Further refinement of the architecture diagram and its associated tasks Our software plan includes the contribution of detailed tasks developed by the SW committee and its members to work toward the implementation of the FG architecture. All members have been tasked to actively support this activity. The gathering of Requirements and use cases We are gathering a number of use cases that address many of the components and software needs motivating the architectural diagram. These use cases are motivator and provide guidance for the implementation of the software needed. For example each committee has been asked to produce a document on what use cases motivate software developments and deployment a part of the FG architecture while addressing their particular goals. The creation of subgroups We have started the creation of subgroups to work towards the implementation of software and features of FG. These include at present a portal group, a scheduler group, a software operations group, a performance group, a knowledge base group. Other activities are enhanced through individual contacts to group members and other committee chairs. The evaluation of a simulated FG environment based on VMs We have started to evaluate the creation of a simulated FG environment so we can set up a scheduler testbed before we actually have hardware available. This will allow us for example to design and develop meta-workflows for FG use based on our proposed workflow concepts indicated in the PEP. The implementation of software deliverables as defined by the PEP We started the creation of the software offerings based on the PEP plan. We are going to propose minor corrections to this plan to streamline our activities. Next Steps Our plans for January include the completion of the task management system, the deployment of Inca, the deployment of a Moab based provisioning system, the continued evaluation of a VM based simulation environment to support Pegasus workflow deployments. Outreach von Laszewski, The SW architecture of FG was presented by Fox and at several conferences including OGF, IPCCC, ISPAN, GridCat, SC09, CloudCom, ISGA, and CCA Activities in last 2 weeks We have refined material that is to be included in our whitepaper about FutureGrid. This includes the collection of more use cases. Several meetings with individual group leaders including our
Further refinement of the architecture diagram and its associated tasks Our software plan includes the contribution of detailed tasks developed by the SW committee and its members to work toward the implementation of the FG architecture. All members have been tasked to actively support this activity. The gathering of Requirements and use cases We are gathering a number of use cases that address many of the components and software needs motivating the architectural diagram. These use cases are motivator and provide guidance for the implementation of the software needed. For example each committee has been asked to produce a document on what use cases motivate software developments and deployment a part of the FG architecture while addressing their particular goals. The creation of subgroups We have started the creation of subgroups to work towards the implementation of software and features of FG. These include at present a portal group, a scheduler group, a software operations group, a performance group, a knowledge base group. Other activities are enhanced through individual contacts to group members and other committee chairs. The evaluation of a simulated FG environment based on VMs We have started to evaluate the creation of a simulated FG environment so we can set up a scheduler testbed before we actually have hardware available. This will allow us for example to design and develop meta-workflows for FG use based on our proposed workflow concepts indicated in the PEP. The implementation of software deliverables as defined by the PEP We started the creation of the software offerings based on the PEP plan. We are going to propose minor corrections to this plan to streamline our activities. Next Steps Our plans for January include the completion of the task management system, the deployment of Inca, the deployment of a Moab based provisioning system, the continued evaluation of a VM based simulation environment to support Pegasus workflow deployments. Outreach The SW architecture of FG was presented by Fox and von Laszewski, at several conferences including OGF, IPCCC, ISPAN, GridCat, SC09, CloudCom, ISGA, and CCA Activities in last 2 weeks We have refined material that is to be included in our whitepaper about FutureGrid. This includes the collection of more use cases. Several meetings with individual group leaders including our
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