Incubator/Incubator AnncJune5
From Globus
Dev.Globus Announces New Incubator Projects from US and Europe
With support from the NSF Middleware Initiative (NMI) and other sources, the Globus Alliance launched in early 2006 a new open development process called dev.globus (http://dev.globus.org). Having seeded dev.globus with a set of existing Globus components, the Globus community established the Incubation Management Project (IMP) to manage the incubation process by which further dev.globus projects are established.
The IMP is pleased to announce that five new projects have joined the dev.globus incubation process:
• GridShib - contact Von Welch, NCSA. The goal of the GridShib project is to enable interoperability between the Globus Toolkit and the Shibboleth identity federation system. More specially, this entails enabling the GT web services runtime to parse and use SAML assertions in its authorization decision-making process by enhancing the existing GT authorization framework.
• GridWay - contact Ignacio M. Llorente, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM). The aim of the GridWay Metascheduler is to enable, on top of Globus Toolkit services, large-scale, reliable and efficient sharing of computing resources (clusters, computing farms, servers, supercomputers...), managed by different distributed resource management systems within a single organization (such as an enterprise grid) or scattered across several administrative domains.
•OGCE – contact Marlon Pierce, University of Indiana. The OGCE builds computational Grid and science gateway Web ports, Grid client tools, and supporting software. OGCE provides client environments for the Globus Toolkit 4 (supporting both Web Service and pre-Web Service versions), the Storage Resource Broker, and Condor. The portal environment also allows for the integration of collaboration tools and services, such as those provided by the Sakai project.
•Metrics – contact Lee Liming, U. Chicago/Argonne National Laboratory. The primary purpose of the Metrics project is to measure the use of Globus software in terms of both quality and quantity. Quantity issues include how much is the software being used, by how many people, and how those people are distributed. Quality issues include how the software is being used, how useful it has been, and what the results of that use have been
•Globus Handle System Project – contact Frank Siebenlist, Argonne National Laboratory. Handle Integration provides a means for uniquely identifying structured data and other resources that can be used to store and retrieve state information about them.
The IMP would also like to invite other interested projects to contact us if they would like to become incubator projects. Current process guidelines are posted at http://dev.globus.org/wiki/Incubator/Incubator_Process
