KnowARC design Aleksandr Konstantinov 1 st KnowARC Conference, Oslo, 2006 November 7-9

2006 November 8thwww.knowarc.eu 2 KnowARC design - Status ● Very much work in progress ● But progress is already visible ● Requirements collection is complete ● Main parts of design are to be completed during this conference ● Development of new core of new ARC is to start really soon

2006 November 8thwww.knowarc.eu 3 KnowARC design - Basics ● Simple and easy to install ● No intrusive ● Easy confuguration – preferably through GUI ● Simple to use ● Following main current standards ● OGSA ●... ● Availability for various platforms ● Including MS Windows

2006 November 8thwww.knowarc.eu 4 KnowARC design - Basics ● Keeping old components ● Not waisting time for reimplementa- tion of well working system ● New core codebase ● Consistent through all components ● All interfaces are Web Sevice based and properly documented ● Using standards whenever available ● Increases compatibility with other Grid middleware implementations ● Easier to write clients

2006 November 8thwww.knowarc.eu 5 KnowARC design - Components ● Container/Infrastructure ● Provides framework for building services and communications ● Execution services ● Keeping Grid-Manager ● New communication interface following BES and JSDL ● New functionality ● Self-healing ● Persistent wokflow managers ●...

2006 November 8thwww.knowarc.eu 6 KnowARC design - Components ● Data management ● Completely new infrastructure ● Reliable, fault tolerant, self- consistent ● Beeing developed now ● Information System ● Integrated into service ● Reliable ● Fast ● Hierarchical

2006 November 8thwww.knowarc.eu 7 KnowARC design - Components ● Resource management ● Easy configuration ● No mess of configuration files ● Clear syntax ● Configuration by functionality ● Security ● User Interfaces ● Integration into third-party tools