TY  - RPRT
T1  - Data-Intensive Research Workshop (15-19 March 2010) Report
Y1  - 2010
A1  - Malcolm Atkinson
A1  - Roure, David De
A1  - van Hemert, Jano
A1  - Shantenu Jha
A1  - Ruth McNally
A1  - Robert Mann
A1  - Stratis Viglas
A1  - Chris Williams
KW  - Data-intensive Computing
KW  - Data-Intensive Machines
KW  - Machine Learning
KW  - Scientific Databases
AB  - We met at the National e-Science Institute in Edinburgh on 15-19 March 2010 to develop our understanding of DIR. Approximately 100 participants (see Appendix A) worked together to develop their own understanding, and we are offering this report as the first step in communicating that to a wider community.  We present this in turns of our developing/emerging understanding of "What is DIR?" and "Why it is important?'". We then review the status of the field, report what the workshop achieved and what remains as open questions.
JF  - National e-Science Centre
PB  - Data-Intensive Research Group, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
CY  - Edinburgh
ER  - 

TY  - JOUR
T1  - Web Service Grids: an evolutionary approach
JF  - Concurrency - Practice and Experience
Y1  - 2005
A1  - Atkinson, Malcolm P.
A1  - Roure, David De
A1  - Dunlop, Alistair N.
A1  - Fox, Geoffrey
A1  - Henderson, Peter
A1  - Hey, Anthony J. G.
A1  - Paton, Norman W.
A1  - Newhouse, Steven
A1  - Parastatidis, Savas
A1  - Trefethen, Anne E.
A1  - Watson, Paul
A1  - Webber, Jim
VL  - 17
ER  - 

TY  - RPRT
T1  - Web Service Grids: An Evolutionary Approach
Y1  - 2004
A1  - Malcolm Atkinson
A1  - Roure, David De
A1  - Alistair Dunlop
A1  - Fox, Geoffrey
A1  - Henderson, Peter
A1  - Tony Hey
A1  - Norman Paton
A1  - Newhouse, Steven
A1  - Parastatidis, Savas
A1  - Anne Trefethen
A1  - Watson, Paul
A1  - Webber, Jim
AB  - The UK e-Science Programme is a £250M, 5 year initiative which has funded over 100 projects. These application-led projects are under-pinned by an emerging set of core middleware services that allow the coordinated, collaborative use of distributed resources. This set of middleware services runs on top of the research network and beneath the applications we call the ‘Grid’. Grid middleware is currently in transition from pre-Web Service versions to a new version based on Web Services. Unfortunately, only a very basic set of Web Services embodied in the Web Services Interoperability proposal, WS-I, are agreed by most IT companies. IBM and others have submitted proposals for Web Services for Grids - the Web Services ResourceFramework and Web Services Notification specifications - to the OASIS organisation for standardisation. This process could take up to 12 months from March 2004 and the specifications are subject to debate and potentially significant changes.    Since several significant UK e-Science projects come to an end before the end of this process, the UK therefore needs to develop a strategy that will protect the UK’s investment in Grid middleware by informing the Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute’s (OMII) roadmap and UK middleware repository in Southampton. This paper sets out an evolutionary roadmap that will allow us to capture generic middleware components from projects in a form that will facilitate migration or interoperability with the emerging Grid Web Services standards and with on-going OGSA developments. In this paper we therefore define a set of Web Services specifications - that we call ‘WS-I+’ to reflect the fact that this is a larger set than currently accepted by WS-I – that we believe will enable us to achieve the twin goals of capturing these components and facilitating migration to future standards. We believe that the extra Web Services specifications we have included in WS-I+ are both helpful in building e-Science Grids and likely to be widely accepted.
JF  - UK e-Science Technical Report Series
ER  -