1. NSF Middleware Initiative: New Features, New Opportunities Alan Blatecky, National Science Foundation Renee Woodten Frost, Internet2 & University of Michigan Tom Garritano, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory Mary Fran Yafchak, Southeastern Universities Research Association Copyright Alan R. Blatecky, Renee Woodten Frost, Thomas Garritano, and Mary Fran Yafchak, 2002. This work is the intellectual property of the author. Permission is granted for this material to be shared for non-commercial, educational purposes, provided that this copyright appears on the reproduced materials and notice is given that the copying is by permission of the author. To disseminate otherwise or to republish requires written permission from the author.

2. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 2 Session Topics NSF Middleware Initiative Overview GRIDS Center NMI-EDIT NMI Integration Testbed NMI Outreach and Participation

3. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 3 Purpose To design, develop, deploy and support a set of reusable, expandable set of middleware functions and services that benefit applications in a networked environment

4. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 4 NMI Organization –GRIDS Center ISI, NCSA, U Chicago, UCSD & U Wisconsin –EDIT Team (Enterprise and Desktop Integration Technologies) EDUCAUSE, Internet2 & SURA Core NMI Team Grants for R & D –Year 1 -- 9 grants –Year 2 -- 9 grants

5. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 5 A Vision for Middleware To allow scientists and engineers the ability to transparently use and share distributed resources, such as computers, data, and instruments To develop effective collaboration and communications tools such as Grid technologies, desktop video, and other advanced services to expedite research and education, and To develop a working architecture and approach which can be extended to Internet users around the world. Middleware is the stuff that makes “transparently use” happen, providing persistency, consistency, security, privacy and capability

6. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 6 NMI Goals a) facilitate scientific productivity, b) increase research collaboration through shared data, computing, code, facilities and applications, c) support the education enterprise, d) encourage the participation of industry, government labs and agenciesfor more extensive development and wider adoption and deployment, e) establish a level of persistence and availability so that other applicationsdevelopers and disciplines can take advantage of the middleware, f) encourage and support the development of standards and open sourceapproaches and, g) enable scaling and sustainability to support the larger research and education communities.

7. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 7 NMI Process Experimental Software & research applications Middleware deployment Consensus - disciplines - communities - industries Early Implementations - GRID services, directories, authentication, etc MiddlewareTestbeds - experimental, Beta, scaling & “hardening” Early Adopters Dissemination & Support Research & Education

8. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 8 First Deliverables: NMI Release 1 Software – (Globus, Condor, Network Weather Service, KX.509, CPM, Pubcookie) Object Classes –(eduPerson, eduOrg, commObject) White Papers (Shibboleth, video directories, etc) Best Practices (Directories, LDAP) Policies (campus certificates, account management) Services (certificate profile registry) www.nsf-middleware.org

9. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 9 Software Release Globus - toolkit enabling Grid computing, coordinated resource sharing and problem solving in multi-institutional virtual organizations Condor-G: provides high throughput computing on distributed workstations Network Weather Service - monitors and forecasts network performance KX.509 & KCA - provides a bridge between security infrastructures using Kerberos and PKI CMP - Certificate Profile Maker which makes certificate profiles in XML formats Pubcookie - authenticates web-based services across multiple servers

10. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 10 NMI Releases Release scheduled for later this month New versions –Globus, Network Weather Service, Pubcookie, etc New components and best practices –OpenSAML 1.0, Shibboleth 1.0, etc –LDAP Analyzer, Metadirectory Practices for Enterprise Directories, etc Two releases each year Release being adopted by projects, agencies International interest in releases

11. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 11 3rd Year Program of NMI Program Announcement in process March 3, 2003 Proposal deadline $7M available for FY’03

12. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 12 GRIDS Center Overview Tom Garritano, Project Manager University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory garritano@mcs.anl.gov

13. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 13 GRIDS Center, Part of the NSF Middleware Initiative One of two NMI teams, the GRIDS Center (Grid Research, Integration, Development & Support) In late 2001, GRIDS created to: –Define, develop, deploy, and support an integrated national middleware infrastructure for 21 st Century S&E –Create robust, tested, packaged, & documented middleware for S&E, including large NSF projects (e.g., NEES, GriPhyN, TeraGrid) –Work with middleware research community to evolve architecture & integrate other components –Provide dedicated operations capability for 24x7 support and monitoring of Grid infrastructure

14. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 14 GRIDS Center Participants The Information Sciences Institute (ISI), University of Southern California (Carl Kesselman) The University of Chicago (Ian Foster) The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign (Randy Butler) The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California at San Diego (Phil Papadoupolus) The University of Wisconsin at Madison (Miron Livny)

15. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 15 Elements of Grid Computing Resource sharing as a fundamental pursuit –Computers, storage, sensors, networks –Sharing is always conditional, based on issues of security, trust, policy, negotiation, payment, etc. Coordinated problem solving –Beyond client-server: distributed data analysis, computation, collaboration, etc. Dynamic, multi-institutional “virtual organizations” –Community overlays on classic org structures –Large or small, static or dynamic

16. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 16 Grid-Oriented Projects in eScience

17. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 17 Grid Applications Science portals –Help scientists overcome steep learning curves of installing and using new software Distributed computing –High-speed workstations and networks as aggregated computational resources Large-scale data analysis Computer-in-the-loop instrumentation –Grids permit quasi-real-time analysis of data from telescopes, synchrotrons, and electron microscopes Collaborative work –Grids enable collaborative problem formulation, data analysis, and discussion

18. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 18 Grid Portals

19. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 19 Mathematicians Solve NUG30 Looking for the solution to the NUG30 quadratic assignment problem An informal collaboration of mathematicians and computer scientists Condor-G delivered 3.46E8 CPU seconds in 7 days (peak 1009 processors) in U.S. and Italy (8 sites) 14,5,28,24,1,3,16,15, 10,9,21,2,4,29,25,22, 13,26,17,30,6,20,19, 8,18,7,27,12,11,23 MetaNEOS: Argonne, Iowa, Northwestern, Wisconsin

20. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 20 Community = –1000s of home computer users –Philanthropic computing vendor (Entropia) –Research group (Scripps) Common goal = advance AIDS research Home Computers Evaluate AIDS Drugs

21. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 21 Size distribution of galaxy clusters? Sloan Digital Sky Survey Analysis Galaxy cluster size distribution Chimera Virtual Data System + iVDGL Data Grid (many CPUs)

22. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 22 DOE X-ray grand challenge: ANL, USC/ISI, NIST, U.Chicago tomographic reconstruction real-time collection wide-area dissemination desktop & VR clients with shared controls Advanced Photon Source Online Access to Scientific Instruments archival storage

23. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 23 iVDGL: International Virtual Data Grid Laboratory Tier0/1 facility Tier2 facility 10 Gbps link 2.5 Gbps link 622 Mbps link Other link Tier3 facility

24. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 24 Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation NEESgrid: US national infrastructure to couple earthquake engineers with experimental facilities, databases, computers, and each other On-demand access to experiments, data streams, computing, archives, collaboration NEESgrid is a partnership of Argonne, Michigan, NCSA, UIUC, USC

25. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 25 The 13.6 TF TeraGrid: Computing at 40 Gb/s 26 24 8 4 HPSS 5 UniTree External Networks Site Resources NCSA/PACI 8 TF 240 TB SDSC 4.1 TF 225 TB CaltechArgonne TeraGrid: NCSA, SDSC, Caltech, Argonne www.teragrid.org

26. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 26 Grids and Industry Grid computing has much in common with major industrial thrusts to decentralize (e.g., B2B, P2P, ASP, etc.) Sharing issues are not adequately addressed by existing technologies Companies like IBM, Platform Computing and Microsoft are now substantively involved with the open-source Grid community (e.g., OGSA, which combines Web services and Grid services)

27. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 27 GRIDS Software for NMI GRIDS Center Software Suite in the first release (NMI-R1) is a package of: –Globus Toolkit™ –Condor-G –Network Weather Service –KX.509 & KCA from EDIT –For RedHat 7.2 on IA32, Solaris 8 on 32-bit Sparc GRIDS suite in NMI-R2 will add –GSI-SSH, a Grid-Securty enabled SSH tool –Support for Red Hat Linux on IA64

28. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 28 The Globus Toolkit™ The de facto standard for Grid computing –A modular “bag of technologies” under liberal open-source license –Globus Project led by Distributed Systems Laboratory at ANL/UofC and Information Sciences Institute at USC Simplifies collaboration across virtual organizations –Authentication (Grid Security Infrastructure, GSI) –Scheduling (Globus Resource Allocation Manager, GRAM; Dynamically Updated Request Online Coallocator, DUROC) –File transfer (Global Access to Secondary Storage, GASS; GridFTP) –Resource description (Monitoring and Discovery Service, MDS)

29. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 29 Condor-G, NWS, KX.509/KCA Condor-G is an enhanced version of the UW Condor software optimized to work as job manager with Globus Toolkit Network Weather Service rrom UC Santa Barbara monitors and dynamically forecasts performance of network and computational resources KX.509 and KCA from the University of Michigan converts Kerberos credentials to PEM format used for Grid Security Infrastructure (GSI)

30. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 30 NSF Middleware Initiative: Enterprise and Desktop Integration Technologies (EDIT) Consortium Renee Woodten Frost Assistant Director, Internet2 Middleware Initiative rwfrost@internet2.edu

31. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 31 NMI-EDIT Consortium Enterprise and Desktop Integration Technologies Consortium –Internet2 – primary on grant and research –EDUCAUSE – primary on outreach –Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA) – primary on NMI Integration Testbed Grant funding is ~$1.2 million a year: –about ½ to short-term partial hiring of campus IT staff to develop and document required standards, best practices, etc. –about ½ to testbeds, dissemination and training sessions Almost all funding passed through to campuses for work

32. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 32 NMI-EDIT: Goals Much as at the network layer, create a ubiquitous common, persistent and robust core middleware infrastructure for the R&E community In support of inter-institutional and inter-realm collaborations, provide tools and services (e.g. registries, bridge PKI components, root directories) as required

33. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 33 NMI-EDIT: Objectives –Foster the development of campus enterprise middleware to leverage both the academic and administrative missions. –Coordinate a common substrate across higher ed middleware implementations that would permit inter-institutional efforts such as Grids, digital libraries, and collaboratories to scale and leverage –In some instances, build collaboration tools for particularly important inter-institutional and government interactions, such as web services, PKI and video. –Insure that distinctive higher-ed requirements, from privacy and academic freedom to multi-realm portals, are served in the marketplace.

34. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 34 A Map of Middleware Land

35. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 35 NMI-EDIT: Core Middleware Scope Identity and Identifiers – namespaces, identifier crosswalks, real world levels of assurance Authentication – campus technologies and policies, inter-realm interoperability via PKI, Kerberos Directories – enterprise directory services architectures and tools, standard object classes, inter- realm and registry services Authorization – permissions and access controls, delegation, privacy management Integration Activities – common management tools, use of virtual, federated and hierarchical organizations

36. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 36 NMI-EDIT: Organization Overall technical direction set by MACE –Middleware Architecture Committee for Education (MACE) –Bob Morgan, University of Washington, Chair –Campus IT architects and representatives from Grids and International Communities Directions set via –NSF and NMI management team –Internet2 Network Planning and Policy Advisory Council –PKI and Directory Technical Advisory Boards –Internet2 members

37. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 37 Sample NMI-EDIT Process (Directories ) MACE-DIR Working Group prioritizes needed materials Subgroups established: –revision of basic documents (LDAP Recipe) –new best practices in groups and metadirectories –standards development for eduPerson 1.5 and eduOrg 1.0 Subgroups work in enhanced IETF approach: scenarios, requirements, architectures, recommended standards stages Working group deliverables announced; input and conference call review/feedback processes start; work groups reconvene as needed Process takes around 4-6 months, depending on product 6-8 people drive the process with 15-50 schools participating

38. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 38 NMI-EDIT: Participants Higher Ed – 15-20 leadership institutions, with 50 more campuses represented as members of working groups; readership around 2000 institutions Corporate - (IBM/Metamerge, Microsoft, SUN, Liberty Alliance, DST, MitreTek, Radvision, Polycom, EBSCO, Elsevier, OCLC, Baltimore) Government – NSF, NIST, NIH, Federal CIO Council International – Terena, JISC, REDIRIS, AARnet, SWITCH

39. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 39 A Few Year One NMI-EDIT Milestones Sept 1, 2001 – Grant awarded Oct 2001– eduPerson 1.0 finalized; outreach begins with multiple workshops Jan 2002 – HEBCA tested; first CAMP workshop held Feb 2002 – PKI Lite CP/CPS; e-Gov and Management and Leadership Best Practice Awards April 2002 – Shibboleth alpha ships; NMI testbed selected; NIST/NIH PKI workshop May 2002 – NMI release, with eduPerson 1.5, pubcookie, KX.509, groups and metadirectories, video white papers June 2002 – affiliated directories begins; Base CAMP; testbed kickoff July 2002 – Shibboleth alpha v 2 ships; Advanced CAMP August 2002 – LDAP Analyzer testing begins; Shibboleth pilot-sites selected; Work with content providers begins September 2002 – Grant renewed; supplemental grant awarded for outreach; Shibboleth beta ships

40. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 40 NMI-EDIT: Release 1 Deliverables Software –KX.509 and KCA, Certificate Profile Maker, Pubcookie Object Classes –eduPerson 1.0, eduPerson 1.5, eduOrg 1.0, commObject 1.0 Service –Certificate Profile Registry

41. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 41 NMI-EDIT: Release 1 Deliverables Conventions and Practices –Practices in Directory Groups 1.0, LDAP Recipe 2.0 –Metadirectory Practices for the Enterprise Directory in Higher Education 1.0 White Papers –Shibboleth Architecture v5 Policies –Campus Certificate Policy for use at the Higher Education Bridge Certificate Authority (HEBCA) –Lightweight Campus Certificate Policy and Practice Statement (PKI-Lite) –Sample Campus Account Management Policy

42. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 42 NMI-EDIT: Release 1 Deliverables Works in Progress –Role of Directories in Video-on-Demand –Resource Discovery for Videoconferencing –Directory Services Architecture for Video and Voice Conferencing over IP (commObject)

43. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 43 NMI-EDIT: Release 2 Deliverables Software – Programs and Libraries OpenSAML 1.0 Shibboleth 1.0 –Privacy Manager 0.4 –Resource Manager 0.3 Pubcookie 3.0 – Object Classes eduPerson 1.5 final eduOrg 1.0 final

44. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 44 NMI-EDIT: Release 2 Deliverables Best Practices and Policies –Group Implementer's Guide - draft –LDAP Recipe 2.5 –Metadirectory Practices for Enterprise Directories - final –Practices in Directory Groups - final Architectures –Inter-realm Directories: Scenarios and Requirements –Federated Digital Rights Management: Scenarios, Requirements and Architectures Services –LDAP Analyzer with modules for eduPerson and GLUE

45. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 45 The pieces fit together… Campus infrastructure –Name space, identifiers, directories –Enterprise authentication and authorization Inter-realm infrastructure –edu object classes –Exchange of attributes Inter-realm Upperware –Grids –Digital libraries –Video

46. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 46 NMI Integration Testbed Mary Fran Yafchak Testbed Manager, Southeastern University Research Association maryfran@sura.org

47. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 47 NMI Integration Testbed Focus on the integration of released middleware components with real life use and conditions Elements: Sites, Manager, Workshop Integration is the point - could think of it as… –Where “EDIT” meets “GRIDS” –Where enterprise needs meet research needs –Where NMI components meet reality

48. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 48 NMI Integration Testbed Planning and management by SURA Participating Sites: –University of Alabama at Birmingham –University of Alabama in Huntsville –University of Florida –Florida State University –Georgia State University –Texas Advanced Computing Center (U Texas/Austin) –University of Virginia –University of Michigan

49. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 49 NMI Integration Testbed CONTRIBUTORS DEVELOPERS SUPPORTERS USERS Implementers Target Communities NMI Integration Testbed NMI Participation UAB UAH UFL FSU GSU UMich TACC UVA ? future expansion Core Testbed Sites NMI Integration Testbed

50. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 50 NMI Integration Testbed - Recent Activities Testbed Kickoff June 10 - 12, 2002 at GSU Site Integration Plans completed in July 2002 Testing of Release 1 nearing completion Press release & Web site announced 9/4/02 –See http://www.nsf-middleware.org/testbed Open Testbed BoF at Internet2 Members’ Meeting –Wednesday, October 30, 11:45AM-1:15PM –See http://www.internet2.edu

51. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 51 NMI Integration Testbed - Some Highlights from the Sites Twenty-six very real institutional projects and applications “on board” for NMI integration - with more to come... Five sites actively implementing enterprise scale directories, with centralized authentication and integrated applications Ten projects targeting increased access to their existing or planning scientific grids (including emerging TeraGrid) through NMI Globus Active PKI efforts, from PKI Lite to PKI “heavy” (maintaining HIPPA/FERPA compliance) New collaborative tools also represented, such as click-to- dial desktop video conferencing and shared calendaring

52. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 52 NMI Integration Testbed - Potential for Expansion Already on our minds... –Increase opportunities for both sponsored and unsponsored participation –Define a role and means of involvement for international participants –Define a role and means of involvement for corporate participants –Develop “hot topic” or application-specific testbeds E.g., Digital Libraries, Digital Video, Medical middleware, Discipline-specific grids

53. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 53 NMI Participation and Outreach

54. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 54 NMI Outreach and Participation Targeted Communities Outreach Strategy Results from PHASE I – Building Awareness Activities and Plans for PHASE II – Delivering on Promise

55. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 55 NMI Outreach – Targeted Communities TERTIARY CIRCLE - General Interest (Targeted NEW User Communities – Press/PR) SECONDARY CIRCLE Participating/User Communities (NEES, GriPhyN, TeraGrid, Campuses, etc.) PRIMARY CIRCLE NMI Project Team NMI Advisory Council Corporat e Partners (vendors, other industry) NMI- EDIT GRIDS Center

56. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 56 NMI Outreach Strategy Phase I Building Awareness (Months 1- 9)  Creating effective intellectual capital building blocks for the general program  Broad information dissemination  Aggressive outreach/marketing to higher-ed, industry, research communities Phase II Delivering on promise (Months 6-20)  Interactive communication with primary user communities  Building and disseminating “success stories”  Development of detailed documentation, targeted events/activities and specific intellectual capital Phase III Extending the reach (Months 12-24)  Refining engagement strategy – independent and sustainable  Implementing “reference library” – evidence of program credibility.  Establish regular schedule of events/activities We are HERE in time Sep 2001

57. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 57 Phase I – Building Awareness GOAL: Creating effective intellectual capital building blocks regarding the general program – –Websites www.nsf-middleware.org www.grids-center.org www.nmi-edit.org –Logo(s) created –Initial NSF Award Announcement Press Release issued (24 September 2001)

58. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 58 Phase I – Building Awareness GOAL: Broad information dissemination – –E-lists created encouraging “virtual” involvement: nmi-developer - Discuss NMI releases and development activities with the open source community. nmi-supporter - Find out about Initiative-supporting opportunities and how you can incorporate components from and NMI release into your products. nmi-user - Find out about new project and participation opportunities with the NMI. news - Receive NMI and Initiative-related press information nmi-announce - Keep informed about new developments in the NMI.

59. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 59 Phase I – Building Awareness GOAL: Aggressive outreach/marketing to higher-ed, industry and the research community –Selected speaking opportunities – Internet2, EDUCAUSE, Coalition for Networked Information, GGF-3 and GGF-4, SC2001 –Defined and implemented a strategy for involving selected vendor/industry partners – NMI Participation Model (see diagram)

60. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 60 NMI Participation CONTRIBUTORS DEVELOPERS - Develop NMI-related or derived components - Support NMI components SUPPORTERS - Repackage NMI components and distribute under own label USERS NMI Testbed Participants Other Interested implementers - campuses - GriPhyN, NEES, etc Targeted User Communities - campuses - industry - government - determined by Call for Participation

61. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 61 Phase II – Delivering on the Promise GOAL: Interactive communication with primary user communities – –NMI Documentation Team formed – working on plans for appropriate Technical and other documentation to support NMI Releases –Coordinated with Training and Support Team to ensure consistency and accuracy of messages to the users.

62. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 62 Phase II – Delivering on the Promise GOAL: Building and disseminating “success stories” and other achievements – –NMI Release 1 successfully delivered (7 May 2002) –Announcements of NMI R1 distributed via information distribution channels established – press lists, e-lists, website. –NMI Testbed Participants engaged in Outreach to share their stores –NMI SC02 theme – “Sharing NMI User Experiences” (related activities and documentation)

63. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 63 Phase II – Delivering on the Promise Development of detailed documentation, targeted events/activities, and specific, in-depth intellectual capital –Article, “Middleware: The New Frontier” – EDUCAUSE Review, July/August 2002 –Presentations planned – GGF5, I2 Fall Meeting, SC2002, EDUCAUSE Regionals, Coalition for Networked Information, and others –Tutorials/workshops planned – GRIDS Center, EDIT Delivered seven workshops in Year 1 –Schedule for Year 2 deliverables in progress Base CAMP February 5-7, 2003 - Tempe, Arizona

64. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 64 Interested in NMI? Visit the NMI web – http://www.nsf-middleware.org Subscribe to NMI discussion and awareness e-lists Potential User? –Visit the NMI Release site and “test drive” NMI packaged releases. Potential Contributor? –Send email to nmi-supporter@nsf-middleware.org indicating interest in contributing components to the next release. Press? –Contact outreach@nsf-middleware.org about newsworthy activities and achievements.

65. EDUCAUSE October 2, 2002NSF Middleware Initiative 65 Questions? Alan Blatecky – ablatecky@nsf.gov ablatecky@nsf.gov Renee Woodten Frost – rwfrost@internet2.edu rwfrost@internet2.edu Tom Garritano – garritano@mcs.anl.gov garritano@mcs.anl.gov Mary Fran Yafchak – maryfran@sura.org maryfran@sura.org