Our UC3 User Jamboree of two weeks ago was a great success. We've had several new requests for access based on our presentations from two Thursdays ago. As Lincoln reports, one new user — an evolutionary biology post-doc — is discovering new opportunities for computation through UC3's Condor…
In preparation for our upcoming UC3 User Jamboree (this Thursday!), we've been busily migrating our user database from the homegrown UC3 web site to a new engagement application borrowed from the Center for High Throughput Computing (CHTC) at UW-Madison. This application is a new collaboration between UC3 and…
Just finished my talk on UC3 identity integration at OSG All Hands. Slides here: * UC3 Presentations * Full version (overview, technical) * Webinar (mostly technical) * OSG All hands (mostly overview) Other links: * https://uc3.uchicago.edu/ * https://uc3.uchicago.edu/news * https://uc3.uchicago.edu/ubolt * https://github.com/DHTC-Tools/ubolt * Contact:…
We're on the train to Indianapolis for the OSG All Hands Meeting. Tomorrow I'll give a very short talk on a hypothetical approach to scheduling virtual worker availability, and Tuesday I'll give a different rendition of the U-Bolt/identity talk that I did for…
As a functional demonstration (some visual enhancements might be nice), I whipped up a very basic RSS reader in JavaScript using Google's Feed API. I made a page at UC3 for it, and linked that to the main page for all users (authenticated and anonymous). The new UC3…
On Feb. 22 I gave a presentation to the Open Science Grid (OSG) Campus Infrastructures Community (CIC) entitled U-Bolt: Campus Identity Integration for Decentralized Systems. This talk covered the following topics: * UC3's identity problem * How we onboard new users (UC3 registration demo) * U-Bolt - the tools that make…