posted 3 Feb 2012 07:46 by Matthias Hofmann
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The Initiative for Globus in Europe (IGE) is proud to announce IGE v2.0! This full release is based on Globus Toolkit 5.2 which was published in December 2011 as a result of more than one year of development effort.
A major highlight of IGE v2.0 is the full integration of GRAM 5 so that users are now able to obtain a full Globus release directly from IGE. “This important step has successfully been taken”, says Dr. Helmut Heller, project director of IGE, “in order to achieve the vision of a one-stop-shop for the European Globus community.”
Although the Globus core developer team from the US took the Replica Location Service (RLS) out of its official release, IGE decided to integrate it again into IGE v2.0. “This is one example of reacting to users’ needs to help them achieve their goals”, says Dr. Heller. “We recently started a Globus user survey that will help us to decide whether this component will still be needed in future releases.” To this end, IGE kindly encourages users to fill out the following survey:
"We also decided to embed SAGA packages into our release.", adds Dr. Heller. "This strengthens our already close cooperation with the SAGA project". The Simple API for Grid Applications (SAGA) is a standardized C++ and Python API for developing distributed applications that can run on grid and cloud infrastructures.
As usual, GridWay, GridSAM and VOMS integrations are part of the IGE release. GridWay is a meta-scheduler that provides an easy way to submit and handle jobs on GT5-based grids and it can interact with other execution, information, and file-transfer services. GridSAM provides a job submission interface for submitting computational jobs to many commonly used distributed resource management systems (Condor, PBS, SGE, etc.). The VOMS integration refers to the integration of Globus components with LCAS/LCMAPS.
Besides these extensions, certain components have been improved within IGE v2.0: In GSI-SSHTerm, support for PKCS#8 certificates and symbolic linked CAs were added, and the component builds now on jGlobus 1.8.
As in previous releases, IGE v2.0 is configured to send statistics to the European Globus Statistics Collector (EGSC). This ensures compliance with European Data Privacy laws by collecting Globus usage statistics within Europe. The collected data is anonymized and aggregated by EGSC before passing them to the US.
IGE v2.0 will also be part of the next UMD release.
More information on IGE v2.0, including the release, notes can be obtained from:
http://www.ige-project.eu/downloads/software/releases/200
For more information about GT5.2, please have a look at the following websites:
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posted 25 Jan 2012 00:57 by Matthias Hofmann
Cloudscape IV - Advances in Interoperability and Cloud Computing Standards
23-24 February, 2012,
European Commission premises - Avenue de Beaulieu BU, 25, Brussels, Belgium
Cloudscape IV focuses strongly on interoperability and portability issues with the involvement of key Standard Development Organizations as part of a call for action to strengthen international cooperation to address global challenges. Cloudscape IV also shines the spotlight on the reusable assets of European Distributed Computing Infrastructures and the need to foster synergies beyond the typical research infrastructure landscape. The event also sees the launch of the SIENA European Roadmap on Grid and Cloud Standards for e-Science and Beyond.
Register NOW!
Full agenda
The two-day agenda also features a keynote from Mario Campolargo, Director DG INFSO Emerging Technologies and Infrastructures, European Commission, insights from all major stakeholders, including eResearch, industry and eGovernment communities and interactive roundtable debates on the burning issues with valuable networking opportunities, making Cloudscape IV a key event on the cloud computing calendar.
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posted 18 Jan 2012 02:53 by Matthias Hofmann
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Registration is now open for GlobusWORLD 2012, being held April 10-12, 2012 at Argonne National Laboratory (near Chicago, IL). The program features the following keynote speakers:- John Towns, PI and Project Director, XSEDE
- Michelle Butler, NCSA Technical Program Manager, Storage Environments Lead for Blue Waters
- Ian Foster, Globus Co-Founder
Organizations presenting at GlobusWORLD 2012 include: - NERSC
- ESnet
- Dark Energy Survey
- NYU
- University of Michigan
- Initiative for Globus in Europe
- University of Chicago
- Argonne National Laboratory
Call for Participation:Submit a proposal to present at GlobusWORLD2012What's New for 2012:- Day 1 tutorials
- New product announcements
- 'Grill the Gurus' panel
- Globus Online first-year case studies
- Birthday celebrations for Globus, GlobusWORLD and Globus Online
Find out more... |
posted 9 Jan 2012 07:13 by Matthias Hofmann
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posted 16 Dec 2011 02:20 by Matthias Hofmann
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On behalf of the Globus Toolkit development team, the Initiative for Globus in Europe (IGE) is pleased to announce the production release of Globus Toolkit (GT) 5.2.
GT 5.2 is the culmination of more than a year of development effort to greatly enhance the ability to install, setup and update the GT client and service components. This has been achieved by providing binary native packages for the following platforms: Red Hat, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, Scientific Linux, and CentOS. IGE contributed to this release with native packaging efforts. A Globus repository containing all packages will be maintained. By following the Quickstart guide, it is now possible to install and setup a full GT environment in minutes.
GT 5.2 includes the latest versions of all components: GRAM, GridFTP, MyProxy and GSISSH. This latest version of GRAM includes a number of scalability and reliability improvements found from working with Open Science Grid (OSG) that are not in the 5.0 series. GridFTP added support for the DCSC command, which allows the client to specify credentials used to secure the data channel connection. Globus Online utilizes this command for seamless data movement across multiple security domains. GT 5.2 is protocol and client API compatible with GT 5.0 (e.g. 5.2 clients will work with GT 5.0 services, and visa versa).
For more information about GT5.2, please have a look at the following websites:
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posted 16 Dec 2011 01:21 by Matthias Hofmann
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The 10th annual GlobusWORLD 2012 conference will be held April 10-12, 2012 at Argonne National Laboratory (near Chicago, IL). Now Accepting Submissions for GlobusWORLD Speaker
The sponsoring committee is seeking users, developers and community leaders to present at this event. Submissions should be centered on Globus Online or Globus Toolkit and development of related technologies, with emphasis on unique capabilities and value delivered to researchers. For more information including submission guidelines, or to submit a proposal, click below:
Building on 10 years of success, and following a hugely successful first year for our Globus Online service, GlobusWORLD 2012 promises to be a milestone event. Presentations will highlight innovative use cases by expert users, resource owners and community leaders, as well as important updates on Globus Online and Globus Toolkit development. For more information, visit the GlobusWORLD site. |
posted 13 Dec 2011 07:52 by Matthias Hofmann
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Building on the success of the first European Globus Community Forum (EGCF) in 2011, the Initiative for Globus in Europe (IGE) is hosting its second forum meeting on March 26, 2012 at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre in Garching near Munich, Germany. The event will be co-located with the European Grid Infrastructure Community Forum (EGI-CF 2012).
The EGCF annual event provides a unique opportunity for European Globus users to introduce and discuss their work, challenges, solutions and best practices within a community atmosphere. The event also gives participants the opportunity to provide feedback on Globus technologies, as well as present any Globus requirements they may have for their research. Co-organised with the US Globus team, the Forum allows your voice to be heard both within the European community as well as the Globus team in the United States.
What’s new at the Forum meeting in 2012:
- Unique opportunity to present and discuss Globus requirements with IGE and the Globus US team - make sure your requirements are heard!
- Keynote by Globus US project lead, with insider news from Globus US team leader on important upcoming Storage and Collaboration features (hear it here first!)
- Hands-on workshops and Q&A led by Globus experts
- Community stories by researchers using Globus
- Constitution of the 2012 EGCF Council and election of its speaker
Admission is free, and registration for the event is now open. Please take also note of the Call for Participation. |
posted 12 Dec 2011 02:32 by Matthias Hofmann
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The close collaboration of the Initiative for Globus in Europe (IGE) with StratusLab leads back to its first findings. IGE is proud to announce that a number of virtual appliances are publicly available in the StratusLab market place.
“We offer virtual appliances that are instantiated as virtual machines in the cloud”, says Dr. Helmut Heller, IGE’s project director. “This will enable the user to simply instantiate the already prepared appliances in the cloud as virtual machines, connect to them and use Globus components with no need of installing it. The configuration is limited to very few steps and can be easily done.”
The aforementioned operating systems are Ubuntu 10.4 server (x86_64), Fedora 15 (i686), CentOS 6.0 (i686) on which different configurations of Globus exist:
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Globus Toolkit (GT) 5.0.4 compiled from sources, with no additional configuration performed.
- GT 5.0.4 compiled from sources with additional configured services (GridFTP, GRAM5, GSI-OpenSSH)
- GT5.0.4 services (GridFTP, GSI-OpenSSH) which are installed and configured with the default settings from the IGE packages.
More information, including a detailed description can be obtained from here: https://sites.google.com/a/ige-project.eu/public/guide/ige-globus-appliances-in-stratuslab-cloud. IGE will provide more Globus appliances including the most recent IGE releases in the future. |
posted 5 Dec 2011 04:39 by Siew Hoon Leong
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updated 5 Dec 2011 06:17 by Matthias Hofmann
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IGE was invited to give a training on the "Use of Certificates" and the "Use of Globus Services" at the PRACE Tier-1 Workshop on 29th November 2011. More information is available on the PRACE webpage. The slides of the talk can be found on our Training Hub.
Photos of the workshop are the property of PRACE and their respective photographers.
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posted 10 Nov 2011 07:08 by Siew Hoon Leong
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updated 11 Nov 2011 08:02 by Matthias Hofmann
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The much awaited Tools Market in IGE Hub is officially launched! The IGE Tools Market contains a selection of useful Globus related tools that we gather just for you!
Expect top quality support for "IGE supported tools" from IGE's dedicated support and development teams. Look out for those tools that have been verified by IGE in "IGE recommended tools", which have proven to be invaluable to many avid Globus users. There is also a helpful selection of other "Useful tools" that our team has gathered for your convenience. All these and more in one single market - the IGE Tools Market.
IGE is always eager to learn more about any useful Globus related tools. If you have developed something or have been using some cool tools, do not hesitate to share with us. Contact us at info@ige-project.eu. |
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