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Software Breakout Chair: Pete Oliver NGS Operations Manager. Research Software. Licensed Software Can the NGS act as a broker for licensed Software? Feed requirements to Research Councils/CHEST/EDUSERV? Institution is responsible for managing their software
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Research Software • Licensed Software • Can the NGS act as a broker for licensed Software? • Feed requirements to Research Councils/CHEST/EDUSERV? • Institution is responsible for managing their software • NGS can help as Certificates provide the identity user and the VO which they belong to. Allows HEI to make decisions • How to find applications (licensed and Open Source) • Sites publish info to NGS • Available on Website and searchable and used my WMS to make decisions • Best Practice for application installation • How to keep packages up to date • Virtualisation • Can application environments be made available in Clouds or virtual hosts?
NGS Software Devel. • Help VO’s to develop Software • Can the NGS provide a software development environment for the VO? • SVN accessible by VO members? • Usability Studies of NGS Software • EgCertwizard, Portals etc • Using talents of NGS Partner usability experts