NMI-OGCE Announces Release 1
The NMI-OGCE development
team is pleased to announce the release of its first Grid portal
software system. Features include browser-based user
interfaces to common Grid tools, including a Grid Proxy Manager,
GridFTP client, and GRAM-based job submssion. The portal kit also
includes support for LDAP and GPIR information services, a chat system,
document managers, newsgroups, calendar tools, and sharable
citation/reference managers. OGCE portal software may be easily
customized and extended to include third-pary contributions.
Software is available for download from www.ogce.org.
About NMI-OGCE
As the use of Grid
technologies expands, the need for user-friendly access to Grid
services becomes critical.
The OGCE portal system provides access to Grid services through
sharable and
reusable portal components that may be used to build both scientific
and information-oriented applications. Sharable components allow portal
developers to quickly create a grid portal from standard modules that
support baseline Grid technologies, freeing portal developers to
concentrate on the specialized needs of a particular
scientific community or collaboratory.
With funding from the National Science Foundation Middleware
Initiative,
the OGCE project was established in Fall 2003 to foster collaborations
and sharable components with portal developers worldwide. The OGCE
portals project web page can be found at
www.ogce.org.
