NSF MIDDLEWARE INITIATIVE CONTRIBUTES THIRD
SOFTWARE RELEASE TO CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Standards-based software and tools are
adopted by e-science, Universities and industry
and engineering.
Available free to the public at
http://www.nsf-middleware.org/,
NMI-R3 has components developed at universities and national laboratories,
designed to fill functions needed by the research and education community such
as user
authentication and authorization, resource identification
and
allocation, job management, and scheduling.
NSF supports two primary NMI teams: The EDIT
Consortium (for "
multi-institutional teamwork. For example, every university has
local
policies for identifying users while ensuring privacy
and security. The
tools provided by NMI can reconcile variations in
policy and technology
from campus to campus, while leaving control in
the hands of local
administrators, which eases the deployment of applications
for grid
computing and other forms of collaboration.
"The practice of science and engineering
is being transformed by a new generation of integrated computing, information
and communications tools," said Peter Freeman, NSF assistant director for
Computer and
Information Science and
Engineering (CISE). "NMI activities ease the
deployment of shared cybertools
that are critical to NSF's plans for a cyberinfrastructure
to advance scientific discovery, education and innovation in areas of
considerable benefit to society."
Full NSF press release at http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/03/pr0346.htm
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