GINSC2007-004: Information Services

@ Booth: NIC - John von Neumann Institute for Computing (Booth #2633)
@ Booth: EGEE - Enabling Grids for e-Science (Booth #2523)

Update requested on: 2007-10-29 (Laurence) by Morris via Email

Contact: Laurence Field

Title: The GIN Information System (Google Earth Demo)

Abstract: The “Grid Interoperation Now” activity of Open Grid Forum (OGF) focuses on interoperation between production grid infrastructures. A sub group of this activity has been focusing on information system interoperability. An attempt was made to translate information from all the existing production grid infrastructures in order to populate a single information resource. The resource chosen was a Berkeley Database Information Index (BDII) and the common format used was the Glue Schema version 1.2. The result is a BDII that contains information from 9 production grid infrastructures (EGEE, OSG, NDGF, Naregi, Teragrid, Pragma, DEISA, NGS, APAC). This information is used to show the location of the computing centres in Google Earth and hence shows the current grid landscape for the production grids. This investigation has demonstrated that it is possible to have a diversity of information systems, however, for interoperability, the information content, and hence schema, must be in agreement. As a result the Glue Schema activity is now an official OGF working group and is defining this common schema for grid computing.