Supporting the UK e-Science

community and their international collaborators

Steven Newhouse

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What is OMII-UK? OMII-UK was formed in January 2006, linking

together e-Science software activities at Manchester, Edinburgh and Southampton

OMII-UK is very much focused on the user –be they researcher, developer or provider

OMII-UK provides Software Support Sustainability

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OMII-UK aims to provide software and support to enable a sustained future for

the UK e-Science community and its international collaborators

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Key activities Software:

Commissioning in response to user needs Dissemination & download through the repository

Support: Training, helpdesk, community forums Define, contribute and disseminate best practice

and standards Sustainability:

‘Best of breed’ software in an international context

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Standards within OMII-UK Job Submission Description Language Basic Execution Service Data Access & Integration

WS-DAI, WS-DAIX, WS-DAIR Infrastructure

WS-Eventing, WS-ReliableMessaging, WS-Reliability Workflow

Business Process Execution Language

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Open Source Development Commission work to accelerate adoption

Redhat: Move Linux into the Enterprise OMII-UK: Move e-Science into the Research

community Fund work require by OMII-UK community

Development, documentation, porting, … Development of reference implementations

Make research prototypes more stable

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Grid:Interoperation & Interoperability

GIN: Across established production grids What are the interoperation issues?

Job Submission (x3) Virtual Organisation Management (x1) Data movement (x2)

OMII-Europe: Demonstrate interoperability Services: VOs, Jobs, Data Access, Accounting Software: OMII-UK, gLite, GT4, Unicore

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Summary Systematic interoperation needs ‘standards’ Has to be done in a global context