SCI-BUS_logo_2011_251pxX192px.png New versions of WS-PGRADE/gUSE provide extended cloud access for science gateways

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New versions of WS-PGRADE/gUSE and the CloudBroker Platform provide extended cloud access for science gateways.

The Computer and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA SZTAKI), CloudBroker GmbH, and the SCIentific gateway Based User Support (SCI-BUS) project are happy to announce new versions of the two SCI-BUS base technologies, WS-PGRADE/gUSE and the CloudBroker Platform, which together considerably extend the cloud access for science gateways.

WS-PGRADE/gUSE is an open source framework to build community gateways based on Liferay. It provides scientific workflow management for application developers and end users, and supports various Distributed Computing Infrastructures (DCIs) including clusters, grids and clouds. For cloud access, it uses the CloudBroker Platform, an application store for offering and running compute-intensive applications on public and private cloud infrastructures. The platform widely automates resource and software handling, job execution as well as user accounting and billing, and can be accessed as a service both through the web as well as programmatically.

 

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Dear Users,

After many years of service the NGS-RAL cluster has reached the end of its useful life and will be retired on the 31st March. However we have now enabled access to the SCARF cluster run by STFC which has more, faster CPUs and runs a more modern operating system.

Access to the SCARF cluster is via ngs.scarf.rl.ac.uk port 2222 for login access, and port 2811 for gridftp access. For WMS and Globus submissions please use ui2.scarf.rl.ac.uk. SCARF is run by the same team who run the NGS cluster, and we have endeavoured to ensure that the environment is as similar to the NGS cluster as possible.

Regards,

Derek Ross

mertonCollege_flickr_user--londonmatt.jpg Software Sustainability Collab The Collaborations Workshop 2013 will be held at Merton College, University of Oxford on 21-22 March 2013

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21-22 March 2013, Merton College, Oxford

The Software Sustainability Institute is running its annual
Collaborations Workshop (CW13) at Merton College, Oxford.  This
workshop brings together researchers, software developers, managers,
funders and more to explore ideas in software pertinent to their
research and exploit any synergies that may lead to interdisciplinary
collaborations.

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