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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a three-year $2.65 million grant to the Internet2 Middleware Initiative to advance collaboration for virtual organizations or groups that share the same computing resources (VOs).

Over the last decade, the Internet2 community has developed foundational authentication and authorization tools such as Shibboleth Federated and Single Sign-on System, Grouper Groups Management Toolkit, and COmanage Collaborative Management Platform. The work funded by this new grant will combine these software components together into a toolkit that will help access to distributed resources and applications by domain science projects and other virtual organizations.

Awarded under the NSF’s Software Development for Cyberinfrastructure (SDCI) program, the grant involves a partnership with several NSF-funded virtual organizations to enhance their collaboration tools and environment. Two large virtual organization partners involved in the grant are the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) and iPlant.
For more information on the NSF award please visit here.

About Internet2:

Internet2 is an advanced networking consortium led by the research and education community. A partnership spanning U.S. and international institutions who are leaders in the worlds of research, academia, industry and government, Internet2 is developing breakthrough cyberinfrastructure technologies that support the most demanding applications today—and potentially the essential innovations of tomorrow. Led by its members and focused on their current and future networking needs since 1996, Internet2 blends human, IP and optical networks to develop and deploy Internet technologies. Activating the same partnerships that produced todayÂ’s Internet, the Internet2 community is forging the Internet of the future. For more information via this link.