The Vine Toolkit

Submitted by piotr.dziubecki on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 10:14

Vine is a modular, extensible Java library that offers developers an easy-to-use, high-level Application Programmer Interface (API) for Grid-enabling applications. Vine can be deployed for use in desktop, Java Web Start, Java Servlet 2.3 and Java Portlet 1.0 environments with ease. Plus Vine supports a wide array of middleware and third-party services, so you can focus on your applications and not lose focus on the Grid!

Vine Toolkit new publication

Submitted by piotr.dziubecki on Sun, 12/30/2012 - 00:00

Our article "Easy Development and Integration of Science Gateways with Vine Toolkit" has now been published in the following paginated issue of Journal of Grid Computing: Volume 10, Issue 4 (2012), Page 631-645.

The paper is available electronically on SpringerLink: http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&id=doi:10.1007/s10...

ABINIT, Quantum ESPRESSO, NAMD and NWChem support in PL-Grid portal

Submitted by piotr.dziubecki on Sun, 09/30/2012 - 23:00
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Vine Toolkit PL-Grid installer for PL-Grid project [ https://portal.plgrid.pl ] has been extended of four web applications giving the PL-Grid users oportunity to submit, monitor and control their HPC tasks with easy to use web interfaces.

There is included support for:
- ABINIT (http://www.abinit.org/)
- Quantum ESPRESSO (http://www.quantum-espresso.org/)
- NAMD (http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/namd/)
- NWChem (http://www.nwchem-sw.org/)

New simplified Certificate Manager for PL-Grid Plus Project

Submitted by piotr.dziubecki on Sun, 09/02/2012 - 23:00
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Taking into account PL-Grid users responses and complaints we prepared and deploy new simplified version of the Certificate Manager application. User has no longer to activate the exported credential in Credential Manager and the process of export was shortened to 2 simple steps.

Successful deployment in the Polish Infrastructure for Supporting Computational Science in the European Research Space

Submitted by piotr.dziubecki on Tue, 12/20/2011 - 00:00
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We are pleased to announce that Vine Toolkit has been deployed to the Polish Grid lately. That basically makes it available globally to the all users of the Polish Grid project. More info could be found here:
http://www.plgrid.pl/en/our_offer/tools/portal_applications/vine_toolkit

Scientific workflows: vine:toolkit module as a part of the Serpens suite for Kepler

Submitted by dawid.szejnfeld on Fri, 11/25/2011 - 10:00
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Serpens project: Serpens suite for Kepler is a set of actors, composites and workflows that provide support for different grid middleware stacks - (e.g. gLite and UNICORE). The extension covers the standard activities related to remote job management: job submission, monitoring, data handling, and so on.

Certificate Manager updated

Submitted by dawid.szejnfeld on Wed, 02/23/2011 - 15:17
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Certificate Manager project has been updated. New features has been added: certificate configuration from p12 and jks keystore files or from web browser keystores (Internet Explorer, Firefox), minor fixes to the look and feel. Documenatation is also updated - read the article here.

Support for GRMS 3.0

Submitted by malgorzata.woln... on Mon, 02/14/2011 - 10:45
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We are pleased to announce that Vine Toolkit has now plugin for GRMS 3.0. Jobs can be submitted to the broker using JSDL description language. New article is present in the documentation which describes the configuration of the plugin. Take a look here to read the article.

Vine Toolkit + Nano Toolkit clip

Submitted by piotr.dziubecki on Fri, 02/11/2011 - 09:48
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New video depicting VT scientific application. This time let us introduce the Nano Toolkit.

Tomcat 6 support

Submitted by dawid.szejnfeld on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 10:55
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Vine Toolkit is prepared now to work with Tomcat 6 servlet container. To use the feature it is enough to set container type in the currently used installer to 'tomcat_6_x' value and have Tomcat 6 installed in the target path. The changes involved different components so it is required to update your Vine sources against the svn repository. Different installation types were checked and validated with success after changes:

- Liferay 5.2.3 + Tomcat 5
- Liferay 5.2.3 + Tomcat 6
- GridSphere 3.1 + Tomcat 5
- GridSphere 3.2 + Tomcat 5
- GridSphere 3.2 + Tomcat 6

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