Grid Applications: Trends, Requirement, and evalution

Prof. Qian DepeiDirector, Sino-German Joint Software Institute (JSI)

Beihang Universitydepeiq@buaa.edu.cn

Beijing, June 22, 2005

Trends in Applications (1) Critical applications rely on the

network Related to daily life of ordinary people Pervasive and Ubiquitous

Penetrate to every corner of the society Featured by massive users, massive

equipment, massive information Mobility

Nature of modern society Change in both working and living styles new application characteristics

Trends in Applications (2) Perceptive to the environment

Location-based Context-aware Sensor networks based

Rapid and dynamic change Ever-growing of new applications Upgrading and evolution of

current applications

Applications cover broad range (1)

Scientific research e-Science DEISA

Government functions e-Government e-Customs E-XX

Industrial applications Design, Manufacturing, Simulation SIMDAT, AVIGRID

Applications cover broad range (2)

Social and economical development Crisis response Environmental issues

Daily life of ordinary people Entertainment--game education Culture—digital lib

DLLIGENT Healthcare

DDG

Requirement from applications

large scale data exchange and sharing Sharing of computing power and other

computing resources in large geographical area

Collaboration between distributed and large scale applications

Interaction and collaboration between people who are geographically separated

Management of dynamically changing resources

Rapid generation and dynamic deployment of applications

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How to judge the success of Grid?

Application is the most important criteria Improves the quality? Increase the efficiency? Lower the cost? Reduce the complexity?

Improve the quality

Enabling applications which are impossible before Nation-wide applications Cross-domain applications Collaboration between

applications Better utilization of resources

and easier access

Increase efficiency

Increase efficiency Development stage Operational stage Maintenance

Lower the cost

Lower the cost by Efficient usage of resources Reduction in man-power Reducing the development cost Reducing the operation and

maintenance cost

Reduce complexity Oriented to end users who are not

expert in information technology Effectively reduce the development

complexity Providing higher level tools and

abstraction Hiding the heterogeneity

Facilitate implementation of large scale projects Reusable services More systematic approach for

development

Grid applications session agenda (1) SIMDAT - Data grids for process and product dev

elopment using numerical simulation and knowledge discovery - (i) Overview - Marije Geldof - FhG, Germany - (ii) Aerospace activity - Jamil Appa - BAE Systems, UK - (iii) Audi use case for distributed simulation data and process management - Jason Li & Yimin Jin, MSC, China

Aviation Grid - Degang Cui - Beihang University, China

DILIGENT - A digital libray insfrastructure on grid enable technology - Peter Fankhauser - FhG, Germany

Grid applications session agenda (2) eScience in China - Baoping Yan, Computer

Network and Information Center, CAS, China

The eScience applications in DEISA - Hermann Lederer - RZG-Garching, Germany

New Drug Discovery Grid - Jianhua Shen, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, CAS China

Invited Talk: Asian Grid Activities overview - Satoshi Sekiguchi, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan

Thank you!