GTLAB TG08 Tutorial Release

The TG08 tutorial release of GTLAB is now available from http://www.collab-ogce.org/ogce/index.php/GTLAB.

GTLAB provides Java Server Faces components and backing beans that simplify the process of Grid Web application development. You can use GTLAB to develop standalone Web applications, portlets, and Google Gadgets.

OGCE Portal Release 2.3 Available

OGCE portal release 2.3 is available from http://www.collab-ogce.org/ogce/index.php/Portal_download. This release features major revisions to the XBaya workflow composer as well as minor bug fixes to GPIR and the build system.

The XBaya updates are part of the comprehensive enhancements to the OGCE workflow tools, http://www.collab-ogce.org/ogce/index.php/Workflow.

TG08 Gateways Summary

Courtesy of Nancy Wilkins-Diehr:

For those attending TeraGrid 08, June 9-13 in Las Vegas we have a
terrific representation of Science Gateways at the conference.

Gateway-related topics are featured in:
14 papers
7 demonstrations
5 posters
5 birds-of-a-feather sessions
3 student competition entries
2 tutorials
1 vis gallery entry
And a face-to-face gateway meeting in a pear tree on Thursday June 12,
3pm.

Full information on the conference can be found at
http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/tg08/ and a listing of gateway-specific
activities at
<http://www.teragridforum.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Science_Gateways
#Gateways_at_TeraGrid_08>.

Thank you to the many of you on this list who are contributing to making
the conference a success.  I hope to see many of you in Las Vegas next
week.

TeraGrid 08 OGCE Tutorial Outline

Tutorial is Monday, June 9. We will make slides and material available for download.

8:30-9:30: Intro, building and using the portal, writing simple grid portlets (Marlon Pierce)

9:30-10:00: Workflow suite part 1 (Suresh Marru, Gopi Kandaswamy)

10:00-10:30: break

10:30-11:15: Worflow suite part 2 (Suresh, Gopi)

11:15-11:45: Web 2.0 for gateways (Gregor von Laszewski)

11:45-12:00: Teragrid gateway authorization requirements and GridShib (Tom Scavo)