NGS Portal

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NGS Portal
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Acknowledgements

• Dharmesh Chohan, RAL
• Rob Allan, Daresbury

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Overview

• What is a portal?
• How does it use certificates?

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What is a Portal?

• 1. In simple terms ,
• A Portal generates framework, and
• Portlets fill in the contents
• 2. This is http//portal.ngs.ac.uk/

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NGS portal

• Grids are about people collaborating, so give
  tools for this!
• Need to run jobs, access data, from different
  machines and places but do NOT want to
• carry certificate everywhere!
• install GT2 before you can use any commands or
  resources
• Using the command line tools is tedious simple
  tasks can be achieved easily in a portal
• Also, easy interface to the Information Service

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Certificates, MyProxy

• Rather than storing your Grid credentials on each
  machine you use to access the Grid, you can store
  them in a MyProxy repository and retrieve a proxy
  credential from the MyProxy repository when
  needed.
• MyProxy is part of VDT
• A MyProxy server is run for the NGS portal
• Before you can use the NGS portal, you must
  upload a proxy certificate Java Web Start tool
• http//tiber.dl.ac.uk8080/myproxy

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Proxy Login
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Proxy List
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LDAP Browser
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Job Launcher
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GridFTP
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Web Content in MyWorkspace
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Development

• New portlets are en route
• New portal release en route ( April )
• Improve Standards compliance
• So a projects portlet container could run the
  portlets provided in the NGS portal

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Try it

• NGS Portal
• http//portal.ngs.ac.uk
• Upload User Proxy
• Use Java Web Start tool
• http//tiber.dl.ac.uk8080/myproxy