Conclusions
Based on production-proof solutions deployed in large scale
infrastructures, EMI offers a wide range of solutions that can be
adapted to tailor infrastructures according to different
needs. Future work will address their interoperability and standard
adoptions, that will potentially extend the base of supported
communities.
URL
http://www.eu-emi.org
Overview
EMI aims to deliver a consolidated set of middleware components
for deployment in Distributed Computing Infrastructures, extending the
interoperability between grids and other computing
infrastructures, strengthening the reliability of the services, and
establish a sustainable model to maintain and
evolve the middleware, fulfilling the requirements of user
communities. EMI middleware will be not build from ground, but based
on existing solutions, that will be enhanced by standards adoption and
mutual interoperability. This workshop is an opportunity for resource
providers to be introduced with main features of EMI-1 release, to
have an overview of EMI-1 related changes and its Computing and Data solutions.
Description of the work
EMI will deliver a consolidated and streamlined set of services and
components from ARC, gLite, UNICORE and dCache by
re-factoring existing components, defining and implementing standards
and phasing out duplicate or obsolete
components from the original middleware stacks. The middleware
components are divided in four areas (Compute, Data, Security,
Infrastructure). This tutorial will focus on
installing and configuring the different UNICORE components, including Grid-wide
services as the global registry and workflow services as well as site-specific
services like the UNICORE/X for job and storage management or the XUUDB for user
management.
Access to virtual machines will be provided,
allowing participants to perform installations by themselves.
Impact
The participants will get a concrete overview of installation and maintenance of UNICORE services,
and will be able to reproduce installation and configurations on their own.
