NESSI-Grid’s Strategic Research Agenda for Business Grids

1. NESSI-Grid’s Strategic Research Agenda for Business Grids Andrea Manieri Engineering Ingegneria Informatica s.p.a.

2. Content NESSIGrid contributing to NESSI, What’s NESSI? NESSIGrid Research Agenda – final version Make it happen, contributing to NESSI Announcement: Service Wave 2008

3. What’s NESSI?

4. The story of NESSI The context - European Technology Platform Private-public partnership Industrial leadership Uniting all stakeholders Around a key, strategic area Strategic? Europe’s future growth Europe’s competitiveness Link? Requires major research and technological advances In the medium to long term NESSI aims to provide a unified view for European research in Services Architectures and Software Infrastructures Today, NESSI partners represent 1.7 Million strong workforce and 490 B€ in revenues NESSI has presented an initial Strategic Research Agendathat represents a global investment of 2.5 B€

5. In a world of convergence VIRTUAL Tomorrow the Internet will be strategic because of “services” REAL AMBIENT NETWORKS & PERVASIVE COMPUTING

6. The challenge of NESSI Transforming the Internet to service your life … ensuring that services can be provided to all, citizens and businesses alike, in safe, secure, reliable, extensible, scalable environments

7. The vision of NESSI This evolution requires a service oriented environment NESSI companies have recognised that no single company can or should harness the power of such an environment NESSI is a partnership that will ensure the emergence of a service environment allowing for Innovation Fastdeployment Seamlessaccess

8. NESSI Research Structure • Coordination mechanisms • ensure coherence and consistency • ensure openness • open participation • open utilisation • open to evolution • attract contributions

9. Research Projects The NESSI Research Structure NESSI Strategic Projects Strategic to the delivery of NEXOF Compliant Projects Delivering to NEXOF or Compliant to NEXOF NEXOF

10. Delivering NEXOF NESSI Open Service Framework Open Reference Model  Concept and Principles Open Reference Architecture  Standards Open Reference Implementation Conformance Test Suite Validation of NEXOF instances in real scenarios

11. NESSI Strategic Projects 6 NESSI Strategic Projects EzWeb MASTER NEXOF-RA Reservoir SLA@SOI SOA4ALL Key contributors to the delivery of NEXOF Acronym: NSP

12. The NEXOF-RA Strategic Project Managing contributions to NEXOF Invitations to Contribute 1st invitation 21/7/2008 publication 3/10/2008 closing 20-21/10/2008 kick-off of the investigation teams Selected topics Service User interaction research area Service platform research area Service oriented infrastructure research area Scalable approaches to SOA

13. NESSIGrid Research Agenda – Final version

14. Introduction: Goal & Evolution Goal: A Vision & SRA for a grid-like service-oriented infrastructure for business environments and business applications Evolution from adhoc view out of the consortium… … to a broad perspective from the European community… … to a consolidated roadmap. Timeline May 06 Sep06 Oct06 May 07 Oct07June 08 Sep 08Oct 08 v0.9 v1.0 v1.5 v2.0 v2.5 …v3.0 project early internal SOI-WG community publicroadmapstart draft edition draft edition draft edition

15. SRA 3.0 in a nutshell SRA version 3.0 … and the most important new features: clear vision for future service-oriented infrastructure comprehensive methodology approach considering heterogeneous viewpoints clear specification of business application context 9 core business scenarios: Enterprise, Hierarchical Enterprise, Hosting, Extended enterprise, Dynamic Outsourcing, Mergers & acquisitions, Virtual organizations, Business value networks, Mega Services SotA analysis including ~180 references on related infrastructure technologies, research fields and technology trends Derivation of 47 challenges with clear traceability Specification and assessment of 17 business indicators Roadmap analysis of scenario relevance & challenge characteristics 14

16. Context • Context: Business Applications • Online applications: • Most business applications are online. • Clients of business applications care about the response time they observe. • Industrial benchmarks for online applications set strict statistical distribution thresholds for the provided response times. • Stateful nature: • Business applications are typically stateful: Conversational (sessions) or persistent state. • Persistent state is updateable with typical workloads ranging from 20-50% of updates. • Transactional Semantics: • State belongs to business so it requires consistency guarantees. • In the advent of concurrent accesses to shared state isolation should be provided. • In the advent of failures, all-or-nothing semantics should be guaranteed. • The outcome of successful transactions should be durable despite failures. • Multi-Tier Architectures • Business applications are typically constructed on top of multi-tier architectures. • Their gridification should be transparent.

17. Context • Context: What is Different from Scientific Applications? • Online vs. offline: • Scientific applications are characterized by being batch applications. • The main concern is high utilization of the underlying infrastructure. • No concern about response time of individual requests. • Stateful vs. stateless: • Scientific applications typically stateless. • Persistent state typically read-only, in some cases write-once read-many. • Read-only workloads. • Transactional Semantics: • Scientific applications are not concerned about transactional semantics. • Scientific grids are not aware of transactions. • Multi-Tier Architectures: • Scientific applications are not typically built on top of multi-tier architectures. • Scientific grids are not aware of multiple tiers.

18. Business Scenarios Business scenarios Enterprise: core scenario for traditional infrastructures Hierarchical Enterprise: includes notion of enterprise policy hierarchies Hosting: special case of enterprise & virtual organisation Extended enterprise: includes devices beyond the traditional backend (pervasive, sensors, …) Dynamic Outsourcing: dynamic migration of IT resources between administrative domains Mergers & acquisitions: merge of previously separated administrative domains Virtual organizations: multi-party (at least 3) collaboration and resource/service sharing Business value networks: complex chains including multiple providers/administrative domains Mega Services: services to millions of customers across the globe

19. State of the Art Considered under 3 main perspectives: Infrastructures Research and Scientific Grids Enterprise Grids Virtual-machines based Grids Mobile Grids Research fields Data Grids, Data Replication, Multitier Systems, Application Development, Performance Engineering, Cost & Revenue Management, Autonomic Computing, Virtualisation, Security, Interoperatiblity New Technology Trends Storage and Data Management; Processor Technology; Virtualisation; Network Connectivity; Mobile devices; Sustainability

20. Research Challenges 47 research challenges Data Management (scalability, low latency geo, autonomy) Application Development (automatic parallelism, mobility app support, automatic distribution) Network Connectivity (end2end, heterogeneity, mobility, adaptiveMiddleware) Accounting and SLAs (transparent, holistic) Dependability (self healing, cost awareness, mobile) Security (isolated zones, policies, identity mngmt, reputation&trust) Performance (predictable virtualisation, integrated scheduling, prediction, resource mng) Interoperability (standards, composed multi tiers, dynamic, non functional) Manageability (mng4Business, new devices, virtualisation&deploy, ctrl&monitor, multiple domains, mediation conflict, self management) Governance (specifications, enforcement, translation) Flexibility (support changes, autonomy, scalability, dynamic allocation, large scale, dynamic security) Mastering Complex Systems (holistic modelling, flexible simulation, integrated tooling) Overarching Challenges (business value, complexity, architecture driven)

21. Research Challenges: Example • Example: Predictable Virtualization

22. Roadmap Roadmap dimensions organizational complexity technical reach service enabling VirtualOrganization ExtendedEnterprise Merger &Acquisition HierarchicalEnterprise Enterprise Hosting DynamicOutsourcing MegaServices ValueNetworks

23. Conclusions: Key Challenges New system architectures harmonize & advance SOA, SOI, multi-tier, federated and Internet scale support all kinds of business models, applications and emerging HW env. provide transparent and integrated access for all relevant stakeholders Advanced system lifecycle approaches support transparent knowledge tracking, feedback loops, prediction and simulation from engineering to decommissioning clear separation of concerns between different stakeholders (Biz vs. IT, …) adhering to overarching sustainability req. for full variety of Biz scenarios Advanced infrastructure technologies in terms of hardware (energy efficient, flexible allocation, virtualization …) middleware (scalability, new multi-tier system design, flexible storage systems, harmonized virtualization on all layers) related programming models (parallel & distributed programming, multi-core)

24. Make it happenContributing to NESSI

25. Collaboration opportunities As a NESSI member Become a member Contribute through a Working Group Outputs SRA evolution NEXOF architecture Through NESSI contributing projects Strategic Projects Extend your project to contribute to NEXOF NEXOF

26. National NESSI initiatives Existing in Norway Poland Slovenia Spain Emerging in Hungary Bulgaria Italy Netherlands

27. The ETPs eBusiness,eAdministration,eGovernment, etc. Health, Inclusion,User Communities, etc. Home, Media, Content,Learning, Culture, etc. Mobility, Transport, Personalenvironment, etc. … Manufacturingindustries, Automotive,Aerospace, Electro-technical, etc. Moving beyond relative roles into “synergistic implementation” Individual Consumer Citizen Worker etc. Competitiveness InnovationSpeed Mobile Communications Networked and Electronic Media Software & Services Transforming the Internet from information to services Embedded Systems ARTEMIS Nanoelectronics

28. The inter-ETPs collaboration Convergence topic: « Future Internet » Modalities Define a common vision of the Future Internet Investigate opportunity of setting a JTI – Joint Technology Initiative In addition Created a common information booth and session at upcoming ICT 2008 Signed a joint statement with the FP6 and FP7 projects in March 2008 Collaborating on upcoming ServiceWave 2008

29. Information about NESSI? Online Web site www.nessi-europe.eu Public documents: SRA, governance, compliance checklist NESSI position papers One click online membership Working Groups contacts NESSI Scenarios Movie Quarterly NESSI newsletters NESSI events NESSI Office support team info@nessi-europe.eu ICT 2008 – 25 to 27/11/2008, Lyon, France ServiceWave 2008 – 10 to 13/12/2008, Madrid, Spain

30. Announcement:

31. ServiceWave 2008 30 ServiceWave fosters the creation of cross-community scientific excellence by gathering industrial and academic experts from various disciplines such as business process management, distributed systems, computer networks, wireless & mobile communication networks, grid computing, networking, service science and software engineering.

32. ServiceWave 2008 31

33. Conclusions Many collaboration opportunities Participate to NEXOF’s « Invitation to Contribute » Join NESSI Working Groups, in particular SOI-WG http://www.soi-nwg.org/doku.php Participate to NESSI Strategic Projects on addressing NESSIGrid Key Challenges Adapt existing projects to become compliant to NEXOF architecture Participate to NESSI events Andrea Manieri Andrea.manieri@eng.it  +393492532491 Véronique Pevtschin veronique.pevtschin@eng.it  +32475413878

34. Enabling the next wave of services NETWORKED EUROPEAN SOFTWARE & SERVICE INITIATIVE