The CIMA implementation will be evaluated in three settings representing a spectrum of shared instrument applications:

* X-ray crystallography at a synchrotron source,
* Remote interaction with robotic telescopes, and
* wireless sensor networks (e.g. Berkeley MOTES and larger nodes for ecological monitoring).

The end product will be a consistent and reusable framework for including shared instrument resources in geographically distributed Grids. A primary challenge addressed by this research program is the lack of a generalized approach to instrument middleware that allows existing and new instruments to be integrated into Grid computing environments. Other issues to be explored include extending the accessibility of instruments to new classes of users, use of instruments by software agents, and increasing the longevity, flexibility and durability of software systems for instruments.

Kepler is based on the Ptolemy II system for heterogeneous, concurrent modeling and design. Ptolemy II was developed by the members of the Ptolemy project at UC Berkeley. Although not originally intended for scientific workflows, it provides a mature platform for building and executing workflows, and supports multiple models of computation.

nanoHUB has now cited over 260 times in the scientific literature. About 60 percent of the citations stem from authors not affiliated with the NCN. Over 200 of the citations refer to nanotechnology research, with over 150 of them citing concrete resource usage. A list of tools ranked by citations is available. 20 citations elaborate on nanoHUB use in education and over 30 refer to nanoHUB as an example of a national cyberinfrastructure.

SCOOP partners include Louisiana State University, University of Alabama at Huntsville, Texas A&M University, GoMOOS, University of Florida, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NOAA, University of Maryland, University of Miami, and Virginia Institute of Marine Science.

Using high-performance network connections, the TeraGrid integrates high-performance computers, data resources and tools, and high-end experimental facilities around the country. Currently, TeraGrid resources include more than 750 teraflops of computing capability and more than 30 petabytes of online and archival data storage, with rapid access and retrieval over high-performance networks. Researchers can also access more than 100 discipline-specific databases. With this combination of resources, the TeraGrid is the world's largest, most comprehensive distributed cyberinfrastructure for open scientific research.

TeraGrid is coordinated through the Grid Infrastructure Group (GIG) at the University of Chicago, working in partnership with the Resource Provider sites: Indiana University, the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, the National Institute for Computational Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Purdue University, San Diego Supercomputer Center, Texas Advanced Computing Center, and University of Chicago/Argonne National Laboratory,

While users may utilize many features of the User Portal without logging in, authenticating provides access to a full set of services available on the TeraGrid. All new users will receive a "New User Form" via U.S. postal mail containing a User Portal username and password along with their other TeraGrid system account usernames and passwords.

Tupelo is designed for archiving large-scale, complex scientific data and metadata collections. It is also suitable for more conventional digital libraries containing Dublin Core or other standard digital library metadata schemas. Its RDF-based metadata framework can support a wide variety of schemas, from simple, flat-namespace schemas such as Dublin Core, to hierarchical models derived from XML Schema, to more web-like models derived from RDF variants such as RSS.

Usually, the vendors will also provide testing versions of the the registries for programmers to play with before making a service live.

uPortal is an open-standard effort using Java, XML, JSP and J2EE. It is a collaborative development project with the effort shared among several of the JA-SIG member institutions. You may download uPortal and use it on your site at no cost.

This specification is the effort of the OASIS Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) Technical Committee which aims to simplify the effort required of integrating applications to quickly exploit new web services as they become available.

This standard layers on top of the existing web services stack, utilizing existing web services standards and will leverage emerging web service standards (such as policy) as they become available. The interfaces defined by this specification use the Web Services Description Language (WSDL).

The Apache WSRP4J open source project was initiated by IBM to facilitate quick adoption of the WSRP standard by content and application providers and portal vendors. They can use WSRP4J as a platform for developing and hosting WSRP compliant web services. The OASIS WSRP standard will enable thousands of portals to aggregate content from tens of thousands of content and application providers offering hundreds of thousands of user-facing, pluggable web services for millions of end users/devices.