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SIMDATData Grids for Process and Product

Development using Numerical Simulation and Knowledge Discovery

Richard KamuzinziUniversité Libre de Bruxelles – Bioinformatics

June, 17th 2006 (Scientific Meeting – Helsinki)

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SIMDAT Facts

• IST GRID Project• 4 years

• Start date: September 1st 2004• 26 partners

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Scope

• Product and Process Development (automobiles, aircraft, drugs, meteorological services) is – Complex– Involves several independent organizations at

different locations

• Industrial environment: process are further complicated by external factors (financial pressure => share risk)

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Strategic objectives

• to test and enhance Data Grid technology for product development and production process design,

• to develop federated versions of problem-solving environments by leveraging enhanced Grid services,

• to exploit Data Grids as a basis for distributed knowledge discovery,

• to promote defacto standards for these enhanced Grid technologies across a range of disciplines and sectors as well as

• to raise awareness of the advantages of Data Grids in important industrial sectors

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Project organization

NEC, GSK, Inpharmatica, ULB, Fhg SCAI-Bio, UKA, Biowisdom

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Driving scenarios (user perspective)

• Need to order for services on contract-based business process

• Need to specify execution constraints on top of the order (SLA – Service Level Agreement)

• Request for IP (Intellectual property) preservation during the transaction flow

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Constraints

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Driving scenarios (service provider perspective)

• Need to comply to SLA-based service provision

• Need to conform on the AAA model (AutN, AutZ, Accounting) for resources access

• Need to manage resources to be able to prioritize jobs execution

• Need to contract with third-party suppliers of services

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Driving scenarios (example)

Budget holder GSK

Budget holder Slovakia

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EMBNet-expert Sweden

EMBNet-expert Finland

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Technologies to consider

• Standards (Web Services, WS-I, …)• Dynamic access control technics to deal with

VO (virtual organization)• Federated PsE (Problem Solving Environment)• Ontologies (pragmatic approach vs. generic

approach)• Workflows (composition and enactments in

GRID environment)• GRIA (Grid resources for industrial applications)

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Pharma – First year achievement

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Expected outcomes (ULB perspective)

SIMDAT will provide technologies

• To support the academia/industry collaborations in R&D activities

• To build an EMBnet VO to exploit the multiple knowledge spread among members

• To rationalize the management of resources (financial pressure)

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Thank you !