Dear all, We said that we'd report MashMyData progress to this list, hope that's still OK with everyone. Stephen P., Phil K., Alastair Gemmell and I had a useful progress and discussion meeting today, the notes from which are on the project Wiki: http://code.google.com/p/mashmydata/wiki/9June2010.
The main points of interest for this list are: 1. We are investigating driving the whole intercomparision process from a WebGIS-like interface, in contrast with the wizard/menu-driven approaches used in other similar projects. 2. We have been experimenting with e-Science Central (a cloud service for managing users and their data, together with workflows that process the data). However it's not clear whether the security systems of eSC and other related system (e.g. Earth System Grid) can be made to interoperate. Also we need to sort out the problem of how a user can delegate his/her authority to a web portal. 3. Hence we need to come up with the design for the security infrastructure earlier than anticipated. The e-Science Central team are visiting Reading next week, and hopefully we can address some of these questions. The general problem of how to interact securely with cloud systems through a third-party user interface needs some research. (Phil and Stephen - please note the actions and let me know if you have any corrections/additions.) Cheers, Jon -- Dr Jon Blower Technical Director, Reading e-Science Centre Environmental Systems Science Centre University of Reading Harry Pitt Building, 3 Earley Gate Reading RG6 6AL. UK Tel: +44 (0)118 378 5213 Fax: +44 (0)118 378 6413 [email protected] http://www.nerc-essc.ac.uk/People/Staff/Blower_J.htm _______________________________________________ NDG-technical mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ncas.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/ndg-technical
