The commercial power of Grid. Andreas Kerstan Director of System Sales Central & Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (CEMA)

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1 The commercial power of Grid Andreas Kerstan Director of System Sales Central & Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (CEMA) 1

2 Agenda What is GRID from a commercial point of view? IBM's View of the Grid Computing Marketplace How can commercial enterprises potentially benefit from GRID technology? IBM's Grid Computing Strategy 2

3 Grid Computing in a commercial world From a commercial point of view GRID is 'another technology' that had some early successes in the academic world and moves now to the proofpoint if it's applicable for commercial businesses. Communications: Virtual Servers, Storage and Instruments Grid Grid Middleware Distributed Physical Servers and Storage The concept of virtualization is not new - new TCP/IP is the concept of splitting logical and physical devices over a network. Networking: Information: World Wide Web 3 Linux Grid Computing

4 Grid Computing in a commercial world From a commercial point of view GRID is 'another technology' that had some early successes in the academic world and moves now to the proofpoint if it's applicable for commercial businesses. Virtual Servers, Storage and Instruments Grid Grid Middleware Middleware Distributed Physical Servers and Storage The concept of virtualization is not new - new is the concept of splitting logical and physical devices over a network. 4

5 Grid Computing value proposition Global accessibility Resources on demand Continuous availability Secure access Vast resource scalability Efficient allocation of physical resources Data and application sharing Connectivity based on open protocols Today's most burning IT issues for commercial customers Cost of Computing Complexity and management of home grown IT infrastructure Business Continuity 5

6 Grid: How did it started? Research Community: well skilled, motivated to embrace new technology and risk Universities and Government Research Laboratories Worldwide Motivated by amassing compute power to solve serious scientific, engineering (or budget) problems - the Internet as a Super Computer! Collaboration and Data Sharing - petabytes of data in high energy physics, complicated engineering problems, distance learning Exploration of problems in distributed computing Deployments Underway Weighted towards Linux and Intel, but heterogeneous architectural support demanded IBM prominent in numerous GRID installations: DTF (13.5 TFLOPS), DAS-2, UK GRID, Large Hadron Collider (CERN) 6

7 Grid Computing in Research DAS-2 (Dutch National Grid) US Sites Dublin Glasgow Belfast Edinburgh EU CERN Newcastle Manchester Oxford Cambridge MPP (Experimental) SWISS T1 EPFL PSI NOW Linux Cluster ETHZ NOW Linux Cluster Beowulf CSCS WAN Cardiff Soton London SMP ORIGIN 3800 available planned CSCS NOW: Network of Workstations SMP: Symmetric Multiprocessing MPP: Massive Parallel Processing Parallel Vector SX-5 MPP (Production) Distributed Terascale Facility 7

8 Commercialized Grids Second phase adopters after research: similar application requirements, greater emphasis on production worthiness, significant skills. Life Sciences and Bioinformatics Data sharing of heterogeneous databases (NDMA) Engineering Airline design collaboration across multiple sites (NASA) IBM Blue GRID: Böblingen, Yorktown, Haifa, Austin, Zurich, Tokyo Petroleum Aggregate compute capabilities to accelerate geophysical analysis Commercial Intra Grids Institutional linkage of departmental and individual computer resources behind the firewall Entertainment Industry Development of an e-game Utility 8

9 National Digital Mammographic Archive A semi commercial example NDMA project addresses Archive, storage and retrieval for use by clinicians Training and teaching for Radiology Departments Computer Assisted Diagnostics as a service Recent FDA approval recognized advantages of digital devices will encourage digital radiology conversion 2000 Hospitals x 7 TB per yr. x 2 = 28 PB per yr. Pilot Problem scale in NDMA 4 x 7 x 2 = 56 Terabytes / year 9 IBM contributing technology/skills: DB2, GPFS,

10 Grid Computing value proposition Global accessibility Resources on demand Continuous availability Secure access Vast resource scalability Efficient allocation of physical resources Data and application sharing Connectivity based on open protocols 10

11 Grid Computing value proposition Global accessibility Resources on demand Continuous availability Secure access Vast resource scalability Efficient allocation of physical resources Special benefits for companies with a high share of mobile workers: employees can have access to their individual electronic workplace environment from every (public) Internet terminal / browser Simplified (not standardized) mobile devices at lower costs Data and application sharing Connectivity based on open protocols case of relocations Global accessibility Extended life cycles of personal devices are reducing capital investment Combination of mobile/wireless allows mobile real-time data with the benefit of faster sales cycles Mobility of the workplace at no cost in Easy support of home workers increases employee 11 morale / effectiveness

12 Grid Computing value proposition Global accessibility Resources on demand Continuous availability Secure access Vast resource scalability Efficient allocation of physical resources 'Resource on demand' covers planned or unplanned system resource demand of storage or processing power without time delay Data and application sharing Connectivity based on open protocols Resource on demand Can be used to cover periodical peeks in workload (e.g. month/quarter closing of banks) or one-time peeks (e.g. Olympics) or unplanned peeks (Prague) Savings in investment capital due to reduced capacity buffers More efficient use of existing system resources as system boundaries can be tested without penalties Easy 'pay as you go' offerings - utility like Resource pooling with other companies can even decrease the 'on demand' fees 12

13 Grid Computing value proposition Global accessibility Resources on demand Continuous availability Secure access Vast resource scalability Efficient allocation of physical resources Based on the split of logical and physical devices - physical system failures have no impact anymore on system availability for the end user. GRID technology provides new ways of securing business continuity. Data and application sharing Connectivity based on open protocols Continuous availability Disaster / recovery solutions - cost savings for back up centers Backup scenarios are tested on an almost daily basis in each 'Resource on Demand' situation 'Resource on Demand' for all planned (like maintenance window) and unplanned outages (like hardware failures) is securing ongoing system availability Benefit is the value assigned to system 13

14 Grid Computing value proposition Global accessibility Resources on demand Continuous availability Secure access Vast resource scalability Efficient allocation of physical resources Efficient use of system resources Enterprise system resources will be used to the maximum - and will vary from a model that 'Resource on Demand' is an exception up to an 'outsourcing' model Resource sharing will accelerate worldwide virtual teaming and businesses (24h trading, 24h engineering, 24h everything) Managing the todays complexitiy of multiple platform infrastructure Data and application sharing Connectivity Load based balancing on open protocols 14

15 IBM Game Plan Provide leadership role in the industry, very similar to how we are executing our Linux Initiative Work with the Grid community to define and deploy a robust infrastructure Architecture definition and framework Implementations of grid core services and APIs Software testing and benchmarking Austin Technology Center / Montpellier GRID Center Infuse IBM technology and participate in key Grid initiatives Grid-enable IBM products and build domain-specific solutions and services Drive rapid commercialization of Grid computing through alliances focused on real problems (Seismic analysis, Engineering 15 design, Financial

16 IBM Game Plan Developing range of services to plan, build and run Grids. Consulting How to leverage grid-like capabilities to drive efficiency Enable intra-customer Grids Building Grids Integrated Technology Services for Globus, etc. Create intra/inter customer Grids Burst capacity and Specialized Utilities Server and storage on demand Full deployment with a Service Provider and/or ISV partner Web services implementations at the customer/industry level 16

17 eserver: Architecture Framework S&TC ecommerce xsp etc... eworkload Management New classes of applications enabled Tivoli Management ecluster Management Open Grid Services Architecture WebSphere run-time Storage Tank/Net eliza Autonomic Functions & Management Middleware End-Users and Admin Staff Common GUI edisaster Recovery Context and context propagation, common resource instrumentation, resource discovery and management, grouping, data (database and file) replication, profile based policies, metadata mapping on repositories, authentication, authorization, event monitoring and notification, logging, tracing, debugging,.. etc.... z/os IBM Platforms QoS Enablers/Optimizers AIX OS/400 zseries pseries iseries z,p,i,xseries xseries eserver Foundation Linux Windows Storage Solaris & HP/UX Sun & HP Linux Dell Compaq... Windows Dell Compaq

18 Where is the commercial GRID market moving? IDC-FLASH: "Will Grid Computing let IBM Global Services Own the Computing Utility Market? Steven Milunovich (Merril Lynch): "Preparing for Hardware Commoditization" Autonomic GRIDS (IBM's eliza initiative for self-managing IT infrastructures) There is a huge potential for commercial customers to benefit from embracing and deploying GRID technology in their IT system architecture The main benefits will be in the following areas Cost reductions through efficient/different use of system resources Higher system availability with improved business continuity through 'Resource on Demand' The potential opportunity to overcome the almost unmanageable complexitiy of the existing infrastructure e-utility will create new businesses Potential issues are bandwidth and telecommunication cost 18