GWS: Grid

1
GWS Grid

• Workflows
• Create page on wiki with Taverna tutorials
• Provide Astrogrid plug-ins to IVOA
• Grid/cloud abstraction
• Initiate discussions on a common approach

2
GWS Summary - VOSpace

• Implementations
• Caltech has Java-based implementation
• JHU has database-based implementation
• UCSD, CDS working on iRODS-based implementations
  (one written in pure PHP)
• Applications
• JHU using VOSpace 1.1 to create VOPipes for
  chunking data
• CDS providing storage area for Aladin and new
  online services interfaces
• CDS also working on PLASTIC compliant VOSpace
  explorer, VOSpace file choose and Aladin plugin

3
GWS Summary VOSpace II

• Specification
• Resolved most outstanding issues inherited
  properties, container details, find
• Structure of Capability element and
  LinkFound/ContainerNotFound exceptions will be
  discussed on the list
• Roadmap
• Interoperability testing and final tidy up
• Move to PR mid-July

4
GWS Security

• Delegation
• Promote to WD within next couple of weeks
• Review and PR end of June
• Community information
• Guy Rixon showed RESTful i/f
• Initiate discussions over the summer
• Access control management
• Presented ACI
• Alternate mechanism if authorization assertion
  engines exist
• Discuss on list over the summer

5
GWS VOSI

• How to register VOSI capability in registry
• Review VOSI table metadata on the list
• Move to PR at same time as VODataService
• Catalog vs. database keep language consistent
  between two schemata

6
GWS UWS and REST

• UWS v0.4 to become WD by mid-June
• Stay one step ahead of TAP
• REST document will be worked on over the summer
• Try to implement WADL for UWS, SSAP