VLE: Virtual Laboratory

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VL-E Virtual Laboratory System
Integration(Sub-program 2.5)
Adam Belloum adam_at_science.uva.nl Computer
Architecture and Parallel Systems
GroupDepartment of Computer ScienceUniversiteit
van Amsterdam
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Outline

• Role of the Virtual Laboratory System
  Integration (SP2.5)
• Interaction with other VL-E SPs
• Current Developments
• Summary and future plans

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Role of SP2.5(Interaction within P2)

• Defining the VL-E architecture that should
  integrate the different software components and
  data structures developed within this whole VL-E
  project.
• Collaboration and performance issues

The Role of SP2.5 is to bridge the gap between
scientific applications and low layers
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Interaction with P1

• In program line P1
• will create domain specific Problem Solving
  Environments (PSEs) based on the generic Virtual
  Laboratory methodology and functionality.
• The results to be obtained from experiments with
  the application-specific PSEs
• will act as cases that provide feed back to the
  Generic Virtual Laboratory research.

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Bridging the Gap between P1 P3

• Using the feedback from SP1 SP2.5
• will generate if needed feedback to SP3.
• Relay the low layer features to SP1
• SP1 will see the SP3 features as the part of the
  Generic Virtual Laboratory features

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RD issues for SP2.5(outcome for the VL-E
project)

• Resource Management in a Grid-based environment
• Hide usage details of resources from VL-E end
  users
• Optimize the usage of the available resources in
  VL-E
• Collaboration for e-Science application
• Co-design VL-E experiments
• Co-Analysis of VL-E experiments results

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RD issues for SP2.5(outcome for the VL-E
project)

• VL-E experiment model
• Designing the model which fits most of the
  applications considered in SP1
• Previous work performed in VLAM-G project
• New development in Grid technology
• Integration
• Integration of all the generic VL-E components in
  the Generic Virtual Laboratory layer
• The generic VL-E components ? feature of the
  Generic Virtual Laboratory toolkit

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How are we going to work?
Application feedback
Application specific service
Medical Application
Telescience
Bio ASP
Application Potential Generic service
Virtual Lab. services
Virtual Lab. rapid prototyping (interactive
simulation)
Virtual Laboratory
Additional Grid Services (OGSA services)
Grid Middleware
Grid Network Services
Network Service (lambda networking)
Surfnet
VL-E Experimental Environment
VL-E Proof of concept Environment
Stable Application VL-e component
Unstable Application VL-e component
Vl-E certification Environment
A set of tests that have to be passed before any
application software or VL-e component can be
deployed on the VL-e proof of concept environment
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Current Status

• In the context of SP2.5, we are working on making
  the work performed in the context of VLAM-G
  (ICES/KISII) usable for the VL-E project
• A stable version of the VLAM-G software
• Packaging of VLAM-G software
• Documentation Tutorials

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Current Discussions

• Discussion within SP2
• SP2.1 ? Peter Sloot (to be started
  after the VL-E workshop)
• SP2.2 ? Pieter Adriaans (contact Frank Terpstra)
• SP2.3 ? Robert van Liere (to be
  started after the VL-E workshop)
• SP2.4 ? Ammar Benabdelkader
• ? SP1.4 SP1.5
• Discussion with SP1
• SP1.6 ?Ron Heeren Marco Konijnenburg

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What type of issues are we discussing

• Transition from VLAM-G ? VL-E
• Generic Virtual Laboratory Architecture
• Extending VLAM-G PFT to use Ontology
• Extending VLAM-G Module deployment
• VL-E issues
• An approach to VL-E Module Migration
• Grid Web Service approach and how it can be used
  in the VL-E project.
• Collaboration in the VL-E project
• Resource management in Grid-based systems

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Where to get the information about SP2.5 releases

• An official announcement will be made when the
  VLAM-G software will be deployed in the PoC env.
• A stable version is running in the experimental
  env.
• For people to use to get hands on the virtual
  Laboratory concepts
• For fast prototyping
• Should not be used for sensitive work
• Documentation and distributions are be available
  from the VL-e web site http//www.vl-e.nl

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Summary

• SP2.5 started already discussions with other SPs
• SP2.5 has deployed the VLAM-G (VL-E version 1.0)
  in the experimental env.
• SP2.5 is ready to help rapid prototyping in the
  experimental env.

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Future Work(near future)

• Upgrade VLAM-G release to
• Pass the certification process
• And release the first VL-E Release (VLE-1.0)
• Start discussions with other SPs
• Design produce design documents for the
  different components of the Generic Virtual
  Laboratory architecture
• Based on the discussion with other SPs
• And the current state of art in Grid technology

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VLAM-G Demonstration

• For the First VL-E workshop we have prepared
  demos of the VLAM-G software deployed in the
  experimental env.
• Demos are performed on demand
• During the workshop can be organized during the
  breaks
• After the workshop send me an e-mail
  adam_at_science.uva.nl

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Who is behind SP2.5!!!(www.science.uva.nl/adam/p
rojects/vl-e/vl-e.html)

• Scientific programmers
• Dmitry Vasunin
• Ph.D students
• Vladimir Korkhov
• Adianto Wibisono
• Frank Terpstra
• MSc students
• Sander de Ridder
• Vincent Buitendijk