Grid collaboration Portals

Several projects at Daresbury and Lancaster are contributing to the development of collaborative Web portal environments to access Grid resources.

http://www.grids.ac.uk/Sakai - Sakai VRE Project

http://www.grids.ac.uk/HPCPortal - HPCPortal v4.0 and MyNGS

http://portal.ngs.ac.uk - National Grid Service Portal

http://rhine.dl.ac.uk:8080/portal - Sakai Portal

A VRE for North West Researchers

Our proposal is here:

Flyer showing vision and screenshots: [PDF].

Background paper: [PDF].

Objectives

• Develop Web portal technology and architecture for Grid resources;
• Develop and delopy collaborative portal technology such as Sakai;
• Develop Grid services and user-facing portlets;
• Extend the frameworks to include intractive audio and video streams;
• Develop Virtual Research Environments for a wide range of end users.