07.09.2007 Towards an intelligent Grid for BusinessPage 1 Towards an intelligent Grid for Business Andras Micsik MTA Sztaki CoreGrid Summer School 2007.

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Towards an intelligent Grid for Business

Andras MicsikMTA SztakiCoreGrid Summer School 20077th of September 2007

Topic 1 – BREIN in a Nutshell

Topic 2 – The BREIN Scenarios

Topic 3 – Current Status & Next Steps


Mission Statement of BREIN

BREIN (Business objective driven REliable and Intelligent grids for real busiNess)

Project Start: September 2006BREIN will realise the flexible, intelligent Virtual

Organisation support to significantly reduce the complexity of modern day business-to-business collaborations. Companies and enterprises of any size will be able to compete equally in a complex and demanding market.

Status 6/2007:First tests with prototypes for Stuttgart Airport


BREIN in a Nutshell

• Coordinated by Telefonica I+D and technically lead by U. Stuttgart– Best combination for exploitation and research success

• 16 partners with end-user involvement– Proven complementarities and experience

• 9.3M€ (6.6M€ funding) for 3 years– Challenging results with clear value for money

• Highly innovative integrating Multi-agent and Semantic Web concepts in the grid– a significant step forward

• High strategic impact thanks to business orientation– Two main scenarios to gain real business requirements:

• Virtual Engineering Virtual Organization (Stakeholder: ANSYS)• Virtual Hub flights (Stuttgart Airport)


BREIN in a Nutshell

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BREIN in a Nutshell




Topic 3 – Current Status & Next Steps


Airport Background

• The airport offers services to the airlines like– Catering, Fuelling, Luggage transportation, etc…

• The respective service providers are contractually bound prior to any arriving airplanes

They are not integrated into the “organisation” on a per usage basis but are a part of the “organisation”


The Airport Virtual Organisation

• The principal Virtual Organisation in the airport scenario is basically static:– most participants in daily tasks are known and already

contractually bound– new airlines (and hence airplanes) are integrated via intensive

negotiations and henceforth considered part of the VO As opposed to the “classical” Virtual Organisation, contracts are not

established and negotiated “on the fly”We thus have to distinguish two types of contracts, respectively Service

Level Agreements in the airport scenario1. The “base contract” or “base SLA” that defines what the

individual VO participants have to provide to the VO and in what manner generally (basic cost etc.)

2. The individual, task-specific SLA that defines how the service is to be provided to in an individual case (such as an arriving airplane)

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Focus of the ANSYS Scenario

• Formation and management of resources of a Virtual Organisation (VO)

• VO is formed for performing virtual engineering design

• Goal of the VO is to enable teams of engineers to participate from remote locations and to collaborate in a distributed design process using simulation and visualisation software tools

A Virtual Engineering Virtual Organisation


The ANSYS Scenario - Simulation Driven Product Development

• Goals– Reduce design cycle time– Increase product quality and reduce environmental

footprint– Reduce costs (development, manufacturing and life

cycle costs)– Reduce risks

• Need to automate the design process as much as possible– evaluate large numbers of independent design

solutions quickly and cheaply– Each calculation could take a lot of computing

resources– Eg Robust Design, Design of Experiments, 6 Sigma,

design optimisation…– Review the designs with the stakeholders

• GRID computing is a potential enabling technology– But many practical considerations to be taken into

account• Virtual Engineering Scenario in BREIN

– define requirements for Concurrent Engineering– test and evaluate the results– Led by ANSYS Europe Ltd. and driven by their

customer requirements Picture courtesy David Brown Union Pumps, UK


ANSYS Europe Ltd, UK – (ANSYS)

• Subsidiary of ANSYS, Inc• World Leading Engineering Analysis Software

(www.ansys.com)– Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)

• (CFX and FLUENT)– Finite Element Stress Analysis (Ansys)– Other Engineering Software Components

• Multi-Physics, CAD, Meshing– DesignXplorer for Robust Design


1/25/05 ANSYS, Inc. Propietary 13

ANSYS ´ Extensive customer base and channel >10,000 companies

93 of the top Fortune 100 industrial companies

>100,000 commercial seats>135,000 university seats>200 channel partners>50 industry partners> 1400 + Employees> 8 Development Centres in

Europe> A complex Virtual

Organisation in its own right

Concurrent Engineering Requirements

• Design Calculations require heavy resources (software licences, cpu cycles) during particular phases of the design/product life cycle, and limited resources in between.

• The market needs are too diverse to provide single Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) software to cover all requirements. Flexible workflows a are therefore required to capture the essentials of the design processes, linking together different software packages.

• Many companies do not have the expertise and resources to set up the required infrastructure, and will need to bring in additional consultants and resources to collaborate.

• Each End User Company may wish to outsource the service, and not keep an up-to-date capability for the expertise, software, hardware and infrastructure underpinning the simulations


Why is BREIN needed for Virtual Engineering

• End User companies may wish that large numbers of users in VO are able to access technology (but controlled)

• Final Design Reviews could take the form of collaborative activities– Several groups reviewing the design calculations and

conclusions– Commissioning new runs to complete the design space


Identified Common High Level requirements

• Business Objectives of the differing partners of the VO have still to be defined by their own business policies potential conflicts have to be dealt by BREIN– End Users want to minimise costs Vs. Service Provider wants to

maximise profit

• Automated complex negotiation• Robust management of dynamic processes• Security, auditability, transparency

– I want to get paid for the work– I want to know who‘s using it– I want to check it‘s being used properly – I want to protect my proprietary information

• Discovery of resources (hardware, software, availability of licences)




Topic 3 – Current Status & Next Steos


Current Status of the Project

• Finished Project Month 12• Finished Activties on Rapid Protoyping:

– Initial Evaluations on how Multiagent concepts, Semantic Web methodologies can be intergrated in the Grid

• Public Document on Validation Scenarios available• First version of overall architecture defined


Next Steps

• Increased Implementation Activities– First Protoype scheduled for PM 18 (02/08)

• Update of architecture based on evaluation and feedback of performed test in the rapid prototyping activities and the implementation activities

• Publication of project results


Thank youFor more information visit:

http://www.gridsforbusiness.euContact: Bastian Koller, [email protected]


Bastian Koller

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