N4U - neuGRID for you expansion of neuGRID services and outreach to new user communities

News

►The ADRD (Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders) Conclusions Report from the outGRID - ITU workshop held in Geneva on 21st February is now available, presenting the discussion on current context on ADRD research and funding, current problems and challenges, conclusions and follow-up actions.

►A Brain Imaging graduate course is organised by Karolinska Institute for registered students from 19-23 March 2012. Topics of courses will focus on Measurement of Brain Morphology using Magnetic Resonance Images and will be given by various professors. More

►Login planned downtime: the 02/19/2012 from 9:30AM to 2PM. Major VOMS upgrade.

►The EGI Community Forum in conjuction with the 2nd EMI Technical Conference is taking place on 26-30 March in Munich.

►The next N4U Management Meeting is taking place on 21-23 May in Amsterdam.

Science Gateway: the Interface to the Grid-Enabled System Oriented Architecture (SOA)

Science Gateway: the Single Point of Access to N4U Tools and Resources

⇒The Science Gateway is the interface to the grid-enabled System Oriented Architecture (SOA), the basis for the applications and services provided by the N4U infrastructure.

⇒The Science Gateway is the single point of access to the N4U tools and resources; it hides the complexity of the underlying architecture while providing users with access to advanced tools such as a command line access to a gLite User Interface.

The Gateway consists of two parts: a set of public and a set of private pages.

The private pages are the main goal of the Science Gateway: they allow users to access the N4U applications and the support pages, including the N4U Knowledge-base. They are currently available at http://neugrid4you.eu/group/science-gateway, and are organized in three sections:

The News page is the place to publish official announcements about the Science Gateway, and it provides a link between the Science Gateway maintainers and the Science Gateway users' community.
The Support pages give access to the Document Library where documents can be stored and shared across the community; In addition to the Document Library a Knowledge-base page is available documenting usage of the platform, applications and tools using a Wiki. The population of the Wiki is lead by the Science Gateway maintainers but is also freely editable by the community. The support section also integrates a link to the aforementioned N4U Help Desk.
The Applications pages entry gives access to all the current and future N4U applications available to the community. The applications currently available are the Desktop Fusion, allowing users to access graphical applications without having to install anything on their computer, the GridBrowser which is an AJAX-based portlet allowing to browse, upload and download files registered in the Logical File Catalog (LFC), the BrainBrowser (a tool for visualizing a 3D representation of a brain obtained after a neuroimaging pipeline such as Civet- http://neuro.imm.dtu.dk/wiki/CIVET) and a page with the status of the jobs submitted by the user.

The public pages available at http://neugrid4you.eu/web/science-gateway consist of three pages:

The Presentation page clearly describes the steps required to become a member of the Science Gateway community and get access to the Science Gateway applications (getting a certificate, becoming a member of the vo.neugrid.eu Virtual Organisation (VO), and uploading a proxy to the neuGRID4you MyProxy server along with the username/password pair that will be used to log into the neuGRID4you Single Sign On (SSO).
The Register page allows users to access a Java applet to upload a proxy generated from their certificate, and registers the credentials associated with this proxy inside MyProxy.
The N4U Help Desk, a separate application for users having trouble connecting or using the Science Gateway, to help them find solutions using the support forum or report issues that will be handled by the N4U support team.