Imperial College e-Science Networked Infrastructure

by ICENI Research Group

Abstract:

The ICENI (Imperial College e-Science Networked Infrastructure) is an integrated Grid Middleware designed to support a variety of e-science activities. These range from the exposure of resources as services with specified usage agreements and their subsequent federation into computational communities, a component programming model developed to support distributed application execution, a scheduling framework that optimally maps applications to resources within defined policies, and the ability to visualise data from and steer applications during execution.

This manual describes the overall architecture of the ICENI system, its structure and includes documentation on how to build services for it.

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Imperial College e-Science Networked Infrastructure

by ICENI Research Group

1 Overview

1.1 Background

1.2 Architecture

1.3 Credits and Acknowledgements

1.4 Contents of the Manual

1.5 Setting Your Certificate

1.5.1 Description

1.5.2 Pre-requisites

1.5.3 Actions

1.5.4 Usage

1.6 ICENI Open Source Code Licence

1.6.1 Licence

1.6.2 EXHIBIT A - ICENI Open Source Code License

1.6.3 EXHIBIT B - Standards

1.6.4 ICENI Software Contributor License Agreement

1.7 Beginners Guide

2 Installation and Configuration Guide

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Installing the ICENI Environment using the Binary Modules

2.2.1 Description

2.2.2 Pre-requisites

2.2.3 Actions

2.2.4 Usage

2.3 Installing the ICENI Environment from Source Code Modules

2.3.1 Description

2.3.2 Pre-requisites

2.3.3 Actions

2.3.4 Usage

2.4 Automatic Deployment of ICENI

2.4.1 Description

2.4.2 Pre-requisites

2.4.3 Actions

2.4.4 Usage

2.5 Setting the Private Administrators

2.5.1 Description

2.5.2 Pre-requisites

2.5.3 Actions

2.5.4 Usage

2.6 Starting a Private Administrative Domain

2.6.1 Description

2.6.2 Pre-requisites

2.6.3 Actions

2.6.4 Usage

2.7 Starting a Public Computational Community

2.7.1 Description

2.7.2 Pre-requisites

2.7.3 Actions

2.7.4 Usage

2.8 Configure the Domain Manager and the Identity Manager

2.8.1 Description

2.8.2 Pre-requisites

2.8.3 Actions

2.8.4 Usage

2.9 Starting a Domain Manager and a Identity Manager

2.9.1 Description

2.9.2 Pre-requisites

2.9.3 Actions

2.9.4 Usage

2.10 Domain Manager

2.10.1 Access Policy

2.11 Identity Manager

2.11.1 Authentication

2.11.2 Configuration of the standard Identity Manager

2.11.3 Configuration of the Identity Manager with Role Management

2.11.4 Role Management Features

2.11.5 Cache for Access Request

2.12 Virtual Public Computational Communities

3 Deployment Guide

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Starting a Private Resource

3.2.1 Description

3.2.2 Pre-requisites

3.2.3 Actions

3.2.4 Usage

3.3 Expose a Software Component

3.3.1 Description

3.3.2 Pre-requisites

3.3.3 Actions