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A SIMDAT Perspective on Grid Standards and Specifications

Mike BonifaceIT Innovation Centre

ETSI GRID Standardization Meeting24 May 2006

Sophia Antipolis

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IST EU SIMDAT Project

Four sectors of international economic importance:

Automotive

Pharmaceutical

Aerospace

Meteorology

Seven Grid-technology development areas:

Grid infrastructure

Distributed Data Access

VO Administration

Workflows

Ontologies

Analysis Services

Knowledge Services

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SIMDAT Partners

Capability ProvidersGrid Technologists

End Users

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Demanding Business Drivers

• Multi-disciplinary collaborative configuration design of complex aerospace products

• Integration of the product design process chain (CAE/CAD/CAT) including external engineering companies, developers and suppliers

• Drug discovery environment managing the distribution of both public and commercial bioinformatics data and analysis services

• Virtual Global Information System Centre supporting the distribution and integration of large scale meteorology data providers

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SIMDAT Architecture

Core

SecurityResource

Management

Data

Workflow

Information

ProblemSolving

Environments

ExecutionManagement

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SIMDAT Architecture

Core

SecurityResource

Management

Data

Workflow

Information

ProblemSolving

Environments

ExecutionManagement

WS-I/WSRF/WS-N

WS-Trust, WS-... WSDM/WS-Agreement

JSDL/UDAP

BPEL/DPML/SCUFL

OGSA-DAIUDDI, ebXML, OWL-S

Functionality

Business Models

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SIMDAT Grid Solution Portfolio

Core

SecurityResource

Management

Data

Workflow

Information

ProblemSolving

Environments

ExecutionManagement

IGORTUAM

SEMANTICREGISTRY

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SIMDAT Aerospace Technologies

Core

SecurityResource

Management

Data

Workflow

Information

ProblemSolving

Environments

ExecutionManagement

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GRIA Overview (http://www.gria.org)

• Open source Grid middleware aimed at supporting B2B collaboration based on proven e-Commerce principles

• V4.3.0 has easy-to-use yet powerful functionality– business-to-business accounting and QoS services– distributed file transfer, storage and processing– OGSA-DAI database services – inter-domain distributed workflow using Taverna

• V5.0 to be released May 2006• Aligned with key Grid/web service standards and

specifications– WSRF Profile, WS-N, WS-Federation, WS-I Basic Profile and

WS-I Basic Security Profile

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GRIA: Supporting the needs of business

• Develop Grid infrastructure to support cost effective dynamic business collaborations

• Some important business drivers that we need to support– minimal authorisation and administration– explicit trust decision points and value exchange– unite customers and suppliers based on SLA’s rather

than a community-based resource provision– higher-levels of management grounded in business

objectives – firewall and network friendly– compliance with industrial operational security policies

(ISO/IEC 17799:2005)

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SIMDAT’s Industrial Grid Profile

• Whitepaper aimed at industrial Grid users from SIMDAT Grid technologists (Intel, NEC and IT Innovation)

• Motivated by business needs– Understand issues with key Grid-related

specifications when applied to industrial applications• security, operational, performance requirements

– Recommend how the specifications can be safely adopted

– Publish industrial Grid profiles to wider community– Engage with appropriate initiatives to influence future

direction of specifications • Currently under internal review, looking to publish Q3

2006 following proof of concept deployments

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Some Key Specifications and Standards

• WS-Addressing (WS-A)– describes the encapsulation and use of a (possibly contextualised)

Web Service address via End Point References (EPR)• Web Service Resource Framework (WSRF)

– collection of specifications, which describes a particular use of WS-Addressing to access resources via contextualised Web Services

• WS-Notification (WSN) – collection of specifications, which builds further on WSRF to define

patterns for transmitting notifications between Web Services• OGSA WSRF profile

– defines normative functionality expected of an OGSA-compliant Grid, building on WSRF and WSN.

• Others under analysis include WSDM, WS-Agreement, WS-Trust, WS-Federation, JSDL, etc

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For More Information

• www.simdat.org

• www.gria.org

• www.ctwatch.org