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The Contribution of OMII-Europe towards Standard-based Grid Middleware

The Contribution of OMII-Europe towards Standard-based Grid Middleware. Dr. Sergio Andreozzi, INFN-CNAF, Italy sergio.andreozzi@cnaf.infn.it NorduGrid 2007, 24 Sep 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. Outline. What is OMII-Europe Facts Vision and Mission Approaches to Interoperability

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The Contribution of OMII-Europe towards Standard-based Grid Middleware

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  1. The Contribution of OMII-Europe towards Standard-based Grid Middleware Dr. Sergio Andreozzi, INFN-CNAF, Italy sergio.andreozzi@cnaf.infn.it NorduGrid 2007, 24 Sep 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark

  2. Outline • What is OMII-Europe • Facts • Vision and Mission • Approaches to Interoperability • What OMII-Europe is Doing • Strategies for Short and Medium Term Evolution

  3. What is OMII-Europe • OMII-Europe stands for • Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute for Europe • It is an EU-funded project: FP6, RI • It has an initial duration of 2 years • May 2006 -> April 2008 • It has been granted a contribution of 8M € • It involves 16 partners • 8 EU • 4 USA • 4 China

  4. Partners

  5. Project Structure and Effort Allocation • Networking activities • Management, Outreach, Training • 8% Person Effort • Service Activities • Repository, QA, Support • 25% Person Effort • Joint Research Activities • Re-engineering, new services, integration, benchmarking • 67% Person Effort

  6. Vision “ e-Science having easy access and use of Grid resources in heterogeneous e-infrastructures crossing national, pan-European and global boundaries “

  7. Mission “ Enabling of e-infrastructure interoperability by providing standards-based middleware components leveraging existing work and activities “

  8. Focus • Achieving interoperability through common standards • Common standards is the long term solution • Significant involvement and success in OGF and Oasis • Implementations of standards in tandem with standards development on all middleware platforms

  9. Approaches to Interoperability • Adapters-based: • The ability of Grid middlewares to interact via adapters that translate the specific design aspects from one domain to another • Standard-based: • the native ability of Grid middleware to interact directly via well-defined interfaces and common open standards * definition inspired by OGF GIN CG

  10. Who Benefits from Interoperability? • Grid Developers • A single standard set of services on all Grid middleware systems • Applications portable across different Grid middleware systems • E-Science application users • Common ways for accessing any e-infrastructure resources • Potential access to a significantly larger set of resources • E-resource owners • Reduced management overheads as only a single Grid middleware system needs deployment • Potential for greater resource utilisation “For the Grid to deliver on it’s promises interoperability needs to be taken for granted like network interoperability”

  11. Participation in Middleware Standardisation • Most project participants involved as member/observer in many OGF WG • 11 project participant hold senior positions in • OGSA DAIS WG (Database Access and Integration Services) • OGSA RUS WG (Resource Usage Server) • OGSA BES WG (Basic Execution Service) • OGSA JSDL WG (Job Submission Description Language) • GIN CG (Grid Interoperability Now) • OGSA-AuthZ-WG (Authorization) • GLUE WG • GFSG WG (Grid File System) • RM WG (Reference Model) • OGSA Naming WG • Technical Standards Committee • GSA RG (Grid Scheduling Architecture) • GRAAP WG (Grid Research Agreement Allocation Protocol) • OGSA BYTE IO WG • OGSA D WG (Data) • OGSA DMI WG (Data Movement Interface)

  12. OMII-Europe Guiding Principles • Committed to standards process • Implementing established open standards • Providing feedback to the standards process (e.g. OGF) • Quality Assurance • Published methodology and compliance test • All software components have public QA process and audit trail • Impartiality • OMII-Europe is “honest broker” providing impartial advice/information on e-infrastructures

  13. JRA4 SA3 SA1 JRA3 SA2 The Virtuous Cycle – Technology transfer with Grid projects and standards organisations Standards Compliance Testing and QA JRA2 New Components Standards Implementation Components JRA1 IN Globus Benchmarking Repository OUT OMII-UK Components CROWN Supported Components on Eval. Infrastructure Integrated Components

  14. What OMII-Europe is Doing? • Initial focus on providing common interfaces and integration of major Grid software infrastructures • Common interoperable services: • Database Access • Virtual Organisation Management • Accounting • Job Submission and Job Monitoring • Infrastructure integration • Initial gLite/UNICORE/Globus interoperability • Interoperable security framework • Access these infrastructure services through a portal

  15. Job Submission • Unify Job Submisson and Monitoring interface • Adoption of emerging OGSA-BES and JSDL standards • Alpha BES and JSDL implementations for • UNICORE 6, gLite 3.1, Globus 4, OMII-UK, CROWNgrid • Interoperability demonstrated through use of a BES compliant meta-scheduler

  16. VO Management • To provide a common Virtual Organisation (VO) management solution across middleware distributions • Extend VOMS Interface to support emerging AuthZ standard • compliance with SAML Authorisation model • Extension, not a replacement interface • Public release of VOMS integrated with UNICORE

  17. Accounting • Unify accounting information across middleware distributions • Provide standardized interfaces for accessing that information • Information standard: • Usage Record Format (URF) • Service interface standard: • Resource Usage Service (OGSA-RUS) • Alpha versions RUS • gLite (DGAS) • Globus (SGAS) • UNICORE

  18. Data Access • Port OGSA-DAI 3.0 from Globus to other middleware distributions available throughout Europe and China • UNICORE • gLite • CROWN

  19. Portal • Deliver tools for developing Grid portals and support for key Web and Grid standards and technologies • Objectives: • Develop gateway to OMII Evaluation Infrastructure • Develop tools for portal and grid software training • Explore new approaches for grid portal development

  20. Repository of Open-Source Software • 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

  21. Behind the Repository • Leverage existing infrastructure & projects • ETICS • Capture build & test configuration data for repeatability • NMI Build & Test Framework • Manage cross-platform environment for build & tests • Condor • Underlying execution infrastructure • Provides reports to be displayed within the portal • Builds: Pre-requisites & platforms • Testing: Conformance & Interoperability

  22. Tests For Standards Conformance • Job Submission and Job Monitoring • Job Submission Description Language (JSDL) • Basic Execution Service (BES) • Accounting • Usage Record (UR) • Resource Usage Service (RUS) • Database Access • WS-DAI, WS-DAIX, WS-DAIR (OGSA-DAI) • Virtual Organisation Management • Move towards SAML2?

  23. New Services Activity • To identify capabilities which are missing from the OMII-Europe initial plans • To identify priorities for the placement of such capabilities • To work for the inclusion of the most relevant missing capability during the 2nd year of the project (May 2007-Apr 2008) • To drive the definition of OMII-Europe II

  24. The First Missing Piece:a Community-agreed Information Model for Computing Resources • OGSA-BES and JSDL are already considered by OMII-Europe • They lack a common description of Grid resources suitable for discovery, monitoring and scheduling • Many descriptions exist • e.g.: GLUE Schema, NorduGrid Schema • Working on the definition of next-generation GLUE Information Model in the context of OGF GLUE WG and its implementationIt

  25. What can you do Now… and Later… • Now • Most products at Alpha stage not publicly available • They provide basic interoperability of multiple grid middleware systems focusing on job execution • Available to early adopters working with OMII-Europe partners • Spring 2008 (end of current project) • Further security integration work between different middleware platforms • Completed QA’d services and demonstrated end-to-end solutions • Availability of GLUE 2 information model service implementations

  26. OMII-Europe – Phase II • In order to cover other important missing pieces, a proposal for a project follow-up was submitted last week • The areas of interest are: • Service discovery • Data Management • Grid Activity Management • Authorization Service • Billing and Pricing

  27. Important Events • Interoperability demos at Supercomputing 2007 • International Grid Interoperability and Interoperation Workshop 2007 (IGIIW 2007) • Bangalore, India, December 10-13, 2007 • in conjunction with 3nd IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing (e-Science 2007) • http://omii-europe.org/OMII-Europe/igiiw2007.html

  28. And also available now and ongoing… • A number of training courses to date giving hands on experience of middleware systems, and interoperable services • http://training.omii-europe.org • Evaluation infrastructure and support available to try out different middleware systems and interoperable services • http://support.omii-europe.org

  29. Summary (1/2) • OMII-Europe is a 24 Month EU funded project with 16 partners to establish grid infrastructure interoperability through implementing a set of agreed open standards on all middleware platforms • OMII-Europe is implementing a number of components that will allow identically specified jobs to be run, managed and migrated to different middleware platforms • Initial versions of BES, VOMS/SAML and security service have already enabled UNICORE and gLite managed resources to be used by the same job • A complete set of fully interoperable services will be available in spring 2008

  30. Summary (2/2) • Users can try interoperability on the OMII-Europe evaluation infrastructure, or obtain services for installation on their own resources from the OMII-Europe repository • We anticipate OMII-Europe services to be integrated into standard middleware distributions as well as deployed on large scale e-infrastructures such as EGEE and DEISA • OMII-Europe requested continuing funding in the September EU call to support the existing services and provide further services in the areas of data and Grid management

  31. Further Information http://omii-europe.org

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