Grids, Clouds & Service Infrastructures

What is the objective of this Interoperability Demonstration?

The goal of this interoperability demonstration is to evaluate the resource reservation for test applications and their deployment onto different grid and cloud computing infrastructures based on the use scenarios defined as part of the ETSI Grid Interoperability Test Specification (ETSI TS 102 811)

How will demonstrations be performed?

Each product will at least be demonstrated based on the use cases defined in the standardized ETSI test specification developed by TC Grid.
Applicable use cases will be executed by uploading a test specific application, providing resource and deployment information using product specific interfaces and observing the execution of the application as specified in the use case. Vendors are also encouraged to demonstrate features  related to resource reservation which go beyond these use cases.

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Who can participate and attend in this demonstration?

The demonstration is essentially open to any commercial or open source provider of products which implement grid, cloud computing or related technologies. Attendees of the GCSI workshop as well as any other standardization experts, operators and telecommunication equipment vendors are encouraged to visit the demonstrations at any time.

What is GCM?

GCM is one solution for the deployment of applications via a uniform interface onto grid and cloud infrastructures which has been developed by ETSI TC Grid. Whereas most standards in the grid domain are based on web-based services these standards specify a simple XML format for describing infrastructures as well as the deployment of applications based on these infrastructure descriptions. This approach is not contradicting a web-based service approach – as a matter of fact XML descriptors can be mapped to such interfaces.