1. OGCE Short Summary Marlon Pierce Community Grids Lab
Teragrid 2007
June 2007
OGCE Short Summary
Marlon Pierce
Community Grids Lab
Indiana University
TeraGrid 2007
Madison, WI
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2. Teragrid 2007
June 2007
OGCE Portlet Software
A bundled set of JSR 168 compatible portlets and services for building Grid Portals and Science Gateways.
Builds with GridSphere.
Can work with uPortal.
Sakai (version 2.4) has Pluto 1.1-based JSR 168 Container
Others possible (Liferay, JBoss, etc)
Portlets include
GT2 and GT4 GRAM/WS-GRAM Job submission
GridFTP file transfer
GPIR clients (can work with local or TeraGrid services, for example)
PURSe grid registration system.
Condor and Condor-G
MyProxy credential management
SRB
Iframes
Sakai collaboration clients
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3. Supporting Grid Portlet Development
Teragrid 2007
Supporting Grid Portlet Development
June 2007
Java CoG Abstraction Layer developed for OGCE project
Hides the difference between Globus versions
Provides support for DAG-based workflows
Used by Grid portlets
GTLAB: JSF-based tag libraries and extensions to simplify Grid portlet development.
Based on CoG abstraction layer
Download available from
JSR 168 Velocity portlet support.
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4. OGCE Downloadable Services
Teragrid 2007
OGCE Downloadable Services
June 2007
Download versions are available from OGCE website
GPIR: Grid Information Web Services
Available on all TeraGrid resources already.
You can also install your own system, which will work with the OGCE GPIR portlet
Generic Application Service Factory (GFAC)
Helps you wrap science application codes as grid services and create portlet interfaces.
June 2007
TeraGrid 2007
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5. OGCE Build System, SVN, etc
Teragrid 2007
OGCE Build System, SVN, etc
June 2007
We use a Maven 1.0.2/Maven based build system for the main portal distribution.
Sweetened with Ant 1.6 and shell scripts.
The build system is designed to work with TeraGrid resources
Web site:
Mailing lists:
SourceForge used for SVN, bugzilla
Recently replaced old project bugzilla because of spam problems.
Announcements Atom Feed:
June 2007
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6. More Information OGCE Project Member Organizations:
Teragrid 2007
More Information
June 2007
OGCE Project Member Organizations:
Argonne NL, Indiana University, Michigan, NCSA, San Diego State University, TACC
See also the talk, “Building a Grid Portal for Teragrid’s Big Red”
Tuesday, 4:30-5:00 PM
What’s Next?
See the Web 2.0 and Cyber-environments BOF
Wednesday, 5:30-6:30
Contact info:
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7. My Software Provider Slam Haiku
Grid portlets provide
Reusable components;
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8. Some OGCE Portal Collaborations
Teragrid 2007
Some OGCE Portal Collaborations
June 2007
RENCI TeraGrid BioPortal
LEAD Portal
TeraGrid User Portal
TeraGrid Visualization Portal
CIMA Crystallography Portal
VLAB Portal Project
Numerous other projects that come and go:
PittGrid Portal, UNC-Charlotte Visualization Portal, DES and LSST Astronomy Portals, IU System Portals
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