Portal Web Services: Support of DOE SciDAC Collaboratories

A NC Base Program Project

Grid portals provide the scientific community with familiar and simplified interfaces to the Grid and Grid services. Generalized toolkits for application portal development are emerging that simplify the application developers' task of accessing grid services. The emergence of web service technologies has provided the grid and portal community with an opportunity to develop interoperable protocols and standards that can be used for grid services and portals. This will simplify the use of grids and grid technologies and will encourage the use and deployment of scientific applications and experiments on the Grid.

The goal this project is to develop and deploy interoperable portal and web services that can be used by a large number of independent users across the entire spectrum of SciDAC Grid applications.

The objectives of this project are to

• Develop generalized toolkits for building portal and grid web services specialized for the DOE environment
• Deploy portal and web services based on these toolkits across multiple SciDAC collaboratories
• Transfer toolkits and experiences to the DOE user community

For more info, see:

• Project website: Portal Web Services
• 2-Page Summary, March 2004 (PDF)
• 4-Slide Presentation, March 2003 (PowerPoint Presentation)