The GridPort Toolkit (GridPort) enables the rapid development of highly functional grid portals that simplify the use of underlying grid services for the end-user. It comprises a set of portlet interfaces and services in the portal layer that provide access to a wide range of backend grid and information services provided by lower-level grid technologies including the Globus Toolkit, the Grid Portal Information Repository (GPIR), and Condor. Portlets expose the backend services via customizable web interfaces in order to enable personalization of grid portal user interfaces. Portal services support the portlets inside the portal layer by augmenting their capabilities in an extensible and reusable way while tying the portlets together in order to make them more cohesive. GridPort is intended for use by developers of grid-enabled portals, portlets, and applications.
GridPort has recently become part of the Open Grid Computing Environments (OGCE) portal software project. Because the basic OGCE v2.0 portal is based on GridPort source code, it provides the same, easy to install software package as GridPort v4.0. Furthermore, OGCE 2.0 provides additional portlet tools from the Extreme Lab, Community Grids Lab, and the Sakai Project. For more information please visit the OGCE website.
The GridPort team is pleased to announce the availability of GridPort v4.0.1. This version adds a portlet for interfacing with Storage Resource Broker. The SRB portlets interface to the SDSC Storage Resource Broker (SRB) data collection services. . These portlets have been demonstrated to work on several grids, including the TeraGrid and the FusionGrid, and use either the SRB or GSI authentication mechanisms. Currently, the SDSU SRB portlets allow users to perform the following SRB S* commands and functions: