Standards for Interoperable Grids: Experience from NextGRID and OMII-Europe

17 March, 2008 12:45 PM - 05:00 PM

e-Science Institute, 15 South College Street, Edinburgh

Any slides or other material generated as a result of this event can be found at: www.nesc.ac.uk/action/esi/contribution.cfm?Title=869

This half-day event will give an orientation to Grid interoperability and Grid standards. It will enable participants to understand the range of standards available and equip them to investigate ones relevant to their own work in greater depth.

Introductory talks will present an overview of: the obstacles to interoperability with current Grids; current and emerging Grid standards; the bodies that develop these standards and the procedures by which these bodies work. Subsequent talks will explore in greater depth standards in the important areas of security, job execution, and data management, and will include insights into the effective use of these standards which have emerged from the NextGRID and OMII-Europe projects. Finally there will be an opportunity for open discussion.

Both NextGRID (http://www.nextgrid.org) and OMII-Europe (http://omii-europe.org/) are projects funded by the EU.

The NextGRID project is about developing ‘next generation Grids’, that is, ones suitable for commercial as well as academic use. This emphasis adds constraints in terms of reliability, security and ease-of-use which have not existed hitherto. NextGRID has developed an architecture for Grid systems, supported by suitable standards, which meets these goals. Specifically it has contributed to the development of relevant standards and profiled ways of using them which promote interoperability and are consistent with the NextGRID architecture.

OMII-Europe has been established to source key software components, based on Grid standards, that can interoperate across several heterogeneous Grid middleware platforms. These components are quality assured and emphasis is on the re-engineering of the components rather than on the development of new technology. They are becoming available from the project repository and accessible for assessment on the project’s Evaluation Infrastructures (which run Globus Toolkit 4, UNICORE, gLite and CROWN middleware stacks).

Prerequisites

Participants should have a broad familiarity with Grid systems. Current Grid systems communicate via Web services and their standards are couched in terms of these services. Consequently a basic familiarity with Web services, XML and related technologies will be assumed.

Target Audience

Participants are likely to be Grid middleware or application developers working in commerce or academia, or others seeking an update of developments with Grid standards.

Programme

This event is provisionally scheduled to start at 12:45 Monday 17 March 2008 and close at 17:00 on Monday 17 March 2008.

Accommodation

Assistance with accommodation is offered once you have registered.

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Important Dates

10 Feb - Registration Opens
10 Mar - Registration Deadline
10 Mar - Date we will respond to your application by (Please note this is the latest date we will respond to your application. It is normal policy for us to respond within 5 working days where possible.)
17 Mar - Event Starts at 12:45hrs

Travel

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