21–27 Mar 2009
Prague
Europe/Prague timezone

ARC middleware: evolution towards standards-based interoperability

26 Mar 2009, 16:50
20m
Club B (Prague)

Club B

Prague

Prague Congress Centre 5. května 65, 140 00 Prague 4, Czech Republic
oral Grid Middleware and Networking Technologies Grid Middleware and Networking Technologies

Speaker

Dr Oxana Smirnova (Lund University / NDGF)

Description

The Advanced Resource Connector (ARC) middleware introduced by NorduGrid is one of the leading Grid solutions used by scientists worldwide. Its simplicity, reliability and portability, matched by unparalleled efficiency, make it attractive for large-scale facilities like the Nordic DataGrid Facility (NDGF) and its Tier1 center, and also for smaller scale projects. Being well-proven in daily production use by a wide variety of sciences, ARC of today is still largely based on conventional Grid technologies introduced by Globus a decade ago. In order to guarantee sustainability, true cross-system portability, interoperability and standards-compliance, ARC community undertakes a massive effort of introducing Web Service based components into the middleware. With support from the EU KnowARC project, key ARC services are re-implemented in a service-oriented architecture, based on modern Grid standards. Such services include the resource-coupled execution service, the self-healing storage service and the peer-to-peer information system, to name a few. Gradual introduction of these new services and client tools into production middleware releases is carried out together with NDGF and thus ensures a smooth transition to the next generation Grid middleware. Standard interfaces and modularity of the new components design are essential for ARC contributions to the planned Universal Middleware Distribution by EGI. This talk will outline design principles of the new ARC services, update on the status of the middleware development, present the gradual transition process and lay out strategies for future ARC development and deployment.

Primary author

Dr Oxana Smirnova (Lund University / NDGF)

Co-authors

Dr Adrian Taga (University of Oslo) Dr Aleksandr Konstantinov (Oslo University / Vilnius University) Prof. Alex Read (University of Oslo) Dr Anders Waananen (Niels Bohr Institute) Dr Balazs Konya (Lund University) Dr Bjarte Mohn (Uppsala University) Daniel Johansson (Linkoeping University / NDGF) David Cameron (University of Oslo / NDGF) Prof. Farid Ould-Saada (University of Oslo) Dr Ferenc Szalai (NIIF) Gabor Roczei (NIIF) Ivan Marton (NIIF) Dr Josva Kleist (Aalborg University / NDGF) Dr Marek Kocan (UPJS in Kosice) Martin Savko (UPJS in Kosice) Dr Mattias Ellert (Uppsala University / NDGF) Dr Michael Gronager (NDGF) Dr Steffen Moeller (Luebeck University) Thomas Fragat (University of Oslo) Dr Weizhong Qiang (University of Oslo) Zsombor Nagy (NIIF)

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