Grid Middleware Questionnaire - GRIA EchoGRID Second Strategic Workshop, 31st October, 2007 CNIC, Beijing Rowland Watkins, IT Innovation Centre

© University of Southampton IT Innovation Centre 2007 GRIA: Secure service-oriented collaborations

© University of Southampton IT Innovation Centre 2007 Integrated Development Environments API –Java/C#/C++ API supports integration with native applications Portals –Integration with GridSphere, but portal usage is project specific Eclipse Plugins –GRIA is now the second middleware in g-Eclipse projec for the “first industrial adopter” application

© University of Southampton IT Innovation Centre 2007 Programming Models Workflow support –Not currently part of middleware –Third-party support through commercial and Open Source tools (SIMDAT, BRIDGE) –Investigating middleware-level integration using adaptive workflow (NextGRID) –Workflows orchestrate multiple Web Services to perform complex tasks across different trust domains

© University of Southampton IT Innovation Centre 2007 Data Management Data Storage –Data stagers –Hold single, immutable file Data Transfer –SOAP with Attachments –HTTPS –PUT, GET, DELETE Data Orchestration –Workflow tools can be used to transfer data between data stagers –Manage data stager lifecycle

© University of Southampton IT Innovation Centre 2007 Resource Management and SLAs Support a wide variety of resource managers –Sun Grid Engine –Condor –PBS SLAs –Constrain usage on resources –Limit number of jobs and data that can be created –Enforce business processes at a service provider –Current implementation supports flexible metric-based model –Extending SLA model to include QoS metrics Security –Dynamic security based on business relationships between client organisation and service provider (dynamic VOs) –No global roots of trust (e.g. trusted CAs) –Support for X509 for identity, SAML for attribute assertions

© University of Southampton IT Innovation Centre 2007 Orthogonal Questions Web Service-based (Axis) infrastructure that supports the following SOA standards and programming languages –WS-I Basic Profiles –WS-Addressing –WSRF Resource-Lifetime –WSRF Base Faults –Java –C# (WSE 3.0, WCF in future) –C++ (Axis2/C) Supported platforms –Windows –XP (Vista in future) –2003 Server –Mac OS X –Partial support Interoperation with other Grid middleware –GOSv2.1 (BRIDGE) –GOS BES Service –.NET Framework 2.0 –GRIA-based services in C# –UNICORE (NextGRID) –Linux –SuSE 10.3 –Ubuntu 7.10 –Fedora 7 –Debian 4

© University of Southampton IT Innovation Centre 2007 Applications EC Projects –SIMDAT (e-Engineering) –CFD codes (BAE Systems) –NextGRID (e-Business) –Derivative pricing (First Derivatives) –Applied volatility (NEC) (e-Business) –FPS game (DKW) –Search and rescue application (BMT Cordah) Commercial Contracts –GDCD (e-Engineering) –Thermal analysis codes –Currently being evaluated by ESA/ESTEC

© University of Southampton IT Innovation Centre 2007 Distribution Model Available free and Open Source from –All dependencies also Open Source –Apache 2.0 –LGPL 2.1 Commercial support and consultancy

© University of Southampton IT Innovation Centre 2007 Future Plans Complete g-Eclipse plugin integration (Next 6 months) Continue BRIDGE interoperation enhancements in conjunction with Beihang (Next 12 months) Continue business model support in (Next 12 months)