OMII-UK

Steven Newhouse, Director

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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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OMII-UK: Mission Promote the use of open-source software

solutions to enable e-Science by providing: Software Support Sustainability

Through this activity reduce the ‘risk’ of building upon software from other projects

Focus on the distinct needs of the user – be they researcher, developer or service provider

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OMII-UK: Activity Southampton (£3.0M)

Integration & Testing Teams User Community, Support & Technology Teams

Edinburgh (£1.8M) OGSA-DAI Team

Manchester (£1.9M) myGrid Team

In the community (£2.5M) Funding external developers

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OMII-UK Team

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End-Users Technologists Providers

SoftwareRelease

(Tools & Services)

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Software OMII-UK provides you with informed access

to open-source e-Science software OMII-UK can help you disseminate your e-

Science software to a global community

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Support OMII-UK provides confidence in adopting e-

Science solutions through software support and training

OMII-UK provides collaborative mechanisms to enable the e-Science community to help itself

OMII-UK engages with the international community to define, contribute and disseminate best practice and standards

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Sustainability OMII-UK partners with other software

providers to provide best of breed software solutions

OMII-UK works with UK and European funding agencies to provide a sustainable future

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OMII-UK Software Release Download:

Individual components from the repository Integrated release of components from various

sources Software Release:

Web Service Environment: Tomcat/Axis/WS-Security Select which components you want to install

Components downloaded as required

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Current 3.1 Release GridSAM: Job Submission and Job monitoring web

service that uses the OGF’s Job Submission Description Language (JSDL) to describe jobs.

Grimoires: UDDI compliant registry web service that can support the addition of extra service meta-data.

OGSA-DAI: Provides a framework for querying, processing and delivering data from and between heterogeneous sources via a web service interface.

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Current 3.1 Release FINS: Implementation of the WS-Eventing

specification. FIRMS: Implementation of the WS-ReliableMessaging

and WS-Reliability specifcations. WSRF::Lite: A perl implementation of the WS-RF

specifications (only tested on a few platforms in this release).

PlotWS: A web service wrapper around the Gnuplot program – send in data get back an image of the graph.

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Future Releases Taverna:

Graphical workflow composition tool able to integrate different web, data and web service sources.

BPEL: Packaging & contribution to the open-source Oracle/IBM

BPEL workflow editor and ActiveBPEL execution engine.

AHE: Application Hosting Environment a lightweight hosting

environment for running unmodified scientific applications across different grid infrastructures.

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In the Future… Open Grid Manager: A framework for

reporting on the status of grid resources into Grimoires and viewing the collected results.

KNOOGLE will develop a generic, user-customizable, flexible framework for matchmaking and brokerage of grid services.

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Product Lines Life Sciences:

Taverna workbench for integrated access to community hosted web and data services to support life sciences and bioinformatics.

Compute Developers: Scheduling and execution of applications across different computational

resources using GridSAM, Grimoires, and scheduling/matchmaking services. Data Developers:

Software to federate data sources with different data schemas and different access policies based around OGSA-DAI.

Service Developers: Secure web services hosting environment with infrastructure to support

events (notification) and reliable messaging based around FINS, FIRMS, Tomcat and Axis.

Educators: Basic secure web services environment with comprehensive tutorials and

examples to learn how to use web services using Tomcat and Axis.

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Software Contributors University of Edinburgh (OGSA-DAI) Imperial College London

London e-Science Centre (GridSAM) University of Southampton

Southampton e-Science Centre (PlotWS) School of Engineering Sciences (Geodise project) School of Electronics & Computer Science (Grimoires project) IT Innovation Centre (GRIA)

University College London Centre for Computational Science (AHE) Department of Computing Sceince (BPEL)

University of Manchester E-Science North West (WSRF::Lite) School of Computer Science (myGrid project - Taverna)

University of Indiana (FINS & FIRMS)

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Project Contributors National Grid Service RealityGrid Steering Library Developmental Gene Expression Map Qurator: Describing the Quality of Curated E-

Science Information Resources KNOOGLE

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Collaborations To use and extend current components To contribute and provide new components Deployment scenarios to define products

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Where next… For further information, project lists, etc:

Web: www.omii.ac.uk For further questions, support issues, etc:

Mail: support@omii.ac.uk