OMII-Europe Repository
Steven Newhouse
Director, OMII-UK
Solid Base to Build Upon
• Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute UK (OMII-UK)
– Repository of middleware packages (funded & un-funded)
– http://www.omii.ac.uk/.
• Globus Alliance
– Open source development portal & software repository
– http://dev.globus.org/wiki/Welcome.
• ETICS
– e-Infrastructure for Testing, Integration and Configuration of Software
– http://www.eu-etics.org
• Enable Grids for E-SciencE
– Develop and integrate software to support compute/data grids
– http://www.eu-egee.org
EU project: RIO31844-OMII-EUROPE
The Software Repository Portal
• Make available software reengineered within OMIIEurope and contributed by third parties
– Single services/tools & complete distributions
• Provide an interface to select software from the
repository based on user requirements
– By capability/standards/provider/…
• Support the upload, download and installation of the
software
– Document platform portability & pre-requisites
• Verify the software through compliance & metrics
tests
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EU project: RIO31844-OMII-EUROPE
Added Value…
• Build on existing repository & software activities:
– OMII-UK, C-OMEGA, EGEE, NMI
• Comprehensive support with links to:
– Package documentation
– Build & test reports
– Certification
– Tutorials & sample use-cases
– Test resources
• Document the evaluation infrastructure & process
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EU project: RIO31844-OMII-EUROPE
Immediate Plans
• Analyze the OMII-UK repository
– It is key to take advantage of the OMII-UK experience
• Not my words!
– Provide mechanisms to contribute, check, evaluate &
browse
• Collaborate with ETICS project:
– provides tools to configure, build, and test software via
a secure web interface and command line
– defines a certification process
– supports different types of package formats (e.g.,
RPM, TAR.GZ) for different platforms
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EU project: RIO31844-OMII-EUROPE
ETICS at a Glance
courtesy of A. Di Meglio
Web Application
Web Service
Via browser
Report
DB
Project Build/Test
Artefacts
DB
NMI Scheduler
Via commandLine tools
Clients
WNs
NMI Client
Wrapper
ETICS Infrastructure
EU project: RIO31844-OMII-EUROPE
Assembling the Components
Portal
(Download & Reports)
Users
OMII & gLite
OMII/gLite
Testing
Scenarios
Developers
Component
Repository
Build
Repository
ETICS
NMI B & T
Testing Infrastructure
OMII UWM CERN
EU project: RIO31844-OMII-EUROPE
Summary
• Repository of software to support e-Science
• More than just a ‘SourceForge’
– Make sure the software works on different platforms
– Use quality assurance metrics to assess software
– Link to support infrastructures & documentation
– Report on standards compliance
• Infrastructure to support the honest brokering
EU project: RIO31844-OMII-EUROPE
www.omii-europe.com
EU project: RIO31844-OMII-EUROPE