OGSA-DAI/T 2004 Plan Highlights

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OGSA-DAI/T 2004 Plan Highlights
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Industrial Buy-in

• Oracle
• Continue large investment in DAIS
• Are working with several early adopters
• E.g. AstroGrid
• MAY engage in UK in Applications with Customers
• IBM
• Committed to standardisation, development and
  applications
• Details to be resolved at meeting 3 Feb 04 IBM
  Bedfont Lakes

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IBM OGSA-DAI/T 2004

• Fund 5PY for 2004
• Focus on
• Moving DAIS forward, following new GRID specs
  (OGSI 1.5, WS-. CIM/DMTF, GDD)
• Contributing to open-source effort (new features,
  align with specs)
• Improvements for Users and Application Developers
• client tooling, performance,
• Including new requirements (Data Mining, GDD, )
• Exploiting OGSA-DAI within customer context
• eDiamond, SIMDAT, e-Science projects, and
  customers
• Integrative biology with Oxford others.
• Integrating with IBM products
• DM, Systems group Research products/directions
  for 2004 and beyond.
• Present at conferences (GGF,..), publish papers,
  articles and red books

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OGSA-DAI/T Activities
3. OGSA-DAI/T Implementation
2. DAIS
1. Exploitation
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1. Exploitation

• We have delivered several releases of OGSA-DAI
  There is much to be learned this year from taking
  the application view
• Tasks
• User Group Meetings
• Input to DAIS and DAI/T implementation
• Support to projects
• Skyserver, eDiaMoND, SIMDAT etc..
• Publications and presentations
• Globus World, GGF Workshops, All Hands etc

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2 DAIS

• DAIS has been through a number of revisions and
  is yet to settle down. We need to review the
  roadmap and absorb the new WS directions.
• Tasks
• Vision and roadmap
• Compliance with Data Services
• Compliance with WSRF
• Compliance with WS Agreement
• Compliance with CIM/DMTF
• Compliance with other data standards, e.g SQL/XML
• Integration with GDD

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3 DAI/T Implementation

• R3.1 performance upgrade release this week
• Two major releases planned
• R4 March
• Consolidation of existing functionality
• R5 October
• Compliance with evolving standards
• WSRF
• DAIS
• Between R4 and R5 it is intended that we put out
  a tech preview demonstrating how DAIS and WSRF
  compliance will work