SARoNGS project (Jens Jensen)

Slide 1: SARoNGS Jens Jensen <j.jensen at rl.ac.uk> JISC access management event 30 June 2008

Slide 2: NGS “To provide coherent electronic access for UK researchers to all computational and data based resources and facilities required to carry out their research, independent of resource or researcher location” 4 core sites, 7 partners, 7-9 affiliates

Slide 3: What is it? Shibboleth Access to ShibGrid Resources on the National Grid Service Shebangs SARoNGS VPMan But what does it do? Funded by MIMAS JISC!

Slide 4: Goals Broaden the NGS user base Ease access for researchers who are not technology specialists London marathon ’06 image: Ian Wilson: CC Attribution 2.0

Slide 5: Goals Encourage collaborations in Virtual Organisations Provide access to resources

Slide 6: Goals Prevent Easier unauthorised support access for service provider

Slide 7: Goals Deliver a production service!

Slide 8: Currently People use X.509 certificates to access NGS resources Trusted globally - IGTF Sometimes seen as challenging to use

Slide 9: In SARoNGS People who have certificates can keep using them Created transparently for people who don’t have them Users don’t even know they have certificates!

Slide 10: Architecture User and management portals VO Management CTS MyProxy CTS access control The NGS Grid research resources (MIMAS)

Slide 11: More detailed Arch.

Slide 12: What’s in it for you? If you’re a user: non-certificate access to the NGS, mainly via portals

Slide 13: What’s in it for you? If you are a service provider: hook into NGS SP/portal (if you wish) (particularly if you require X.509) Using NGS’ VO management infrastructure (Fine print: note UK Fed. restrictions)

Slide 14: What’s in it for you? If you are a foreign federation We’ve got stuff you can reuse (Fine print: we’re built for the UK Federation)

Slide 15: What’s in it for you? (soon) More Shibbolised resources SRB NGS Oracle OGSA-DAI iRODS Shibbolised in the ASPiS project

Slide 16: Gaps? Attributes… Assurance Further services Real VOs…

Slide 17: SARoNGS summary Registered Integrated security Usable Interoperable Production ready