Whitepapers
The Business Side of Software Licensing (PDF, 296 KB)
Architectural overview of the SmartLM innovative license management system (PDF, 3,3 MB)
Executive Summaries of Deliverables
D2.1 Software Licensing Panorama Today (PDF, 180 K)
D2.2 Report on business impact in adoption of Grid licensing mechanisms and suggested Business Models (PDF, 184 K)
D3.1 Design of the license service, specification of WS-Negotiation protocol (PDF, 251 K)
D4.1 Process-Model for Accounting (PDF, 165 K)
D6.1 Scenarios, criteria and methodology for evaluation V1.0.pdf (PDF, 191 K)
D7.3 Product description and Market context analysis for exploitation_v1.0.pdf (PDF, 193 K)
D7.4 Preliminary exploitation plan v1.0.pdf (PDF, 246 K)
Public Deliverables
D1.1 Functional requirements of the new licensing architecture for Grids (PDF, 605 K)
Booklets
SmartLM – Grid-friendly software licensing for location independent application execution (PDF, 2.5 M)
Posters
SmartLM Innovation (PDF, 750K)
SmartLM Overview (PDF, 2,2M)
elasticLM - The Product (PDF, 330K)
Presentations
Wolfgang Ziegler, elasticLM - A novel approach for software licensing in distributed computing infrastructures. 2nd IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science, Indianapolis, USA, November 30, 2010
Björn Hagemeier, SLA-based management of software licenses s web service resources in distributed environments. Euro-Par Conference, GECON Workshop, Iscia, Naples, Italy, August 31st 2010.
Wolfgang, Ziegler: Software licenses as mobile objects in distributed computing infrastructures. Euro-Par Conference, CoreGRID Workshop, Iscia, Naples, Italy, August 31st 2010.
Wolfgang Ziegler: elasticLM – Flexible Software License Technology for Distributed Computing Infrastructures. Exhibitor Forum at the International Supercomputing Conference, Hamburg, Germany, June 2nd, 2010.
Angela Rumpl, Wolfgang Ziegler: Booth at the at the International Supercomputing Conference, Hamburg, Germany, June 1st - 3rd, 2010.
John Barr: 451 CloudScape - Success Stories, Vendors and Directions. Keynote at the Open Grid Forum 28, Munich, Germany, March 18, 2010
John Barr: An industrial perspective on current Innovations in HPC. HPC Consortium meeting, Munich, Germany, March 15, 2010
Wolfgang Ziegler, WS-Agreement: Foundations for standardized QoS negotiations. Workshop Managing Quality of Service in Distributed Computing Infrastructures, Open Grid Forum 28, Munich, Germany, March 15-18, 2010
Wolfgang Ziegler: Extending WS-Agreement with multi-round negotiation capability. IEEE Workshop Service Level Agreements in Grids, Grid 2010, Banff, Canada, October 12-16, 2009.
Francesco D'Andria: An Enhanced Strategy for License Management in a Dynamic Grid Environment. Echallenges e-2009 Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, October 22, 2009.
Björn Hagemeier: Securing Software Licenses in a Location Independent Manner. Krakow Grid Workshop, Krakow, Poland, October 12, 2009.
Angela Rumpl, Wolfgang Ziegler: Booth at the at the International Supercomputing Conference, Hamburg, Germany, June 23rd - 25th, 2009.
Daniel Mallmann, Wolfgang Ziegler: Software License Issues in Grids, Clouds & SOA. BoF session at the International Supercomputing Conference, Hamburg, Germany, June 23rd, 2009.
Wolfgang Ziegler: elasticLM – Software License Technology for Grids, Clouds, SOA. Exhibitor Forum at the International Supercomputing Conference, Hamburg, Germany, June 25th, 2009.
Wolfgang Ziegler: SmartLM - Software License Technology for Grids, Clouds, SOA. D-Grid Workshop Software-Lizenzmanagement in Grid Umgebungen, Sankt Augustin, Germany, May 4th, 2009.
Wolfgang Ziegler: SmartLM - Software License Technology for Grids, Clouds, SOA. GridEcon Workshop, Athens, Greece, April 23rd, 2009
Karl Catewicz, Wolfgang Ziegler: SmartLM demonstrations. Internet of Service Collaboration Meeting, Brussels, Belgium, June 10th - 11th, 2009
Wolfgang Ziegler: SLA Negotiation in SmartLM. Internet of Service Collaboration Meeting, Session of the Technical Working Group on QoS and SLA, Brussels, Belgium, June 10th, 2009
Wolfgang Ziegler: SmartLM Business Models and Technology. Internet of Service Collaboration Meeting, Session of the Technical Working Group on Business Models and SLAs, June 11th, 2009
SmartLM launch event: Contribution to the European Commission Event Contribution towards the Internet of Services – INFRASTRUCTURE/ VIRTUALISATION
John Barr: This gig is bigger than grid: from HPC to service orientation. OGF22, Boston, Financial Workshop, 27 February 2008.
Wolfgang Ziegler: Service Level Agreements in the SmartLM Project. Dynamic SLA Workshop, Open Grid Forum 23, Barcelona, Spain, 2. June, 2008
Wolfgang Ziegler: SmartLM - Grid-friendly software licensing for location independent application execution. CCGrid2008 European Projects Showcase, Lyon, France, 22. May 2008
Wolfgang Ziegler: Towards SLA-based Software Licenses and License Management in Grid Computing. CoreGRID Symposium, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Gran Canaria, Spain, 25. August 2008
Wolfgang Ziegler: SmartLM Software License Technology for Grids, Clouds, SOA. Open Grid Forum 25, Catania, Sicily, Italy, 6. March 2009
John Barr: Smart License Management. The 451 Group’s Enterprise Computing Strategies Summit, London, 5 June 2008.
M. Riedel, D. Mallmann, A. Streit: Usage of the UNICORE Grid Technology in Scientific und Economic Domains, Grid & Sea, Bulgaria, 11th June 2008
Björn Hagemeier, Wolfgang Ziegler: SmartLM — Grid-friendly License Management for Location Independent Application Execution. D-Grid License Workshop, Hannover, Germany, November 4th, 2008.
Björn Hagemeier, Wolfgang Ziegler: SmartLM — Grid-friendly License Management for Location Independent Application Execution. D-Grid All Hands Meeting, Göttingen, Germany, March 23rd, 2009.
Video
The following video present a high-level view of the resulting product elasticLM:
elasticLM video (mp4, 59 M)
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