GINSC2007-006: GIN Portals

@ Booth: NIC - John von Neumann Institute for Computing (Booth #2633)
@ Booth: EGEE - Enabling Grids for e-Science (Booth #2523)
@ Booth: Hungarian Grid Competence Centre (Booth #182)

PGrade Portal

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

Response on 2007-10-30 from Peter Kacsuk:

Shown at Hungarian Competence Center booth:

Here is a bit more detailed description of our demo:

P-GRADE Portal (Parallel Grid Run-time and Application Development Environment) is a service rich graphical environment for the development, execution and monitoring of data-driven grid applications. P-GRADE Portal supports workflows and workflow based parameter studies built up from various types of sequential and parallel components (jobs or services). Higher layers of the tool hide low level grid specific access mechanisms making even non expert users capable of defining and executing distributed applications on Globus 2, Globus 4, LCG and gLite based computing infrastructures. Moreover, P GRADE Portal provides interoperability among grids built with these middleware technologies. P-GRADE Portal is already used by users and application developers of several national (UK NGS, HunGrid, Turkish Grid, etc.) and international grid based virtual organizations (EGEE, SEE-GRID, etc.). The open source tool is developed by members of the Developer Alliance. The presentation introduces the most important features and typical use cases of the environment as well as the developer alliance which is behind the P-GRADE Portal efforts.

Demonstration-1 shows how the different nodes of a single workflow can be executed in several grids: TeraGrid, OSG, GILDA, UK NGS, SEE-GRID

Demonstration-2 shows how the GIN Resource Testing Portal can be used to test the resources of the GIN VO.

Demonstration-3 shows how a workflow can be executed as a Parameter Sweep application running the different nodes of the workflow in different grids: GILDA, UK NGS, SEE-GRID

OMII-Europe GridSphere Portal

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

Reponse on 2007-10-29 from Michael: Demos available, text will be set...

Here is where the PSNC/GridSphere/Vine team is with respect to what we will be able to demonstrate for GIN by then (but we have to reconfirm everything below next week during testing):

The demo would consist of demonstrating how a guest user can request an account on a GridSphere portal, in this case a preview instance of the OMII-Europe Gateway, and after obtaining account immediately execute one or two jobs on the resources on the configured Grid, in this case the OMII-Europe Evaluation Infrastructure.

Concerning the functionality to be demonstrated:

1. Security & automated registration with Grid middleware via Account Request and Account Manager portlets

- Support for GSI credential management (automated GSI cert generation and/or delegation by MyProxy) - Automated registration support for GT4 (so automated GSI cert generation and gridmap entries, in conjunction with scripts provided by Marciej at EPCC) - Automated registration support for UNICORE 6 (so automated keystore generation and UUDB mappings, in conjunction with scripts provided by Bastian at FZJ)

• For VOMS we have VOMS proxy support and we are almost done with automated registration to VOMS.

2. JSDL based job submission (with HPC Profile support, etc) and monitoring with the Job Manager portlet.

- BES - gLite 3.1 - GT4

I guess you could say we are going alphabetically. ;-) We think we may be ready with UNICORE6 job submission by SC07 but cannot guarantee it.

So, given this information, perhaps a JSDL/BES oriented demo is best? Perhaps someone can respond here or via email?