)  Fujitsu (Hiro Kisimoto SCRM-WG, David Snelling)  Cisco (Horst Dimcke – GGF17)  France Telecom (Sukesh Garg – GGF17 and Parlay Group)  Oracle (Christopher A Kantarjiev GGF17 SCRM-WG EGA representative)  IBM (David E Martin, Jay Unger GGF17 SCRM-WG)  Fraunhofer , FhG SCAI (Wolfgang Ziegler GGF17, CoreGRID)  NextGRID/GSCG (Philipp Wieder)  Parlay Group (API, WebServices), collaborating with ETSI and already involved in Web Services PlugtestsTM (FT/GARG Sukesh)  Akogrimo (University of Hohenheim /Martin Hafner) http://www.akogrimo.org  NorduGRID (Balazs Konya)  NORTEL (GGF Telco-CG Franco Travostino , John Philipps ETSI)  Eurolabs/ULB (Paul Van Binst, Rosette Vandenbroucke)  OASIS & WS-I (Fujitsu/Jacques Durand)  HP (Frederic.Gittler/NESSI)   http://www.omii.ac.uk OMII University of Southampton SNIA HITACHI/ Vincent Franceschini , Chairman, SNIA Strategic Alliances Committee & Grid Taskforce  Next to be contacted  Nokia  Ericsson  Philips (Herman Leenders)  NEC (with Fujitsu and Hitachi in OASIS Open Source Standards WS-Reliability)  Deutsch Telecom ETSI GRID-WORKSHOP 24 May 2006 page of 11       T-Systems Telecom Italia Microsoft Thales (Serge Druais NESSI) SAP (Dr Wolgang Gerteis NESSI) ERCIM In the past at ETSI, during the preparation of Plugtests events (Web Services, ebXML, ESI) or Cooperation Agreement negotiations, we contacted:  WS-I www.ws-i.org (Jacques Durand/Fujitsu)  OASIS www.oasis-open.org (Jacques Durand/Fujitsu, Patrick Gannon/OASIS)  TMF http://www.tmforum.org/, already cooperation with ETSI TISPAN  Parlay Group, OSA, (ETSI Cooperation Agreement) http://www.parlay.org  IETF (SIP, IPv6, NGI) ETSI PTCC produces these protocols test suite http://www.ietf.org  ITU-T NGN (full cooperation, standard partner)  IEEE (802.11, 802.16 HiperMAN/WiMAX test protocols, PLC) http://www.ieee.org/  ISO/IEC (ETSI Cooperation Agreement) In this GRID Project, ETSI needs to maintain contact with:  GGF Telco-CG and SCRM-WG (GGF#17) www.ggf.org o GGF SCRM-WG involves the following Standards Development Organizations: DMTF, GGF, IETF, ITU, OASIS, SNIA, TMF and W3C and focus on “management of networked resources” https://forge.gridforum.org/projects/scrm/  EGA (GGF#17) www.gridalliance.org (EGA and GGF are merging)  Globus Alliance: http://www.globus.org (Ian Foster)  SNIA http://www.snia.org Storage Networking Industry Association (Alliance with EGA)  OMA (ETSI Cooperation Agreement) http://www.openmobilealliance.org  The Open Group (ETSI COPRAS) www.opengroup.org  3GPP (ETSI) http://www.3gpp.org/  ICTSB (ETSI) http://www.ictsb.org/  ECMA (TC32, cooperation agreement) http://www.ecma-international.org  DMTF http://www.dmtf.org  … See more at http://webapp.etsi.org/AgreementView/AgreementSearch.asp EC Research Project and initiatives to be associated:  GRID is already in the scope of the IST Project COPRAS and its Roadmap to Standardization (CEN, CENELEC, W3C, Open Group and ETSI) http://www.copras.org  NESSI-GRID http://www.cordis.lu/ist/grids/ssa_proposal.htm  NESSI : European Technology Platform Partners: BT, Siemens, IBM, HP, Nokia, ObjectWeb, Telecom Italia, Telefonica, Thales http://www.nessi-europe.com/index.htm  GRID Infrastructures: EGEE, China National Grid, Grid5000, NORDUGRID and DEISA http://www-sop.inria.fr/oasis/plugtest2005/OpenGrids.html  GRID Middleware: gLite, ProActive (ObjectWeb), LCG, UNICORE (*)  NextGRID, CoreGRID, GRIDCoord (*); UniGrids (**) o http://www.unigrids.org/ UniGrids STREP (GRID Interoperability UNICORE, GGF/OGSA, OASIS/WSRF) o http://www.coregrid.net/ CoreGRID NoE (Coordinated by ERCIM & INRIA) o http://www.gridcoord.org GRIDCoord SSA  GSCG : ‘Grid Standards Coordination Group’ (Call2 FP6 Grid Projects) with Proactive goal to identify common requirements and to draw a plan to influence and orientate standardisation mainly in GGF Capitalize with the white paper on “Standards Needs identified by GSCG“ We are in contact with GSCG via Philipp Wieder NextGRID/FZJ  OMII University of Southampton, UK eScience collaboration and implication We are in contact with David De Roure http://www.omii.ac.uk/ ETSI GRID-WORKSHOP 24 May 2006 page of 11 (*) http://www.gridcoord.org (**) http://www.etsi.org/plugtests/History/DOC/GRIDMIDDLEWARESINFRASTRUCTURES.pdf http://www.etsi.org/plugtests/History/2005GRID.htm  List of the members of the GSCG to refer to: Akogrimo Julian Gallop, CCLRC (co-chair) CoreGRID Wolfgang Ziegler, Fraunhofer SCAI DataMiningGrid Vlado Stankovski, Ljubljana University GridCoord Roman Tirler, University of Pisa HPC4U Rolf Welde Skeie, Scali InteliGrid Matevz Dolenc, Ljubljana University K-Wf Grid Marian Bubak, CYFRONET NextGRID Philipp Wieder, Research Centre Jülich (chair); Joris Claessens, EMIC OntoGrid Sean Bechhofer, University of Manchester Provenance Luc Moreau, University of Southampton SIMDAT Jamil Appa, BEA UniGrids Daniel Mallmann, Research Centre Jülich David De Roure University of Southampton, GGF/W3C liaison Rigo Wenning W3C/ERCIM, COPRAS contact Three new work item for ETSI GRID STF proposal Title Scope Draft TR Inventory part of “Study report of ICT GRID interoperability gaps” ETSI TR “Study of ICT GRID interoperability gaps” Part 1: Inventory of ICT Stakeholders Draft TR “Study report of ICT GRID interoperability gaps” ETSI TR “Study of ICT GRID interoperability gaps” Part 2: List of identified Gaps Scope: In direct correspondence with the following ICT Standardization Action: Identification of interoperability gaps in existing and emerging international/European Grid standards: an inventory and analysis shall be made across the range of involved standards - making bodies with a view to determining the shortcomings; overlaps and loopholes in current and proposed de facto Grid standards at all levels of the middleware/protocol stack (network to application interfaces) Scope: Select and propose solutions for the identified interoperability gaps in terms of approach and methods: depending on the size of the interoperability problems as identified, a series of practical recommendations on how to address and resolve them shall be made in the form of appropriate actions ranging from application best practices compilation, profiles definition, operational use guidelines, (open source) reference implementations, conformity - compliance test suite specifications, up to testing tools development, standards validation benchmarking environment or other requirements for parallel or additional new standards regarding for instance the networking infrastructure (including e.g IPv6) Draft TR Deliverable GRID Interoperability Testing Framework ETSI TR “ICT GRID Interoperability Testing Framework” Scope: Define a GRID testing working framework (tests and validation methodologies, approach and tools to be used By example, propose to re-use the tools developed by MTS-IPT to create easily a “Requirement Catalogue” able to transform existing ICT GRID specifications into tests requirements standards corresponding to selected GRID interoperability case studies In both the IT sectors and in the Telecom world, produce the best practices to obtain ICT Interoperability List and compile existing GRID interoperability solutions including in particular: interoperability events, state of the Art papers, guidelines, interoperability profiles, reference implementations, use cases, test suites, test beds, testing tools, benchmarking existing in ICT including NGN, IPv6 and open source developments ETSI GRID-WORKSHOP 24 May 2006 page 10 of 11 What is an ICT GRID Plugtests ? An ICT GRID interoperability test events can be associated with workshops (like Grids @ Work in 2005) Organized in a GRID project, the GRID interoperability test event (GRID Plugtests) would allow to :  verify the assumptions,  put it in practices, disseminate the project proposals,  network all GRID stakeholders and possibly extend the number of stakeholders  and refine the studies before their finalization The ETSI Plugtests generic tasks applied to GRID are: GRID Plugtests Technical management: o Providing a customized test bed according to the needs o Setting up test cases with experts o Scheduling test slots (when requested) o Collecting feedback from the Plugtests TM Event for the standards process GRID Plugtests Event management: o GRID Plugtests Website creation (under http://www.etsi.org/plugtests ) o Online registration & payment o Local and logistical arrangements (hosting site, hotels, catering, shipment,…) o Legal aspects (MoUs, NDAs, rules of engagement) o Social events facilitation GRID Plugtests Communication management o Development of GRID Plugtests event promotional kit o GRID Plugtests Event representation at key conferences o Dissemination by press GRID Plugtests Sponsorship A Plugtests sponsoring programme is available in order to let the customers benefit from the ETSI high-long-term visibility using ETSI Collective Letters, ETSI Press releases, ETSI news letters and ETSI web site ICT GRID Plugtests event can have a large and very open scope , inviting all GRID Middlewares, applications and standards wherever technology they use or country they come 2006 ICT Standardisation Work Programme Action 2: The European Standardisation Organisations are invited to carry out a study on Interoperability & Validation of International Open Grid Standards; the study should cover the following issues:  Identification of interoperability gaps in existing and emerging international/European Grid standards: an inventory and analysis shall be made across the range of involved standards making bodies with a view to determining the shortcomings; overlaps and loopholes in current and proposed de facto Grid standards at all levels of the middleware/protocol stack (network to application interfaces)  Identify and propose solutions for the identified interoperability gaps in terms of approach and methods: depending on the size of the interoperability problems as identified, a series of practical recommendations on how to address and resolve them shall be made in the form of appropriate actions ranging from application best practices compilation, profiles definition, operational use guidelines, (open source) reference implementations, conformity - compliance ETSI GRID-WORKSHOP 24 May 2006 page 11 of 11 test suite specifications, up to "plug" test tools development, standards validation benchmarking environment or other requirements for parallel or additional new standards regarding for instance the networking infrastructure (including e.g IPv6)  Establishment of a strategic and policy-oriented roadmap with concrete and itemised steps for planning and coordinating the realisation of the above-described approach and methods including the positioning vis-à-vis, and collaboration with, international standards bodies and consortia (IETF, W3C, OASIS etc), community and industry fora and initiatives (GGF, DMTF, WS-I, EGA etc), the European Standardisation Organisations (CEN, CENELEC and ETSI) and the NESSI European Technology Platform in the field of standardisation, interoperability and openness of Grid based service oriented architectures Action 41: The European Standardisation Organisations are invited to propose standardisation related initiatives to further support the effective take up and implementation of standards in the domains listed by this work programme These actions should cover: awareness, promotion, information actions, educational actions as well as implementation of pilot projects and interoperability testing What is GRID ? A three point checklist by Ian Foster (*) A GRID is a system that: 1) coordinates resources that are not subject to centralized control, 2) using standard, open, general-purpose protocols and interfaces 3) to deliver nontrivial qualities of service (*) http://www-fp.mcs.anl.gov/~foster/Articles/WhatIsTheGrid.pdf “A GRID provides an abstraction for resource sharing and collaboration across multiple administrative domains…” (Source: NGG Expert Group, 16 June 2003 “European Grid Research 2005-2010) The main conclusions of the NGG3 (*) SWOT analysis can be summarised as follow:  Ontologies and Semantic Web technologies will be crucial to provide scalable support for complex, heterogeneous Grids middleware and applications  The strengths of the European telecommunications industry and the diversity of its market for electronic control systems have given Europe a leading position in the areas of mobile and embedded technology This is of particular relevance for the realisation of the vision of a Grid as a pervasive, user centered utility  The weakness in hardware and primary software products (e.g commodity processors, server and desktop Operating systems, Programming Languages, etc.) may hamper the development of a European leadership in Grids Technologies  The convergence between Grids and Web Services provides a significant opportunity to move to a model of software development and service provision where the market dominance of particular OS vendors is no longer a major economic issue  The distinctive European vision of a Grids environment that operates from the level of devices to supercomputers, to serve communities ranging from individuals to whole industries, including data, information and knowledge and emphasising resilience and scalability could have a significant economic and social impact far beyond the scope of existing compute and data Grids This should be contrasted with the North American Grid vision of programmer-level metacomputing  It is vital that any European vision for the evolution of Grids is accompanied by a clear representation of that vision to the key standards bodies and technology providers worldwide (*) ftp://ftp.cordis.lu/pub/ist/docs/grids/ngg3_eg_final.pdf For more information of the IT GRID, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_computing ... Panel discussion on GRID standardization work programme Draft TC/WG GRID ToR (GRID0 9) 21-22 June Board contribution (GRID1 0) GRID- SG kick-off ETSI GRID Project – for discussion on 24 May 2006 GRID- WORKSHOP... ETSI GRID standards (TS, TR) ETSI GRID- WORKSHOP 24 May 2006 page of 11 How to work with ETSI in this open ETSI GRID Project? GRID Starter Group history  ETSI PlugtestsTM has already organized GRID. .. (*)  NextGRID, CoreGRID, GRIDCoord (*); UniGrids (**) o http://www.unigrids.org/ UniGrids STREP (GRID Interoperability UNICORE, GGF/OGSA, OASIS/WSRF) o http://www.coregrid.net/ CoreGRID NoE (Coordinated