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Accelerating business innovation;
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Grid Computing Now!
Making the Case for Grid Computing
Ian Osborne
Project Director
Intellect, London
+44 20 7331 2054
+44 7793 258219
[email protected]
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Agenda
Accelerating business innovation;
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Introduction
The UK Government Technology Strategy
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Knowledge Transfer Networks (KTN)
The Grid Computing Now! KTN
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Vision
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Events
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Case Studies
Summary
Questions
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UK Government Technology Strategy
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Development of applications: “innovation platforms”
The integration of a range of technologies, to meet defined societal
need
Combined with better co-ordination of policy and procurement
instruments to deliver a step change in UK performance
Collaborative R&D Projects
Themed investments in key applied technology areas
Collaboration between academia and industry
Exploitation of key technologies: “knowledge transfer networks”
(KTNs)
To underpin the high value added areas of the UK Economy
To generate new streams of economic activity in their own right
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Technology Strategy Board Plan
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Developing overall strategy for launch May 8th
Priorities and Key Technology Areas for investment
Use this strategy as the foundation for 2008-2010 portfolio
Innovation Platforms – Societal Challenge (£10M/3yrs)
Collaborative R&D
Knowledge Transfer Networks (£3M/3yrs)
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships
Sainsbury Review indicates a substantial increase in budget (£1Bn
in Spending Review)
Closer engagement with RDA/DA, Research Councils
http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/independent_reviews/sainsbury_review/sainsbury_index.cfm
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KTN Goals (October 2006)
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to deliver improved industrial performance through innovation
and new collaborations by driving the flow of people, knowledge and
experience between business and the science-base, between
businesses and across sectors
to drive knowledge transfer between the supply and demand
sides of technology-enabled markets through a high quality, easy to
use service
to facilitate innovation and knowledge transfer by providing UK
businesses with the opportunity to meet and network with
individuals and organisations, in the UK and internationally
to provide a forum for a coherent business voice to inform
government of its technology needs and about issues, such as
regulation, which are enhancing or inhibiting innovation in the UK
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How are KTNs measured?
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the first metric has to be your “market share” of the
relevant community - the number of companies on
your membership list.
Since interaction is necessary for knowledge transfer
the number of opportunities given for interaction: I.e.
“Meetings” with a “quality” measure of the number of
“new” participants.
You need to drive to grow your communities the third
metric is an intermediate measure of the formation of
new partnerships and collaborations, the number of
people from the science base joining the community
(Knowledge Transfer Partnerships, CASE Awards,
secondment, etc.), your contribution to Government
consultations, joint publications and so on.
the final metric is concerned with the formation and
growth of new partnerships within the community as
measured by how much money you get in from the
UK, Europe and Private Finance
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Agenda
Accelerating business innovation;
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Introduction
The UK Government Technology Strategy
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Knowledge Transfer Networks (KTN)
The Grid Computing Now! KTN
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Vision
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Events
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Case Studies
Summary
Questions
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Why Grid Computing?
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What is Grid Computing and the
capabilities it holds for business?
–Grid computing harnesses the massive
processing power made possible by
distributed computing and applies it to
business problems.
–It does this through virtualising computers,
storage and networking resources such that
a grid appears as one large computer.
–A grid computing infrastructure is capable
of managing large peaks of work; managing
large amounts of processing and
automatically adjusting capacity to meet
workload.
–When this infrastructure is combined with
business systems that allow users to
describe their processes to deliver services,
substantial benefits can be obtained.
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What benefits does Grid
Computing bring to users?
Large-scale Capacity
Increased Scalability
Flexibility
Agility
Improved Utilisation
Reduced Complexity
Improved Return on Assets
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Grid & Related Paradigms
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Distributed Computing
Cluster
• Loosely coupled
• Heterogeneous
• Tightly coupled
• Homogeneous
Grid Computing
• Enabled by distributed
computing
• Heterogeneous and crossorganizational
Utility Computing
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• Enabled by grid and distributed computing technology
• Public or private computing “services”
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Where are we heading?
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Old World
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New World
Static
Dynamic
Silo
Shared
Physical
Virtual
Manual
Automated
Application
Service
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About Grid Computing Now!
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A Knowledge Transfer Network project funded by
the DTI Technology Programme aimed at
transferring knowledge about Grid Computing
Technologies to Public and Private Sector Users in
the UK.
Partnership between Intellect, the UK Hi-Tech Trade
Association; National e-Science Centre, a world
leader in Grid Computing research; and CNR Ltd, a
consultancy focused on SME organisations and
business intermediaries.
Substantial number of industrial, business user and
academic partners
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Grid Computing Now! 1.0 Objectives
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Establish wide understanding of the potential of Grid Computing
particularly among the IT user community
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Accelerate the recognition of requirements and issues for Grid
Computing
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Prepare the UK ICT industry, users and government for Grid
Computing
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Follow through the e-Science Core Programme vision in which
demanding scientific research stimulates significant advances in Grid
technology which are then transferred to UK industry, healthcare and
government.
The KTN will engage: IT and business leaders, policy makers in central
government, regional government, regional development agencies
and the devolved administrations, specialist grid suppliers and
service providers, e-Science researchers, consultants and business
intermediaries to promote grid computing as a foundation for secure,
dynamic, virtual organisations to obtain competitive advantage.
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Grid Computing Now! Activities to date…
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The Team
Web-site development
Technical Events
Educate; Recruit; Engage
Case Studies
Real Users and real solutions
Media Programme
Inform and Influence
Leverage Collaborative projects
Sector Agenda
Champion Grid Computing in
key industries
Aim to create pilot projects
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Some Key Facts:
•4 yr, £1.5M/$2.9M Funding
•Leading suppliers engaged
•Website live August 2005
•>1000 network members
•70% Business
•#7 Google “Grid Computing”
•>1000 visitors/month
•Average visit duration >8mins
•39 Case Studies
•18 Invited Industry Talks/Papers
•>70 Target Media Articles
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GCN! Events
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Technology basics
–SOA
–Virtualisation
Webinars
–Grid markets
–Next generation IT architecture
–Inter-enterprise collaboration
–Distributed systems in e-Health
–Virtualisation and SOA
–Semantic Web
–Green IT
–Software Licensing
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Conferences
–GridWorld 2006 Workshop
–Grids Mean Business@OGF 20
–UK e-Science All Hands
Meeting
Focused workshops
–Virtual Organisation Mgmt
–Collaborative R&D Projects
–EC Research Awareness
–Intelligent Transport Systems
–Modelling & Simulation
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Grids Mean Business at OGF 20 – The Wrap!
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Conference Highlights
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Citibank; Credit Suisse; eBay
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Security Session
7 sessions
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Opening Session (eBay) attracted over 100 participants
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Software Licensing and Security Sessions totalled over 100
participants
What did you like best about GMB?
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“Industry representatives talking about Grid adoption and people
talking about the challenges faced with getting Industry to adopt Grid
technologies. Case studies are very valuable in this type of situation.”
Summary of PR activity
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Targets: 5-7 pieces of secured coverage
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Results: 7 pieces of coverage
including Op-Ed Pieces
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Webinars – leaving a trail …
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Webinar Statistics
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Webinar Statistics
Date
Title
10/04/2008
Softw are Licensing in the Virtual World
25/10/2007
The Business Case and Methods for the Green Data Centre
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19/04/2007
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15/02/2007
05/12/2006
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Registrants Attendees Downloads
75
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297
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The Sem antic Web in Industry
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Virtualisation and Service Oriented Architecture
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Distributed System s in e-Health
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Case Studies: IT infrastructure for inter-enterprise collaboration
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The business case for next generation IT architecture
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The next-generation internet: Business opportunities and challenges for Grid m arkets
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Average
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Case Studies are a key influencer
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Suppliers the critical resource
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Grid Computing Now! Phase 2 Priorities
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Green IT
a. Government Computing; Intellect Public Sector Council initiative
b. Create an industry “stir”
c. Create some showcase examples
2. Software Licensing
a. Engage FAST; Software Publishers and Auditors
b. Identify a vehicle to facilitate change (major user/supplier forum)
3. “Application” Projects
a. Intelligent Transport Systems Data Integration
b. Transport for London Interchange Project
c. Financial Services Grid API
4. Establish user communities (technical/leader)
5. Build a virtual consulting team/process
6. SMB Outreach
a. Active engagement with RDA/DA
b. Active engagement with FCO SIN/UK TI/Collaborative R&D Project
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Competition
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GCN! KTN Organisation
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Technology Strategy Board
Zoë Lock
Grid Computing Now!
Advisory Council
Dave Pearson, Oracle (Chair)
John Barr,The 451 Group (Vice)
Project Director
Ian Osborne
Grid Computing Now! Project
Board
Tom Wills-Sandford,Intellect (C)
Ian Osborne, Intellect
Dick Willis, CNR
Dave Berry, NeSC
Tara Kelly, Intellect (Secretary)
Technical Lead
Dave Berry
PR & Marketing
Tara Kelly
Journalist
Gillian Law(LOA)
Grid Computing Now! Project
Consultants (Part-time)
Dave Berry, NeSC
Liam Newcombe, Romonet
Gabriel Sallah, ex BarCap
David Wallom. OERC
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Web site admin
Charlotte Ward
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Project Lead
Dick Willis
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Summary
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The UK Government has invested heavily in Grid
Computing through the eScience programme
The Grid Computing Now! KTN is intended to capitalise
on this investment and the developments in the market
We will be measured as successful if we can point to
changes taking place in practice
- Adoption of grid computing technologies
- Large network of industrial suppliers/users
- Inputs towards future government investments
- Productivity/Business Improvements underway
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Thank you!
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Questions?
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