EMI INFSORI261611 EMI Roadmap to Standardization and DCI

EMI INFSO-RI-261611 EMI Roadmap to Standardization and DCI Collaborations Alberto Di Meglio (CERN) Project Director

Outline EMI Vision and Objectives Standardization DCI Collaborations Conclusions EMI INFSO-RI-261611 • • 01/06/2010 DCI Workshop 2

Outline EMI Vision and Objectives Standardization DCI Collaborations Conclusions EMI INFSO-RI-261611 • • 01/06/2010 DCI Workshop 3

EMI INFSO-RI-261611 EMI Mission Statement The European Middleware Initiative (EMI) project represents a close collaboration of the major European middleware providers ARC, g. Lite, UNICORE and d. Cache - to establish a sustainable model to support, harmonise and evolve the grid middleware for deployment in EGI, PRACE and other distributed e-Infrastructures 01/06/2010 DCI Workshop 4

A European Vision Tomorrow EMI INFSO-RI-261611 Sustainability Persistence Interoperability Easier Access Today 01/06/2010 DCI Workshop 5

EMI INFSO-RI-261611 Partners (26) 01/06/2010 DCI Workshop 6

Primary Objectives EMI INFSO-RI-261611 Consolidate the existing middleware distribution simplifying services and components to make them more sustainable (including use of off-the-shelf and commercial components whenever possible) Evolve the middleware services/functionality following the requirement of infrastructure and communities, mainly focusing on operational, standardization and interoperability aspects Support Reactively and proactively maintain the middleware distribution to keep it in line with the growing infrastructure usage 01/06/2010 DCI Workshop 7

Outline EMI Vision and Objectives Standardization DCI Collaborations Conclusions EMI INFSO-RI-261611 • • 01/06/2010 DCI Workshop 8

Standardization • Very important to address a number of existing limitations – Interoperability, integration, extensibility and evolution, commercial usage • All services must: EMI INFSO-RI-261611 – Implement the ‘best’ relevant standards – Implement them in the same way • ‘Best’ means: – A ‘community’ standard, if it is useful, usable or can be realistically improved – A ‘de facto’ standard, if no community standard exists or what exists is clearly not usable 01/06/2010 DCI Workshop 9

Standardization EMI INFSO-RI-261611 • EMI intends to be an active player in the standardization process – Actively take part in the European standardization roadmap coordinated by the European Commission and by initiatives like SIENA – Actively take part in established international standardization bodies like OGF • Dedicated standardization task in the JRA 1 WP 01/06/2010 DCI Workshop 10

Interoperability • One of the major requirements of most user communities EMI INFSO-RI-261611 – Interoperability between different implementations of the same services or functionality – Interoperability among HTC and HPC – Interoperability between different infrastructures • Also in this case, the widespread and formally correct adoption of standards is of primary importance 01/06/2010 DCI Workshop 11

EMI INFSO-RI-261611 Integration with New Technologies • Technology evolves continually • Distributed computing middleware must be able to capitalize on past achievements, but also learn from past lessons and become increasingly efficient and flexible • Using labels like Grids or Clouds is misleading • How can existing stable, reliable and secure services be made more elastic, dynamic, efficient? • And again, standards are very important 01/06/2010 DCI Workshop 12

Standardization Areas Service Monitoring and Management Compute, Data, Accounting, Information Services EMI INFSO-RI-261611 User Interfaces, portlets APIs Messaging Security Resource Access and Management 01/06/2010 DCI Workshop 13

Outline EMI Vision and Objectives Standardization DCI and other Collaborations Conclusions EMI INFSO-RI-261611 • • 01/06/2010 DCI Workshop 14

Collaborations EGI, PRACE, WLCG, OSG SLAs & Support Requirements EMI INFSO-RI-261611 ESFRI, VRCs Releases Industry EMI Collaborations Shared initiatives Stratuslab 01/06/2010 VENUS-C SIENA DCI Workshop EDGI IGE 15

EMI INFSO-RI-261611 DCI Relationships • EGI-In. SPIRE: requirements, commitment to promote and deploy standards-based services • VENUS-C, Stratus. Lab: integration of new resource management technology, dynamic service management models • IGE: implementation/validation of standards and interoperability • EDGI: implementation/validation of and interoperability 01/06/2010 DCI Workshop 16

Industrial Relationships EMI INFSO-RI-261611 • The sustainability process relies on increased adoption by commercial companies • EMI has an ‘industrial plan’ made of two important points: – Work with commercial partners to transfer and integrate technology in both directions – Understand with commercial experts what is the market, the realistic targets and the sustainable business models 01/06/2010 DCI Workshop 17

EMI INFSO-RI-261611 Conclusions • EMI is very committed to be an active player in the standardization roadmap • It brings together for the first time the expertise of the major European middleware providers • Everybody is welcome to collaborate 01/06/2010 DCI Workshop 18

EMI INFSO-RI-261611 Thank you EMI is partially funded by the European Commission under Grant Agreement INFSO-RI-261611 01/06/2010 DCI Workshop 19