OMII-Europe
From EGI Knowledge Base
OMII-Europe is an EU-funded project which has been established to source key software components from major Grid middleware platforms and re-engineer them to be interoperable. Components are selected for their potential in the field of interoperability: similar functionalities, availability and maturity of standards, open nature of the standard, etc. The focus is on individual components and not on full middleware distributions in the spirit of a service-oriented approach and to prove that interoperability can be achieved even among completely different Grid middleware architectures. The final objective is to make available the quality-assured re-engineered components in a common repository with the expectation of their re-introduction in their original middleware releases. The work involves a set of 16 established partners from Europe, the USA and China. The selected middleware platforms for the initial work are gLite, UNICORE and Globus and the protocols or services to implement include job execution (BES/JSDL), data integration (OGSA-DAI), VO management (VOMS), accounting (RUS) and portal capability (GridSphere).
| Project homepage | www.omii-europe.org |
|---|---|
| No. of Partners | 15 |
| No. of Countries | 8 |
| Start Date | 2006-05 |
| Duration (Months) | 24 |
| Cost (€ per Year) | 2,675,000 |
| EU Funding (€ per Year) | 2,415,000 |
| FTEs (per Year) | 28.25 |
[edit] Main Achievements
The first year was dedicated to building the connections among all internal and external partners, organize participation in OGF and other working groups, design and prototyping of the components with the aim of delivering alpha versions by the end of the project year.
The second year saw the beginning of QA tests, ramp-up of training events, continued cooperation with partner projects and participation in standardization events and the bulk of development leading to the delivery of final versions of all components at the end of the project.
OMII-Europe's work is intended to be the beginning of an effort to spread the definition and the implementation of open standards in all fields of Grid computing. The project established the concept that standards are fundamental for the future of Grid middlewares and proved that interoperability can be achieved even between very different architectures.
