MyOSG allows users to quickly select and filter information
The Open Science Grid (OSG) is distributed computing infrastructure for large-scale scientific research, built and operated by a consortium of universities, national laboratories, scientific collaborations, and software developers. The OSG enables scientists to seamlessly harness grid-computing resources worldwide, and interoperates with multiple other grid infrastructures.
MyOSG was developed to aggregate information from many OSG systems, including administrative, accounting, status, monitoring services, and ticket tracking tools. Guided by the theory that each individual using OSG has a unique view which they were interested in, the decision was made to use the Universal Widget API specification developed by NetVibes, which allows generic widgets to be created that users can integrate with their personal workflow: MyOSG use is based on individual preferences. The information can then be easily exported to a number of tools for display, including iGoogle, iPhone, Apple Dashboard, Windows Vista, and MySpace.
The Research Technologies Round Table will discuss MyOSG this month.
Current interest:
Xiaoming Gao won the Best Student Poster award at TeraGrid '09 for his poster [PDF] about the Virtual Block Store System. PTI congratulates Xiaoming for his accomplishment. PTI is a TeraGrid Resource Provider and participant in TeraGrid '09.
Indiana University has been recognized by CIO magazine as among the top 100 organizations in the nation for its leadership in new software development models for higher education. IU has co-founded some of higher education's largest software and service collaboration efforts. These projects are charting a new investment and collaboration model known as Community Source that creates an alternative to buying software or developing it in house. Each of these projects began with just a few investing colleges and universities, but they have now grown to an ecosystem encompassing over $60 million of pooled investment from 50 institutions and 22 commercial firms. Read more...
The efforts of IU faculty members to create educational software nine years ago paid off as the University's largest commercial transaction. Blackboard Inc., an educational software provider, announced last week it will purchase ANGEL Learning, the educational software produced from IU technology, for $100 million.
ANGEL Learning software serves as an educational tool for students and
teachers to track academic progress and manage teaching and learning
goals.
The software offers products varying from technology to computer-
generated material.
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