Federated ID for Research Applications
DATE and TIME: Thursday, May 26, 2011, 2:30pm
CONVENER: Jim Basney
SCRIBE: Jim Basney
# of ATTENDEES: 12
MAIN ISSUES DISCUSSED
- Jim Basney discussed Fall 2010 workshop, go.teragrid.org, TeraGrid Science Gateways, and cilogon.org.
- Arnie Miles (Georgetown) demoed federated access to HPC. Prior work to use Shibboleth to launch jobs via a web portal to Condor using the Thebes Security Token Service. He plans to replace the use of the Thebes Security Token Service with a SAML ECP approach. Plan to work with Condor to plug in ECP-enabled file transfer client.
- Scott Koranda (LIGO) discussed Globus Online, a service that helps researchers with wide area data transfers. Globus Online plans to support InCommon authentication and become an InCommon identity provider for scientists.
ACTIVITIES GOING FORWARD / NEXT STEPS
- ECP work for science applications. Technical work first, then encouraging adoption by InCommon campuses.