1. Development of Information Grid
Jedsada Phengsuwan, Seksit Suwan,
Sornthep Vannarat
Computer Technology Research and Development Division (R-DC)
National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC), Thailand

2. Agenda Overview of Information Grid Information Grid Architecture
Current status
Conclusion

3. Overview Information Grid
Objective
build frame work and infrastructure for integrating public information sources to support a problem solving environment
Extended Distributed MetBroker idea
Collaborative work between NECTEC, HAII (Thailand) and NARC (Japan)
Homogeneous information sources
Other products like IBM’s DB2II, Avaki
Based on Web Services and Grid technology

4. Grid computing
I want 6 compute nodes and 900 GB storage to run my jobs and stored the output.
Submit Jobs
operate

5. Information Grid Pictures from Dr. Matthew Laurenson, NARC, Japan
I want “rain” information to use for my specific application.
Request for information
operate
I want 10 compute nodes and 900 GB storage to run my jobs and stored the output.
Submit Jobs
operate
Pictures from Dr. Matthew Laurenson, NARC, Japan

6. Information Grid project
Virtualization of information sources
Decoupling application and information sources
Enable user access to any information, anywhere, over heterogeneous environment

7. Information Grid Architecture

8. Information Grid Architecture

9. Information Grid Architecture
Components
Marker Directory
Information Broker
Discovery Service
Standards
Marker Description Language
Information Grid Framework

10. FY2006 Goals Information Grid Infrastructure prototype
Demonstrate concept and idea of the Information Grid
Consisting of 5 components
Information Broker
Information Source
Discovery Services
Marker Directory Services
Information Grid Web Client
Marker Description Language 1.0 (Draft)
Use research databases (research project, researcher, and publication) as a pilot databases.

11. Information Grid client
HOME
Search MDL
(contact MarkerDirectoryService)
call Information Grid
Services
HTML Result
Select InformaitonBroker
(contract Discovery Service)
Select XSL
(from Database)
Specify Query condition
(from MDL)
MDL

17. Conclusion
Information Grid is a solution for sharing information on grid environment
It has 3 main components:
Marker Directory Service
Information Broker
Discovery Service
Defines standard called Marker Description Language (MDL)
Based on Web Services technology and WSRF
Be deployed GT4.0 Middleware (WS-Core)
To running Information Grid based on grid infrastructure make its secure access to any information, anywhere, over heterogeneous environment.

18. Thank you 