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The Open Grid Computing Environments Portal and Gateway Toolkit
The OGCE collaboration develops
- Reusable portal components (JSR 168-compatible portlets)
- Web services to support Gateway information and workflow requirements
- Tools and libraries for building Web portals for science gateways.
- iGoogle compatible gadgets
These are provided in separate downloads. Each download is optional but different projects can be used in combination. Pick the one you want or get all of them. Most projects are developed to interact with TeraGrid service instances, but they can be re-configured to work with your own Grid installation.
Click to review a list of tips to help with a smooth installation .
Components
| Component | Summary | Is This What I want? | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| OGCE Portal | A collection of JSR 168 Grid portlets for interacting with Globus GRAM, GridFTP, Condor, GPIR, QBETS, and related services. Packaged with Maven 2 to support one-command installation. | Download if you want to quickly build a traditional Grid-style Gateway to the TeraGrid. | Stable Release (V 2.5) |
| Workflow Suite | Portlets, Java Web Start clients, and Web Services for managing scientific workflows | Download if you are interested in scientific workflows. | Dev. Release (SVN Tag) |
| Axis Web Services | Grid cluster information services suite with one-command installation packaging. These work with and add value to GPIR, Inca, Network Weather Service, and QBETS services | Use this if you want to provide information services to your gateway on your Grid's status. | Stable Release (V 1.0) |
| GTLAB | Java Server Faces tag libraries for building Grid portlets and gadgets. Includes clients for Globus GRAM, GridFTP, GridShib, Resource Prediction Service, and Resource Discovery Service | Use this if you want to build portlets or gadgets out of reusable tag libraries. | Dev. Release (SVN Tag) |
| OGCE Gadget Container | This is a Web container for managing the layouts of iGoogle gadgets. The download includes a Tomcat server and features a one-step installation | Get this if you want to host your own version of iGoogle for your Web portal project. | Dev. Preview (SVN Tag) |
| Cyberaide | JavaScript libraries for building Grid applications. | Get this if you are interested in rich desktop clients or enhancing non-Java frameworks (PHP, Ruby, Pylons, etc) with Grid functions | Dev. Preview |
Getting Code
Click the link in the above table for download instructions. We try to keep installation procedures as simple as possible, so the typical process is to get the code, unpack it, run the command "mvn clean install", and start the web server.
Key to Release Status
- Stable Releases are provided as TAR downloads. These are stable and will not have major changes to the core, although additional add-on features will be released. These have been integrated into the NMI nightly build test bed. Tagged SVN releases are also available.
- Development Releases are actively developed and will undergo changes to the core and add-ons. Stable, functioning releases that will correctly build are tagged and accessible via SVN checkouts.
- Development Previews are actively developed and may undergo dramatic changes. Demonstration releases that will correctly build are tagged and accessible via SVN checkouts. These are "use at your own risk" and may change dramatically.
We encourage collaborations and contributions in developing software, so if you want to help improve codes, particularly development releases and previews, please contact us.
See here for more information on our SVN and nightly builds.
OGCE Team Members
We are an NSF-funded collaboration comprised of Indiana University, the Renaissance Computing Center, the Rochester Institute of Technology, San Diego State University, San Diego Supercomputer Center, and the Texas Advanced Computing Center. See Project Team for more information.
