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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).
Unified Middleware Distribution
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 More
Subscribe the UMD Release feed
Resources:
- UMD overview and repository configuration.
- Wiki page containing specific information about any issues discovered during Verification and/or StagedRollout.
Releases
NEW!: UMD 1.0.0 (12 July 2011)
Release schedule
- UMD 1.1.0: 01 August 2011
- UMD 1.2.0: 15 September 2011
Software provisioning dashboard
Check the list of products that are in verification, staged rollout or are released in UMD for production on the Software provisionig dashboard
Roadmap
Latest UMD Roadmap: D5.2
Technology Providers
Technology Provider | Relese notes | Support calendar | Release plan | Information |
EMI 1 Kebnekaise, Release notes | support policy | Release schedule
Overview of updates (released and to be released) |
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Latest releases | Release Schedule | |||
Releases | IGE 1.0.0 release notes |
YAIM
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.
Software Provisioning
Software Deployment
- Staged Rollout workflow
- Staged Rollout managers:
- ARC: Christian Ulrik Soettrup
- gLite: Mario David
- GLOBUS: TBD
- UNICORE: Mathilde Romberg
- SAM: Daniele Cesini
- Early Adopters:
- Early Adopters
- Distribution of Early Adopters per component
- Staged Rollout Dasboard
- 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
OMB approved requirements
Overview of OMB approved requirements (static page)
Requirements dashboard
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 | Requirements (tickets) |
UMD | Operations (RT dashboard) |
All (Operations and Users) | |
Operational Tools | Operations |
Nagios tests | Requirements |
User Tools and Services | Users |
Collecting requirements
- NEW! Static page containing all the requirements collected by EGI so far.
- EGI Operations requirements gathering process, OMB, 21 Dec 2010
- How to sumbit:
- Track_UMD_Requirements, dashboard used by TCB members to collect middleware requirements.
- Tool requirements - coming soon
- EGI Operations Surveys
- Jobs wordir and tempdir
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