About

UABgrid is a pilot project of UAB IT.

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History

Development of UABgrid has gone through several stages since its inception. A brief time-line provides an overview of this history:

• 2003 - Concept for campus grid infrastructure emerges from participation in NMI Testbed
• 2004-2006 - NSF project to explore construction of federated systems environments leads to development of myVocs and openidp.org
• 2007 - Launch of UABgrid Pilot to explore production use of federated systems environment
• 2008 - Testing migration large-scale HPC work flows to the grid; expanding pilot users
• 2009 - Development expands to support key UAB campus initiatives of caBIG and CTSA

Publications

Gemmmill, Robinson, Scavo, Bangalore Cross-domain authorization for federated virtual organizations using the myVocs collaboration environment (2009)

Robinson, Gemmill, Joshi, Bangalore, et. al. Web-Enabled Grid Authentication in a Non-Kerberos Environment (2005)

Presentations

Much of the work related to and leading to the development of UABgrid has been documented at campus, regional, national and international venues. A time-line of related presentations follows:

2009

• October 2009 UAB National Cyber-security Awareness Day (no link yet)

• October 2009 UAB HPC Bootcamp Scaling HPC Applications using the Grid (no link yet)

• May 2009 Spring Internet2 Meeting Building A Sustainable Cyberinfrastructure In the Campus and Across the Region

2008

• August 2008 UAB CIDay Cyberinfrastructure for Researchers

• June 2008 Educause Southeast Conference UABgrid Identity Infrastructure

• April 2008 Internet2 Spring Member Meeting UABgrid: Down the Road A Piece

2007

• September 2007 UAB HPC Bootcamp Introduction to Grid Computing

• April 2007 Internet2 Spring Member Meeting Constructing Campus Grids Experiences adapting myVocs to UABgrid

2006

• September 2006 Common Solutions Group Invited Presentation myVocs

• May 2006 TERENA Building Systems with Shibboleth: Integrated VO Management with myVocs and GridShib

• April 2006, Spring Internet2 Member Meeting myVocs and GridShib: Integrated VO Management

2005

• Nov 2005, IEEE Workshop on Grid Computing Web-Enabled Grid Authentication in a Non-Kerberos Environment

• May 2005 Internet2 Spring Member Meeting My Virtual Organization Collaboration System

Related Links

Development of this system environment has benefited through our engagement in several external projects. (to be completed)