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SZTAKI’s Exploitation plan

AHM meetingBudapest, 23 June 2009

Peter Kacsuk, Robert Lovas

MTA SZTAKI

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Preface

• SZTAKI is an academic research institute• 0 manmonth allocated in the related WP

• Success story from a similar area P-GRADE Grid portal (version 2.x)

BasicInfrastructure

High LevelServices

Applications

gLite with SE,CE,

Condor,etc.

P-GRADE Grid portal

Third-partyworkflows

Condor +Virtual

Machines

ETICSServices

Third-partyprojects

Main target /scenario

Orchestratedexecution

Execution ofbuilds, tests,

etc.

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Short history of P-GRADE portal

Parallel Grid Application and Development Environment

Initial development started in the Hungarian SuperComputing Grid project in 2003

It has been continuously developed since 2003

Detailed information:• http://www.portal.p-grade.hu/

Open Source community development since January 2008:• https://sourceforge.net/projects/pgportal/

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P-GRADE Portal service is available for

• SEE-GRID infrastructure

• Central European VO of EGEE

• GILDA: Training VO of EGEE

• Many national Grids (UK National Grid Service, GridIreland, Turkish Grid, HunGrid, etc.)

• US Open Science Grid

• Economy-Grid, Swiss BioGrid, Bio and Biomed EGEE VOs, BioInfoGrid, BalticGrid

• GIN VO of OGF

• EGEE Respect program tool

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Downloads of OSS P-GRADE portal

~60-70 downloads/month as average

~1200 total downloads up to now

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Sustainability achieved

All major developments and commercialization of P-GRADE portal are financed by institutes from Malaysia and Switzerland

These partners provide the 20% of our annual income in the year 2009

No more EU or national grants are spent for P-GRADE portal development

Further negotiations are in progress with companies from the US and India

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Way of commercialization with a local representative(we = SZTAKI, you = representative)

Our product is open source so what we sell is the expertise and services around the products (installation, code maintenance, customization to special needs, training, application development for the grid environment, creating turn-key solutions, help-desk service, etc.)

Since we are the IP owner of the open source product can make dual licensing for it and can create commercial licenses for new versions that are derived from special customer needs or from needs to create new special portal services.

We would share the income revenue after each selling of the product and related services between your company and us depending on the actual work.  However, as a return for developing and maintaining the open source code we would get a certain percentage of the selling price of every product and service.

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Business model step-by-step I.

1.      You (as a company) take care of marketing (advertising and pointing out potential customers)

2.      You negotiate (projects) with the potential customers3.      Usually every customer have some special needs4.      Then we provide the necessary knowledge and R&D activity to

adopt the system for the special needs of the customer (of course if it is needed your IT specialists could participate in this work as a joint effort)

5.      Further development of the product is done by us6.      You organize regularly training events for the customers where

our experts can work as tutors whenever they are needed7.      Once a system is established for a company, they typically want

to port their applications for the system. We and/or your company can develop these applications using the tools developed by us.

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Business model step-by-step II.

8.      Sometimes companies immediately want all these together as a turn-key solution. We and your company will jointly develop the turn-key solution.

9.      After these systems run companies want help-desk service. Your company would provide first-level help-desk service and we would provide second-level help-desk service.

10.     Finally, companies will want further development of the system. This can be done as a joint effort of us and your company.

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Further Interest

Push the use of ETICS in the BOINC and other desktop grid communities based on the experience we will gain in the collaboration between EDGeS and ETICS