Open Grid Computing Environments (OGCE) for scientific portal development
The OGCE consortium is an NSF Middleware Initiative-funded project that includes the Community Grids Lab (CGL) of the Pervasive Technology Labs at Indiana University; the Extreme Labs at Indiana University; Sakai developers from the University of Michigan, Java COG developers at the University of Chicago, GridPort developer groups at Texas Advanced Computing Center and San Diego State University, and science application tool support developers at NCSA.
The CGL-lead software efforts include standard compliant portlet components for building Grid applications. Portlets may be reused across multiple containers, including uPortal and GridSphere. OGCE provides an Apache Maven-based build and test environment for deploying portals for basic Grid tasks, such as job submission, remote file management, security credential management, and resource monitoring.
CGL's current focus is in the development of portlet-building toolkits that combine Java Server Faces with the Java COG development kit. These will greatly simplify the ease and reusability of portlet building. We are combining these with Sakai tools to enable the development of portlet interfaces to collaborative services.
For more information on the Community Grids Lab of the Pervasive Technology Labs at Indiana University or the OGCE, visit http://communitygrids.iu.edu/ or http://www.collab-ogce.org/