The iRODS Roadmap
4.2 and Beyond
October 11, 2016
RENCI
Chapel Hill, NC
Terrell Russell, Ph.D.
@terrellrussell
Acting Chief Technologist, iRODS Consortium
iRODS 4.2 Progress
iRODS 4.2 Progress
iRODS 4.2 Progress
Not Quite Released
iRODS 4.2 Major Features
iRODS 4.2 Architectural Changes
iRODS 4.2
Questions?
The Future - iRODS 4.3
Nothing scary will happen
Developed In Parallel as Plugins
Multipart Data Objects
Data Objects fractured into parts - still proper data objects
The Big Picture of the Future
4.2 was about sending things out
4.3 (and friends) will be about bringing them back
GenQuery vs GenQuery version 2
iRODS 4.2 - The Scatter
iRODS 4.3 with GQv2 - Gather
Provide a unified query interface for all services leveraged by iRODS
Federation and Delegated Services
Access to virtualized metadata via Federation
- exactly like virtualized storage, but with ontologies
Questions?
The iRODS Consortium - The Mission
To sustain the iRODS Ecosystem by:
Staffing
Development Team:
Terrell, Antoine, Zoey, Ben, Rick
User Interface / Application Engineer:
Cesar, Justin, New Hire
Management / Support:
Bonnie, Dawn, Stephanie, Jason
A new Executive Director and/or Chief Technologist will be appointed
Currently 15 Members
Growing The Community
Last 12 months:
In The Next Year
Continue the mission:
Consortium Membership - Touch Benefits
Public Support of iRODS
Co-Marketing/Co-Sales Opportunities
Consortium Membership - The User Group Meeting
Consortium Membership - Technical Assistance
Direct access to senior data management researchers and highly skilled engineers
Joint Technology Development
Technical Assistance
Tier 3 Support Agreements
Consortium Membership - Committees
Technology Working Group
Planning Committee
Executive Board
Other Committees formed ad hoc to address specific technology or governance issues
Consortium Membership - Tiers