1. GENIUS and EnginFrame: what’s next in the Grid Portal business
Andrea Rodolico
NICE srl
The EGEE Industry Day
Catania – Oct 26th, 2006

2. Contents
NICE
GENIUS and EnginFrame news
Success stories in Business

3. NICE Expertise in Grid deployment
European company with 10 years experience with enterprise Grid solutions
Comprehensive professional service offering for commercial and EGEE middleware
Core business: Grids & Grid Gateway
GENIUS & EnginFrame Grid Portal product line
VAR channels with worldwide coverage for implementation and support (incl. industry leader Platform Computing)
Grid Projects
Nata

4. Who uses EnginFrame? Mechanical Manufacturing Oil&Gas Electronics
Audi, ARRK, BMW, Bridgestone, Delphi, Elasis/CRF, FIAT Auto, Ferrari, GDX Automotive, Magneti Marelli, P+Z, Swagelok, Toyota, TRW
Manufacturing
Air Products, Procter & Gamble, Galileo Avionica, Raytheon, Hamilton Sunstrand, Simpson Strong-Tie
Oil&Gas
British Gas, Rosneft, Schlumberger, Slavneft, Statoil, TOTAL, VNIIGaz
Electronics
STMicroelectronics, Accent, SensorDynamics, Motorola
Others
Telecom Italia, CC of Water Resources
Research
ASSC, BioLab, CCLRC, CERN, CILEA, CINECA, CNR, CNRS/IN2P3, DEISA, ENEA, FzU, ICI, IFAE, INFN, ITEP, JSC G.G.M., KU Leuven, LIBI, SSC-Russia, SDSC
Education
Dresda University, Ferrara University, ITU, Messina University, Politecnico of Milan, Technische Universität Dresden, Trinity College Dublin, Salerno University, Huazhong Normal University

5. Contents
NICE
GENIUS and EnginFrame news
Success stories in business

6. GENIUS - EGEE Grid Portal
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7. The Grid Portal / Gateway
Home Users
Managers
Partners
Standard protocols
Grid / Compute Farm
Grid Portal
/ Gateway
Batch
Applications
Licenses
Internal Users
Interactive
Applications
JSR168 /
Enterprise
Portals
Storage and Data
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8. GENIUS/EnginFrame architecture
JSR168
Portlet
Containers
WSDL/SOAP
3rd party
Apps
HTTP
RSS
Clients
End users
Data Grid
(AFS, SRB, …)
Storage
Compute Grid
(gLite, LSF, SGE, MS CCS, …)
Internal
HW/SW
On-demand
Skins / Themes
Authentication – ACL management
Custom XML
Application Kits
Data Management & Virtualization
ISV n - XML
Application Kit
ISV 1 - XML
Accounting
/ Billing
GUI
Virtualization
Single-Sign-On
Presentation engine
Portlet GW
WS GW
RSS GW
COTS WF
manager
Workflows
Classic GENIUS
Portlet GW
WS GW
RSS GW
VO n - XML
Application Kit
VO 1 - XML
Presentation engine
MyProxy auth.
w/ VOMS extensions
Authentication – ACL management
VNC remote
Desktop over SSL
General XML
Application Kits
Monitoring
& Accounting
Data Management & Virtualization
EGEE middleware
LCG-2 / gLite
Local Data
Distributed
Data
Globus
middleware
Compute
resources
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9. GENIUS: new version Based on EnginFrame 4.1
EGEE User Interface technology stack:
Apache + Mod_JK2 ;
Mod_SSL for secure encrypted connections ;
Tomcat as servlets container ;
EnginFrame 4.1 as core of 3-tier model
New EF 4.1 Plugins approach for Grid integrations: independent deployable modules
Improved virtualization of Remote File Browsing & Job monitoring
Improved Security
Server-Agent SSL channel encryption
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10. GENIUS new features
Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) Jobs recognition and their queue management
Transparent support of EGEE LFC Catalog: easy data management
Usability improvements and new feedbacks for users
Support for AMGA Metadata
GENIUS/EF services ready for JSR168 Portlets Containers
GENIUS/EF services are exposed also as standard WSs
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11. Enterprise / JSR168 Portal integration

12. EnginFrame CLI / Desktop extensions
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13. GENIUS new features Coming soon:
Support for EGEE Job Collections/Productions and WMS interactions
New services for VOMS proxy and authentication
gLite plug-in separation
Ajax integration for better usability
Other contributes from GENIUS Users and Community
In Roadmap:
WS consumer functionalities to interface gLite WS and other useful WS producers
Workflow oriented services
AMGA Interface for administrators
JDL / JSDL submission wizards
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14. Workflows for Life Sciences
Powering
DEISA & LIBI
LS portals
WSDL
Tools
EnginFrame WS
provider
MOTEUR
(SCUFL WF enactor)
SOAP
Services
(SOA)
submit
monitor
Storage and Data
Web
Portal
How to use it?
HTML/HTTP
Grid
Computational Power
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15. The EU-funded A-WARE project (An easy Way to Access grid REsoureces)
gLite
LSF
Pluggable Workflow
Orchestration Service
BPEL plug-in
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16. TriGrid VL Project
Department of Physics and Astronomy of the Catania University and INFN of Catania
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17. Cyber-infrastructure for research in Sardinia based on High performance networks
Dedicated to the support of scientific & technological research
Based on high speed networks connecting
Research institutions
Medical institutions …
Network core on dark fibers
Bandwidth Unlimited Computing
AOB
Orthogonalization between “glass pipes” and illumination technology
“Future proof”: will survive the 10GbE to 40GbE transition (2007?)
Can support both GbE and Infiniband
“Application driven” network configuration
Explicit allocation of lambdas to multi- centers meta computers
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19. Portals in Oil and Gas Integrates BEINGRID HP Flexible O&G testbed
Built on GENIUS
Integrates
HP Flexible
Computing
Services
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20. MCAE portals in Automotive
Now with
online help,
Incl. Chinese
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21. Interactive / 3D integration
IBM DCV
Integration
By end 2006
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22. E-Design collaboration
Now including
ClearCase &
SW dev integr.
Black-box for EDA simulation
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23. Grid Portal in Telecom
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24. Data exchange, sharing and versioning

25. HPC demo-center & ASP http://www.GridAge.com MS CCS Integration
Coming soon!
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26. Q&A Q & A Thanks for your attention!
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