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National Science FoundationMiddleware Initiative (NMI)

• Started in 2001 initially over 3 years “to create and deploy advanced network services that simplify access to diverse Internet information and services.”

• Provides a centralized location for important grid software.

• Current NMI package includes Globus, Condor, MPI-G2, and a new grid portal project called OGCEGrid (funding started Sept 2003).

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Consortium established “Fall 2003 to foster collaborations and shareable components

with portal developers worldwide”

The following screenshots taken from http://www.ogce.org

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Membership:Join and participate in different topic groups (Group tabs across the top).

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Schedule:Maintain a personal or group calendar.

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Resources:Users and groups can upload and share documents and URLs.

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Discussion:Participate in discussions with other members of your group

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Chat:Engage other members of your group in online discussion.

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Proxy Manager and Job Submit:Obtain and manage Grid credentials that can be used to access Grid resources through

your browser. Also shown are GRAM job launchers and sample "ping" portlet.

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LDAP Browser:Navigate the LDAP server of your choice.

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Grid FTP:Use your Grid credential to browse remote directories and to upload

and download files between your desktop and a remote host.

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Grid Context:Store arbitrary web objects (movies, web pages, audio files) in a

customizable, annotated directory tree.

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GridPort Information Repository Portlets:Several GPIR portlets are available for browsing Machine Summaries,

System Status, and Total Grid Capabilities. System status portlet shown.

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GridPort Job Sequencing PortletsPortlets allow you to set up sequences of jobs through a CSF scheduler.

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Anabas Impromptu:The portal includes a window to the Anabas Impromptu system for

real time shared display, audio, and chats.

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Newsgroups:Portlets allow users to participate in and administer online newsgroup.

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OGRE Demo:Portlet demonstrates the use of OGRE for job management.

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Java CoG Workflow:Portlet allows you to set up a Java CoG-based Workflow.

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Application Management:Portlets demonstrate how to develop a simple application management

interface around MyProxy, GRAM, and GridFTP.

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Condor Portlets:Portlets allow you to submit and monitor jobs through Condor.

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More Information

Books:• “Grid Computing Making the Global

Infrastructure a Reality” ed. F. Berman, G. C. Fox and A. J. G. Hey, Wiley, 2003– [1] Chapter 27 “The Grid portal development

kit” by J. Novotny.– [2] Chapter 28 “Building grid computing portals:

the NPACI grid portal toolkit” by M. P. Thomas and J. R. Boisseau