Hello OODT and Airavata developers, There was a meeting between some OODT and Airavata developers last week at Indiana University Bloomington, and much was discussed in the way of how the these two Apache projects relate as well as what the potential for collaboration between the two is.
Below is a summary e-mail of the meeting, sent yesterday to participating members. We thought it would be useful to share this summary e-mail with the dev teams of OODT and Airavata. If anyone has input on this topic, please feel free to share. Thank you, rishi On Nov 28, 2011, at 11:01 AM, Verma, Rishi (388J) wrote: > Hi Suresh, > > Thanks again for setting up a meeting last week to talk discuss OODT/Airavata > similarities and potential for collaboration. > > It was also fun to see the new CIB in its full glory! > > A quick summary of our meeting: > * We discussed, in some detail, OODT components including: CAS Workflow, CAS > Resource Manager, and Grid. Rishi described some example uses of the > components in various projects for the benefit of the Airavata team. > * Airavata team described, and demoed a simple workflow execution, showcasing > the XBaya suite in particular. > * There was a discussion on how Airavata components could be used to support > OODT activities and vice-versa > > Some of the potential collaborative ideas we had, included: > [1] Having XBaya (including the GUI interface) support the construction of > OODT workflows. This could be useful for OODT developers. > [2] Creating a translation tool for transforming OODT Workflows into Airavata > workflows, and vice versa. I don't think we established a specific use-case > for this, but it may be beneficial for some. > [3] Leveraging Airavata's GFac facilities to help OODT resource manager jobs > run on grid resources like GridFTP, S3 etc. > > All of the above points require further investigation, but it is a start. I > think if Marlon Pierce comes by JPL in January, it would be beneficial to set > up a meeting between him and our OODT team here at JPL to talk further about > some of the points above. Since there are similarities between our two > projects, at the least exchanging ideas would prove useful. > > Feel free to add any points I missed! > > Thanks, > Rishi
