Wednesday, June 24, 2009

OGCE TG09 Tech Track Presentation

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Cloud and Gateway Developer Positions at the Pervasive Technology Institute

We are looking to fill two positions. Please see the full ad below.

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The following positions based at IUB and reporting to Marlon Pierce, Assistant Director, Community Grid Labs, is being posted externally. If interested, you must apply online at http://www.jobs.indiana.edu/. Refer to positions number #00034420 and #00034425.

Principal Software Research Engineers - PAE4IT (Two positions available)

Description and Responsibilities:

Indiana University is looking for experienced individuals to fill multiple positions in Cloud computing , Grid computing, and message-oriented middleware development. The positions call for expertise in Web service software development, experience developing Java Messaging Service (JMS) applications and related Enterprise event bus technologies, experience with distributed systems, sensor webs, and/or audio-video systems research and advanced development.
Working independently, the incumbent provides expertise in the evaluation, development, implementation and deployment of specific Cloud Computing, Message-Oriented Middleware, and Grid-related technologies in conjunction with Pervasive Technology Institute and Research Technology staff and collaborators. Investigate research problems in distributed computing systems, develop software using best software engineering practices, publish peer-reviewed research articles in workshops and journals, evaluate existing technologies, supervise staff and graduate students, and oversee all development aspects of Cloud and Grid scientific data and application management. Work with scientific users to develop Cloud and Grid systems. Collaborate with key academic researchers and open source user community including faculty, scientific researchers, and grant stakeholders.
Indiana University's Pervasive Technology was recently awarded a 5 year extension to its core funding from the Lilly Endowment, following its highly successful initial 7 years (as the Pervasive Technologies Laboratories). PTI will be located in Indiana University's new state of the art Research Incubator facility. See http://www.pervasive.iu.edu/ for more information. To date, the PTI laboratories have published more than 880 peer-reviewed papers, have won over $180,000,000 in grants over and above their core funding, and have released and maintain numerous open source software packages. PTI researchers work closely with Indiana University's Research Technology group, who maintain IU's world class cyberinfrastructure, http://racinfo.indiana.edu/cyberinfrastructure/.
Qualifications:

Master's degree in Computer Science or relate technical discipline (such as physics, informatics, engineering) is required. PhD preferred. Ph. D. incumbents must have demonstrated (through peer-reviewed publications and software products) a primary research focus on one or more of the following: a) distributed, parallel, Grid and/or Cloud computing; b) high performance, distributed messaging systems; c) audio/video collaboration systems; and d) security in distributed systems. Incumbents with Master's degree must have five to seven years experience in software development and deployment in the appropriate field or fields.

Requirements include a proven ability to undertake and succeed in innovative research projects, and excellent communication skill (covering scientific article writing, presentation skills, and the ability to work with and lead teams). Experience developing software systems using standard software engineering practices (such as source code management software, build and test systems, etc). For Cloud and Grid incumbents, experience developing Web Services, REST services, scientific workflows, and distributed Web applications on Unix/Linux/Mac OSX and/or Windows. Experience developing applications on Grids using software such as Globus or Condor. Experience developing scientific and research Cloud applications using Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google AppEngine, and related systems. Experience developing data-parallel scientific, machine learning, and/or information retrieval algorithms using systems such as Apache Hadoop and Microsoft Dryad. For audio/video stream incumbents, demonstrated knowledge and implementation of standards as well as innovative systems. For message-oriented middleware incumbents, demonstrated sophisticated experience with standard MOM software. MOM incumbents should have experience both with core MOM development (efficient routing, security, reliable delivery) as well as applications.
Ability to foster and maintain collaborations with internal and external academic researchers through a balanced, service-based approach required. Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies and tools. Demonstrated initiative in evaluating and adopting new technologies. Organizational and leadership skills required. Able to operate effectively in a complex and dynamic environment with the capability of functioning as a project leader. Excellent oral and written communication skills. Demonstrated conceptual, analytical, and logical abilities. Ability to interact successfully with staff and faculty in extended consultations; demonstrate enthusiasm for new technologies; and deliver excellent outcomes under high pressure and short deadlines. Excellent communication skills required to interact with people of varying levels of knowledge.

Indiana University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Employment institution.

Monday, June 22, 2009

OGCE Portal 2.5

OGCE Portal 2.5 is available for download. The release includes updates to the XBaya portlet, the addition of the GFAC portlet into the main build, and bug fixes to the GPIR portlet.

You can get the code by either SVN anonymous checkout or by downloading the tar.gz.

SVN Anonymous Checkout: svn co https://ogce.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/ogce/tags/ogce-portal-only-2.5-release

Download the Tar: http://ogce.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ogce/tags/ogce-portal-only-2.5-release.tar.gz?view=tar

Saturday, June 20, 2009

Open Life Science Gateway: Gadgets, Open Social, and JSON-RPC

The Open Life Science Gateway code (developed by Wenjun Wu) demonstrates how to develop science gateways with Google Gadgets, Open Social, JSON-RPC, and other Web 2.0 techniques. Browse code here: http://ogce.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ogce/ogce-olsg/.

You can get the code by anonymous SVN checkout or download the tar.gz.

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

OGCE Axis Services 1.0 Tagged

Version 1.0 of the OGCE Axis Services have been tagged. See http://ogce.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ogce/tags/ogce-axis-services-1.0/ This includes the Resource Discovery Service and the Resource Prediction Service. See http://www.collab-ogce.org/ogce/index.php/Main_Page#Key_to_Release_Status for an explanation of our release tagging conventions.



Get the tar:
http://ogce.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ogce/tags/ogce-axis-services-1.0.tar.gz?view=tar


Check out from SVN:
svn checkout https://ogce.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/ogce/tags/ogce-axis-services-1.0

GTLAB TG09 Release Tagged

GTLAB has been tagged. This release includes integration with Tomcat's login, new tags and examples for displaying INCA status information on the TeraGrid, simple support for GridShib invocations, and various bug fixes. See http://ogce.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ogce/tags/GTLAB-tg09/.

Get the tar: http://ogce.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ogce/tags/GTLAB-tg09.tar.gz?view=tar


Check out from SVN:
svn co https://ogce.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/ogce/tags/GTLAB-tg09

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Tagged Releases for GFAC and XRegistry Services

Latest stable release versions of the GFAC and XRegistry services are available for download from our SourceForge repository. This is part of the "TeraGrid 09" release of OGCE software, one of our two major updates this year. OGCE portal software tag releases are in preparation.

Tar Bundles:

XRegistry: http://ogce.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ogce/tags/xregistry-tg09.tar.gz?view=tar

GFAC: http://ogce.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ogce/tags/sgfac-tg09.tar.gz?view=tar

SVN Anonymous Checkout
XRegistry: svn co https://ogce.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/ogce/tags/xregistry-tg09

GFAC:
svn co https://ogce.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/ogce/tags/sgfac-tg09

Wednesday, June 03, 2009

OGCE-Utils and Small SVN Reorganization

The Proxy Manager API and Velocity Portlet Bridge code have been moved to the new OGCE-Util directory in SVN (see http://ogce.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ogce/OGCE-Util). The util directory in general is for standalone applications with jar (rather than war) targets that may get used by other projects.

XRegistry Added to NMI Build and Test

The OGCE XRegistry service (http://www.collab-ogce.org/ogce/index.php/XRegistry) has been added to the NMI nightly build system. See http://nmi-s003.cs.wisc.edu/nmi/index.php?page=results%2Foverview&opt_project=OGCE for all builds.