From KAREN wiki

During the first KAREN Services Working Group Meeting a key objective of the group was identified to create a catalogue of current, planned and shelved services within the KAREN Community as a whole today.

Please record the services you are aware of at your organisation below under the 4 headings.

Please record your name and institution name beside your update with a link to more information if available.

Contents 1 Services Currently Available 1.1 Victoria University of Wellington 1.2 University of Canterbury 1.3 Lincoln University 1.4 BeSTGRID 2 Desired Services 3 Services Currently In Development 4 Shelved Projects

Services Currently Available

Victoria University of Wellington

• KAREN as published in the Victoria University Research Service Catalogue

Link to VUW Research Service Catalogue

• Large File Transfer System at Victoria University of Wellington

Link to VUW Research Service Catalogue

• Access Grid as published in the Victoria University Research Service Catalogue

Link to VUW Research Service Catalogue

• Downloadable copy of the VUW Research Service Catalogue

University of Canterbury

Note: this section reflects on the services available to UoC users - as these are network services, at least parts of the services are provided elsewhere.

• High Performance Computing (HPC) resources, in particular BlueFern
  • Grid interface to HPC resources - the grid gateway
  • Web interface to the computational grid: NZ BioPortal
  • GUI interface to the grid: Grisu

• Shibboleth Identity Provider: federated authentication to online resources

• E-Cast Education: live and archived video content available to academic users (with authentication via Shibboleth)

• University of Canterbury Confluence Wiki: http://wiki.canterbury.ac.nz/ (authentication via AAF/Shibboleth)

• Videoconferencing
  • H323 based conferencing (with Lifesize embedded systems / Mirial / Scopia software solutions)
  • EVO
  • AccessGrid

• UC Live: portal environment for students, based on Microsoft’s live@EDU technology, offering email and file storage services to students.

• Large file transfers: sharing library catalogues, UC Research Repository and Archives with National Library of New Zealand, OCLC and Te Puna.

Lincoln University

• Videoconferencing
  • H323 based conferencing
  • EVO
  • AccessGrid

• Shibboleth Identity Provider: federated authentication to online resources

• E-Cast Education: live and archived video content available to academic users (with authentication via Shibboleth)

• Condor Compute Grid - available to academic staff on campus

BeSTGRID

BeSTGRID provides services to the New Zealand research community, including Cluster Computing, High capacity distributed storage and collaboration services. The BeSTGRID website is at http://www.bestgrid.org/

EVO - A video collaboration solution that allows the use of a shared whiteboard, screen sharing and connection to H232 endpoints. As a minimum requires a microphone and speakers, though we would recommend a headset. A video camera is required if you wish to send a video stream of yourself. EVO is delivered as a Java web start application so does not need to be pre-installed on your pc or mac.

Sakai - A virtual research environment that lets users share documents, create a wiki, mailing lists and other services to help bring together distributed teams

OpenIdP - If your institution has not yet deployed Shibboleth authentication to allow you access to the increasing number of services that require an identity that is federated, you can register with the BeSTGRID Open Identity provider to get access.

GenePattern - A GenePattern service for BioInformatics will be going live soon. The BeSTGRID website will be updated with the latest information.

BioMirror - BeSTGRID hosts the New Zealand BioMirror which provides fast, local access to large biological datasets from overseas. These are regularly updated.

Desired Services

For ideas of new services that may be desirable to your organisation check out this list :KAREN Services Working Group : Service Categories & Example Services

Services Currently In Development

Shelved Projects

KAREN Services Working Group : Main

KAREN Services Working Group : Meeting Minutes

KAREN Services Working Group : Service Categories & Example Services

KAREN Services Working Group: Content & Service Partners