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26-29th June 2005, Chicago, USA, Science Gateways: Common Community Interfaces to Grid Resources Workshop
A workshop to be held in conjunction with GGF14, (June 26-29, Chicago, USA)
Jointly organized by:
* GGF Steering Group Community Council
* NSF TeraGrid Project (US)
* HPC-Europa Project
* Pragma
Workshop Organizers:
Nancy Wilkins-Diehr (SDSC, USA) (co-chair)
Sebastien Goasguen (Purdue University, USA) (co-chair)
Ariel Oleksiak (Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland)
Jarek Nabrzyski (Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland)
Charlie Catlett (University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, USA)
Ian Foster (University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, USA)
Dennis Gannon (Indiana University, USA)
Satoshi Sekiguchi (AIST, Japan)
Sang-Beom Lim (KISTI, Korea)
Call for Position Papers:
Increasingly, scientists are using portals and desktop applications as "gateways" to access
computation, information, and even instruments that are integrated within Grid systems. The
concept of a "Science Gateway" is a community-specific set of tools, applications, and data
collections that are integrated together via a portal or a suite of applications, providing
access to Grid-integrated resources. These gateways often support orchestrated workflow,
resource directories (databases, compute resources, etc.), and execution services. As more
and more communities build science gateways, it will be useful to develop a set of conventions -
policies, technical approaches, interactions - by which a science gateway interacts with a Grid or
with a Grid resource.
The purpose of the workshop is to bring together researchers or resource providers who are
trying to bring or have brought Grid capabilities to a particular science community
(atmospheric scientists, chemists, bioinformaticists, etc.), and who are doing this by:
* building portals
* implementing web services on resources in operational grids
* building applications with "embedded" capabilities to access Grids
(or Grid resources) from the desktop
We will explore and summarize commonalities and differences among development approaches
and technologies used as well as system, security, accounting, authentication/authorization
and other policies and capabilities that need to be in place to support these interfaces on
production grids.
We are looking for brief (3-5p) position papers that cover the following topics:
* Description of services provided by the interface and technologies/software
used to provide them
* Description of specific configuration or policy issues encountered during
deployment and maintenance of these interfaces
* Authentication and authorization approaches to allow a variety of user
"types" ranging from fully authenticated to anonymous users of restricted
access such as running a tool on a Grid resource from a portal interface.
* Practical issues related to supporting workflow on Grid resources
* Approaches to providing web services on a secure system, including
mechanisms and techniques for enabling gateway developers to manage
and provide applications on computational resources for execution as web services
Typical services provided might include community data resources, visualization or data
analysis capabilities, applications and compute resources, collaboration spaces and workflow
tools.
For the workshop presentations, we are seeking position papers on the subjects described
above. Papers should be typeset in a single-column format, in 12pt font, for letter or A4
sized paper. Papers should not exceed 5 pages. Submission format is PDF.
Please submit your paper to sgw-ggf@purdue.edu marked as GGF-14 Science Gateway workshop
submission.
Publication: All accepted submissions will be used, along with workshop notes, to prepare
a report that will be published as a GGF Informational Document or may be submitted to a
journal covering Grid computing.
Important Dates:
Paper submission: May 23, 2005
Notification of acceptance: May 27, 2005
Workshop: June 28, 2005
Participants will be required to register according to the arrangements to be set for this purpose by GGF.
See http://www.ggf.org for registration information.
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8th April 2005 - the GridLab project is among the most successful FP5 projects
The final project review took place on 8th April. All the prepared demos were working perfectly. All the parts: Triana, Cactus, GAT, Monsteer and all the services as well as the collaborative scenario (GAS, mobile, GRMS
and the services GRMS uses) were assessed as very impressive. According to the project reviewers GridLab Project has been one of the most successful FP5 Grid related projects
and the review team was very satisfied with the project technical achievements. 8th April was the day of John Paul II's funeral as well - the Community has commemorated the momeory of the great man. For more information please contact office@gridlab.org
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16th March 2005, PSNC joins HP's Collaboration and Competency Network
Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center joins HP's Collaboration and Competency
Network. HP's Collaboration and Competency Network (HP CCN) is a forum to facilitate
wide-ranging collaboration, innovation, discovery, and competency-sharing between HP
and high performance technical computing customers and partners.
The goal of HP CCN is to enable members to share experience and expertise in
order to more rapidly advance research, development, and use of HPC technologies.
HP CCN promotes the power and synergy of open collaborations to ensure that emerging
standards and technologies meet the demanding needs of the HPC community.
The initial HP CCN collaboration areas include:
Computational & data grids
Global file system for Linux (Lustre™)
Scientific visualization (Sepia)
Linux SMP scaling
Collaboration areas are expected to expand over time.
PSNC, through CCN, will promote GridLab developments to the broader,
both, commercial and academia audiences. Now GridLab has two
representatives in the HP CCN: PSNC and University of Lecce.
More information on CCN's Computation and Data Grid Collaboration can be found at:
http://www.hp.com/techservers/hpccn/grids/index.html.
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21st March 2005, File Service v 2.0 released!
The previous release of the file service was the first one to combine file copy
and directory browsing functionalities.
For this version some of the packaging were changed (to include make install)
and a short installation guide was added.
The releases are available at:
http://www.gridlab.org/WorkPackages/wp-8/file_service/
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11th March 2005, GRMS 1.9.6 released!
The GRMS v1.9.6 has been released together with admin and user guides.
Please visit
http://www.gridlab.org/WorkPackages/wp-9/releases.html
to download software and docs.
Main changes:
support for "projects"
new notification API
possibility to register file hosted on GASS-server as a destination
for notifications
many fixes and improvements
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23rd February 2005, GSI plug-in for gSOAP 2.4.4 released!
This release addresses an incompatibility between gSOAP servers and Java clients that prevented full interoperability.
The software is available at http://sara.unile.it/~cafaro/gsi-plugin.html
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8th February 2005, GAT C++ and Python warppers released!
The C++ and Python wrappers have been released in Version 1.2,
together with an updated snapshot of the current GAT Engine
Reference implementation (1.2). The releases are available at http://www.gridlab.org/gat/gatreleases.html
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8th February 2005, GridLab Metadata Catalog 0.7 released!
StorageBox 0.7 (the latest version of GridLab's Metadata Catalog) is now available as a source code release. You find it along with documentation and updated WSDLs on http://www.storagebox.org/.
The current GridLab Metadata Catalog is running on cluster3.zib.de (port 27085 for plain SOAP, 27086 for GSI SOAP).
The Web Service interface has slightly changed and the GAT adaptor has been updated.
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26th November 2004, Ibis 1.0 released!
We are happy to announce that Ibis 1.0 has been released.
It can be downloaded from http://www.cs.vu.nl/ibis.
The goal of the Ibis project at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is to
design and implement an efficient and flexible Java-based programming
environment for Grid computing, in particular for distributed
supercomputing applications. Java has many advantages for Grid
computing. Foremost, by being based on a virtual machine concept, it
is inherently more portable than traditional, statically compiled
languages, making it much easier to execute Java applications in a
heterogeneous Grid environment. Also, Java is based on a high-level,
object-oriented, type-safe programming model and it has built-in
support for multi-threading and distributed computing.
Unfortunately, Java's support for distributed computing, Remote Method
Invocation (RMI), has important shortcomings for high-performance Grid
computing: it is difficult to implement efficiently and only expresses
client-server style communication. Ibis addresses these problems. Ibis
boosts RMI performance using several optimizations, especially to
avoid the high overhead of runtime type inspection that current RMI
implementations have. Ibis comes with a highly efficient
serialization implementation.
The Ibis project also addresses the lack of expressiveness of Java
RMI, which provides only synchronous client-server communication. The
Ibis programming environment supports a range of communication
paradigms, including group communication, divide-and-conquer and
collective communication, integrated cleanly into Java. Other systems
typically resort to extensions that are less well integrated with
Java's object-oriented model, such as using a native MPI library. An
additional nice feature of Ibis is that it can communicate through
firewalls, without opening ports.
Ibis is free software (BSD-style license).
It runs on any platform that has a Java 1.4 or higher JVM.
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24th September 2004, GridLab successfully passes its 4th review!!!
24 September 2004, Brussels, Belgium. The GridLab project has been reviewed from the technical point of view.
The review panel recognized significant advances in the software development and the features available for GridLab users. The project members
demonstrated successfully both Triana and Cactus applications.
Triana showed the task farming the scenario on the Grid, while Cactus demonstrated the grid application
migration. The project will soon present the scenarios and use cases for some grid-enabled legacy applications such as PAM-CRASH for example.
For more information please contact office@gridlab.org
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22nd September 2004, iGrid 3.3b released!
iGrid is a novel Grid Information Service developed within the GridLab project by the ISUFI/CACT University of Lecce,
Italy that is leading WorkPackage 10. The package has been recently reviewed from the technical point of view during
the latest GridLab review on September 24, 2004 and approved by the review panel. Among iGrid requirements there are
performance, scalability, security, decentralized control, support for dynamic data and user supplied information.
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11th August 2004, The GAT version 1.0 released!!!
The GAT Team of the GridLab project proudly announced the release of the first GAT version 1.0!
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2nd August 2004, GridLab presentation in Singapore!
The GridLab solutions for wireless and mobile technologies were successfully presented at the Mobility Conference 2004 in Singapore!
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12th July 2004, Mercury 2.3.0 released!
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16th June 2004, The GridLab Dissemination and Expoitation review passed successfully!
Thanks to all gridlabers!!!
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15th June 2004, PSNC to Productize GridLab software
During the Dissemination and Exploitation GridLab review in Brussels - Jarek Nabrzyski, the GridLab project coordinator,
Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland (PSNC), will announce PSNC's plans to bring GridLab
software and some other European and US Grid open source solutions to market by the mid of 2006.
GridSuite, the out of the box complete Grid solution will Bring grid tools and services for both,
Grid application developers and Grid deployers from academia, business and industry.
PSNC will work very closely with all the GridLab partners to bring high quality GridSuite
system, consisting of such tools as the Grid Application Toolkit, Grid Resource Management System,
Grid Monitoring System, Grid Data Management System, Grid Authorization System, Grid Mobile User
System, Grid Adaptive System, Grid Information System and GridSphere Portal Framework and productized
version of the Globus software. Some other packages include (but are not limited to) the Grid Virtual
User Accounting System (VUS) and Grid Virtual Desktop system, both from PSNC. PSNC will devote
substantial resources to implement GridSuite. The main advantage of using the GridSuite system will
be reduction of operating costs of the companies by optimizing hardware resources and minimizing the
application development costs by introducing high level grid API for application developers. The key
to the success will be the Grid Resource Management System (GRMS) that together with other Grid
services and tools will bring the best possible performance to applications on one side and the
best utilization of the resources on the other one. The Grid API, based on the GridLab's GAT,
will allow application developers to grid-enable their application in fast and robust way.
The license for the GridSuite software is still not defined, but Nabrzyski says that PSNC works
on the business plan for GridSuite. All the details will be known by the end of 2004.
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16-23 May 2004, Internal GridLab Workshop and Conference
During the last GridLab Internal workshop in Lecce more than 50 GridLab developers and designers met to
discuss current developments in the project. Main focus was the integration of the software and new, real application scenarios
based on the existing capabilities provided by the GridLab tools and services. Many technical problems and very detailed scenarios were discussed during the meeting.
The new scenario will feature real Cactus and Triana simulations running on the resources across the Globe. It was decided the the scenario will be demoed during the
September events in Brussels (Grid Concertation Meeting and GGF12, as well as the GridLab demo review) and during the IST in Hague, NL, and SC2004 in Pittsburgh, USA in November.
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11th May 2004, GRMS v1.9.0 released!
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10th March 2004, GGF10 GridLab DEMO
During the GGF10 in Berlin we have presented an example GAT application, portal
and all GridLab services running on our testbed.
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8th March 2004, Berlin - GridLab review meeting
The 3rd GridLab review passed successfuly!!!
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28-30 January 2004, Many GridLab people took an active part in Across Grids Conference in Cyprus
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17th November 2003, SC2003 GridLab DEMO
During SC2003 in Pheonix,
we will be showing how new computing scenarios can be realized by generic
applications by using GridLab technologies.
We will demonstrate job migration across the resources of the GridLab testbed, where
our jobs are production quality Cactus simulations, using MPI and Fortran, modeling
the spiraling collision of two black holes.
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June 2004, GridLab software to be used by Italian Southern Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructures (SPACI)
"SPACI will use software developed by the European GridLab project (www.Gridlab.org).
Both HP and the University of Lecce are participants in GridLab – a major European effort in
the research and development of applications and middleware tools for grid environments.
Funded by the European Commission, GridLab will produce a set of application-oriented grid
services and toolkits providing capabilities such as dynamic resource brokering, monitoring,data management, security, adaptive services and more..."
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April 2004, GridLab in Scientific Computing World
"STUCK IN THE MIDDLEWARE"
"It seems to be my lot in this slot to parade my ignorance of hot topics.
My excuse is that the need to understand a new issue is a great incentive
to venture out on to the web. Which is why I have been trying to pin down
just what 'middleware' is all about. We first have to think about grid
computing, which connects computers so that they can work together and
operate as a distributed supercomputer. The computers in this grid can be
anything that can contribute to the processing task to hand..."
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February 2004, GridSphere in IBM developerWorks
"Developing grid portlets using the GridSphere portal framework"
"In this article, the author explains how to design and implement Web-based
interfaces, known as portlets, to provide end-user interfaces for
using grid services. He explains the open source portal framework GridSphere
and provides code examples of portlets in the GridSphere model. The article
also explains the integration of OGSA-based grid services and GridSphere,
and it includes a grid portlet example that shows how to write a portlet
to access a sample OGSA counter service..."
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February 2004, GridLab in Innovation Report
"One of largest research undertakings in Europe"
"... Enabling this access is the task of the IST GRIDLAB project, scheduled
to deliver its results at the end of 2004. Lead by the Poznan Supercomputer
and Networking centre (PSNC) in Poland, the 11 partners in GRIDLAB are
working to provide Grid users with a simple and robust environment that
allows them to develop applications capable of exploiting the full power
and capacity of the Grid..."
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January 2004, GridLab in IST Results
"MAKING THE GRID TRANSPARENT TO USERS"
"A key objective of the ongoing EU Grid programme is to make available
large-scale, distributed resources capable of solving complex processing
problems. The environment, energy, health, transport and industrial design
are all likely application areas. At the end of 2003 the Grid infrastructure
is already a reality, interconnecting national research networks in Europe
and across the world. The next question is - how do researchers access and
use this huge resource?"
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December 2002, GridLab in News From SC 2002
"Jarek Nabrzysky of the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center discussed the
EC-funded GridLab project (GridLab.org) that has attracted U.S. participation from Sun,
HP and Argonne National Laboratory, among others. Among the features of the project is
a middleware-independent Grid Application Toolkit (GAT)"
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