Grouper Developers Forum

[Tom Barton <>]

Following-up on an item discussed on the grouper-dev call yesterday.

Main Introduce website:
http://www.cagrid.org/mwiki/index.php?title=Introduce

Best ppt about it:
http://bmi.osu.edu/resources/presentations/Introduce-OGF19.ppt

And while we're at it, here's the main GridGrouper website:
http://www.cagrid.org/mwiki/index.php?title=GridGrouper:Main

I recently learned that GridGrouper has been very successful in 3 
NIH-funded grids to which it has been deployed. The reasons seem to be: 
it's easy to install (leading to research groups sometimes installing 
their own to manage access to their apps and resources rather than using 
a centralized GridGrouper instance, even when those are running on the 
common grid); it solves real problems that have been intractable until 
now (eg, using delegation and group math); it is well integrated into 
the process for developing and managing grid applications (using 
Introduce), and its UI is easy to use. In short, the folks at OSU's 
Multiscale Computing Laboratory did a really nice job with it.

Tom