Projects
CAMERA Cyberinfrastructure
CAMERA (Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis)
CAMERA stands for Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Marine Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis. The aim of this project is to serve the needs of the microbial ecology research community by creating a rich, distinctive data repository and a bioinformatics tools resource that will address many of the unique challenges of metagenomic analysis. The Project is funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation which awarded a 7-year, $24.5-million research grant to the CAMERA project, beginning in Jan 2006.
Cylab Middleware Testbed
As part of the Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Laboratory,we are developing a retargetable, reconfigurable middleware testbed that can be used for software evaluation, testing, and architecture experimentation. The testbed includes x86 and itanium machines, a WAN simulator, and various networking connections. Users can request a short-term allocation and access the machines as needed. The machines are configured and deployed using plugable middleware components from our middleware library.
Gemstone
Grid Enabled Molecular Science Through Online Networked Environments (aka Gemstone).
Grid Account Management Architecture (GAMA)
GAMA is complete GSI credential management and integration solution tailored for use in emerging CyberInfrastructure through web portals or web service-based clients. In a nutshell, GAMA makes grid security as easy to use as any comercial web site while maintaining the security and delegation capabilities of GSI. GAMA consists of two components: a backend security service that provides secure management of credentials, and a front-end set of portlets that provide tight integration into web/grid portals.
Inca: User-Level Grid Monitoring
Inca is a system that provides user-level monitoring of Grid functionality and performance. It includes mechanisms to schedule the execution of information gathering scripts and to collect, archive, publish, and display data.
Inca offers a diverse set of use cases including:
* Software Stack Validation & Verification
* Network Bandwidth Measurements
* Grid Benchmarking
Please visit the Inca Website for more information.
Services Oriented Architectures for Scienctific Applications
Our goal is to provide transparent access to biomedical applications on distributed computational resources. In order to do so, we are developing a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) that wraps these applications as Web services. Multiple users interact with these applications concurrently via a variety of interfaces - Web-based portals (e.g. the NBCR portal, based on Gridsphere), rich interfaces such as the Python Molecular Viewer (PMV) and the Mozilla-based Gemstone framework, or a workflow framework such as Kepler.
Web Services for Teragrid Gateways
Developing and documenting web services on the Teragrid to be used in the development of gateways to the Teragrid.