Towards an Infrastructure Description Language for Modeling Computing Infrastructures

This paper describes the Infrastructure and Network Description Language (INDL). The aim of INDL is to provide technology independent descriptions of computing infrastructures. These descriptions include the physical resources and the network infrastructure that connects these resources. The descrip...

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Published in:2012 IEEE 10th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications pp. 207 - 214
Main Authors: Ghijsen, M., van der Ham, J., Grosso, P., de Laat, C.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: IEEE 01.07.2012
Subjects:
Computational modeling
computing infrastructures
knowledge representation
Ontologies
OWL
semantic web
Semantics
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Unified modeling language
ISBN:1467316318, 9781467316316
ISSN:2158-9178
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Summary:This paper describes the Infrastructure and Network Description Language (INDL). The aim of INDL is to provide technology independent descriptions of computing infrastructures. These descriptions include the physical resources and the network infrastructure that connects these resources. The description language also provides the necessary vocabulary to describe virtualization of resources and the services offered by these resources. Furthermore, the language can be easily extended to describe federation of different existing computing infrastructures, specific types of (optical) equipment and also behavioral aspects of resources, for example, their energy consumption. Before we introduce INDL we first discuss a number of modeling efforts that have lead to the development of INDL, namely the Network Description Language, the Network Markup Language and the CineGrid Description Language. We also show current applications of INDL in two EU-FP7 projects: NOVI and GEYSERS. We demonstrate the flexibility and extensibility of INDL to cater the specific needs of these two projects.
ISBN:1467316318
9781467316316
ISSN:2158-9178
DOI:10.1109/ISPA.2012.35