Modular Information Provider

The Modular Information Provider (MIP) is developed by GROW to manage and automatically aggregate information sources for Grid information services. MIP tackles the challenge of mapping the information from a number of sources to be handled by a few information services with minimal human intervention. MIP addresses such mapping through a modular approach through which it can be deployed to achieve the interoperability among multiple Grids. MIP can be customized in a straightforward way to a specific Grid environment, and it also supports flexible information schema. Current MIP implementation is based on Globus MDS4 and the XML version of GLUE Schema 1.2.

The design of the Modular Information Provider (MIP) aims to address the shortcomings that exist in Grid information providers (e.g., Generic Information Provider) as well as to support the web service-based Grid information services. Our modular approach has been developed to ease maintenance and management of Grid information systems by automatically pulling information sources together and filling appropriate pieces of information into Grid information services based on information schemas. This approach minimizes memory requirements as it allows dynamically loading only necessary modules that are customizable to the requirements from a particular Grid resource.

If you have any questions or comments about the MIP project, please feel free to contact grow-tech@list.uiowa.edu.