OGF demonstration overcomes middleware barrier to achieve interoperability

Interoperability is a huge challenge in Grid computing that has the potential to yield great rewards for science. E-Researchers who can harness more compute and data resources will solve scientific problems more quickly. Interoperability through open standards provides the key to unlock access to those resources. OMII-UK has developed a demonstrator, which was presented at OGF27, that solves a real scientific problem by harnessing interoperability across a number of UK and European Grid middleware deployments.

The demonstrator was unveiled by our NGS partners at the Open Grid Forum - the perfect venue since OGF has long championed and enabled the development of interoperable Grid standards. Execution of a physics application which identifies charges within a plasma was orchestrated across middleware deployments (GridSAM, UNICORE and ARC) by the demonstrator using a single BES++ client, provided by Platform Computing.

Congratulations to the team that put together the demonstration: Steve Crouch, Justin Bradley and Richard Boardman from OMII-UK, David Wallom and Matteo Turelli from NGS, Shabaz Memon from FZJ, Balazs Konya from Lund University, Sweden, Gabor Roczei and Peter Stefan from NIIF and Andrew Grimshaw and Mark Morgan from the University of Virginia, and Chris Smith from Platform Computing.