1.  Copyright NICE srl, 2010 International Workshop on Science Gateways IWSG2010 A Service-Oriented Interface to the iRODS Data Grid Nicola Venuti e-mail: nicola.venuti@nice-software.com

2.  Copyright NICE srl, 2010 2 Outline  NICE  EnginFrame  iRods  Enginframe 4 iRods

3.  Copyright NICE srl, 2010 3 NICE Background Expertise in HPC / Grid deployment –13 years experience with enterprise Grid solutions throughout all industries –Strong relationship with Research and Academia Core business: Access to Grid / HPC / Cloud solutions –EnginFrame & GENIUS Grid Portal product line –Integration with global ISVs Other relevant competencies –Server-based computing –Business/Grid Intelligence

4.  Copyright NICE srl, 2010 4 Who uses EnginFrame? Automotive & Industrial Equipment Audi, ARRK, Bridgestone, Bosch, Delphi, Elasis/CRF, Ferrari, GDX Automotive, Honda, Jaguar-LandRover, Lear, Magneti Marelli, McLaren, P+Z, Swagelok, Suzuki, Toyota, TRW Life Sciences LitBio project, DEISA project, Biolab, Swiss Institute for Bioinformatics, Partners Healthcare, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Energy & Utilities Addax Petroleum, AECL, Amerada Hess, British Gas, CC of Water Resources, Chevron, Conoco-Phillips, DSC-Libya, GazPromNeft, ENI/Agip, Nexen, Rosneft, Schlumberger, Shengli Oil, Sibneft, Slavneft, Sonatrach, Statoil, Talisman Energy, Telecom Italia, TNK-BP, TNNC, TOTAL, TyumenNIIGaz, VNIIGaz, Xinjiang Oil Research & Education ASSC, CCLRC, CERN, CILEA, CINECA, CNR, CNRS/IN2P3, ENEA, FzU, ICI, IFAE, INFN, ITEP, JSC G.G.M., KU Leuven, SSC- Russia, SDSC, Ferrara Uni, ITU, Messina Uni, T.U.Dresden, Trinity College Dublin, Salerno Uni, Huazhong Normal Uni High Tech STMicroelectronics, Accent, Samsung SDI, SensorDynamics, Motorola Aerospace & Manufacturing AIRBUS, Air Products and Chemicals, Procter&Gamble, Galileo Avionica, Hamilton Sunstrand, Kimberly Clark, Magellan Aerospace, MTU, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Simpson Strong-Tie

5.  Copyright NICE srl, 2010 5 Outline  NICE  EnginFrame  iRods  Enginframe 4 iRods

6.  Copyright NICE srl, 2010 6 What is Enginframe EnginFrame Grid and Cloud Portal is the gateway to Technical Computing. It is built for all the Engineers, Scientists, Geologists, Analysts, and Researchers using (or wishing to use) Technical Computing and High Performance Computing to solve their complex problems, it is also built to help the business and the IT teams implement, manage and track the use of these Technical Computing resources. EnginFrame delivers access to Applications, Data, and the HPC compute farm (grid, cluster, or cloud) through a standard web browser. The users can submit tasks, process data, run simulations and analyses, and collaborate each other. EnginFrame provides a user-friendly experience, hiding the complexity of the backend. It also offers IT developers a Web 2.0 environment for rapid application integration, security, single sign- on, data management, and creation of a company private Cloud. Built on the open-standards of Java and XML/XSLT.

7.  Copyright NICE srl, 2010 7 EnginFrame is the gateway to Enterprise (application) services Applications (Interactive & Batch) Storage and Data License keys HTTP(S), WSDL EnginFrame Gateway (HTTPS, WSDL) Administrators Affiliates Internal Users Managers Grid/Compute/Visualization Farm (Linux, Windows, …)

8.  Copyright NICE srl, 2010 Data Grid (iRods, LFC) Distributed Storage Compute Grid (LSF, SGE, PBS, LL, …) Internal HW/SW Utility Services WSDL/SOAP Client Applications HTTP News Feeds JSR168 Portlet Containers Skins / Themes Auth. delegation Custom XML Application Kits ISV n - XML Application Kit ISV 1 - XML Application Kit Workflow Engine GUI Virtualization Single-Sign-On EnginFrame insight Template-based dynamic presentation engine with AJAX support Portlet GW WS GW RSS GW Plugins ACL manager User mapping App. virtualization GridML virtualization Data virtualization Usage acct./billing engine Session manager Channel security Service chaining Multi-language services Data life-cycle manager Distributed file manager

9.  Copyright NICE srl, 2010 9 How do Customers use EnginFrame? Collaborative HPC 3D Visualization HPC Cloud HPC App. Portal Open Grid ASP Commercial HPC ASP Commercial HPC ASP HPC Clusters Enterprise Grid Desktop Scavenging OpenGL Applications

10.  Copyright NICE srl, 2010 10 Outline  NICE  EnginFrame  iRods  Enginframe 4 iRods

11.  Copyright NICE srl, 2010 11 iRODS integrated Rule Oriented Data System Open Source Data Grid, Helping People Organize and Manage Large Collections of Distributed Digital Data Key features: Build sharable collections in iRODS from data distributed across file systems and tape archives. iRODS iCAT Metadata Catalog stores state information and descriptive metadata in a database, enabling search, management, controlling and tracking of all data access and manipulation. Rule Engine applies user-defined Policies and Rules to data to automate administrative tasks, enforce management policies, and evaluate assessment criteria, enabling large-scale collections. Federation of multiple iRODS Data Grids enables flexible architectures: central archives, master-slave data grids, chained data grids, and deep archives, through independent but collaborating iCAT Metadata Catalogs.

12.  Copyright NICE srl, 2010 12 iRods iRODS is open source, BSD license Core developers: Data Intensive Cyber Environments (DICE) Development wiki: https://irods.org Collaborations with community who contribute code –University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill –Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) –Institute for Neural Computation (INC) at UC San Diego Who uses iRods? –National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) –National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) –the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) –Transcontinental Persistent Archives Prototype (TPAP) –the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) –the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC)

13.  Copyright NICE srl, 2010 13 Outline  NICE  EnginFrame  iRods  Enginframe 4 iRods

14.  Copyright NICE srl, 2010 14 Enginframe & iRods iRods has no interface, it has just a raw CLI. It is not user friendly and it is really difficult for a no- skilled user to manage rule/query/data. Hide the complexity of the iRods i-commands and give and easy way to get the information from the catalog EF allows to expose the iRods service HTTP, WSDL and REST, so provide a standard interface.

15.  Copyright NICE srl, 2010 15 Enginframe & iRods EF enforce the authorization and the authentication system of iRods EF as an API layer for iRods since it adds the possibility to build an easy interaction with third party software. Easy access to audit-tracking Enginframe as an universal gateway of iRods since it is able to access every instance of iRods server (even not federated).

16.  Copyright NICE srl, 2010 16 Software Stack iCommands NICE EnginFrame (Grid Portal and Gateway) Storage Infrastructure iRods ServeriRods Rule EngineiRods Metadata Catalog Jargon API (beta) HTTP(S) WebServices REST

17.  Copyright NICE srl, 2010 17 File Catalog Web 2.0 interface Item Action Browse the catalog General Action

18.  Copyright NICE srl, 2010 18 Rules Engine Execute existing rules Create/Edit Rules

19.  Copyright NICE srl, 2010 19 Monitoring & Logging Monitoring and Auditing Connection Control Admin Only!

20.  Copyright NICE srl, 2010 20 Auditing Admin Only!

21.  Copyright NICE srl, 2010 21 Thanks! Questions? References: Online demo: http://ischia2.renci.org:8080 Nice website: http://www.nice-software.com iRods website: https://www.irods.org nicola.venuti@nice-software.com