D3.2 Demonstrator Implementation Guidelines

This deliverable, D3.2 "Demonstrator Implementation Guidelines" draws first a roadmap towards the hosting of the demonstrators' technologies by the Blue-Cloud VRE, in order to set up the Blue-Cloud Virtual Laboratory.

In a second part, this document proposes information about the services and capacities provided by the Blue-Cloud VRE and gives guidelines to minimise the effort required to transform standalone software components into services proposed by the Blue-Cloud Virtual Laboratory. Finally, its aim is to illustrate how to maximise the exploitation of the services and capacities provided by the Blue-Cloud VRE. Consequently, this second part starts with a short introduction about D4Science VRE. Then, it reports on the different integration options that are available and their benefits. Each integration option contains pointers to existing D4Science manuals and guidelines which can be found on the web and which are regularly maintained.

However, the data access mechanisms are not part of the implementation guidelines. For the time being, the demonstrators must bring some of their own data or retrieved external data to try out the VRE and their workflows. The Blue-Cloud work package 2 (WP2) provides the Blue-Cloud Discovery and Access service to obtain access to large and multidisciplinary datasets. Deliverable D2.6 "Blue Cloud Architecture" will document this aspect as part of the description of the general architecture. It will describe how to establish connections between data and the VRE using the data broker that will facilitate and harmonize access to external sources. Moreover, a Data Taming service is planned, whereby the aim will be to interoperate data formats to enable easier input for VRE processes.

This Deliverable, D3.2 "Demonstrator Implementation Guidelines", starts with a roadmap for the demonstrators followed up with a short introduction of D4Science VREs. It then reports on the various integration options and their benefits. Each integration option contains pointers to existing D4Science manuals and guidelines which can be found on the web and which are regularly maintained.