CILogon: Secure Access to National-Scale CyberInfrastructure

该奖项是根据2009年《美国复苏和再投资法案》(公法111-5)资助的。通过将研究人员、计算资源、仪器和数据联系在一起来支持全球研究界的网络基础设施(CI)的出现，对科学和工程研究界产生了重大影响。CI的核心是合作者、组织、提供商、用户、应用程序和服务之间的信任。安全服务，特别是身份验证和授权，是促进这些实体之间信任的基础服务。如果不建立和维护信任，CI所服务的协作关系就会受到威胁。拟议的CILogon项目的目标是维护和提供在国家超级计算应用中心(NCSA)开发的CI安全技术的关键增强，并通过帮助更多的社区在这些服务上建立安全的CI来促进科学和工程。智力优势：CILogon项目的安全服务满足了科学和工程研究人员的关键安全需求，其广泛使用证明了这一点。该项目团队在为各种科学界提供高质量软件服务方面有着良好的记录，并在安全领域具有战略领导地位。团队成员是NSF TeraGrid和Open Science Grid项目的积极参与者，并积极参与其他NSF网格项目，包括LTER、OOI、NVO、LIGO和Waters。更广泛的影响：CILogon项目建议通过提供强大的、得到良好支持的软件服务来促进安全地访问CI，从而增强NSF CI在研究和教育方面的作用。这些服务被用于磁聚变(NFC)、气候研究(ESG)、高能物理(WLCG)和计算化学(GridChem)等领域，以及由TeraGrid、EGEE、Open Science Grid、NERSC和NCSA提供的CI。该项目与Internet2就Shibboleth与网格安全的集成(通过GridShib)进行了强有力的合作，以将高等教育校园的安全连接到计算网格，扩大了网格基础设施对教育界的影响。

"This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5)." The emergence of Cyberinfrastructure (CI) that supports the global research community by linking together researchers, computational resources,instruments, and data, has had a significant impact on the science and engineering research communities. At the heart of CI is trust, between collaborators, organizations, providers, users, applications and services. Security services, specifically authentication and authorization, are foundational services that facilitate trust between those entities. Without the establishment and maintenance of trust, collaborative relationships served by CI are jeopardized. The goals of the proposed CILogon project are to maintain and provide critical enhancements for CI security technologies developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and to foster science and engineering by helping additional communities build secure CI on these services. Intellectual merit: The security services of the CILogon project address critical security needs of scientific and engineering researchers, as evidenced by their wide use. The project team has a proven track record of providing quality software services to a variety of science communities, along with strategic leadership in the area of security. Team members are active participants in the NSF TeraGrid and Open Science Grid projects and are actively engaged with other NSF grid projects including LTER, OOI, NVO, LIGO, and WATERS. Broader impacts: The CILogon project proposes to enhance the NSF CI for research and education by providing robust, well-supported software services that facilitate secure access to CI. These services are used in communities such as magnetic fusion (NFC), climate research (ESG), high-energy physics (WLCG), and computational chemistry (GridChem), as well as in CI provided by TeraGrid, EGEE, Open Science Grid, NERSC and NCSA. The project has a strong collaboration with Internet2 regarding the integration of Shibboleth with grid security (via GridShib) to bridge security of higher education campuses to computational grids, broadening the impact of grid infrastructure to the educational community.