Middleware Announcements

[Mary Fran Yafchak <>]

Middleware Integration Case Studies Available Online
[See attached for full release and list of case studies available]

Press Release, November 18, 2005
For more information contact:
Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA), www.sura.org 
					               
Greg D. Kubiak, Director of Relations and Communications
202-408-7872 - 


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Washington, DC - The Southeastern Universities Research Association 
(SURA) has published a series of educational case studies as part of 
the completion of a three-year testbed program to deploy and evaluate 
middleware for the NSF Middleware Initiative (NMI). 

SURA established and managed the NMI Integration Testbed Program in 
partnership with Internet2 and EDUCAUSE, under the NMI EDIT 
(Enterprise Desktop & Integration Technologies) Consortium 
cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation (NSF 
ANI-0123937).  NMI Testbed Sites were established at the University 
of Alabama at Birmingham, the University of Alabama in Huntsville, 
Georgia State University, Florida State University, the University of 
Florida, the University of Michigan, Texas Advanced Computing Center 
(University of Texas at Austin), the University of Virginia, and the 
University of Southern California.  These sites provided practical 
evaluation of NMI components within the context of real projects and 
application scenarios from June 2002 through November 2004.

The NMI Integration Testbed Case Study Series documents the most 
significant influences and outcomes of NMI Testbed sites' middleware 
integration efforts.  The series highlights intersections with 
established projects, application contexts and influences, drivers 
for innovation, and decision points and challenges. Through this, the 
work of these pioneering institutions is captured to provide a 
breadth of insight and experience for others to use towards 
successful middleware deployment.

SURA's management of the NMI Integration Testbed Program also 
resulted in the development of the NMI Testbed Grid, which has since 
evolved into SURAgrid, a multi-institutional initiative to enable 
heterogeneous (vs. project-specific) inter-institutional resource 
sharing via grid technologies.

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