--
RobAllan - 20 May 2005
Information added from e-Mail received from Chunming Hu 19/5/
I'm pleased to let you know that, CROWN, a Chinese Grid middleware has been released yesterday
.
On behalf of the CROWN Project, I am pleased to announce that version 1.0 of the CROWN Middlew
are (CROWN 1.0) is now available for download.
CROWN, short for China Research and Development environment Over Wide-area Network, is a middl
eware for Grid and E-Science applications in China. The project is supported by grants from th
e China National Science Foundation (Project No.91412011) and China 863 High-tech Programme (P
roject No.2003AA119030, 2003AA115420, 2002AA113030, etc.) CROWN 1.0 is the first public releas
e of CROWN and, due to an extended testing cycle, represents a major advance in toolkit qualit
y.
Relevant links for CROWN 1.0 include:
- CROWN Portal (Chinese Version) :
http://www.crown.org.cn/
- CROWN Portal (English Version) :
http://www.crown.org.cn/en/
- Release notes:
http://www.crown.org.cn/en/download/releasenotes1.jsp
- Documentation and Download:
http://www.crown.org.cn/download/download.jsp
CROWN 1.0 Release includes the following features:
- GAR: a Grid service archive specification for portable Grid service
- Remote and hot deploy of WSRF/WS-I Services
- Automatically collecting & reporting of resource dynamic
- A distributed Grid information services architecture with soft-state, topology management in
- Advanced GIQL Query language to find available services from RLDS
- An IDE for Grid service development, integrated with Java developing platform
- Enhanced security services, enabling policy-based authentication and authorization.
CROWN 1.0 Release includes the following components:
- CROWN
NodeServer: basic running environment for WSRF services in
CROWN, an extension of Globus Toolkit 3.9.3 core, which follows
OGSA/WSRF specifications.
- Security Components for
NodeServer: include message encryption,
signature, user authentication and access control, compatible with
PKIX, WS-Security, WS-Policy, SAML and XACML
- CROWN RLDS: The information service of CROWN system, used for managing
and maintaining the information of resources in CROWN grid
environment.
- CROWN Security Services: Domain authentication service and domain
authorization service are developed to solve the problem in
cross-domain security scenario.
- CROWN Designer: An IDE for development of WSRF services and WS-I
services. It is implemented as a Eclipse plug-in.
- CROWN Portal: A web interface for CROWN grid in China. With the
portal, you can register a user account and obtain the certificate,
submit jobs and monitor the job status. (URL:
http://www.crown.org.cn
)
- CROWN Portal Scheduler: A simple job scheduler for CROWN Portal. 4
scheduling strategies are implemented in this version of the
Scheduler.
We wish to offer our thanks to:
- Our talented and dedicated developers!
- Our project members including Beihang University, National
University of Defenses Technology, Computer Network & Information
Centre of CAS, Tsinghua University and Peking University
- Our collaborators including State Key Laboratory of Numerical
Modeling for Atmospheric, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, CAS, State
Intellectual Properties Office of China
- Who submitted bugs in our bugzilla databases!
- The institutions that have funded this work, including the National
Natural Science Foundation of China, China National High-tech Program
(863) of China Ministry of Science and Technology,
ChinaGrid Program
of China Ministry of Education
Best wishes,
Chunming Hu
2005-5-19
HU, Chunming