Status, Plans and Interactions with ETICS

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Status, Plans and Interactions with ETICS

• Steven Newhouse
• Director, OMII-UK

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What is OMII-Europe?

• EU funded FP6 project (RI)
• Starting May 2006, initial 2 year duration
• 16 partners (8 European, 4 USA, 4 Chinese)
• Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute for
  Europe
• Complimentary to existing national programmes
  (OMII-UK, NMI, C-OMEGA, OMII-China)
• Goal is to provide key software components for
  building e-infrastructures
• Project will demonstrate proof of concept with
  expectation for a follow-on project in FP7

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What will OMII-Europe deliver?

• Repository of open-source, quality assured
  software services for EGEE, Globus, UNICORE and
  CROWNgrid
• Some services bundled with major grid
  distributions
• Initial integration work with EGEE, UNICORE and
  Globus
• Public reports on grid infrastructures
• Initial benchmark results
• Impartial advice and information
• Evaluation infrastructure to test services
• User support and training for services

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Main Focus Repository Quality Statements

• General Open-Source Software
• Sourceforge developer focussed
• Freshmeat capability/application focussed
• Community Software Repository
• Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute UK
  (OMII-UK)
• Repository of middleware packages (funded
  un-funded)
• http//www.omii.ac.uk/.
• Globus Alliance
• Open source development portal software
  repository
• http//dev.globus.org/wiki/Welcome.

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The Software Repository Portal

• Make available software reengineered within
  OMII-Europe and contributed by third parties
• Single services/tools complete distributions
• Provide an interface to select software from the
  repository based on user requirements
• By capability/standards/provider/
• Support the upload, download and installation of
  the software
• Document platform portability pre-requisites
• Verify the software through compliance metrics
  tests

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So where to start?
PUBLIC VIEW
Project Repository
Software Repository (CVS, Subversion, tar.gz,
zip)
ETICS (Build Test)
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Build Artefact Repository (rpm, deb, tar.gz,
zip)
NMI Build Config
NMI Scripts Condor Pools
Created Artefact
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OMII-Europe Repository Infrastructure

• OMII-UK
• Have a repository structure to bring in projects
• ETICS
• Build Test Configuration Management
• NMI Build Test Framework
• High-level mechanism to specify Condor Jobs

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Tests For Standards Conformance

• Job Submission and Job Monitoring
• Basic Execution Service
• Job Submission Description Language
• Accounting
• Resource Usage Service
• Database Access
• WS-DAI, WS-DAIX, WS-DAIR (OGSA-DAI)
• Virtual Organisation Management
• Portal

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Summary

• Repository of software to support e-Science
• Federating information from multiple sources
• Make sure the software works on different
  platforms
• Use quality assurance metrics to assess software
• Link to support infrastructures documentation
• Report on standards compliance
• Infrastructure to support the honest brokering
• You make the decision as to the software you use
• You know what it works with

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• www.omii-europe.com