caGrid - Here

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caGrid - Heres the G in caBIG

• Introduction for caBIG Newcomers Annual
  Meeting 2007

Arumani Manisundaram February 2007

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Agenda

• High Level Overview
• History
• caGrid Production Environment
• caGrid Usage Example
• Annual Meeting caGrid Break-outs
• caGrid Resources
• caGrid Contacts
• Q A

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What is Grid?

• A lot of different things to a lot of different
  people
• Evolution of distributed computing to support
  sciences and engineering
• Some common themes prevail
• Sharing of resources (computational, storage,
  data, etc)
• Secure Access (global authentication, local
  authorization, policies, trust, etc)
• Open Standards
• Virtualization
• The real and specific problem that underlies the
  Grid concept is coordinated resource sharing and
  problem solving in dynamic, multi-institutional
  virtual organizations.
• I. Foster, C. Kesselman, S. Tuecke. International
  J. Supercomputer Applications, 15(3), 2001.
• A good general overview can be found here
  http//gridcafe.web.cern.ch/gridcafe/

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What is caGrid?

• The goal of caBIG is to
• Develop applications and the underlying systems
  architecture that connects together data, tools,
  scientists and organizations in an open federated
  environment.
• The underlying service oriented infrastructure
  for caBIG is caGrid
• caGrid is the Development project within the of
  Architecture Workspace, aimed at helping define
  and implement Gold Compliance
• caGrid provides core infrastructure, and tooling
  to provide a way to achieve Gold compliance

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caGrid Overview

• Requirements
• Support scientific requirements Use cases from
  cancer research community
• Support functional requirements identifiers,
  workflow, query, etc
• Support non-functional requirements security,
  reliability, performance, etc
• Principles
• Driven by cancer research community requirements
• caBIG Principles
• Open Source, Open Access, Open Development,
  Federated, Syntactic and Semantic
  Interoperability
• Services-Oriented Architecture
• Metadata driven and implements Virtualization
• Standards based

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History of caGrid

• caGrid 1.0 - released December 2007
• Production Version
• Previous releases
• caGrid 1.0 Beta July 2006
• caGrid 0.5 August 2005
• caGrid Initial Prototype July 2004

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caGrid Community Involvement

• caGrid itself provides no real data or
  analysis to caBIG its the enabling
  infrastructure which allows the community to do
  so
• Community members add value to the grid as
  applications, services, and processes (for
  example shared workflows)
• caGrid provides the necessary core services,
  APIs, and tooling
• The real value of the grid comes from bringing
  this information to the end user
• Community members develop end user applications
  which consume of the resources provided by the
  grid

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caGrid Services provided by Community ?

• Silver compatible systems are exposed to the Grid
  as caGrid Services
• caDSR models are used for all data types, and
  transported over the grid in a common fashion
• Standardized, common pattern and mechanism for
  remote access
• Language and implementation technology
  independent
• Common security infrastructure for authentication
  and authorization
• Standardized service metadata models and metadata
  advertisement mechanisms
• Community provided service types
• Data Services
• Expose data to the grid in a unified way
• Analytical Services
• Expose analytical operations to the grid

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caGrid Production Environment
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caGrid Usage Example

• Cancer Translational Research Informatics
  Platform (caTrip)
• The following illustration shows an example usage
  of caGrid

Image Courtesy caTrip Team
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Security Working Group

• Define and implement the necessary security
  policies that are required for this transition, a
  crosscutting caGrid Security Working Group is
  being formed.
• The responsibilities of the Security Working
  Group include
• Security risk assessments that will cover both
  the caGrid infrastructure and the portions of the
  federated services that utilize the caGrid
  infrastructure.
• caGrid security policy development and approval.
  These policies include but are not limited to
• Federated authentication
• Certificate management and provisioning
• Group-based authorization
• Protection of data that has regulatory
  implications under FISMA and HIPAA
• caGrid user security policies and procedures,
  including acceptable use, incident reporting
  procedures, etc.
• Review and certification of security policy
  implementation in Grid-facing components across
  the caBIG federation including but not limited
  to
• Physical infrastructure hosting grid nodes
• Application security design for access control

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caGrid Annual Meeting Breakouts

• Tuesday, February 6, 2007
• 945 a.m. 1100 a.m.
• Developing caBIG Grid Services for Beginners
  (HANDS ON)
• Shannon Hastings, Scott Oster, Stephen Langella,
  David Ervin
• 1115 a.m. 1230 p.m.
• Creating Client Applications for caGrid Case
  Studies
• Rakesh Nagarajan, Manav Kher
• 315 p.m. 430 p.m.
• Advanced Topics in Developing caBIG Grid Services
  (HAND ON)
• Shannon Hastings, Scott Oster, Stephen Langella,
  David Ervin
• 445 p.m. 600 p.m.
• caGrid 1.0 Security Infrastructure and Policy
• Shannon Hastings, Scott Oster, Stephen Langella,
  Joshua Phillips

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caGrid Annual Meeting Breakouts

• Wednesday, February 7, 2007
• 1045 a.m. 1115 a.m.
• caGrid 1.0 Reference Implementations How we
  got on the Grid
• Scott Oster, Patrick McConnell, Rakesh Nagarajan,
  Tony Pan, Martin Morgan, Ted Liefeld, Kiran
  Keshav, Ram Chilikuri
• 1130 a.m. 1245 p.m.
• Grid Present and Future
• Joel Saltz, Ian Foster, Steve Tuecke, Dennis
  Gannon, Ray Winslow
• 330 p.m. 445 p.m.
• caGrid Service Architecture
• caGrid 1.0 Metadata Infrastructure
• Object Identifiers for caGrid 1.0 Overview
  caBIO Case Study
• Scott Oster, Shannon Hastings, Stephen Langella,
  David Ervin, Joshua Phillips, Frank Siebenlist

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caGrid Home Page
caGrid Homepage https//cabig.nci.nih.gov/workspa
ces/Architecture/caGrid

• Software Documentation
• Project Site
• caGrid 1.0 Portal
• caGrid 1.0 Browser
• Reference Implementations

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caGrid.org
caGrid Wiki www.caGrid.org

• Overview
• Tutorials
• How-to
• F. A. Q.

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caGrid Portal
caGrid Portal http//cagrid-portal.nci.nih.gov/po
rtal/home.portal

• caGrid 1.0 Portal provides a visual view of
  services running on the infrastructure.
• The portal provides
• Geographic map of nodes runnning on caGrid
  infrastructure
• caBIG participating institution/ Service
  Provider information
• Dynamic status updates of grid services

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caGrid Browser
caGrid Browser https//cagrid-portal.nci.nih.gov/
cagrid-browser/

• Web-based application
• Allows users to discover advertised caBIG
  grid resources
• Query those resources for data of interest.

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Project Resources and Communication

• caGrid Homepage
• https//cabig.nci.nih.gov/workspaces/Architecture/
  caGrid
• http//cagrid.org
• caGrid 1.0 Release
• Release Notes http//gforge.nci.nih.gov/frs/shown
  otes.php?release_id952
• http//gforge.nci.nih.gov/frs/?group_id25release
  _id952
• caGrid 1.0 GForge Home
• Feature Requests
• Bug Reports
• Downloads / Source Repository
• http//gforge.nci.nih.gov/projects/cagrid-1-0/
• caGrid Users Mailing List
• https//list.nih.gov/archives/cagrid_users-l.html
• cagrid_users-l_at_list.nih.gov
• caGrid User Group Meeting
• Meets 3rd Thursday of Every month from 1100 a.m.
  Noon ET
• Register to caGrid_users listserv for
  announcements
• caGrid Feature / Enhancement Requests
• https//gforge.nci.nih.gov/tracker/?funcaddgroup
  _id25atid177

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caGrid Contacts

• caGrid Lead Architect
• Scott Oster
• Ohio State University - Biomedical Informatics
  Department
• email oster_at_bmi.osu.edu
• caGrid Project Manager
• Arumani Manisundaram
• Booz Allen Hamilton
• email manisundaram_arumani_at_bah.com
• caGrid Product Manager
• Krishnakant (Avinash) Shanbhag
• Director, Core Infrastructure
• NCICB
• email shanbhak_at_mail.nih.gov

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Q A

• Questions ?