1. Grid programming with components: an advanced COMPonent platform for an effective invisible grid © 2006 GridCOMP Grids Programming with components. An advanced component platform for an effective invisible grid is a Specific Targeted Research Project supported by the IST programme of the European Commission (DG Information Society and Media, project n°034442) Parallel Biometric Identification System A GridCOMP GCM Use Case Thomas Weigold IBM Zurich Research Laboratory twe@zurich.ibm.com

2. Grid programming with components: an advanced COMPonent platform for an effective invisible grid 2 Biometric Identification System (BIS) Genuine Impostors False AcceptFalse Reject Threshold Match Score Frequency  Identify people solely on their biometric information (1:N match)  Use fingerprint biometrics  Consider multiple fingers to work reliably on large user population  Use distributed matching via GCM components to achieve real- time performance  Based on business process (workflow) engine for adaptability

3. Grid programming with components: an advanced COMPonent platform for an effective invisible grid 3 BIS Overview Biometric Identification System (BIS) BIS Services Business Processes Identification Workflow Engine Enrolment System Management Admin DB Access GridCOMP Adapter Identities Grid Infrastructure Matching Component... Demo Application Matching Component

4. Grid programming with components: an advanced COMPonent platform for an effective invisible grid 4 BIS based on Data-Parallel Behavioural Skeleton (BeSke) IDMatcher 1 … ABC AM Identity DB Application Data-Parallel BeSke BIS Tasks QoS contract scatter Identification request broadcast IDMatcher N Partition

5. Grid programming with components: an advanced COMPonent platform for an effective invisible grid 5 BIS GUI

6. Grid programming with components: an advanced COMPonent platform for an effective invisible grid 6 Results/Conclusions  An identification system working on a large user population in “real-time”  The system scales independently in accordance with a given QoS contract thanks to autonomic reconfiguration functionality  Deployment on arbitrary hardware infrastructure without code changes  Reduced development time due to advanced features such as behavioural skeletons and the GIDE

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