Extending OGSA-DAI's Grid Compute and Data Capabilities via SAGA

Google Summer of Code 2009 ideas

Primary Mentor: Steve Crouch (s.crouch@omii.ac.uk)
Secondary Mentor: TBD
OMII Projects: OMII-SAGA, OGSA-DAI.

Background

OGSA-DAI is an open-source middleware solution that allows resources, such as relational or XML databases to be accessed via the grid. Fully-customisable, the product can be tailored to meet the exact requirements of specific communities, projects and businesses.

The Simple API for Grid Applications (SAGA) is a client-side library which provides access to the most commonly used high-level Grid functionalities, like file and job handling, replica management, messaging, etc.

Preliminary work has already been done investigating how SAGA can be integrated with OGSA-DAI to provide access to grid-style computation and data access capabilities. But this ambitious work is currently only proof of concept. It requires a capable and enthusiastic individual to progress this integration work and provide a real implementation.

Student aim

Create new OGSA-DAI 'Activities' to fully harness SAGA's compute job and data handling capabilities.

Project aim

Extend OGSA-DAI's functionality to include:

• Parallelisation through Grid job submission and monitoring
• Access to a greater set of Grid data resources

Skillset

• A beginner's understanding of SAGA
• Proficiency in Java
• Prior knowledge of web services would be useful but not essential