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Grid-friendly software licensing for location independent application execution

Start date:2008-02-01

End date:2010-07-31

Project Acronym:SMARTLM

Project status:Completed

Coordinator

Organization name:ATOS ORIGIN SOCIEDAD ANONIMA ESPANOLA
Administrative contact	Address
Name:Josep MARTRAT (Mr)	ATOS RESEARCH AND INNOVATION PO Box 08018 Diagonal 210 BARCELONA ESPAÑA Region:ESTE CATALUÑA Barcelona
Tel:+34-934861818
Fax:+34-934860766
E-mail:Contact
URL:	Organization Type:

Description

Objective: The existing licensing models for commercial applications are focusing on software used on compute resources within an administrative domain. A problem occurs when we want to use this software in a distributed service oriented infrastructure where the resources are often not in the same administrative domain that hosts the license server which is authorizing the application use. Today licenses usually are bound to hardware within the domain of the user and do not allow access from outside thus enforcing local use of the protected applications only. The Grid approach in contrary is about using distributed resources from different domains. The experience made in many recent projects trying to use commercial applications in Grid systems clearly indicates a technological barrier of current licensing mechanisms that must be overcome before the Grid becomes a fully commercial productive environment.

SMARTLM solution is to implement licenses as Grid services thus providing platform-independent access just like other Grid resources. Service Level Agreements based on evolving standards will then govern licenses. Depending on the level of trust signed or encrypted, agreements will be used to transport licenses through the Grid to the resource to which a user has been granted access to execute his application tasks. The agreement on a license and the conditions of use for an application will be reached through negotiation between service providers and service customers.

SMARTLM will provide new generic licensing virtualisation technology based on standards as WS-Agreement and WS-Negotiation and integrate it in the major Grid middlewares. The project will also identify new service-oriented business models for this approach. A number of widely-used license-protected commercial applications will be adapted to be executed under control of the new licensing mechanisms and will become part of a highly quality show-case to convince more code-owners to adapt their applications.

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Project Details

Start date:2008-02-01

End date:2010-07-31

Duration:30 months

Project Reference:216759

Project cost:4012070 EURO

Project Funding:2696044 EURO

Programme Acronym: FP7-ICT

Programme type:Seventh Framework Programme

Subprogramme Area:Service and Software Architectures, Infrastructures and Engineering

Contract type:Collaborative project (generic)

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Subject index:Information Processing, Information Systems, Information and communication technology applications
 

Other participants

Organization name:FUNDACION CENTRO TECNOLOGICO DE SUPERCOMPUTACION DE GALICIA
Administrative contact	Address
Name:Javier GARCIA TOBIO (Mr)	AVENIDA DE VIGO, S/N 15705 SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA ESPAÑA Region:NOROESTE GALICIA La Coruna
Tel:+34-981569810
Fax:+34-981594616
E-mail:Contact
URL:	Organization Type:Research
Organization name:LMS INTERNATIONAL NV
Administrative contact	Address
Name:Nick TZANNETAKIS (Mr)	NOESIS SOLUTIONS NV PO Box 3001 INTERLEUVENLAAN 68 LEUVEN BELGIQUE-BELGIË Region:VLAAMS GEWEST VLAAMS BRABANT Leuven
Tel:+32-16-384519
Fax:+32-16-384350
E-mail:Contact
URL:	Organization Type:
Organization name:FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JUELICH GMBH
Administrative contact	Address
Name:Elke PHILIPPY (Ms.)	FINANCE DEPARTMENT / PROJECT-CONTROLLING LEO BRANDT STRASSE 52425 JUELICH DEUTSCHLAND Region:NORDRHEIN-WESTFALEN KÖLN Düren
Tel:+49-2461614476
Fax:+49-2461612010
E-mail:Contact
URL:	Organization Type:
Organization name:FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V
Administrative contact	Address
Name:Silke OBERLE (Ms.)	C12 INTEGRATED PROJECT MANAGEMENT Postfach 80686 HANSASTRASSE 27C MUENCHEN DEUTSCHLAND Region:BAYERN OBERBAYERN München, Kreisfreie Stadt
Tel:+49-8912053174
Fax:+49-891205773174
E-mail:Contact
URL:	Organization Type:
Organization name:INTES - INGENIEURGESELLSCHAFT FUER TECHNISCHE SOFTWARE MBH
Administrative contact	Address
Name:Reinhard HELFRICH (Dr)	INTES Postfach 70565 SCHULZE-DELITZSCH-STR.16 STUTTGART DEUTSCHLAND Region:BADEN-WÜRTTEMBERG STUTTGART Stuttgart, Stadtkreis
Tel:+49-711-784990
Fax:+49-711-7849910
E-mail:Contact
URL:	Organization Type:
Organization name:THE 451 GROUP LIMITED
Administrative contact	Address
Name:William FELLOWS (Mr)	THE 451 GROUP W14 4NB 1 MARYLEBONE HIGH STREET LONDON UNITED KINGDOM Region:SOUTH EAST (UK) GREATER LONDON
Tel:+44-2072997766
Fax:+44-2072997799
E-mail:Contact
URL:	Organization Type:
Organization name:T-SYSTEMS SOLUTIONS FOR RESEARCH GMBH
Administrative contact	Address
Name:Irmgard WELTECKE (Ms)	SOLUTIONS AND INNOVATION SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL COMPUTING Postfach 82234 MUENCHNERSTRASSE 20 WESSLING DEUTSCHLAND Region:BAYERN OBERBAYERN Starnberg
Tel:+49-711-6862275
Fax:+49-711-6862717
E-mail:Contact
URL:	Organization Type:
Organization name:CONSORZIO INTERUNIVERSITARIO CINECA
Administrative contact	Address
Name:Sergio BERNARDI (Dr)	SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES Casella Postale 4003 VIA MAGNANELLI 6/3 CASALECCHIO DI RENO (BOLOGNA) ITALIA Region:
Tel:+39-0516171411
Fax:+39-0512130208
E-mail:Contact
URL:	Organization Type:
Organization name:GRIDCORE AB
Administrative contact	Address
Name:Manuel LOPEZ QUIROGA TEIXEIRO (Dr)	GRIDCORE AB PO Box 411 33 ASCHEBERGSGATAN 46 GOTEBORG SVERIGE Region:
Tel:+46-31182160
Fax:+46-31223092
E-mail:Contact
URL:	Organization Type:
Organization name:ANSYS GERMANY GMBH
Administrative contact	Address
Name:Georg SCHEUERER (Dr)	ANSYS Postfach 83624 STAUDENFELDWEG 12 OTTERFING DEUTSCHLAND Region:BAYERN OBERBAYERN Miesbach
Tel:+49-8024905411
Fax:+49-8024905417
E-mail:Contact
URL:	Organization Type:

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