Speakers
Andrei Tsaregorodtsev
(Marseille)
Ricardo Graciani Diaz
(University of Barcelona (ES))
Description
The Open DISData Initiative is focusing on today’s challenges of
e-Science in a collaborative effort shared among different scientific
communities, relevant technology providers and major e-Infrastructure
providers. The target will be to evolve from existing partial
solutions towards a common platform for distributed computing able to
integrate already existing grid, cloud and other local computing and
storage resources. This common platform will be guided by the needs of
the scientist and their research. By joining this effort, and using
this common platform to implement their own solutions, scientists will
ensure at the same time robustness, interoperability and reusability
as well as an important economy of scales. Sustainability will be
achieved by selling customized solutions based on the common platform
and its support to interested scientific and industrial clients.
In order to achieve this target we propose to build from existing
solutions and to work in two directions addressing in parallel the big
science and the long tail of science challenges. The first challenge
refers to a relatively small number of well-organized large
communities with very large data access and processing requirements.
The second one refers to a large number of small loosely organized
communities with an almost infinite variety of different applications
and use cases.
Although started from the DIRAC technology, great care has been taken
to cover all other relevant areas like: Workload and Data management
(dCache.org and ARC) and advanced user interfaces including Portals
and Identity management (InSilicoLab, SCI-BUS and Catania Science
Gateway). Major e-Infrastructure projects and providers like EUDAT,
EGI, NDGF, NeCTAR, OSG or EDGI are strongly supporting this
Initiative. At the same time, some IT related private companies like
Bull, Dell and ETL are willing to participate in different areas of
the Initiative contributing with their industrial and marketing
experience.
The long-term goal of the Open DISData Initiative is to build a
self-sustained Collaboration, keeping the common platform up to date
with new requirements and technologies, and offering a high quality
but affordable support model, with continuous security training and
audit, and following industrial quality standards and procedures where
appropriate.
Summary
The sustainability of relevant software developments for scientific computing is a challenge. Many Research projects will have lifetimes of tens of years, ensuring appropriate support and further development of the necessary software is not a negligible effort that it is often not even considered. This initiative will try to promote mechanism to make "used" software sustainable.
Primary authors
Andrei Tsaregorodtsev
(Marseille)
Ricardo Graciani Diaz
(University of Barcelona (ES))
Co-authors
Jiri Chudoba
Tomasz Szepieniec
(Unknown-Unknown-Unknown)
