The Open Grid Forum (OGF) is a leading standards development organization for cloud, grid, and distributed computing. OGF has developed many relevant standards over its history dating back to 2001. These standards include specifications for identity management, job submission, data transfer, service agreements, and cloud computing interfaces. OGF actively collaborates with other standards bodies and its standards see widespread adoption in both research and industry implementations of distributed computing infrastructure.
7. GFD Publication History:
Full Recommendations To Date
Full REC status represents OGF’s highest level of output standard:
Requires documentation of multiple implementations in the field and
a separate review after at least 6 months of practical experience.
10. LSN-MAGIC Meeting
February 22, 2012
XSEDE: The Next Generation of
US Supercomputing Infrastructure
The Role of Standards for Risk Reduction and
Inter-operation in XSEDE
OGF standards
Andrew Grimshaw power the largest
supercomputing
infrastructures in
the world!
11. UNICORE in XSEDE:
Towards a large-scale
scientific Environment
based on Open Standards
Evolution from TeraGrid in establishing the key standards that
Starting in 2001, the National Science now define the interfaces of the XSEDE
Foundation program TeraGrid has de- Enterprise Services. Within the Grid
veloped into one of the world’s largest Interoperation Now (GIN) community
and most comprehensive Grid projects, group of the Open Grid Forum (OGF,
offering resources and services to www.ogf.org), such key standards as
more than 10,000 scientists. It’s suc- BES/JSDL inSiDE • Vol. 9 remote compu-
for running No.2 • Autumn 2011
cessor, the Extreme Science and Engi- tations have demonstrated their impact Pro
neering Discovery Environment (XSEDE, on scientific applications. Based on
www.xsede.org), has started in July these standards, scientific workflows
Innovatives Supercomputing
2011 and is expected to excel the pre- can be executed today across different
in Deutschland
vious program in terms of service quality infrastructures with no less than 8
while lowering technological entry different Grid middleware technologies.
barriers at the same time. These and
other goals are to be achieved in the Jülich’s Role in XSEDE
project’s five year grant period with an The JSC not only contributes its exten-
overall budget of $121 million. Among sive Grid know-how gained from
the partnership of 17 institutions, the European research projects and its Figure 1: The current XSEDE architecture aims at providing XSEDE Enterprise Services at every major • Morris Riedel
Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) is experience in standard-based software XSEDE site and optionally available Community Provided Services. The architecture will evolve over time • Bastian Demuth
according to end-users' needs.
the only organization located outside engineering, but also a technology
the USA. called Uniform Interface to Computing Jülich
Resources (UNICORE, www.unicore.eu). lightweight Genesis II services, UNICORE resulting infrastructure is expected to Supercomputing
Open Standards-based Being developed by partners all over meets all the security requirements of cover both high performance and high Centre
Architecture Europe, UNICORE is a Grid system that modern High Performance Computing throughput computing, thus enabling
Since many scientific communities op- provides secure and seamless access centres and provides extensive support innovative research and discovery re-
erate internationally, one key element mechanisms to a variety of different for their highly specialized hardware as quiring both types of parallel computa-
of XSEDE is the use of open standards computer systems and platforms. well as their varying batch systems. tions. Moreover, collaboration between
in order to promote interoperability It facilitates the remote execution of American and European scientists will
with other distributed computing infra- scientific applications as well as shar- Infrastructure Vision be easier than ever: UNICORE will also
structures such as PRACE in Europe. ing software, resources and data. The XSEDE architecture envisions be deployed on the European Grid Infra-
Figure 1 shows the extended reference UNICORE is fully based on Web ser- deploying UNICORE as part of the XSEDE structure (EGI) and is already installed
architecture providing mandatory vices and open standards in order to Enterprise Services at major US high on many of the systems forming the
XSEDE Enterprise Services at every allow seamless interoperation with performance centres whereas Genesis II infrastructure of the European super-
major XSEDE site as well as optionally other standard compliant Grid sys- will be used for integrating smaller computing project PRACE.
available Community Provided Services. tems such as Genesis II which is computer systems such as desktop PCs
For many years, the JSC and several developed at the University of Virginia. in order to provide interoperability with
other XSEDE partners have been active Being complementary to the more campus Grids across the country. The
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12. XSEDE Services Layer: LSN-MAGIC Meeting
February 22, 2012
Simple services combined in many ways
–Resource
Namespace
Service
1.1
–OGSA
Basic
Execu8on
Service
–OGSA
WSRF
BP
–
metadata
and
no4fica4on
–OGSA-‐ByteIO
–GridFTP Examples – (not
a complete list)
–JSDL,
BES,
BES
HPC
Profile
–WS
Trust
Secure
Token
Services
–WSI
BSP
for
transport
of
creden4als
–…
(more
than
we
have
room
to
cover
here)
XSEDE represents a the state of the art in the use of modern
standards in international supercomputing cyberinfrastructure.
Andrew Grimshaw
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