The UK OMII

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The UK OMII
Context, Vision and Agenda
An Institute of the University of Southampton
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Presentation Outline

• The need for the OMII
• The OMII funding context
• OMII management
• Six month outline plan
• Relationships with other organisations

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Need for the OMII

• Past funding has created many research grid
  infrastructures and services
• Research quality software developed by
  researchers
• Encouraged diversity of approaches
• Encouraged specialised service variants to solve
  specific problems
• Good for research but not so good for achieving
  usability and adoption

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Role of the OMII

• OMII will release reliable, resilient, robust
  distributions of grid infrastructure(/s) with
  generic services by
• drawing from existing work
• re-engineer code where appropriate
• filling in gaps
• UK OMII vision The source for reliable,
  interoperable, open-source Grid middleware
• Supported with education and training

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Funding Context

• Initial Funding from EPSRC of 6.5M over 3 years
  starting from 1 Jan 2004
• 3M Repository management and distribution
  release engineering
• 3.5M Managed Programme to allocate funding to
  other institutions to re-engineer, harden or
  create services key to OMII releases.

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UK OMII Management Structures

• Steering committee
• Tony Hey (Chair), key UK, EU, USA people involved
  in grid strategy
• Advise on OMII strategy and oversight on managed
  programme funding
• Technical Advisory Board
• Henderson (Chair), key UK, EU, USA people
  involved in grid development
• Advises OMII board on technical roadmap

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The UK OMII Board

• Alistair Dunlop Consultant Director
• Peter Henderson Principal Investigator
• David De Roure Co-Investigator
• Tony Storey Technical Consultant
• Mike Surridge Technical Consultant
• Syd Chapman Chief Architect designate
• Colin Upstill Business Consultant

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Six Month Timetable

• Early contributions to repository WS
  infrastructure, workflow, reliable messaging
• Repository available March 2004 for community
  input
• Early release of first distribution - July 2004
• Continued support for OGSI and WS platforms with
  evolving services
• Community need identified by gap analysis and by
  effective consultation
• Integrated Call for Managed Programme

January
February
March
April
May
June
July
Release
Portal
Call
Roadmap
Repository
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Relationships with other organisations and bodies

• Grid Operations Centre
• Support and training role
• Other middleware bodies
• Coordinate efforts with GGF, NSF NMI, EGEE,
• Other OMII?
• China, USA
• Standards bodies
• W3C and Oasis through industrial partners