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Subject: Re: Airavata GSOC cloud and grid service provider plugins
From: Suresh Marru <smarru@apache.org>
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Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 11:57:39 -0400
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+ 1 this is a great topic and a stand alone one by itself.

A good example to watch here is what Milinda did last year [1] , he not =
only added a cloud provider but fundamentally fixed the GFac =
architecture [2]. A similar goal of a concrete task of adding the =
provider Marlon suggested while critically reviewing the provider =
architecture will be great.

Suresh

[1] - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AIRAVATA-357
[2] - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AIRAVATA-477

On Apr 15, 2013, at 10:34 AM, Marlon Pierce <marpierc@iu.edu> wrote:

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> Hi all--
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> There has been some great discussion on GSOC projects involving
> JS/HTML5/REST/etc user interface environments.  These will be great
> for exercising the Airavata API and evaluating the best ways to wrap
> it as a service.
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> There's also been a lot of work put into redesigning the GFAC
> component to make it easier to provide plugins.  It would be great if
> we could identify projects that exercise this as well and make a wide
> range of new plugins in the process.  Some possibilities:
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> * Azure and other cloud provider plugins to complement the EC2 plugin.
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> * Open Science Grid-based plugins.  These may be interesting for
> anyone who has or wants to set up a campus grid
> (https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/CampusGrids/WebHome).
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> * JSDL/BES-based service providers. JSDL and BES are Open Grid Forum
> standards for running jobs on high performance computers.  UNICORE and
> SAGA are a couple of implementations.
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> More creative suggestions for plugins are also welcome.
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> Marlon
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