[ogsa-wg] Any additions to "example projects" section in OGSA Roadmap?

[Rajkumar Buyya]

Hi Jem:

Here is a text from our Gridbus Project for inclusion in Roadmap:
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The Gridbus Project at the University of Melbourne is one of the major OSS 
projects focused on the design and development of service-oriented, utility 
computing grid technologies. The Gridbus project has designed and implemented 
open source version of Grid Service Broker, Grid Workflow Management system, 
GridBank (Grid Authorisation, Authentication, and Accounting Services), 
SLA-based Allocation of Grid Resources, and .NET-based Enterprise Grid manager. 
All of these technologies support or committed towards providing a standard 
compliant (both GGF Grid and W3C Web Services standards) interfaces for 
application developers. We are using and promoting the use of standard compliant 
technologies in the development of various e-Science applications in Australia 
and internationally.
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Thanks
Raj

Treadwell, Jem wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> Section 8 of the OGSA Roadmap document describes some open-source 
> projects that are working with OGSA concepts and specifications, and by 
> doing so are contributing to the OGSA effort.  The current text of the 
> section is below.  If anyone would like to add a few lines about any 
> other project, please pass them on to me before the end of this week.  
> We plan to do final review of the document on Monday next week, so 
> please don't delay if you want to get something to me.  Please keep your 
> submission fairly short and in line with the style of what you see 
> below, and be specific about what is being implemented.
>  
> Also note that although the section is currently entitled "Open-Source 
> Software Projects" commercial projects or other non-open-source projects 
> can be included, provided they fit the criteria of contributing to the 
> development of OGSA.  We'll change the section heading if appropriate.
> 
> Thanks!
> - Jem
>  
>  
> 
> *Open-Source Software Projects*
> 
> OGSA is expected to be implemented by multiple open-source software 
> (OSS) projects and commercial software vendors. OSS projects such as 
> Globus, the Business Grid Computing Project, the NextGrid Project, the 
> NAREGI Project, University of Virginia Global Bio Grid, UK e-Science, 
> and others will contribute.
> 
> The *Globus Toolkit* (Globus) is one example of a major OSS grid 
> project. The Globus Alliance is contributing to the development of OGSA 
> by supporting the design and implementation of open-source software that 
> implements specifications detailed in OGSA Profiles, and the 
> participation of the implementers of that software in relevant standards 
> processes.  With its current version, GT4, based on early 
> implementations of WSRF and WS-Notification and including 
> implementations of all relevant security standards, Globus provides a 
> comprehensive software infrastructure that allows developers and users 
> to work with OGSA concepts now.  Additional standards will be 
> incorporated into future versions of the toolkit as they evolve.
> 
> The Globus Consortium is a group of companies with a common interest in 
> promoting the development and adoption of the Globus Toolkit for 
> commercial use. Consortium participants also have a strong interest in 
> standards in general, and in OGSA in particular.
> 
> The team at the *University** of Virginia* (UVA) is committed to 
> implementing several pieces of the OGSA Roadmap described here. 
> Specifically, UVA will implement open versions of ByteIO, BES, RNS, and 
> the WS-Naming specifications.
> 
> The *Business Grid Computing Project* (BG) is based on the OGSA 
> Architecture specification. It is developing several services using 
> specifications described in this Roadmap. In particular, BG will make 
> available as open source software implementations of the Application 
> Contents Service, JSDL, and WS-Agreement. BG intends to use the OGSA 
> WSRF Basic Profile 1.0.
> 
> The *National Research Grid Initiative* (*NAREGI*) is a Japanese 
> national e-science grid project aiming at developing a computational 
> infrastructure for supporting scientific and engineering research. One 
> of the primary goals of the NAREGI Project is to contribute to the GGF 
> standardization activities. NAREGI has been interested in, participated 
> in, and, where possible, given feedback to numerous GGF working groups 
> and research groups. Amongst the various groups, NAREGI has recently 
> placed high emphasis on the OGSA-WG activities, being the first project 
> or group to implement the EMS architecture described in the OGSA 
> Architecture v1.0 specification, in its alpha incarnation of the 
> software stack that was released in 1Q 2005. Future plans will have 
> NAREGI contribute to and provide reference implementations for Basic 
> Execution Services (BES), Resource Selection Services (RSS), and 
> Application Contents Service (ACS).
> 
>  
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> Jem Treadwell
> Hewlett-Packard Company
> 6000 Irwin Road
> Mount Laurel, NJ 08054 	
>   	 
> Phone: 	856-638-6021
> Fax: 	856-638-6190
> E-mail: 	Jem.Treadwell at hp.com <mailto:Jem.Treadwell at hp.com>
> 
>  

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Dr. Rajkumar Buyya
Senior Lecturer and StorageTek (USA) Fellow of Grid Computing
Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Lab: http://gridbus.org
Dept. of Computer Science and Software Engineering
The University of Melbourne
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Carlton, Melbourne, VIC 3053, Australia
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