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This page provdes 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

Latest UMD Roadmap: D5.2 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 packaged to provide an integrated offering for deployment on the EGI production infrastructure.

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
  • Technical Development Plan

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

• Overview
• Releases
  • Latest release
  • Development roadmap
  • Release management
• Documentation

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
  • Installation and configuration documentation
  • gLite User Guide

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.

• New Software Release Workflow (NSRW)
• Staged Rollout
  • Staged Rollout workflow
  • list of 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

• See the full list of existing requirements in RT: SA1 middleware requirements dashboard.
• All EGI requirements (UMD requirements and tool requirements)

Areas	Tickets list
User Communities	UMD Requirements
	Tools and Services Requirements
Operations	UMD Requimrents
	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