KnowARCs commitment to the development of Grid standards:

KnowARC believes that the development and uptake of open standards is a fundamental requirement for the broader uptake of Grid technologies. As a result, KnowARC implements and participates in the development of a range of standards, listed below.

Everything you wanted to know about Grid standards

Grid standardization knowledge acquired by KnowARC members is now collected in a white paper Implementing Grid Standards – an inventory of standards and experiences from the development of the Advanced Resource Connector Grid middleware.

ARC on the road towards standards-based interoperability

ARC has been named among the three core European middlewares by the European Grid Initiative (EGI) design study in their blueprint document released at the end of 2008. These three middlewares (ARC, gLite and Unicore) are the basis of the proposed future Unified Middleware Distribution - a set of middleware components enabling the European Grid infrastructure.

We are proud to be a major contributor to the GLUE 2.0 information model specification, recently endorsed as a proposed standard by the Open Grid Forum (OGF). As one of the founders of the GLUE working group, the NorduGrid Collaboration and KnowARC are naturally committed to adopting GLUE 2.0 through its ARC middleware.

Implemented standards

KnowARC implements (in NorduGrid/ARC Grid middleware) and contributes to development of a number of standards, mostly in the framework of the Open Grid Forum (OGF). ARC Grid middleware design and development follows Open Grid Services Architecture; KnowARC is thus involved (either as a contributor or as an implementator) in a number of relevant OGF Working Groups.

  • OGSA: Open Grid Services Architecture WG
  • BES: OGSA Basic Execution Services WG
  • HPCP: High Performance Computing Profile WG
  • GLUE: Glue Schema Working Group
  • JSDL: Job Submission Description Language WG
  • SRM: Grid Storage Management Working Group
  • GIN: Grid Interoperability Now Community Group, brings together groups implementing various standards and conducts interoperability tests
  • PGI: Production Grid Infrastructure WG
  • X.509: Globus' implementation of X.509 is a de facto Grid standard, followed by KnowARC

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