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This page provides information on supported software, the related release roadmaps and documentation, together with information about processes to validate and deploy new releases and to phase out unsupported software releases. The Technology Providers that currently signed a Service Level Agreement are the European Middleware Initiative (EMI) and the Initiative for Globus in Europe (IGE).
UMD Roadmap
The Unified Middleware Distribution (UMD) is the integrated set of software components that EGI makes available from technology providers within the EGI Community. These components are distributed to provide an integrated offering for deployment on the EGI production infrastructure.
Latest UMD Roadmap: D5.2
Technology Providers
EMI
Roadmap and Support Plan
- DJRA1.1.1 – Compute Area Work Plan and Status Report
- DJRA1.2.1 – Data Area Work Plan and Status Report
- DJRA1.3.1 – Security Area Work Plan and Status Report
- DJRA1.4.1 - Infrastructure Area Work Plan and Status Report
- EMI Software Maintenance and Support Plan (pdf)
- EMI Deliverables
Release schedules and documentation
- NEW! Release schedule: the EMI tracker will contain items about individual component releases as well as EMI releases
- NEW! EMI services documentation
ARC
gLite
- Supported middleware
- gLite support calendar
- gLite 3.1 end-of-support schedule, OMB approved, 26 Nov 2010
- WLCG baseline clients and services
- Releases
- Latest releases and future Release Schedule
- Documentation
UNICORE
- Download
- Download server & central services: Core Server | Workflow System | Common Information Service
- Download clients: Rich Client | Command Line Client | HiLA API
- Documentation
IGE
- Releases
- IGE Release Schedule
- Documentation
- GT User Guide
- GT Release Manuals
Software release and deployment process
This section describes the EGI process to deploy new versions of deployed software and operational tools into the EGI production infrastructure.
Release workflow
Deployment workflow (Staged Rollout)
- Staged Rollout workflow
- Early Adopters
- distribution of Early Adopters per component
- EGI IGTF Release Process
Other:
- Procedure for retiring middleware services (to be updated)
- Processes for Maintaining and Enforcing a List of Supported gLite Middleware Service (to be updated)
Requirements
Existing requirements
The following table provides access to all open EGI requirements (UMD requirements and tool requirements), submitted by the User Community and the Operations Community.
Areas | Tickets |
User Communities | UMD Requirements |
Tools and Services Requirements | |
Operations | UMD Requirements. These requirements can be also accessed directly on RT from the SA1 middleware requirements dashboard |
Operational Tools |
Collecting requirements
- EGI Operations requirements gathering process, OMB, 21 Dec 2010
- NEW! Nagios test requirements
- NEW! Middleware requirements
- Tool requirements - coming soon
- NEW! EGI Operations Surveys
Standards
- Distributed Resource Management Application API Specification 1.0, DRMAA Working Group, GWD-R.133
- GLUE Schema Specification version 1.3, 2007
- GLUE Specification version 2.0, 2009 | HTML rendering
- Usage of Glue Schema v1.3 for WLCG Installed Capacity information