Grid Infrastructure Knowledge Resources: Cagrid Knowledge Center

The caGrid Knowledge Center is an expert resource on Grid technologies available to the broader biomedical informatics community. Our primary mission is to provide tools and resources that enable collaborative scientific investigations. We provide caGrid software and documentation to the broader Grid community, collaborate with scientific projects on utilizing Grid technologies, maintain a Community Training Grid for testing purposes, and support a Community Projects effort to facilitate software re-use and community collaboration.
During this presentation, we would like to provide a brief overview of caGrid. Then we would like to provide detailed information on the institutions behind the caGrid Knowledge Center (The Ohio State University, Emory University, and University of Chicago Argonne National Labs) and our mission and services. We will provide an overview of the Community Training Grid, a deployment of the caGrid software available for community use. We also will discuss in detail our Community Projects effort, which is focused on fostering emerging Grid projects and providing emerging Grid technologies to potential user communities.
During the discussion section, we hope to identify shared community needs of the public health informatics community. One of our primary objectives is to ensure that caGrid is meeting the needs of other public health communities. It is in the best interests of all the emerging Grid communities to remain interoperable, which includes both syntactic interoperability (a major feature of service-oriented systems) as well as semantic interoperability. One of our major initiatives over the next year is to identify semantic needs of various biomedical informatics communities to ensure interoperability in the future. To that end, we would like to initiate discussion on the critical area of semantics to ensure that the many public health communities are collaborating on semantic interoperability.