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 starting the ATLAS Tier 2/3 workshop now. This is my first attempt to liveblog anything, so hope it goes well. I'll try to keep up. * What's next for US ATLAS FY13 Facilities Milestones * March - Analysis jobs using FAX for data access…
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…
Yesterday I worked on an RSS aggregator site for our group and those we intersect with. Rob and I discussed the benefits and he has seen a preliminary product. http://dhtc-group.uchicago.edu/ is now working URL for it. I've added syndication for a number of different information…
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…