Industry Standards – Invited Talk

Mark LineschChairman, Global Grid Forum

Bernd KoschBoard Member, Enterprise Grid Alliance

GGF12 Brussels, Belgium

September, 20 2004

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Agenda

• Perspectives

• The Role of Standards

• Enterprise Grid Alliance

• Summary/Q & A

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Enterprise Dilemma

Grid computin

g Enterprise computing

Utilitycomputing

But …. common and compelling themes•Improve linkage between business and IT

•Respond quickly to changing business opportunities and threats

•Lower costs through increased automation and improved utilization

Overlapping concepts and terminology …

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Network Fabric

Storage Fabric

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Journey is not just a technology adoption issue

Financial

People

Technology

Process

Financial

People

Technology

Process

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Standards provide the “Glue” and “Grease” for industry adoption

“Glue” (Completeness)

“Grease”(Pervasiveness)

•Richer, more comprehensive solution stacks

•Larger pool of trained, available expertise

•More choice with greater availability

•Stability to invest with industry leverage

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Agenda

• Perspectives

• The Role of Standards

• Enterprise Grid Alliance

• Summary/Q & A

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The path toward pervasive adoption

Products & Solutions

Specifications & Standards

Reference Designs

Requirements & Use Cases

Architectures & Best Practices

Reference Designs

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The case for standards collaboration

• Opportunity to make significant progress on industry standard grid computing

• Must address how we describe, discover, access, monitor, manage, account and charge for resources

• Magnitude and scope of the work is greater than any one standards organization – requires collaboration

• Related work is already carried out in other standards bodies

• Collaboration is everyone's best interests

“It takes a community to raise a global grid”

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Grid Standards & Alliances

• GGF Research and Industry, use cases,

architectures and specifications (OGSA, OGSI/WSRF)

• DMTF Distributed Mgt. standards and models (CIM)

• OASIS eBusiness & Web Services Management (WS-

RF, WS-Notification, WSDM, …)• EGA

Promote and grow Enterprise grid computing• IETF

Internet architectures & specifications (SNMP, SMI)

• W3C Web Services architectures and specifications

• SNIA Advance the adoption of storage networks as

complete and trusted solutions"

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Context Services Info

Services

InfraServices

SecurityServices

Rsrc Mgmt Services

Execution Mgmt

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DataServices

PolicyMgmt

VOMgmt

Access

Integration

Provisioning

Cataloging

BoundaryTraversal

Integrity

Authorization

Authentication

WSRF WSN WSDM

EventMgmt

Trouble-shooting

Discovery

JobMgmt

Logging

ExecutionPlanning

WorkflowMgmt

WorkloadMgmt

Provisioning

ApplicationMgmt

DeploymentConfigurationReservation

Naming

Self MgmtServices

HeterogeneityMgmt

Service LevelAttainment

QoSMgmt

Optimization

Information Services

Infrastructure Services

SelfMgmtServicesSecurity

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Resource Mgmt Services

Data Services

Context Services

OGSA provides the blueprint

• OGSA - the framework for creating, managing, & delivering interoperable grid services

• OGSA v1.0 available as informational document today

• Companion OGSA Use Case document v1.0 and Glossary document,

Execution Mgmt Services

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“Blueprint” defines requirements & priorities for specifications/standards

• Good progress happening in many areas: OGSA v1.0 published, v2.0 in planning stages WSDL 1.2 in progress in W3C WS-Agreement draft in GGF WS-DM, WSRF, WSN drafts in OASIS OGSA Data Access & Integration in GGF WS-Security specifications in OASIS SAML & XACML in OASIS

• But more work is still to be done

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Standards and Specifications enable reference designs, products and solutions

• Today Mix of application-specific code, “off the shelf”

tools and services from Globus, Condor, UNICORE, startups, established IT-vendors and others in Grid community

Glued together by application development and system integration

• Soon Broader open source implementations,

increased opportunities for startups and more investment by IT-vendors

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We are somewhere around here

Realistic Expectations

Scientific/ Technical Grids

Commercial/ Enterprise Grids

2003 2004-5 ~ 2006-7

Early Deploymen

ts

Momentum Building(Proven Solutions)

2004 2005-6 ~ 2007-8

Broad Adoption

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Agenda

• Perspectives

• The Role of Standards

• Enterprise Grid Alliance

• Summary/Q & A

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Enterprise Grid Alliance

• Consortium of leading vendors and customers Incorporated as a non-profit corporation

• Open, independent and vendor-neutralAny company can join - no admission barriersNo one controls, each company gets one vote

• Tactical focus with 6 month timelines and goals5 working groups, no research groups

• Promote and grow Enterprise Grid computing

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EGA Participants

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EGA Technical Scope

• Grid computing in Enterprise data centersNot desktop grids

• Within or between Enterprise legal entitiesNot dynamically defined virtual organizations

• For Enterprise applicationsCommercial and Technical Enterprise

applications: General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Portfolio Modeling, Supply Chain Simulation

Not scientific computing or academic research applications

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EGA Technical Strategy

• Attack the problem in phases Begin new phases every 12-18 months No clear cessation of phases, rather an evolutionary

continuous extension

• For each phase Determine availability of existing technologies and

standards Develop proofs of concept, demos Profile solutions Communicate requirements to relevant industry

organizations Develop specifications and reference models where

needed

• Three phases

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Phase 1: Core Capability

• Core Commercial Enterprise applications only Not Technical Grid applications Applicable to every Enterprise Validate that basic support is possible now, encourage

or develop needed specifications ensuring openness

• Capability within a single Enterprise only Not between Enterprises Focus on a data center, but include interaction with

other data centers first for availability and then for load balancing and cooperative processing

Interoperation between vendors, within a data center

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EGA Core Capability

2004-2005

Between EnterprisesInternet

Within an EnterpriseIntranet

Technical Enterprise Apps

Modeling, Simulation

Commercial Enterprise AppsERP, CRM, BI

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Phase 2: Include and Extend

• Include support for Technical Grid applications Enables Technical Grid processing when Commercial

applications don’t need the resources Off hours capacity encourages development of more

Technical Grid applications, packaged applications arise

Boundary between application types begins to blur

• Extend multiple data center support to other organizations Message passing applications such as supply chain,

trading applications RPC calls between applications Grids between Enterprises begin to interoperate

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Include and Extend

Commercial Enterprise AppsERP, CRM, BI

Technical Enterprise Apps

Modeling, Simulation

Between EnterprisesInternet

Within an EnterpriseIntranet

2005-2006

2005-2006

2004-2005

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Phase 3: Unify and Complete

• Unify Grid computing within and between Enterprises True cooperative processing, not just message

passing Dynamic capacity addition: Virtually extend the data

center Final capacity on demand capability delivered

• Complete support for all Enterprise applications In all configurations, inside the data center and

outsourced to data center providers Complete interoperation between Enterprise Grids Final computing-as-a-utility model begins to emerge

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Unify and Complete

2005-2006

2005-2006

2007-2008

Technical Enterprise Apps

Modeling, Simulation

Within an EnterpriseIntranet

Between EnterprisesInternet

Commercial Enterprise AppsERP, CRM, BI

2004-2005

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Alliance Values: Time to Market

• Alliance delivering first detailed Enterprise use cases in 3-4 monthsWill contribute use cases to GGF and provide

feedback on OGSA

• Don’t want to reinvent anythingPursuing liaisons with all relevant standards

organizationsPrefer to find and adopt existing solutions

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EGA EMEA Regional Steering Committee (ERSC)

• Announced today• Consists of Sponsor members that have special interest or focus in the EMEA regionRecruit membership in EMEAPromote Alliance objectives and activities in EMEADrive standards adoption in EMEALiaison with relevant EMEA organizations

• For more information: www.gridalliance.org

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Agenda

• Perspectives

• The Role of Standards

• Enterprise Grid Alliance

• Summary/Q & A

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Summary

• Opportunity to make significant progress on industry standard grid computing Enterprises are adopting grid computing – require standards

and a rich vendor ecosystem Magnitude and scope of the work is greater than any one

standards organization – requires collaboration

• Growing consensus on architecture concepts – OGSA provides a blueprint

• Service-oriented architectures enable alignment and broad industry support

• Significant progress has been achieved but much remains Work across the entire community to accelerate the future

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Q & A