A Proposal of Next Generation Grid-Operating System

The Matrix Project an application in preparation for 5th call of the EU 6th Framework Program entitled 'Advanced Grid Technologies, Systems and Services'. The overall strategic plan of the Matrix Project is to develop an alliance of application-oriented projects that all use the same high level toolkits to Grid-enable existing applications, and just as importantly, to develop a new generation of innovative applications and application scenarios which truly take advantage of the new possibilities which grids provide. The applications we are going to work with include both, scientific and business/industry applications, however the latter ones will be in majority. Matrix takes as a starting point the existing European grid middleware and tool, such as Grid Application Toolkit, GRMS, GridSphere, iGrid, Mercury, Migrating Desktop and other tools developed by many successful EU projects such as GridLab (http://www.gridlab.org), CrossGrid, GRIA, etc. as well as other tools developed in other projects worldwide. With Matrix, we build on these successes, but shift the entire focus upward, to be much more heavily focused on the application level and application user level. We have identified a series of important application areas that have complex problems that can only be solved on Grids. Using our experience we will further develop our generic tools, research and adopt other tools and services that suit our needs, and use them in two important ways:-A Strong Research Component: We will develop the most appropriate mechanisms, application level abstractions, and building blocks for the development of innovative Grid usage scenarios for a new generation of production Grid applications.-A Strong Deployment Component. Working with a broadly representative set of application communities, we will deploy these techniques to solve complex problems in areas of special importance in the EU, problems that cannot be adequately addressed with present-day computing or Grid technologies. The application areas have been carefully selected to maximize the impact of this project, while also providing broad feedback to the research component to make our tools practical and enabling for generic applications. Grids) and will be led by INRIA. The overall objective of the XtremOS project is the design, implementation, evaluation and distribution of an open source Grid operating system (named XtremOS) to support virtual organizations (VO). On top of the extended traditional OS, several Grid OS distributed services are to be provided to deal with resource and application management in the Grid. These services should be designed to cope with the …