WS-GAF

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WS-GAF

• Savas Parastatidis

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WS-GAF

• Aug2003 A Grid Application Framework based on
  Web Services specifications and practices paper
  used emerging technologies
• Switched to stable ones but we are not
  discouraging an experimentation track
• Not middleware
• Design patterns/principles
• Use stable technologies

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WS-GAF Application

• We need to build large-scale Grid applications
  using Web Services in order to find out what is
  actually required
• Aims
• Define the characteristics of a typical Grid
  application
• Demonstrate the applicability of the WS-GAF
  approach in building Grid applications
• Learn from the challenges of constructing a truly
  global, distributed, scalable, loosely-coupled
  application
• Working on a typical, global-scale Grid
  application with international partners
• We encourage everyones involvement

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Applications

• White dwarfs
• Bob Mann
• Jim Gray
• Johns Hopkins
• Steven Newhouse

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Searching for White Dwarfs

• Jim Grays SkyServer
• Combine info from other databases
• Utilise computational resources
• Visualise

We are looking for these
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Applications

• RFID-based
• Security
• GOLD
• Databases continuous queries large amount of
  information

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WS-GAF

• Web Services Grid Application Framework
  (WS-GAF)http//www.neresc.ac.uk/ws-gaf
• Mailing list (gt80 people from all over the world)
• ws-gaf_at_newcastle.ac.uk
• Join by sending a message to mailbase_at_newcastle.ac
  .uk including the following line in the body
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