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Architecture Workshop

19-20 March 2009, Stuttgart

Time:

Start: Thursday 19.03.2009, 9:00h (CET)

End: Friday 20.03.2009, 13:00h (CET) (after this time, those who stay can have lunch together here in HLRS)

Mission

LarKC Architecture definition.

Agree on architectural decisions towards distribution and scalability: required features and main building blocks.

Meeting minutes

LarkcProject/WP5/Meetings/Architecture_Workshop/Architecture_Workshop_minutes

When

• From 19th March 2009 (9:00h) to 20th March 2009 (13:00h) (CET)

Where

High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) Universität Stuttgart Nobelstraße 19 70569 Stuttgart Germany

Meeting Room: ?MedienLabor (Main Building Nobelstraße 19, see map

• and more info on how to reach HLRS)

Expected Attendees

• CycEur (Luka)

• VUA (Annette, Eyal, Frank)
• UIBK (Barry, Mick)
• Ontotext (Vassil)
• HLRS (Axel, Alexey, Sabine, Bastian, Stefan (part of the meeting), Florian (part of the meeting), Georgina)

Agenda

The workshop will start at 9:00h (CET) on Thursday and finalize at 13:00h (CET) on Friday.

Draft Agenda:

Thursday 19.03.2009

• 9:00-11:00 - Required Features and split between plug-ins / platform (Incl. Paralellization and Distribution discussion)

  • Identified desirable features: see Support Features

  • Some open points on how to split features between plug-ins / platform: see Architecture_story_HLRS

  • Some pictures illustrating the Architecture story (see Architecture story pictures)

  • Use cases: to be analysed in order to find out more possible open points (see Usage Scenarios)

• 11:00-11:15 - Coffee Break
• 11:15-12:30 - Required Features and split between plug-ins / platform (Cont.)
• 12:30-13:30 - Lunch Break

• 13:30-15:30 - Marvin/IBIS: lessons learned applicable to the LarKC Architecture (in order to solve some of the previous actions points) (see Marvin Architecture, IBIS overview slides)

• 15:30-15:45 - Coffee Break
• 15:45-17:15 - Role of the Data Layer API in the LarKC Architecture. Which components must deal with it? How to integrate it in the global picture?
• 17:15-18:00 - Urban Baby Larkc: current status and next steps planned (short review), lessons learned applicable to the LarKC Architecture

Friday 20.03.2009

• 9:00-11:00 - Next prototype implementation steps (see Building LarKC in Steps)

• 11:00-11:15 - Coffee Break
• 11:15-13:00 - Finalize open discussions from Thursday, definition of next action points, distribution of responsibilities, conclusions
• 13:00-14:00 - Lunch

Expected Output

• Draft of overal architecture with main building blocks
• Answer to Open Points identified before the meeting (or strategy on how to solve them)
• Stable list of requirements (required Features) to include in D5.3.1.
• Required modifications (if any) to current Plug-in API and Data Layer API
• List of technologies (specifications, standards,...) to be used in the next LarKC prototype
• Next implementation steps towards a distributed LarKC prototype

Pre-meeting input

• Support Features

• Usage Scenarios

• Marvin Architecture

Presentations

• Mick and Barry's presentation on the current status of LarKC architecture

• IBIS Overview presentation, by Eyal

• Georgina´s presentation on LarKC Architecture

Results

• consolidated architecture picture (finalized on Friday, after lunch)

• Consolidation of a global architectural layers picture integrating all components from plug-ins down to physical resources.

Accommodation and Travel

The following links will provide you with directions to HLRS and hotel recommendations:

http://www.hlrs.de/organization/address/maps-directions/ http://www.hlrs.de/organization/address/accommodation/