FYI
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From: "Eisenschmidt, John (NIH/NCI) [C]" <[email protected]>
Date: March 31, 2009 2:35:28 PM CDT
To: [email protected]
Subject: Release Announcement: caGrid 1.3 Core Infrastructure
Reply-To: caGrid Users discussion Forum <[email protected]>
On behalf of the entire caGrid team, I am pleased to announce the
release of caGrid version 1.3. All release artifacts can be accessed
at https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/workspaces/Architecture/caGrid
Some key enhancements for the release include:
Continuous Integration: caGrid 1.3 enhances support for the latest
releases (version 4.1.1) of the caCORE Software Development Kit
(SDK) and Common Security Module (CSM). caGrid and the caCORE SDK
now share a common code base for CQL. In addition, caGrid 1.3
supports the most recent web services containers in the NCI CBIIT
Technology Stack (Tomcat 5.5.27 and JBoss 4.0.5).
Data Services: Significant enhancements to the Federated Query
Processor (FQP), allowing a single, semantic query to execute across
multiple caGrid services and return a single result set. FQP now
supports WS-Notification, querying secure grid services via the
caGrid Credential Delegation Service (CDS), configurable query
execution parameters to allow only partial results to be returned,
and out-of-band results using the caGrid Transfer Service and WS-
Enumeration.
Introduce Toolkit: The Introduce Toolkit has a number of security-
related enhancements, adding fine-grain control over authorization
using CSM and Grid Grouper. Introduce also includes service
updaters, allowing service developers to easily update-to and
leverage caGrid 1.3.
Metadata Services: The Mobius Global Model Exchange (GME) has been
entirely rewritten for caGrid 1.3 to support the Semantic
requirements of caBIG® software developers. The caGrid-developed
caDSR grid service, based on the caCORE 3.1 API, has been
deprecated, It has been replaced by the caDSR 4.0 data service
(maintained by the caDSR team), and a new caGrid Metadata Model
Service (MMS), whose purpose is creation and semantic annotation of
caGrid metadata models using caDSR-derived data.
Security: Enhancements to the GAARDS infrastructure include support
for multiple authentication profiles, including one-time passwords.
Trusted Identity Providers can now be discovered programmatically,
allowing full realization of federated authentication use cases.
Auditing support has also been added to Dorian, giving systems
administrators the degree of control they have requested.
Taverna Workflow: Orchestration of caGrid services is supported in
this release though joint development with the Taverna project. The
caGrid plug-in for the Taverna 2.0 workbench allows development of
workflows using their rich user interface.
Feel free to contact me or Larry Brem <[email protected]> if
you have questions or suggestions.
Thank you for your continued interest in caGrid!
--
John Eisenschmidt <[email protected]>
caGrid Project Manager (Contractor)
NCI Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology
2115 East Jefferson Street - 5049
Rockville, MD 20852
Office: 301-443-5314
Mobile: 703-395-6282
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Ravi K Madduri
The Globus Alliance | Argonne National Laboratory | University of
Chicago
http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/~madduri
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