SuperComputing 2002 a great success
The Imperial College e-Science Networked Infrastructure (ICENI) was one of the UK projects selected by the DTI to be demonstrated on the UK e-Science stand at SC2002. The full ICENI framework including component composition, scheduling, job launching, OGSA (Open Grid Services Architecture) service browsing and run-time visualisation and computational steering were demonstrated during the scheduled presentations and in individual briefings.
We were able to demonstrate the composition and launching onto a grid resource of an LB3D componentised application with an ICENI steering component. The steering component acts as an interface to the running application from the ICENI service registry. This allows another individual to browse the service registry and to discover the running LB3D application. Assuming they have the appropriate permissions they will be able to browse the service interface and launch a visualisation client. The client tool connects to the LB3D application through the steering component to provide read and write access to the exposed data fields. This allows a user to feed selected data sets from the application through a visualisation pipeline to the client, and to alter and upload selected parameters back into the application.