1. www.grids-center.org The GRIDS Center, part of the NSF Middleware Initiative GRIDS Center Grid Research Integration Development & Support John McGee USC, Information Sciences Institute mcgee@isi.edu

2. www.grids-center.org The GRIDS Center, part of the NSF Middleware Initiative Disclaimer! This talk highlights problem areas within the project to illustrate the use of collaboration technologies, but please be assured there are many success stories as well.

3. www.grids-center.org The GRIDS Center, part of the NSF Middleware Initiative 3 GRIDS Center Software Suite l Condor l Globus Toolkit l GridConfig Tools l GSI OpenSSH l MyProxy l MPICH-G2 l KX.509/KCA 1.0 l NWS l GridSolve l PyGlobus l APST l DataCutter l DataCutter STORM l SRB Client l GridPort l Inca l UberFTP l Grid Packaging Tools 18 Software Components in NMI-R5

4. www.grids-center.org The GRIDS Center, part of the NSF Middleware Initiative 4 Collaborative Challenges l Project Structure –5 PI’s from 5 different administrative domains –At least 6 sets goals and objectives >high degree of overlap, but still not 100% l ~10 fte’s spread across ~15 actual people within the 5 admin domains l Managing people you have no right to manage l limited time slices from the PI’s

5. www.grids-center.org The GRIDS Center, part of the NSF Middleware Initiative 5 Top problem spots l Project memory l Decision making processes –con calls, mail threads, documents, static web pages, bugzilla l Changes in strategy l Tracking progress l Reporting on “non-collaborative” activities l Managing the funding agency

6. www.grids-center.org The GRIDS Center, part of the NSF Middleware Initiative 6 WSS: Comments/Wish list l Out of the box support for 1 to many relationships l Offline support l Identity/Account management –Integrate w/ GSI? –TrustBridge