OMII-UK Demonstrations

OMII-UK will be demonstrating new software solutions, including the latest version of Taverna, as well as a number of OMII-UK sponsored projects that represent some of our latest developments.

OMII-UK staff will be available throughout the conference to answer any questions you may have and will be happy to discuss the software solutions that we provide.

Booth Number	Booth Title
16	OMII-UK

Timetable

Demo Title	Date	Start Time	Finish Time	Demonstrated by	Demo Description
OMII SPAM-GP	Tues 11 Sept	16:00	16:30	Richard Sinnott, NeSC (Glasgow)	Showing how portal based services can be protected using Shibboleth technology to implement role based access control
OMII-UK Portal Access Grid (PAG)	Tues 11 Sept	16:30	17:00	Andrew Rowley, AGSC (Manchester)	The first release of a fully functional portal-based version of the Access Grid Toolkit
OMII-RAVE	Weds 12 Sept	13:30	14:00	Daniela Tsaneva, Cardiff University	The Resource-Aware Visualisation Environment
Job and Data Portlets	Weds 12 Sept	14:00	14:30	David Meredith, Daresbury Labs	JSDL Repository/Job Submission and Grid Data Management Portlets
OGRSH	Weds 12 Sept	14:30	15:00	Andrew Grimshaw, University of Virginia	Integrating Grid Resources with the Desktop
OMII-SAGA	Weds 12 Sept	TBD	TBD	Shantenu Jha, University of Louisiana	Latest progress with the implementation of the OGF SAGA bindings
OMII-UK Campus Grid Solution	Rolling			OMII-UK Booth Staff	Campus Grid Toolkit helps you seamlessly link all of the available computational and data resources to your desktop
OMII-UK Taverna Workflow Solution	Rolling			OMII-UK Booth Staff	New features of Taverna 1.6.
OMII-UK Data Management Solution	On request			OMII-UK Booth Staff	Geolink - OGSA-DAI and GIS data proof of concept

Details of Demonstrations

OMII SPAM-GP - Richard Sinnott, NeSC (Glasgow)

This project has been funded to simplify and improve the way in which Shibboleth technology can be used to protect portals allowing access to OMII-UK services. This demonstration will show how scoping of attributes is supported to allow only trusted sites/individuals to access particular portals and their content.

OMII-UK Portal Access Grid (PAG) - Andrew Rowley, AGSC (Manchester)

This will demonstrate the pre-first release version of an Access Grid Toolkit client that is run from inside a portal environment. The client only requires that the user has Java installed, and can do all the things that the Access Grid Toolkit client can do, as well as some things that it does not. The first release features the ability to navigate virtual venues and communicate using audio, video and text chat, via multicast or a multicast-unicast bridge.

Andrew Rowley from AGSC presenting the Portal Access Grid (PAG)

OMII-RAVE - Daniela Tsaneva (Cardiff)

The Resource-Aware Visualization Environment (RAVE) will be demonstrated, showing how multiple users can collaboratively visualize complex datasets from within their web browser. Remote rendering and data storage web services are utilised, automatically selecting from a pool of machines to ensure best performance given available resources. RAVE is currently undergoing further development to be included into OMII-UK’s Commissioned Software.

Daniela Tsaneva demonstrating OMII-RAVE

JSDL and Data Transfer Portlet - David Meredith, Daresbury Labs

This demonstration will show how a portlet can be used to describe and publish applications and their associated artefacts using Job Submission Description Language. JSDL documents can be authored and validated via the portal GUI, and can be searched for under categories of interest. All information required to execute remote applications is captured in full (including links to artefacts, e.g. example input files and scripts). Users may select and save application descriptions into their own personal repository for customisation. Users benefit through sharing the expertise and artefacts that can be captured in (pre-configured) JSDL. Resource administrators are provided with a means to publish applications and associated artefacts. The application can be deployed as a standalone Web application or as a JSR-168 portlet.

OGRSH - Andrew Grimshaw, University of Virginia

OGRSH is a Linux software product which allows users to access both local and grid resources as if they were all provided in a local environment without modification of source or binaries. This ties in with their Genesis II grid design principle of marrying grid functionality with legacy application access. During the demonstrations, various mechanisms by which Genesis II supports data grid functionality will be shown. This will be followed up by using OGRSH as a shim around the standard UNIX bash shell. Through OGRSH the shell will seamlessly move between local and grid spaces granting users a familiar environment within which to work in a grid world. This will include simple directory and file access patterns like ls, cat, cp, and cd as well as more complex legacy applications run through the shell like gnomad, and illustrative bash shell scripts.

Andrew Grimshaw & Mark Morgan presenting OGRSH

OMII-SAGA - Shantenu Jha, University of Louisiana

The SAGA Research Group at OGF strives to define a Simple API for developers of Grid Applications - the SAGA API. Instead of interfacing directly to grid services, the applications can access basic grid capabilities with a simple, consistent and stable API. A brief update on the status of the OMII-SAGA project, including the GridSAM & Globus adaptors, will be presented followed by a discussion of the SAGA JAVA bindings.

Shantenu Jha presenting OMII-SAGA


Crowd watching Shantenu Jha's OMII-SAGA presentation

OMII-UK Campus Grid Toolkit Solution - OMII-UK Staff

OMII-UK is developing the Campus Grid Toolkit to help you seamlessly link all of the available computational and data resources to your desktop. This demonstration shows how this can be achieved. Firstly, the Toolkit is installed to show how the process has been simplified. Then two applications will be run to show how the software could be used to solve your e-Research problems.

OMII-UK Taverna Workbench Solution - OMII-UK Staff

A demonstration of the latest version (1.6) of the Taverna Workbench Solution will include:

• How to build workflows and execute them remotely using the Taverna remote execution service
• Review of new features
• Other powerful features such as provenance, service discovery, etc

Staff will be available to discuss the future plans for Taverna, including the new features of the next release, version 2.0. This includes a complete redesign from the ground up to enable streaming data, management of large volumes of data, better remote workflow execution, integration with grid resources, and monitoring and steering.

OMII-UK Data Management Solution - OMII-UK Staff'

OGSA-DAI has been used by the SEE-GEO project as a extensible streaming framework on which to base their implementation of the GeoLinking Service, conforming to the proposed standard from the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). EDINA, MIMAS, NCeSS and NeSC will demonstrate an application that uses this implementation to integrate MIMAS census data with EDINA boundary geographic data. More details of OGSA-DAI's role in the implementation, why OGSA-DAI was such a good fit, and how this provides a proof of concept for OMII-UK’s Data Management Solution, can be obtained by talking to members of the OMII-UK team.