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The National Science Foundation , ANIR Division

The NSF Middleware Initiative,. The National Science Foundation , ANIR Division. For ALAN BLATECKY Program Director,of NMI. Presentation by T. J. GREENE Ph.D Senior Program Director, Advanced Networking Infrastructure. NSF Middleware Initiative. Purpose

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The National Science Foundation , ANIR Division

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  1. The NSF Middleware Initiative, The National Science Foundation , ANIR Division For ALAN BLATECKY Program Director,of NMI Presentation by T. J. GREENE Ph.D Senior Program Director,Advanced Networking Infrastructure

  2. NSF Middleware Initiative Purpose To design, develop, deploy and support a set of reusable, expandable set of middleware functions and services that benefit applications in a networked environment

  3. NMI Program Status • On-going program in ANIR • $10M total per year for at least 3-5 years • First awards made in September, 2001 • includes 3 large Cooperative Agreements • Second set of awards in June, 2002 • Third round of proposals due March 7, 2003

  4. NMI Organization Core NMI Team (3 Cooperative Agreements) • Provides System Integration, development, testing, packaging, deployment, and support for NMI • GRIDS Center (Grid middleware & technologies) • ISI, NCSA, U Chicago, UCSD & U Wisconsin • EDIT Team (Campus focus and desktop integration) • EDUCAUSE, Internet2 & SURA Individual R&D projects • Year 1 -- 9 grants • Year 2 -- 9 grants (several to develop software for future NMI Releases)

  5. A Vision for NMI To allow scientists and engineers the ability to transparently use and share distributed resources, such as computers, data, and instruments To develop effective collaboration and communications tools such as Grid technologies, desktop video, and other advanced services to expedite research and education, and To develop a working architecture and approach which can be extended to Internet users around the world. Middleware is the stuff that makes “transparently use” happen, providing persistency, consistency, security, privacy and capability

  6. NMI Goals a) facilitate scientific productivity, b) increase research collaboration through shared data, computing, code, facilities and applications, c) support the education enterprise, d) encourage the participation of industry, government labs and agencies for more extensive development and wider adoption and deployment, e) establish a level of persistence and availability so that other applications developers and disciplines can take advantage of the middleware, f) encourage and support the development of standards and open source approaches and, g) enable scaling and sustainability to support the larger research and education communities.

  7. NMI Process Experimental Software & research applications Early Implementations - GRID services, directories, authentication, etc Research & Education Early Adopters MiddlewareTestbeds - experimental, Beta, scaling & “hardening” Consensus - disciplines - communities - industries Dissemination & Support Middleware deployment/ Software Releases

  8. NMI Releases (2 per year) • 1st software release - May 2002 • 2nd software release - October 2002 • 3rd software release - April 2003 • 4th software release - October 2003 • NMI Releases currently being used by multiple Grid Projects • National and International interest in adopting and/or contributing software to NMI

  9. NMI Release 1 (May 02) • Software • (Globus, Condor, Network Weather Service, KX.509, CPM, Pubcookie) • Object Classes • (eduPerson, eduOrg, commObject) • White Papers (Shibboleth, video directories, etc) • Best Practices (Directories, LDAP) • Policies (campus certificates, account management) • Services - certificate profile registry www.nsf-middleware.org

  10. NMI Release 2 (Oct 02) • Software • Grid Packaging Tools • NMI Client/Servier • Globus Toolkit 2.0 • Condor-G • Network Weather Service • KX 509/KCA • GSI - OpenSSH • Gridconfig Tools • Other Middleware • Software Services • Directory Schema • Conventions and Best Practices • Architecture Documents • Policies

  11. Thank You! See http://cise.nsf.gov/div/anir/index.html

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