Project Standardisation

DORII partners were taking part in the progress of establishing a research group in OGF, which exactly focus on topics presented at the project, i.e. RISGE - Remote Instrumentation Services in a Grid Environment. During the project lifetime DORII project representatives actively supported work of this activity, providing inputs, taking part in the meetings, as well as co-chairing the group.The RISGE-RG explores issues related to the exploitation of Grid technologies for conducting and monitoring measurement tasks and experiments on complex remote scientific equipment.

The main purpose of this research group is to bring together various existing approaches in defining remote access interfaces to sophisticated laboratory equipment, as well as to come up with use cases that can dictate the requirements for integrating scientific instruments with the Grid.

As such, it concerns mostly the steering and monitoring of instrument resources, although more typical problems such as user access and authorization are also in scope. The advances of Grid technologies in areas such as interactivity, visualization and Quality of Service provisioning will play an important role in accessing remote devices; therefore the description of suitable service-level terms is highly relevant.

One of the purposes of this group is to bring together people involved in the field of remote instrumentation to document experiences, identify best practices and develop informational documents which can be fed to the Working Groups.

The group has published the informational document “RISGE-RG Collection of Use Cases” - http://www.ogf.org/documents/GFD.168.pdf

The RISGE-RG group had a BOF at OGF20 in Manchester (May 2007), was accepted in September 2007 and have been continuing its work on periodic OGF meetings
October 2007, Seattle, US,
February 2008 Cambridge, US,
April 2008 – Ischia, Italy in conjunction with INGRID2008,
June 2008 – Barcelona, Spain,
September 2008 - Singapore,
March 2009 - Catania, Italy.
October 2009 - Banff, Canada.
March 2010 - Munich, Germany.

The RISGE-RG web page:
https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/projects/risge-rg

The RISGE-RG mailing list:
mailto:risge-rg@ogf.org http://www.ogf.org/mailman/listinfo/risge-rg

Other, more specific goals, group charter
http://www.ogf.org/gf/group_info/charter.php?review&group=risge-rg

Other projects involved in the group work:
http://forge.gridforum.org/sf/docman/do/listDocuments/projects.risge-rg/docman.root.involved_projects

Minutes from the meetings (including current activities and roadmap):
http://forge.gridforum.org/sf/docman/do/listDocuments/projects.risge-rg/docman.root.meeting_minutes

Contact person:
Marcin Płóciennik (group chair), PSNC, Poland
marcinp at man.poznan.pl

New group created in the last days of the DORII project: This working group is spawned by RISGE-RG and will focus its effort on providing a Shared Information Model (SIM) and defining concrete interfaces for accessing remote instruments. There is a need in the community for accessing remote instruments by using standard interfaces that are well defined and specified by standard approaches/procedures. The main purpose of this working group will be to standardize approaches in remote access interfaces to instruments through our SIM. Target devices are all kind of instruments including distributed sensor networks. As such, it concerns mostly the services for steering and monitoring instrument resources, granting security and authorization (policy), accessing combined or multiple devices, performing a calibration phase, and also services for acquiring data from instruments ,operating on files and streams.

Mailing list - subscribe: http://www.ogf.org/mailman/listinfo/ari-wg
Gridforge: http://forge.gridforum.org/sf/projects/ari-wg

Contact person:
Marcin Płóciennik (group chair), PSNC, Poland
marcinp at man.poznan.pl

Milan Prica (group chair), ELETTRA, Italy
milan.prica at elettra.trieste.it

The DORII project and specifically project partner HLRS is involved in the Message Passing Interface standardization process for parallel programming. A first step is the ratification of the clarified MPI-1.3 standard and merged MPI-2.1 standard.