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Portal Access Grid Andrew Rowley Anja LeBlanc, Michael Daw, Martin Turner, Tobias Schiebeck University of Manchester Contents What is AG(Tk) Why do we need PAG? Standards Features Implementation Timeline Screenshots Demo 2 What is AG(Tk)? 3 What is AG(Tk)? 4 What is AG(Tk)? Access Grid Toolkit Version 1 5 What is AG(Tk)? Globus TCP AGTk Server Globus TCP Globus TCP Bridge Server 6 What is AG(Tk)? SOAP XML-RPC AGTk Server Bridge Server XML-RPC XML-RPC Bridge Registry 7 What is AG(Tk)? 20,000 100 200 8 Why do we need PAG? Difficulty connecting to a venue (e.g. firewall or multicast problems) not being a multicast site …switch to the unicast bridge …” AGSC Surveys 2006 and 2007 Common Problems AG Firewall rules and Muilticast / Unicast are a nightmare – These need to be simplified and made more reliable Many partners have problems connecting because they are setting up temporary nodes. Most of the problems are due to inexperience with NAT (port forwarding) & firewall configurations 9 Why do we need PAG? More reliability Make it more user friendly Greater coverage of Access Grid across institutions that do not currently have it AGSC Surveys 2006 and 2007 Speed of the venue client …integration into portals … Requested Improvements The AGSC should work towards providing training and advice for user managed desktop access to the system Increase in use of the personal access grid 10 Why do we need PAG? Generally a lot of time is spent configuring the software … …Many systems exist for supporting web seminars … the potential of the AG in this respect seems to have been ignored. It needs to be as AGSC Surveys 2006 and easy to use and 2007 reliable as any of the commercial Comments video conferencing I have to phone from China because software you can my student didn't manage to install buy. the AG S/W and get it working If I could connect to some meetings from the desktop, I would use the AG system more We only use personal AG, which is a much better option for getting people interested in and using the AG … The process of configuring a personal node seems far more troublesome / complicated than it should 11 Why do we need PAG? 12 Standards JSR-168 / 286 SOAP AJAX RTP XML-RPC HTTPS L16 UDP H.261 13 Features 14 Features 15 Features 16 Implementation Multicast Access Grid Toolkit Version 3 Server BridgeServer UDP/TCP UDP XML-RPC Java Web-Start Application SOAP XML-RPC UDP Vic / Rat / Other AJAX Java Servlet JavaScript Session LiveConnect Java Applet JSP Pages Java Portlet 17 Timeline Pre-Release: September 2007 Official Release: April 2008 18 Screenshots 19 Screenshots 20 Portal Access Grid Demo Joint Demo between OMII-UK, ESNW and AGSC stands Tuesday 11th at 4:30pm Research Computing Services Portal Access Grid Contact Details http://www.rcs.manchester.ac.uk/projects/PAG [email protected] Research Computing Services