| Monday, September 15 |
| 2:15 pm - 3:45 pm | |
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Introduction to OGF Standards (1/2)
(90 mins)
Chris Smith, VP Standards for OGF
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The Standard Function of OGF has made significant progress in the development of useful specifications, having published 39 specification documents.
These sessions will present an overview of the OGF Standards function from a use case driven point of view, with presentations that describe how collections of OGF Standards can be combined to address various usage scenarios in distributed computing, and concluding with a panel on future work and directions.
Usage scenarios to be presented:
1) Federated Data Access - Erwin Laure, EGEE
Data within an organization is often stored and managed in a number of different locations. It may not be possible to directly access the data using standard operating environments such as Unix or Windows due to disjoint administrative domains or unwillingness to provide accounts between sub-organizations.
The objective is to provide user-transparent access to both flat-file and structured (e.g., relational) data. This is accomplished using Grid-aware user level file systems or libraries and four standards: RNS (Resource Namespace Services), ByteIO, SRM, and WS-DAI. RNS provides a human friendly name space to organize the data, ByteIO provides a POSIX like file interface, SRM provides means to manage storage systems, and WS-DAI provides interfaces to query and update relational and XML data bases.
Grid-aware file systems, e.g., FUSE, Windows IFS
Libraries: SAGA
2) ISV Integration with Remote Computing - Steven Newhouse, Microsoft
The growth of compute oriented applications within many workplaces have made their integration into remote computing resources vital - especially for mobile workers. The 'Independent Software Vendors (ISV) Remote Computing Primer' describes how OGF specifications help enable these scenarios and these will be reviewed in the presentation.
3) Job Submission and Management Using Meta-Schedulers - Ramin Yahyapour, Dortmund University/CoreGRID
Transparent access to federated computing resources is a classic use case within distributed computing. Given the multitude of software solutions for job management with different submission syntaxes and multiple data representations for computing resource information, there is a need for standards to provide a single "view" of computing resources for end users. This scenario shows how a job brokering system would use specifications such as JSDL, BES, GLUE, UR and WS-Agreement to provide and implement job meta-scheduling.
4) Network Monitoring and Usage - Richard Hughes-Jones, DANTE
The panel will include the area directors from the OGF Standards Function, and will open the floor to questions and discussion about emerging standards activities as well as possible future scenarios to focus the standards effort on.
Agenda:
Introduction to OGF Standards ~ 10'
Use Cases and applicable OGF Standards
1) Federated Data Access - 30'
2) ISV Integration with Remote Computing ~ 30'
3) Job Submission and Management Using Meta-Schedulers ~ 30'
4) Network Monitoring and Usage - 30'
Panel Discussion - remaining time
Location: Breakthrough
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| | Slides: Data Federation |
| | Slides: ISV Integration |
| | Slides: Meta-scheduling |
| | Slides: Network Monitoring |
| | Slides: Session Introduction |