caGrid software release unveiled at caBIG F2F: researchers present on future caGrid development
Friday 09/09/2005
Members of the Department of Biomedical Informatics (BMI) and the Multiscale Computing Lab's Mobius Project participated in the caBIG Architecture Workspace Face-to-Face held at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. in mid-August. This was the fourth Architecture Workspace Face-to-Face and brought together around 90 developers and representatives from the Architecture group and other caBIG workspaces.
Version 0.5 of the caGrid software was released today, along with documentation.
The meeting was conveaned to present and discuss the details of the current implementation for caGrid (version 0.5), the grid infrastructure that supports software tools and research work within the caBIG community. The caGrid team unveiled the software release and presented it to gathered researchers and developers so that they can begin using and commenting on it to help improve and push forward development efforts. There was good feedback from the community at the meeting, and developers left with a strong sense of the directions further development will take and what obstacles lie ahead.
Our developers gave 12 presentations encompassing caGrid security infrastructure, service and metadata discovery and registration, query language, and Globus integration. Other presentations were given by developers from Panther Informatics and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), who are contracted by the NCI Center for Bioinformatics (NCICB).
caGrid version 0.5 is the first test-bed release of the caBIG grid infrastructure. It is a toolkit and interface for deploying, registering, discovering, and querying secured caBIG-compliant grid services. caGrid also facilitates strong object data type checking for grid services and contains tools to help write caBIG-compliant data and analytical grid services, which utilize the Globus Toolkit.
The first release (caGrid version 0.5) is available. The NCI's caBIG web page on caGrid provides an overview and documentation downloads. Additionally, see BMI's web page on caBIG participation and this PDF overview of caGrid.
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