© 2008 by M. Stümpert, A. Garcia; made available under the EPL v1.0 | Access the power of Grids with Eclipse Mathias Stümpert (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) Ariel Garcia (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) March 18th, 2008 EclipseCon 2008 Santa Clara

g-Eclipse - Access the Power of Grids with Eclipse | © 2008 by M. Stümpert, A. Garcia; made available under the EPL v1.0 What is a Grid Original definition by I. Foster and C. Kesselman:  “To solve together a scientific problem, the distributed resources of scientists can be dynamically and coordinately connected by using fast networks to build a virtual computing center/organization” Nowadays definitions:  Multiple independent computing clusters not located within a single administrative domain  Online computing/storage offered as a commercial service (e.g. cloud computing) ...

g-Eclipse - Access the Power of Grids with Eclipse | © 2008 by M. Stümpert, A. Garcia; made available under the EPL v1.0 Grids for e-Science Currently g-Eclipse provides support for Grid infrastructures dedicated to e-Science Such infrastructures are still emerging  On national and international level  Some examples are EGEE, D-Grid, TeraGrid, int.eu.grid... These infrastructures are built to solve problems of many different domains  Physics  Bio-Medical  Engineering  Financial ...

g-Eclipse - Access the Power of Grids with Eclipse | © 2008 by M. Stümpert, A. Garcia; made available under the EPL v1.0 Grid middleware Connects resources (computing, storage...) at different sites to one Grid infrastructure Provides services to access an infrastructure Many different middlewares are available:  gLite, Globus Toolkit, UNICORE, GRIA,... Same basic functionalities of a middleware:  Security layer for authentication and authorization  Transfer protocols for accessing and managing data  Brokers to distribute computing jobs on the infrastructure  Higher level services (SLAs, accounting,...) ...

g-Eclipse - Access the Power of Grids with Eclipse | © 2008 by M. Stümpert, A. Garcia; made available under the EPL v1.0 g-Eclipse - The idea behind it Many different middlewares are out there  Provide extensible middleware-independent framework for accessing Grids Accessing a Grid is difficult  Provide a user-friendly UI for accessing Grids A user may play different roles in a Grid  Perspective for Grid users  Perspective for Grid operators  Perspective for Grid application developers Currently supported middlewares:  gLite - Batch system for the scientific user  GRIA - Service-oriented infrastructure for industry and commerce

g-Eclipse - Access the Power of Grids with Eclipse | © 2008 by M. Stümpert, A. Garcia; made available under the EPL v1.0 g-Eclipse - Some facts Funded by the European Community 14 Committers at Eclipse.org Currently around 20 developers (committers + contributors) spread over 7 partners from 5 European countries Roughly 50 plug-ins, 2500 classes/interfaces and LOC Monthly release cycle Some first contacts to external contributors established

g-Eclipse - Access the Power of Grids with Eclipse | © 2008 by M. Stümpert, A. Garcia; made available under the EPL v1.0 Roles and use cases Support for  Grid user:  Submit/Manage jobs  Manage data  Grid operator:  Administrate sites  Administrate users  Grid application developer:  Compile/Debug applications  Deploy applications

g-Eclipse - Access the Power of Grids with Eclipse | © 2008 by M. Stümpert, A. Garcia; made available under the EPL v1.0 The architecture Two layers:  Abstraction layer (Grid model):  Authentication/Authorization  Job management  Data management  Services ...  Implementation layer:  Implements the model for specific middlewares UI is based on abstraction layer  UI looks the same for all middlewares

g-Eclipse - Access the Power of Grids with Eclipse | © 2008 by M. Stümpert, A. Garcia; made available under the EPL v1.0 Grid model and project

g-Eclipse - Access the Power of Grids with Eclipse | © 2008 by M. Stümpert, A. Garcia; made available under the EPL v1.0 The user interface Perspectives for Grid user, operator, application developer and data transfers Views for projects, auth tokens, connections, jobs, visualization and many more Wizards for auth tokens, connections, job descriptions, virtual organisations and many more Editors for job descriptions (JSDL, RSL), batch systems, VTK pipelines and more Everything based on middleware independent Grid model → fits all middlewares

g-Eclipse - Access the Power of Grids with Eclipse | © 2008 by M. Stümpert, A. Garcia; made available under the EPL v1.0 Current project status g-Eclipse is an official Eclipse Technology Project First release (0.5) available since September 2007 Currently working in 1.0 milestone phase (M3 available) Final 1.0 release planned for October 2008 Architecture and Grid model stable since mid of 2007 First middleware implementation stable since end of 2007 Second middleware implementation started in the beginning of 2008

g-Eclipse - Access the Power of Grids with Eclipse | © 2008 by M. Stümpert, A. Garcia; made available under the EPL v1.0 Plans for 1.0 release Finish second middleware implementation  Proof of middleware independent conception Implement some first industry relevant applications on top of g-Eclipse  BEA application for fluid dynamics  Pharmaceutical application by NEC Provide an interface for Amazon's EC2 and/or S3  Be not only middleware-independent but also Grid- independent  Introduce the world of cloud computing in Eclipse