Gee, I could have had a VO: Cloud- based COmanage Chris Hubing and Jim Leous

What’s a CO? A “Collaborative Organization” is our name for a Virtual Organization which employs software to collaborate. Initially, our COs have been well established VOs, but recently we’ve been approached by interdisciplinary research groups.

S&E Indicators 2008 The share of publications with authors from multiple institutions grew from 40% to 61% from 1988 to Coauthored articles with only domestic bylines grew from 32% to 41%. Articles with institutions from multiple countries as an indication of further “globalization of science” grew from 8% to 20%

More S&E Indicators Between 1995 and 2005, coauthorship with international authors increased by 9 percentage points for authors in the federal government and academia. Of the S&E fields, astronomy had the highest rates of international authorship at 58%.

Central IT Support? Lit search -- Refworks, zotero, del.icio.us Research IS -- Kuali Coeus, homegrown Grant writing -- wikis, Google Docs Data Management -- Portals and CMSs Archives -- Fedora, Duraspace, CMSs Increasingly, we support this Cyberinfrastructure with Web apps or interfaces to existing clusters, instruments, observatories, and archives.

CO examples DoE Energy Frontier Research Center (Confluence wiki) Biology 110 “wikibook” (Confluence wiki) LIGO: Laser Interferometric Gravitational-Wave Observatory (Confluence wiki, Grouper, Shibboleth)

Enter COmanage COmanage is a framework COmanage moves the identity and access management out of individual tools and into the collaboration COmanage allows tools to work together in the same IAM framework

How it works “Domesticated Applications” externalize authentication and authorization. A Shibbolized interface allows access/controls authorization to that suite of “domesticated applications.” COmanage enables the CO by importing individual attributes from the home institutions and aggregating them with CO specific attributes.

Domesticated Apps Sympa Confluence Bedework OpenMeeting Dimdim

Wish List Drupal Foodle/Doodle LMS software Twiki

Packaging COmanage Original COmanage packaged as Debian Linux images LIGO “Hackathon” at Cal Tech proved VMware was useful Packaging COmanage as VMs

What’s in the Package? Shibboleth SP Shibboleth IdP LDAP Grouper w/ LDAPdc connector Confluence Sympa

Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2): Virtual private servers using Xen framework Simple Storage Service (S3): Flexible storage with Web service front end

COmanage on AWS Create a VM with COmanage, some apps loaded. Convert those VM files to an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) Load files into S3 Register AMI and make it “public” Boot up AMI with your own key pair

COmanage AMI

Once loaded, you have an instance of COmanage, a Shibboleth Identity Provider (IdP) and Service Provider (SP), and several domesticated applications Use existing Shibboleth IdP or make a CO specific one Applications use S3 for storage needs COmanage in a Box

To Be Done (TBD) Better “collabmin” interface Better user interface More domesticated applications Other packages (APT) and virtualization environments (Solaris Zones)

Using Confluence as the Comanage UI

CIC Pilot? What Collaborative software could we use? Specific COs/use-cases? I2/EDUCAUSE has some funding for a virtual help desk or consultant “Domestication” and UI design