Making Grids Useful

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Making Grids Useful

• Shelley Henderson
• Project Manager, Grid Software
• USC Information Services

http//www.usc.edu/uscgrid http//www.usc.edu/auth
x
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Before NMI

• HPCC
• UCC
• CST
• University Libraries
• ISI
• Assorted faculty-led research efforts

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Before NMI

• HPCCHigh Performance Computing
  Communicationhttp//www.usc.edu/hpcc

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Before NMI

• UCCUniversity Computing Center

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Before NMI

• CSTCenter for Scholarly Technologyhttp//www.usc
  .edu/isd/locations/cst/tls

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Before NMI

• University LibrariesAssociation of Research
  Libraries (ARL) and the Scholars Portal
  projecthttp//www.arl.org/access/scholarsportal/

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Before NMI

• Information Sciences InstituteISI is an
  off-campus research facility associated with the
  USC School of Engineering and has two locations,
  one in Washington, DC, and one in Marina del Rey
  in Southern California.http//www.isi.edu

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Before NMI

• Assorted Faculty-Led Research EffortsThe most
  prominent for our concerns today is the Southern
  California Earthquake Centerhttp//www.scec.org/c
  me

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NMI Components

• Globus Toolkit
• Kx.509
• PubCookie
• Shibboleth
• PKI Lite HEPKI

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After NMI

• USCGrid
• USC CA
• WebISO_at_USC
• Scholars Portal

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After NMI

• USCGridhttp//www.usc.edu/uscgrid

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After NMI

• USC CAhttp//www.usc.edu/authx

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After NMI

• WebISO_at_USChttp//www.usc.edu/authx

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After NMI

• Scholars Portalhttp//www.arl.org/access/scholars
  portal

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Continuing Campus Outreach

• Interdisciplinary Policy Groups
• Technical Upgrade Opportunities
• Publicizing Resource Availability
• Evangelization

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Continuing Campus Outreach

• Interdisciplinary Policy Groups
• Technical Upgrade Opportunities
• Publicizing Resource Availability
• Evangelization

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Continuing Campus Outreach

• Interdisciplinary Policy Groups
• Technical Upgrade Opportunities
• Publicizing Resource Availability
• Evangelization

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Continuing Campus Outreach

• Interdisciplinary Policy Groups
• Technical Upgrade Opportunities
• Publicizing Resource Availability
• Evangelization

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Continuing Campus Outreach

• Interdisciplinary Policy Groups
• Technical Upgrade Opportunities
• Publicizing Resource Availability
• Evangelization

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Contact Information

• Asbed Bedrossian, the man with two heads,
  asbed_at_usc.edu
• John Mullins, PubCookie Man Shib wizard,
  mullins_at_usc.edu
• Garrick Staples, USCGrid admin lead Linux
  wizard, garrick_at_usc.edu
• Phil Dibowitz, USCGrid admin asst. Linux
  wizard, phil_at_usc.edu

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(More) Contact Information

• Bob Schwartzkopf, Unix ubermensch, Globoid, and C
  programmer, bob_at_usc.edu
• Chet Burgess, CA keyholder Poobah of General
  Directories, cfb_at_usc.edu
• Linda Savage, Last Word on Unix Accounts Grand
  Poobah of General Directory Services,
  lsavage_at_usc.edu

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(More) Contact Information

• James Pepin, director of the USC HPCC,
  pepin_at_usc.edu
• Dennis Smith, director of supercomputing,
  smith_at_usc.edu
• John Silvester, vice provost for scholarly
  technology, silvester_at_usc.edu

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(More) Contact Information

• Deborah Holmes-Wong, project manager, digital
  information management, USC ISD, dhwong_at_usc.edu
• Marianne Afifi, director of electronic resources
  for the USC libraries, afifi_at_usc.edu

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Disclaimer

• I would like to thank everyone involved in the
  USC NMI effort, and disclaim any credit for all
  the good stuff thats been done. Im just a
  project manager I dont do any useful work!

Funky clipart courtesy of http//www.shawnsclipart
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