GRIA 5.2 is now available for download from www.gria.org. GRIA 5.2 provides significant enhancements to the Basic and OGSA-DAI application service packages along with other usability and performance enhancements to other packages.

The Basic Application Services package has new features to improve interoperability and the integration of cluster computing facilities. GRIA now supports the Job Specification Description Language (JSDL) allowing users to define their processing requirements in a standardised way. JSDL is supported at the Web Service interface and at the backend Resource Manager interface so that JSDL compliant Resource Managers can be integrated easily. Multiple resource managers can now be connected to a single GRIA service provider allowing multiple clusters to be provisioned. A new notification capability has been added to the Job service that allows Resource Managers and applications to monitor and report usage metrics to GRIA's SLA management service. These metrics can then be used as SLA terms allowing a service provider to support a wide range of high and low-level terms dependent upon the type of applications being provisioned. GRIA's application metadata schema has been extended to fully describe batch applications and now including optionality and cardinality for inputs and outputs, command line descriptions and extensibility points for application specific metadata. The GRIA OGSA-DAI service has now been upgraded to integrate with OGSA-DAI WS-I 2.2 and now supports the integration of a wide range of data resources managed using GRIA's SLA service and policy framework.

GRIA 5.2 is compatible with previous GRIA 5.x releases. In addition, users with existing GRIA 5.x installations are provided with an automated upgrade capability executed when GRIA is deployed within the service container. GRIA 5.2 makes service-oriented collaboration easy for both consumer and service provider.

Download GRIA 5.2 now!

About GRIA

GRIA is a service-oriented infrastructure designed to support B2B collaborations through service provision across organisational boundaries in a secure, interoperable and flexible manner. GRIA uses standard web service protocols based on key interoperability specifications. GRIA is now being used in a large number of projects to assess and exploit the use of Grids in business. GRIA provides several software packages and toolkits each created to address the business needs of service consumers and providers. The packages are designed using a service-oriented architecture to support flexible composition scenarios and extensibility.