CaGrid
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| Developer(s) | NCI's Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology (CBIIT), Ohio State University, University of Chicago's Argonne National Laboratory, SemanticBits LLC, Ekagra Software Technologies |
| Stable release | 1.3.0.1 / 2009-05-31 |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | Grid computing, Web service |
| License | caBIG v2.0 |
| Website | Project Download |
The cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid, or caBIG is an initiative of the National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health.
caBIG is a voluntary virtual informatics infrastructure that connects data, research tools, scientists, and organizations to leverage their combined strengths and expertise in an open federated environment with widely accepted standards and shared tools. The underlying service oriented infrastructure that supports caBIG is referred to as caGrid. Driven primarily by scientific use cases from the cancer research community, caGrid provides the core enabling infrastructure necessary to compose the Grid of caBIG. It provides the technology that enables collaborating institutions to share information and analytical resources efficiently and securely, while also allowing investigators to easily contribute to and leverage the resources of a national-scale, multi-institutional environment.
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[edit] caGrid Core Infrastructure
Though caGrid is a suite of products, typically caGrid refers to the Core Infrastructure.
[edit] Globus Toolkit
caGrid leverages version 4.03 of the Globus Toolkit, produced by the Globus Alliance.
[edit] Components
- Introduce Toolkit, also a Globus Incubator Project
- Data Services
- Metadata
- Security
- Credential Delegation Service (CDS)
- Dorian
- GAARDS
- Grid Grouper
- Grid Trust Service (GTS)
- WebSSO - Web Single Sign-on component, based on JASIG CAS
[edit] caGrid Portal
The caGrid Portal is a Web-based application built on Liferay Portal that enables users to discover and interact with the services that are available on the caGrid infrastructure. Portal serves as the primary visualization tool for the caGrid middleware, and provides a standards-based platform for hosting caBIG-related tools. It also serves as a caBIG information source. Through the caGrid Portal, users have instant access to information about caBIG participants, caGrid points of contact (POCs), and caGrid-related news and events. 
[edit] caGrid Workflow
caGrid Workflow leverages both:
[edit] Project Contributors
- Ohio State University
- University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory
- SemanticBits, LLC
- Ekagra Software Technologies
[edit] Release History
[edit] caGrid Core Infrastructure
- caGrid 0.5 was released on August 31, 2005
- caGrid 0.5.1 was released on October 7, 2005
- caGrid 0.5.2 was released on November 15, 2005
- caGrid 0.5.3 was released on January 25, 2006
- caGrid 0.5.4 was released on May 12, 2006
- caGrid 1.0 Beta was released on July 17, 2006
- caGrid 1.0 was released on December 15, 2006
- caGrid 1.1 was released on September 17, 2007
- caGrid 1.2 was released on March 30, 2008
- caGrid 1.3 was released on March 31, 2009
- caGrid 1.3.0.1 was released on May 31, 2009
[edit] caGrid Portal
- caGrid Portal 1.1 was released with caGrid 1.1 on December 17, 2007
- caGrid Portal 2.0 was released on December 28, 2007
- caGrid Portal 2.0.1 was released on February 22, 2008
- caGrid Portal 2.0.2 was released on June 18, 2008
- caGrid Portal 2.0.2.1 was released on July 9, 2008
- caGrid Portal 2.1 was released on October 24, 2008
- caGrid Portal 2.2 was released on February 29, 2009
[edit] caGrid Workflow
[edit] References
- "caGrid". https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/workspaces/Architecture/caGrid.
- "caGrid 1.0: An Enterprise Grid Infrastructure for Biomedical Research". http://www.jamia.org/cgi/content/short/15/2/138.
- "Enabling the Provisioning and Management of a Federated Grid Trust Fabric". http://bmi.osu.edu/publications_more.php?ID=881.
- "Introduce: An Open Source Toolkit for Rapid Development of Strongly Typed Grid Services". http://bmi.osu.edu/publications_more.php?ID=858.
- "caGrid: design and implementation of the core architecture of the cancer biomedical informatics grid". http://bmi.osu.edu/publications_more.php?ID=740.
- "Combining the Power of Taverna and caGrid: Scientific Workflows that Enable Web-Scale Collaboration". http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/MIC.2008.120.
