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With a forward look to future evolution, discuss the issues you have encountered (or that you expect) in using the EGEE infrastructure. Wherever possible, point out the experience limitations (both in terms of existing services or missing functionality)
To date, the EGEE community does not have an established solution
to use and fully
support complex and generic workflows. A-WARE is able to
integrate different workflow
engines (such as MOTEUR, etc. ) for different standards (like
BPEL, SCUFL, etc. ).
With all these features A-Ware satisfies most of requirements and
needs of different
user communities that aim at a powerful workflow management.
Report on the experience (or the proposed activity). It would be very important to mention key services which are essential for the success of your activity on the EGEE infrastructure.
An evident synergy point is that both the A-WARE framework and
the Grid portal of
Gilda community ( GENIUS ) are both developed and running on the
EnginFrame system,
with common goals: to improve user friendliness, to focus on
innovative and flexible
workflow management systems and hides the complexity of the Grid
from users. Genius
is a powerful Grid Portal that allows scientists to exploit Grid
resources and allows
to expose GLite-enabled applications via Web-browser as well as
Web Services. To
facilitate the exploitation, particular care will be put on
simplifying the
deployment of Grid Applications under typical research scenarios,
such as security,
single-sign-on systems, ACL management, etc. Finally the project
will aim to adopt as
well as influence common used standards in all key project areas.
A-WARE will
primarily target the Grid Foundations topic of the
above-mentioned strategic objective.
Describe the added value of the Grid for the scientific/technical activity you (plan to) do on the Grid. This should include the scale of the activity and of the potential user community and the relevance for other scientific or business applications
A-WARE (An easy Way to Access GRID REsources) will develop a
stable, supported,
commercially exploitable and high quality technology, framework
to manage workflows,
from design to storage,including submission, monitoring,flexible
retrieval,data
management and incarnation on virtualized grid resources. All
these functions will be
performed in a very simple, interoperable and application
independent way. The
guiding principle of the project as stated in the AWare technical
annex, will be to
exploit and leverage the maturity of the grid middleware in
particular gLite
middleware support as one of the project outcomes. Another
guiding principle of the
project is the development of a technology help diffuse and widen
the adoption of
Grid technology via a web thinclient approach, based on
userfriendly interfaces, that
hides the complexity of the underlying Grid middleware to
occasional as well as
frequent users. Finally industrial exploitation and
sustainability are key aspects of
the project
Describe the scientific/technical community and the scientific/technical activity using (planning to use) the EGEE infrastructure. A high-level description is needed (neither a detailed specialist report nor a list of references).
AWare is a European Grid technology project aimed at the
development of a
opensource,userfriendly solution,to create,store and manage
complex job
workflows.There are many communities and related Grid projects
within EGEE(eg
ALICE,LHCb,BioMed,INFN,etc)already using the glite middleware and
many more potential
users from diverse industrial & business community(eg
manufacturing,automotive,financial services,etc)that could
benefit from a framework
able to manage complex job flows and their lifecycle
