Grid Portals

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Grid Portals

• Rajesh Chhabra
• QPSF Grid Manager
• Project Leader- User Interface and Visualization
  Infrastructure (UIVI)
• Supported by
• Queensland Parallel Super Computing Foundation
  (QPSF)

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Background

• 100s of portals around in HPC/Grid domain.
• Multiple definitions of portals.
• Web Portal
• Grid Portal
• Access Grid Portal
• Issues
• Couldnt reuse much- quite tightly coupled
• Reinvention, refunding, resolving same problems

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Portlets

• JSR168 standard for portlet http//jcp.org/en/jsr/
  detail?id168
• Supported by Sun, IBM, Oracle, HP, Apache,
  Documentum, Vignette (Content Management
  Commercial softwares) etc
• GridSphere framework to built portals
  supporting the JSR 168 standard. Project funded
  by GridLab (European funded). IBMs Websphere
  based.
• NMI Portals group OGCE http//www.collab-ogce.or
  g/nmi/index.jsp they primarily focus on making
  portlets and support various JSR168 based portal
  containers.

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Common Portlets

• Authentication portlet (globus certs)
• File upload
• Job submission
• Resource viewer
• Job history output

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Known interesting portlets

• Condor Portlet (developed)
• Cactus Portlet (developed)
• GridBus portlet (beta developed)
• Nimrod Portlet (in development)
• SRB Portlet (in development)
• Ganglia Portlet (in development) etc

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Key benefits

• Easy to use
• Interoperability
• Big developers base
• Demo of Grid Portal at APAC

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Ad time

• Grid Portals Workshop (by GridSphere developers)
  in Australia APAC05.
• 26th Sep Monday prior to the main event.
• Jason Novotny, Michael Russel and Oliver Wehrens
  (Core Developers of GridSphere) all confirmed
  coming to deliver this workshop.
• Jason Novotny Lead Design Architect also likely
  to deliver a Keynote address on 27th Sep.