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["Ann West" <>]

NSF MIDDLEWARE INITIATIVE RELEASE 9 PROVIDES TOOLS THAT ENABLE ONLINE
COLLABORATION AND RESOURCE SHARING FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION 

Next NMI Release Helps to Further Scientific Work Through the
Development of Tools for Identity and Content-enabling Infrastructures
Across Organizations

May 2, 2006  -  Providing new event diagnostic, privilege management,
and portal-building tools, the ninth release of the National Science
Foundation Middleware Initiative (NMI-R9) makes further progress in
addressing the challenge of collaborating online in a shared
cyberinfrastructure environment. NMI-R9 is available to the public for
downloading under open-source licenses at http://www.nsf-middleware.org.

New for this release is NMI-EDIT's End-to-END Diagnostic Discovery
(EDDY) Toolkit that supports integrated analysis and diagnosis of
distributed, layered and interdependent components and systems. "This
release offers a critical step towards managing and troubleshooting the
complex distributed environments that we're building to support
science," said Ken Klingenstein, Director of Middleware and Security at
Internet2. "NMI-EDIT's EDDY Toolkit is a diagnostic model intended to
encourage discussion and experimentation in this area." 

NMI-EDIT's components also include the first production release of the
Signet Privilege Management System, already receiving widespread
national interest. Building on the international adoption of the
Shibboleth(r) System, the Meta-Access Management System (MAMS) project
in Australia contributed their Shibboleth Attribute Release Policy
Editor (ShARPE), which organizations can use to construct information
release policies for their Shibboleth identity-provider infrastructure. 

In conjunction with the NMI R9 release, Open Grid Computing Environments
(OGCE), another NMI team, is announcing a major revision of its software
that enables the creation of Grid portals or web-based user interfaces
that simplify the process of identifying and accessing Grid resources. 

For the full release, refer to
http://www.nsf-middleware.org/Lists/NMIR9/pressrelease.aspx.

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Contact: 

Ann West 
(906-487-1726, 
)
 
NMI-EDIT

For more information:
CIMA Team: http://www.instrumentmiddleware.org
GRIDS Center:  http://www.grids-center.org 
NMI-EDIT Consortium:  http://www.nmi-edit.org 
OGCE Team:  http://www.collab-ogce.org


NSF Middleware Initiative: http://www.nsf-middleware.org/