Nick Sharman

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Integration Fest 2Agenda

• Nick Sharman
• www.mygrid.org.uk
• nick.sharman_at_cs.man.ac.uk

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Meeting Objectives

• Establish repeatable build process for all myGrid
  components
• Identify myGrids objectives
• Review revise myGrids architecture
• Define process for evolving the architecture

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Meeting Non-Objectives

• Test release myGrid 0.1
• Use repeatable build system at home
• Definitive myGrid architecture
• Use the evolution process
• Will evolve over the life of the project

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Establish a base (I)

• Monday AM
• Arrive set up
• Monday PM
• Stock take
• What software have we produced?
• What use cases can we support?
• EMBOSS tutorial example
• Pre-prototype workflow(s)
• For each use case
• develop sequence chart
• identify service interactions
• What are the known issues?

• Monday PM
• Build test issues(Phil Lord)
• What do we need to do a complete build/test/
  deploy on one machine?
• Ant conventions
• external dependencies
• deployment descriptors
• scripting language
• Testing "smoke tests"
• JUnit, Cactus, HttpUnit, ...
• Platforms
• Windows 2000/XP, Linux, Solaris, ...

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Establish a base (II)

• Tuesday AM PM
• Establish complete build environment
• Ant buildfiles
• module/directory organization
• external dependencies

• Tuesday PM
• Brainstorm how do we deliver "lightweight
  myGrid" for evaluation?

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Objectives Architecture

• Wednesday AM
• Introduction
• Inputs what we use to decInide our objectives
  architecture
• The proposal - what we said we'd do
• Our research interests - what we think will be
  useful
• Use cases - what some users think they want us to
  do
• Objectives
• List personal views as starting points, aim for a
  party line

• Wednesday PM
• Argonne OGSI Workshop
• (Tom Oinn)
• Architecture
• Describe what we mean by one
• Session with Lion Bioscience
• They will present relevant aspects of SRS
• (still a moveable feast may be on Tuesday)
• Thursday AM
• How do we proceed?
• Process, timescales,
• deliverables, roadmaps

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Bringing it together

• Thursday PM
• Integration testing, based on EMBOSS tutorial
  example (!)

• Friday AM
• Review meeting
• Use cases
• How did we do?
• What issues are still outstanding?
• actions necessary before "public release"