Supporting the UK e-Science
community and their international collaborators
Steven Newhouse
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What is OMII-UK? OMII-UK was formed in January 2006, linking
together e-Science software activities at Manchester, Edinburgh and Southampton
OMII-UK is very much focused on the user –be they researcher, developer or provider
OMII-UK provides Software Support Sustainability
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OMII-UK aims to provide software and support to enable a sustained future for
the UK e-Science community and its international collaborators
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Key activities Software:
Commissioning in response to user needs Dissemination & download through the repository
Support: Training, helpdesk, community forums Define, contribute and disseminate best practice
and standards Sustainability:
‘Best of breed’ software in an international context
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Standards within OMII-UK Job Submission Description Language Basic Execution Service Data Access & Integration
WS-DAI, WS-DAIX, WS-DAIR Infrastructure
WS-Eventing, WS-ReliableMessaging, WS-Reliability Workflow
Business Process Execution Language
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Open Source Development Commission work to accelerate adoption
Redhat: Move Linux into the Enterprise OMII-UK: Move e-Science into the Research
community Fund work require by OMII-UK community
Development, documentation, porting, … Development of reference implementations
Make research prototypes more stable
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Grid:Interoperation & Interoperability
GIN: Across established production grids What are the interoperation issues?
Job Submission (x3) Virtual Organisation Management (x1) Data movement (x2)
OMII-Europe: Demonstrate interoperability Services: VOs, Jobs, Data Access, Accounting Software: OMII-UK, gLite, GT4, Unicore
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Summary Systematic interoperation needs ‘standards’ Has to be done in a global context