1. Frascati, 2-3 July 2008 Slide 1 HMA User Management in G-POD HMA-T Phase 2 KO Meeting 2-3 July 2008, Frascati Fabrice Brito, Terradue Srl www.terradue.com

2. Frascati, 2-3 July 2008 Slide 2 HMA-T  Objectives  ITT and Proposal information Grid Processing on-Demand (G-POD) Consortium Technical Activities  Schedule and Reviews Schedule (Option 2) Planning Reviews  http;//eogrid.esrin.esa.int

3. Frascati, 2-3 July 2008 Slide 3 Objectives  Harmonization of auth/N and auth/Z between G-POD and HMA  Assess the potential of 07-118r1 in a Grid infrastructure  Promote the usage of 07-118r1  Output: Prototype SOAP Gateway implementing 07-188r1 integrated in G-POD (reference platform @Terradue)

4. Frascati, 2-3 July 2008 Slide 4 ESA G-POD Infrastructure  Computing and Storage Elements + 200 Working Nodes, +120 TB on-line store Middleware: LCG 2.6, GLOBUS 4, gLite3 Links to external CE and SE (e.g. CNR, campus, EGEE)  Data Interfaces GS products Rolling Archives (ENVISAT, MSG) and MODIS NRT products over Europe + NASA and other external data providers  Software resources on-line IDL, Matlab, BEAT, BEAM, BEST, CQFD, Compilers, public domain image processing utilities Spatial Catalogue access (e.g. EOLI) and data provision functions  web portal and web services access powered by gridify, maintenance and evolution under Terradue responsibility

5. Frascati, 2-3 July 2008 Slide 5 G-POD Web Portal Interface  Temporal/spatial selection of products  Job definition, submission and live status monitoring  Specific result visualization interfaces  Access to output products and documentation

6. Frascati, 2-3 July 2008 Slide 6 G-POD User Management  Based on the Grid Security Infrastructure (GSI) Secure communications between elements of a computational Grid. Security across organizational boundaries, (without a centrally managed security system) User’s ”Single sign-on", including delegation of credentials for computations that involve multiple resources and/or sites.  GRID Technology develop comprehensive infrastructure to handle common issues: Security and “single sign on” with X509 certificates Cross-community workgroups formation -“Virtual Organizations” Dynamic discovery and utilization of shared resources and services Location transparency (of users, computing resources, data etc.) Workload scheduling and load-balancing Accounting, auditing and traceability

7. Frascati, 2-3 July 2008 G-POD Routine Production I MERIS Level-3 Products NRT generation  Joint ESA collaboration with ACRI (France), JRC/Ispra (European Commission) and Brockmann Consult (BEAM)  Monthly products published on-line Daily ASAR GM mapping of Antarctica  Internal Development in operations since 2005  Daily Generation of 400-m resolution mosaics and publish to ESA Web Map Server Monthly MERIS True-Color Mosaics Slide 7

8. Frascati, 2-3 July 2008 G-POD Routine Production II EarthCare Simulator  Collaboration with Estec and Univ. of Valencia (Spain), part of the preparatory activity of the mission EarthCARE 2.5x10 5 simulations carried out using ESA and CNR GRIDs River and Lake Processor  ESA/Montfort University (UK) collaboration for the Accurate River and Lake heights measurements in NRT from satellite altimetry RAIES Processor  Assessment of the 2000 Hz individual echoes of Envisat/RA2 And many more… Slide 8

9. Frascati, 2-3 July 2008 Slide 9 Consortium  A private company focusing its activities on the usage of web services, GRID and peer-to-peer technologies to support distributed spatial data management, and high performance computing applications in collaborative digital environments  The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) of the UK Science and technology Facilities Council (STFC) has considerable experience applying OGC specifications for earth observation and the earth sciences more generally. The UK NERC Earth Observation Data Centre is hosted at RAL, as part of the Centre for Environmental Data Archiving.  Terradue is responsible for the maintenance, development and evolution of G-POD

10. Frascati, 2-3 July 2008 Slide 10 WBS

11. Frascati, 2-3 July 2008 WP4100 Component Dev.  Design and implement a prototype of the HMA User Management protocol (OGC 07-118)  Integrated in the G-POD system.  SOAP Web Service gateway enabling authentication and authorization requests  At the end of the project the Gateway will allow querying attributes of a given user according the specification. Slide 11

12. Frascati, 2-3 July 2008 Slide 12 WP4200 Demonstration  Demonstration of the Gateway: Users authentication Authorization requests to specific elements of the G-POD infrastructure.

13. Frascati, 2-3 July 2008 Slide 13 WP4300 Conformance testing  Presented yesterday – key points: Bla b Bla

14. Frascati, 2-3 July 2008 Slide 14 Schedule and Reviews  Schedule and Reviews - Schedule Option 2 with  KO (today)  CDR (M7 January 2009)  AR (M9 March 2009)  FP (M11 June 2009)  Payment Plan proposed is accepted:  KO – 20%  AR – 70%  FP – 10%

15. Frascati, 2-3 July 2008 Slide 15 Project Plan

16. Frascati, 2-3 July 2008 Slide 16 Deliverables DeliverableKOCDRARFPDoc File Project Management PlanDUUF- Progress Reports (every month) ---F- Milestone Report-DDF- Technical Specification of the System -D--RB System and Software Logical Model -D--TS Operations Manual--D(U)TS Problem and non- conformance report --D(U)DJF Validation Testing Report--D-DJF Acceptance Test Plan-D--DJF Acceptance Test Report---DDJF Traceability of Acceptance test to Requirements Baseline --D-DJF Components Design Document -DU-DDF System configuration Item List --DUDDF Release Documentation--DUDDF Software Delivery--DUDDF

17. Frascati, 2-3 July 2008 Slide 17 Thank you for your attention fabrice.brito@terradue.com