The OMII Overview, Product and Roadmap

© University of Southampton omii OMII_1 Delivering a secure, reliable, web services infrastructure for grid applications Easy to use, professionally tested, Accountable

© University of Southampton omii Presentation Contents OMII Overview The Need for the OMII OMII Remit OMII at Southampton OMII Software Product Product Info Product Timetable Customers OMII Roadmap Standards Future Managed Programme Software Repository International involvement

© University of Southampton omii The OMII in a nutshell Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute Established January 2004, initially 3 years with £6.5m Intention - To capitalise on existing e-science investment and produce high-quality, reusable grid middleware Rationale – much e-science invest in “proof of concept” and demonstrators – investigations into technology and approaches OMII should benefit from, re-use, reengineer, existing e-science work where appropriate

© University of Southampton omii The OMII Remit Key Goal is to produce usable and “used” grid middleware and services. Achieved through: OMII “In-house” development Explicit S/W Contracts OMII “managed programme” Success Criteria Number of software downloads Number of deployed systems Key academic and e-science projects use it Industry uptake Sustained through success UK research, JISC and DTI funding Industry support

© University of Southampton omii The OMII at Southampton Located on Southampton University Campus – dedicated, continuous open plan offices Currently 13 F/T staff, recruiting additional 4 to 6 Additional continuous space allocated in December

© University of Southampton omii OMII_1 Product Overview OMII_1 is a secure infrastructure that enables collaboration between users (clients) and providers of resource and applications Target Audience Grid resource users: User requesting services/resources through a command line interface or through application Service providers: Exposes resources or applications to known clients/users Application developers: Web-service developers who want to provide distributed, controlled and secure access to their applications

© University of Southampton omii OMII_1 Product Overview (2) Security X509 Authentication (AAA) with HTTPS message security Authorisation through account based system at service providers (AAA) Accounting (AAA) for resource/service use maintained by service provider and visible to client. Accounting can influence Authorisation Client/Service-provider Interaction Client submits resource request to service provider(s) Service provider(s) respond with a “quote” for job if the resource provider can meet required constraints and client account has sufficient credit Client selects a provider and submits job Client account is debited with estimated resources used for job On job completion client account is updated to actual resources used

© University of Southampton omii OMII_1 Product Components – (1) 4 packages Package 1 - Client download Command line client and Java library to interact with any OMII_1 service provider < 10 minutes to install and interact with servers at OMII Example client application program Supported on Windows and SUSE9 Linux No additional download for Grid “Users”

© University of Southampton omii OMII_1 Product Components – (2) Package 2 - OMII_1 Base and Extensions Server base providing Tomcat, Axis and WS-Security < 10 minutes for complete install Supported on SUSE9 Linux Package 3 - OMII_1 Services Initial basic services (Accounting service, resource Allocation Service, Data movement service, Job Submission service) Installed on Base and Extensions (SUSE9 Linux) Package 4 - OMII_1 Applications Sample application to demonstrate service provision Installed on OMII_1 Services Supported on Windows and SUSE9 Linux Service Providers require Packages 2 and 3 Application developers require all packages

© University of Southampton omii OMII_1 Associated Products OGSA-DAI Condor Interface PBS Interface

© University of Southampton omii OMII_1 Product License All OMII code distributed using BSD license Includes licensed components (Apache license and LGPL)

© University of Southampton omii OMII_1 Release Timetable Private pre- release OMII_1 Public pre- release OMII_1 Official OMII_1 release Developers refresh October 4 th 2004 October 25 th 2004 December 6 th 2004 End Jan 2005 Pre-releases targeted at early adopters to grid enable services Little change from OMII_1 pre-release to official release improved documentation, testing, platform support Developers Refresh Refresh base and services Update WS-Security in line with WS-I Re-factor extensions to base to allow selective install of services

© University of Southampton omii OMII_1 Customers Target E-science projects just starting EPSRC projects in discussion – Integrative Biology, GOLD BBSRC project possibilities – ComparaGRID, GridQTL, e-Fungi, ISPIDER, etc NERC, MRC, etc… Existing E-science projects Follow-on e-science projects MyGrid Nerc DataGrid E-materials project ServerGrid project Astrogrid – already use web services and OGSA-DAI Projects requiring a ready to use grid infrastructure including documentation, training courses, support Industrial Partners Managed programme partners

© University of Southampton omii OMII Roadmap - Position statement Committed to WS-I+ WS-I basic profile (SOAP, WSDL, UDDI) WS-I basic security profile (WS-Security) WS-Addressing, BPEL+, WS-Reliable Messaging/WS-Reliability Plans and timescales to deliver WS-I+ OMII intends to adopt WSRF as and when standardised and stable

© University of Southampton omii OMII Product Roadmap 2005 April 2005: 2 nd OMII Distribution Include WS-Addressing Interoperability with GT4 New services

© University of Southampton omii OMII Service Sets Roadmap In priority order, not delivery order Delivery dependent on managed programme Basic Service Set Job Submit File movement Database Access Authorisation Service Set 1 Workflow Registry Logging Accounting Session Management Service Set 2 Notification Reliable Messaging File management services (provenance, metadata, replica)

© University of Southampton omii Delivering OMII service sets All OMII distributions will contain the basic service set. Basic Service set will be revised & updated between distributions Delivery of service sets 1 and 2 are post April 2005, although some services from service set 1 will be in OMII Distribution 2 Service sets are subject to modification

© University of Southampton omii Managed Programme funding 2/3rds managed programme funding spent Projects funded: OGSA-DAI (Database service) JDML (Job submit service) BPEL (Workflow service) Grimoires (Registry service) FIRMS (Reliable messaging) FINS (Notification) GeodiseLab (Matlab toolbox) WSRF:lite integration Further contracts placed/calls in the next 6 months to address gaps Basic Service Set Service Sets 1 & 2

© University of Southampton omii Managed programme status All projects required to engage 3 test communities and use OMII distribution from outset Work negotiations complete Grid SAM and Geodise started 1 st September All others started in October Official kick-off meeting 21 st October in Southampton Introduction/discussion on OMII distribution and integration of managed programme output Standards, Documentation, OMII security,…

© University of Southampton omii External Contributions to OMII Major source through contracts and managed programme Primarily contributing to essential elements of OMII distributions Managed programme required to liaise with other middleware bodies (e.g., EGEE, Globus) Additional source from repository contributions Primarily end user services from e-science projects Generic service useful to others tested with OMII distribution that are optional to install Talk to OMII – we can help publicise your services and assist where appropriate with input to the repository

© University of Southampton omii International Relationships with other infrastructure providers-NMI Visited Condor group in June – identified 3 phases in collaboration OMII to use same test harness as NMI Link the OMII and NMI testing infrastructures Work with NMI to develop distributed testing framework Status Regular conference calls A non-interactive version of the OMII distribution is being integrated into the NMI build system Demonstration of OMII build in NMI scheduled for SC2004

© University of Southampton omii International Infrastructure Relationships (2) EGEE Specific integration with managed programme projects (Registry, Grid SAM) Further integration and interoperability to be investigated Q Globus Visited Globus June - discussed integration possibilites Security – possible re-use of SAML/PERMIS infrastructure from GT4 – common core with EGEE/GT4 Integration of GRIDFTP (dependent on delegation service) Joint requirements gathering

© University of Southampton omii International Relationships with Standards Organisations (3) GGF Indirect through managed programme – JSDL working group, GRID SAM; SAGA working group, Geodise Lab Requirements gathering presented last GGF EGA Member through core programme – no active communication Oasis member

© University of Southampton omii OMII International Profile We are expected to engage with the community standards, specifications, working with other people who are trying to achieve the same goal. OMII will take the lead on infrastructure integration OMII is working directly with NMI on Testing Globus and EGEE on integration at the level where services can be invoked across infrastructures The OMII success measure = customers