1. 1 OMII Release 1 Steven Newhouse, Peter Henderson Stephen Crouch & Karen Ng Presented by Mike Mineter for the NGS Induction Course http://www.omii.ac.uk

2. 2 The slides in this presentation were selected and (in a few cases) modified by Mike Mineter (NeSC) from those presented in January 2005 at an OMII training day Goal of this presentation: to raise awareness of the OMII and its OMII_1 release MM

3. 3 Outline OMII The OMII_1 release: is available for download TRY IT !!! It is easy to use, although its grid middleware… The ETF is currently assessing OMII_1 for deployment on the NGS…. So watch for news! MM

4. 4 Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute OMII goal: to be the source of open source grid software Institute of the University of Southampton Utilise existing software and standards Production focused software development Integrate, test & document ‘a product’ Focus on the user experience Easy to install & use Utilise existing software and standards Provide a solid web service base for others to build on

5. 5 Where does our software come from? Open Source Community Tomcat, Axis, etc., Software Repository Accept software contributions Software deployed, tested & graded to provide feedback Managed Programme Fill gaps to build a solid enabling infrastructure Projects to bring research software to production quality

6. 6 Managed Programme GridSAM (Job Submission & Monitoring service) BPEL (Workflow service) Grimoires (Registry service based on UDDI) FIRMS (Reliable messaging) FINS (Notification) GeodiseLab (Matlab toolbox) WSRF::Lite integration OGSA-DAI (Database service) WSeSS (Using SSH to tunnel requests to resources)

7. 7 OMII_1 release

8. 8 OMII_1: A basic File-Compute Grid Enables a generic computational task Move input data from the client to the service provider Process the data using an application on the service provider Retrieve the output data from the service provider

9. 9 OMII_1 as a Service Provider Goal: I want others to access my resources & applications I want to provide secure controlled access to: My applications: Specify who can access which applications My computational resources: I can limit external usage of my resources Provides an interface that allows remote users to access my resources Enable collaboration with other partners

10. 10 OMII_1 as a User (or Client) Goal: I want to use other resources & applications Through a network of service providers I can…: Gain access to applications that I do not have installed locally Use remote machines with more CPU, memory or storage Process larger problems sizes Transparently switch between different service providers No exposure to underlying OS, queuing policy, disk layout etc.

11. 11 Grid Architecture Today The best way of designing Grids… Loosely coupled services Message based exchange The best way of running Grids… Interoperability between versions & grids Standards for infrastructure & services The best way of building Grids… Leverage existing infrastructure & standards Use Web Services…

12. 12 Some Web Service Definitions A service is the logical manifestation of some physical or logical resources (databases, programs, devices, humans, etc) and/or some application logic that is exposed to the network Service interaction is facilitated by message exchanges A service is an abstract resource that represents a capability of performing tasks that represents a coherent functionality from the point of view of provider entities and requester entities. To be used, a service must be realised by a concrete provider agent

13. 13 Web Services (WS) XML: Platform neutral mechanism to describe data SOAP: Mechanism to describe message exchange Simple Object Access Protocol Not simple and nothing to do with Objects! Service Oriented Access Protocol Re-engineering of acronym to fit current use! WSDL: Defines the service interface

14. 14 More WS concepts… Services have to reside in a supporting environment: Called: hosting environment or container Marshals requests into and response out of the service Service can discover local configuration parameters Provides a standard infrastructure for service developers Processing incoming requests & outgoing responses Called: Message handlers Manipulates elements of the message header Primarily the SOAP header Handlers can be applied to message traffic into or out of the whole container or a specific service

15. 15 Putting it all together… Architecturally web services provide… Process of independent loosely coupling services Defining service interfaces (or contract) Defining the format of the messages interchange Platform neutral Flexible granularity Clearly defined boundaries Need an implementation…

16. 16 OS Hosting Environment Tomcat: Servlet hosting environment Axis: A servlet that understands WS Tomcat

17. 17 Axis Handlers Tomcat manages transport: http & https OMII can use https to secure message transport Axis handlers on client & server: Serial / deserialisation from XML to Java Processing of message headers OMII distribution includes handlers for: WS-Security: sign message & verify signature PBAC: Process Based Access Control

18. 18 Process Based Access Control: A model for implementing AAA Authentication: CA issued X.509 certificates Authorisation: Interaction dependent authorisation process Access control lists tied to process context and state i.e. impose server side workflow requirements Supports “delegation” and “subordination” actions Accounting: Activity matched against allocated quota Clients control who can access “their” allocated quota Collaboration with minimal overhead for service providers

19. 19 OMII 1:Basic File-Compute Grid Consists of: Base (Tomcat 5.0.25 & Axis 1.2b) Extensions (Axis Handlers) WS-Security Process Based Access Control Basic Services Sample application Plus installers, README’s & documentationdocumentation

20. 20 OMII-1 Architecture database of accounts resources applications resources computation data storage applications Web Services Accounting Resource Mgmt Data Staging Job Submission Client Application Admin Application Management (Browser) Application WS Security PBAC Tomcat & Axis

21. 21 OMII 1:Basic Services Based on a group of four services Functional: Data & Application execution Running jobs using pre-installed applications Movement of input and output data files Management: Account and Resources Must have an account with a service provider Or delegated access to someone else’s account

22. 22 OMII Server Infrastructure WS-Security PBAC AXIS Happy Axis TOMCAT Static Webpage Acct Mgmt Servlet Resource Mgmt Servlet Account Allocation Data Job TestService ExampleService

23. 23 Condor or PBS Job service supports execution on different platforms: Local resources (default & fully tested) Condor (demonstrated but not fully tested or supported) PBS (demonstrated but not fully tested or supported) PBS uses POSIX batch scheduling interface Porting to other POSIX systems (e.g. SGE) should be straightforward! Demonstration only as the test servers do not have Condor or PBS

24. 24 Try out the OMII_1 client !

25. 25 OMII_1 Download Contents: Server side installer (Application) Client side installer Cauchy Horizons Simple Java application Transforms a surface (list of 3D points) Install the client and use the OMII demo server to run the Cauchy application [Then set up your own server] MM

26. 26 Where to get the client Register at www.omii.ac.uk & loginwww.omii.ac.uk Goto the downloads page Download the client distribution SuSE 9.0 Client may work on other Linuxs but no exhaustive testing Windows XP (SP 1 & 2) Distribution requires JDK 1.4.2_04 Does not work with ‘just’ a JRE Will not work with JDK 1.4.2_05/06 & JDK 1.5.0 No testing with earlier JDKs.

27. 27 Some notes on the certificate A certificate is needed on the client (WS-Sec) Details passed to the OMII CA Provides a certificate of low value No authentication checks Expires after a month Values are not verified Any non-null input will be OK

28. 28 Testing the installation Three tests at the end of the installation All will fail if the container is not up & running OR If you have no connection to the test servers

29. 29 Checking the client install WS-Security PBAC AXIS Happy Axis TOMCAT Static Webpage Acct Mgmt Servlet Resource Mgmt Servlet Account Allocation Data Job TestService ExampleService testservicesConnection non_PBACPBAC CLIENT

30. 30 Summary WS provide an effective mechanism to build loosely coupled message based systems WS exchange XML messages over http/https OMII_1 uses WS to provide a basic File & Compute Grid

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