1. Working with OGSA Steven Newhouse Director, OMII-UK

2. © 2 What is OMII-UK? A partnership between projects: my Grid at Manchester (Carole Goble - Chair) OGSA-DAI at Edinburgh (Malcolm Atkinson) OMII at Southampton (Dave De Roure) Started January 2006 Manchester – Expanded Engineering activity Southampton – Expanded Community activity Edinburgh – Continuation of OGSA-DAI team

3. © 3 Objectives of OMII-UK To distribute a sustained, well-engineered, interoperable, documented and supported set of easily-used integrated middleware services, components and tools To engage proactively with user communities in defining and developing this distribution To maintain a leading international role in advanced e-Infrastructure middleware provision

4. © 4 Why OGSA & GGF? Need stability Investing significant time & effort in development Need interoperability Working with many diverse infrastructure providers Need relevance Useful capability to a diverse user community Need adoption Acceptance from academia & industry Need composability There will be more than one

5. © 5 What we (OMII) are doing… OGSA-DAI Funding for next 3 years Engagement with DAIS-WG and WS-DAI* specs. Job Submission Description Language GridSAM project funded by OMII Support one of the WG chairs and implementation Basic Execution Service GridSAM project funded by OMII Provides one of the WG chairs and implementation SAGA User focussed client side API to access ‘the Grid’

6. © 6 What next… KISS: Keep It Simple Stupid! Keep it Open: Unlock the door Open the door Turn on the light Provide a fire-side seat Keep going: There is light at the end of the tunnel Small simple composable open specifications