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.
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