OMII-UK
Steven Newhouse, Director
OMII-UK aims to provide software and
support to enable a sustained future for
the UK e-Science community and its
international collaborators
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OMII-UK: Mission
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Promote the use of open-source software
solutions to enable e-Science by providing:
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Software
Support
Sustainability
Through this activity reduce the ‘risk’ of
building upon software from other projects
Focus on the distinct needs of the user – be
they researcher, developer or service provider
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OMII-UK: Activity
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Southampton (£3.0M)
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Edinburgh (£1.8M)
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OGSA-DAI Team
Manchester (£1.9M)
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Integration & Testing Teams
User Community, Support & Technology Teams
myGrid Team
In the community (£2.5M)
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Funding external developers
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OMII-UK Team
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Software
Release
(Tools & Services)
End-Users
Technologists
Providers
Software
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OMII-UK provides you with informed access
to open-source e-Science software
OMII-UK can help you disseminate your eScience software to a global community
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Support
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OMII-UK provides confidence in adopting eScience solutions through software support
and training
OMII-UK provides collaborative mechanisms
to enable the e-Science community to help
itself
OMII-UK engages with the international
community to define, contribute and
disseminate best practice and standards
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Sustainability
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OMII-UK partners with other software
providers to provide best of breed software
solutions
OMII-UK works with UK and European
funding agencies to provide a sustainable
future
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OMII-UK Software Release
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Download:
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Individual components from the repository
Integrated release of components from various
sources
Software Release:
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Web Service Environment: Tomcat/Axis/WS-Security
Select which components you want to install
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Components downloaded as required
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Current 3.1 Release
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GridSAM: Job Submission and Job monitoring web
service that uses the OGF’s Job Submission
Description Language (JSDL) to describe jobs.
Grimoires: UDDI compliant registry web service
that can support the addition of extra service metadata.
OGSA-DAI: Provides a framework for querying,
processing and delivering data from and between
heterogeneous sources via a web service interface.
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Current 3.1 Release
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FINS: Implementation of the WS-Eventing
specification.
FIRMS: Implementation of the WS-ReliableMessaging
and WS-Reliability specifcations.
WSRF::Lite: A perl implementation of the WS-RF
specifications (only tested on a few platforms in this
release).
PlotWS: A web service wrapper around the Gnuplot
program – send in data get back an image of the
graph.
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Future Releases
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Taverna:
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BPEL:
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Graphical workflow composition tool able to integrate
different web, data and web service sources.
Packaging & contribution to the open-source Oracle/IBM
BPEL workflow editor and ActiveBPEL execution engine.
AHE:
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Application Hosting Environment a lightweight hosting
environment for running unmodified scientific applications
across different grid infrastructures.
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In the Future…
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Open Grid Manager: A framework for
reporting on the status of grid resources into
Grimoires and viewing the collected results.
KNOOGLE will develop a generic, usercustomizable, flexible framework for
matchmaking and brokerage of grid services.
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Product Lines
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Life Sciences:
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Compute Developers:
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Software to federate data sources with different data schemas and different
access policies based around OGSA-DAI.
Service Developers:
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Scheduling and execution of applications across different computational
resources using GridSAM, Grimoires, and scheduling/matchmaking
services.
Data Developers:
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Taverna workbench for integrated access to community hosted web and
data services to support life sciences and bioinformatics.
Secure web services hosting environment with infrastructure to support
events (notification) and reliable messaging based around FINS, FIRMS,
Tomcat and Axis.
Educators:
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Basic secure web services environment with comprehensive tutorials and
examples to learn how to use web services using Tomcat and Axis.
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Software Contributors
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University of Edinburgh (OGSA-DAI)
Imperial College London
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University of Southampton
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Centre for Computational Science (AHE)
Department of Computing Sceince (BPEL)
University of Manchester
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Southampton e-Science Centre (PlotWS)
School of Engineering Sciences (Geodise project)
School of Electronics & Computer Science (Grimoires project)
IT Innovation Centre (GRIA)
University College London
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London e-Science Centre (GridSAM)
E-Science North West (WSRF::Lite)
School of Computer Science (myGrid project - Taverna)
University of Indiana (FINS & FIRMS)
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Project Contributors
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National Grid Service
RealityGrid Steering Library
Developmental Gene Expression Map
Qurator: Describing the Quality of Curated EScience Information Resources
KNOOGLE
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Collaborations
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To use and extend current components
To contribute and provide new components
Deployment scenarios to define products
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Where next…
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For further information, project lists, etc:
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Web: www.omii.ac.uk
For further questions, support issues, etc:
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Mail: support@omii.ac.uk
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