sarongs project (jens jensen)
DESCRIPTION
Presentation for the Federated Access: Future Directions Day, 30 June 2008, BirminghamTRANSCRIPT
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SARoNGS
Jens Jensen <j.jensen at rl.ac.uk>
JISC access management event30 June 2008
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NGS
“To provide coherent electronic access for UK researchers to all computational and data based resources and facilities required to carry out their research, independent of resource or researcher
location”
4 core sites, 7 partners, 7-9 affiliates
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What is it?
Shibboleth Access toResources on the
National Grid Service
Shebangs
MIMAS
VPMan
ShibGrid
SARoNGS
But what does it do?
Funded byJISC!
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Goals
Broaden the NGS user base Ease access for researchers who are not technology specialists
London marathon ’06 image: Ian Wilson: CC Attribution 2.0
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Goals
Provide access to resources
Encourage collaborations inVirtual Organisations
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Goals
Prevent unauthorised
access
Easier support
for service provider
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Goals
Deliver aproduction
service!
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Currently
People use X.509 certificates toaccess NGS resources
Trusted globally- IGTF
Sometimes seen as challenging to use
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In SARoNGS
People who have certificates can keep using them
Created transparently forpeople who don’t have them
Users don’t evenknow they havecertificates!
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Architecture
CTS MyProxy
User and management portals
The NGS Grid
VO Management
CTS access control
research resources(MIMAS)
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More detailed Arch.
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What’s in it for you?
If you’re a user: non-certificate accessto the NGS, mainly via portals
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What’s in it for you?
If you are a service provider:hook into NGS SP/portal (if you wish)(particularly if you require X.509)
Using NGS’ VO managementinfrastructure
(Fine print: note UK Fed. restrictions)
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What’s in it for you?
If you are a foreign federation
We’ve got stuff you can reuse
(Fine print: we’re built forthe UK Federation)
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What’s in it for you? (soon)
More Shibbolised resources
NGS
SRB
Oracle
OGSA-DAI
iRODS Shibbolised in theASPiS project
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Gaps?
Further services
Attributes…
Real VOs…
Assurance
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SARoNGS summary
Integrated security
Production ready
Usable
Interoperable
Registered