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Unicore6 or UNICORE/GS is the next generation of the UNICORE technology based on OGSA and other specifications from standardisation bodies like GGF/OGF, W3C, OASIS and IETF. WS-RF is integrated and adopted

Interoperability is now given by Grid Beans and Atomic Services.

Forschungszentrum Jülich, ZAM

Alpha5 Version is available from Sourceforge

or www.unicore.eu/download/unicore6

BSD

The first release candidate is available as of 03.07.2007.

Based on the same standards and models as UNICORE5 , Security is integrated as a service.

Not yet supported.

Storage- and Filemanagement are now services with the same functionality (as opposed to UNICORE5 ).

Instead of the plugin approach for the client site, Users can create their own GridBeans by using e.g. a browser. But Unicore6 will also provide a client interface which was developed by Intel in the UNICORE/GS project. It provides a GUI framework with an application, an expert and a portal client: The application client can be customized for specific applications; the expert client provides access to all grid services and includes the workflow editor for user defined BPEL workflows. The portal client can be integrated into JSR168-based Web Portal solutions. GPE is interoperable with the Atomic services of Unicore6 and interfaces also to Globus Toolkit 4.

GPE is available on http://gpe4gtk.sourceforge.net

• Workflow: Unicore6 is providing a complete workflow engine as UNICORE5 .
• Brokering: Service functionalities are the same as in UNICORE5 .
• Monitoring: Unicore6 has the same functionalities as UNICORE5 .
• Accounting: Possible using other tools.
• Steering: Collobarative Visiualization and steering was done in a case study with the Visualization Interface Toolkit (VISIT) developed by Research Center Jülich (FzJ) and Intel´s GPE client.
• Interactive access: Unicore6 has the same plugins for ssh as UNICORE5 .
• Addressing (WS-Adressing compliant?) UNICORE 6 is basing on existing WS standards.
• Transactions: Not yet, but it is on the roadmap of the Unicore developers for future projects (for example: D-GRID II)
• WS-RF compliant? Unicore6 was one of the first middleware fully compliant with WS-RF
• Charging: Not yet