Middleware Announcements

[Renee Frost <>]

> 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.
>
> ####
>
> 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/