SAGA
Name
The SAGA project (Simple API for Grid Applications)
Area
Technology provider
Agreement
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed on 11 April 2011
About SAGA
The SAGA project represents a community of developers and end users, which collectively work to:
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create and maintain the SAGA API specification documents
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implement the SAGA API and its middleware bindings
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create higher level of programming abstractions based on SAGA, and
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deploy and support the SAGA implementations on a variety of DCIs
SAGA has been active since 2003, and spans, as a rough estimate, about 20 academic groups from about ten countries, and a number of individual contributors.
Overview of the joint workplan
EGI and SAGA will work together to enable the vision of providing European scientists and international collaboration for sustainable distributed computing services to support their work. In this broad context, the specific goals of the collaborations are:
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to provide robust, well-designed, user-centric services to scientific user communities
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to define and monitor SLA for third-level support on incidents and requests
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to accelerate the development of standards within production grid infrastructures
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to disseminate the results of this collaboration within the remit of each project’ s dissemination and communication activities such as joint events
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to exchange ideas and collaborate on the definition of sustainability models
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to collaborate in business relationships development
Resources
MoUs and SLAs: collaborations from theory to practice, Inspired Spring 2011 (related news item)
