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

[Hiro Kishimoto]

Thanks Bajkumar for Gridbus information,

We really appreciate your input about your OSS project.

However, since this document is "OGSA roadmap document," we need to
know
- Specify which OGSA specifications or profiles you will use
- When you will implement them

Since we don't need commitment, please let us know your current plan.

Thanks again,
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Hiro Kishimoto

Rajkumar Buyya wrote:
> 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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