NMI Integration Testbed:“Experiences in Middleware

Deployment”

Mary Fran Yafchak maryfran@sura.org

NMI Integration Testbed ManagerSURA IT Program Coordinator

Southeastern Universities Research Association

Teach a Man to Fish

“If you give a man a fish, he will eat for a day. If you teach a man to

fish, he will eat for a lifetime.”

Chinese proverb

Cool! Now I can implement

some middleware!

NSF Middleware Initiative (NMI)

Goal: Design, develop, deploy and support a set of reusable, expandable middleware functions and services that benefit applications in a networked environment

NMI

*Enterprise and Desktop Integration Technologies

NMI GRIDSwww.grids-center.org

USC/ISI, U Chicago, UIUC/NCSA,

UCSD, U Wisconsin

NMI-EDIT*www.nmi-edit.orgInternet2, SURA,

EDUCAUSE

For more information:• Web site: www.nsf-middleware.org• Attend track presentation Wednesday, 3:50 p.m. - 4:40 p.m., Room 304C

About the NMI Testbed

• Focus on the integration of released middleware components with real life use and conditions

• Elements: Sites, Manager, Workshops

• Integration is the point - could think of it as…–Where “EDIT” meets “GRIDS”–Where enterprise needs meet research needs–Where NMI components meet reality

Testbed Participants

• Planning and management by SURA• Participating Sites:

– University of Alabama at Birmingham– University of Alabama in Huntsville– University of Florida– Florida State University– Georgia State University– Texas Advanced Computing Center (U Texas/Austin)

– University of Virginia– University of Michigan– University of Southern California

USERS

Implementers

Target Communities

NMI Integration Testbed

Positioning within NMI

NMI Participation

DEVELOPERS

SUPPORTERS

CONTRIBUTORS

http://www.nsf-middleware.org/testbed

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futureexpansion

UABUAHUFLFSUGSU

UMichTACCUVA

Sites

NMI Integration Testbed

(USC)

REUStudents

Testbed Grid

Activities to Date

• Evaluation of NMI Releases 1, 2 & 3• Project & enterprise integration • Involvement of students through NSF REU

(Research Experience for Undergraduates)

• Workshops & Presentations• Firing up of intra-Testbed grid

For more information: Track presentation Wednesday, 3:50 p.m. - 4:40 p.m., Room 304C Track presentation Thursday, 3:55 p.m. - 4:45 p.m., Room 303D

But back to fishing…

If deployment is the fish, collaboration is the best bait!– Initial Call for Participation found sites with

willingness and readiness to contribute– Component evaluation but within the bigger picture:

• Resources applied• Process for enterprise & project integration • “Evangelism” and other synergistic activities

– Sharing what is learned so everyone can learn more…

• Workshops like this one • Direct input into NMI Outreach materials, e.g. case

studies

Questions or comments before we get started?