[Iplant-api-dev] Fwd: Science Gateways Community Talk: Agave API

[Matthew Vaughn]

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> Subject: Science Gateways Community Talk: Agave API
> Date: October 24, 2013 at 9:21:27 AM CDT
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> Categories: Training, Education & Outreach, Science Gateways
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> Start time: 25 Oct, 2013 12:00 EDT
> End time: 25 Oct, 2013 13:00 EDT
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> Posted on 24 Oct, 2013 14:07 UTC by Suresh Marru
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> This week’s Bi-Weekly XSEDE Science Gateway Community call features a talk by Rion Dooley from Texas Advanced Computing Center will discuss Science-as-a-Service with the Agave API. 
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> Talk Abstract:
> Today, the compute, storage, visualization, and cloud resources available to the academic research community have never been more powerful or more diverse. Moore's Law has resulted in systems of tremendous capacity and capability. As the number of applications created to leverage this capacity grows, and science become an increasingly collaborative effort, the question quickly becomes how do we expose the power of these systems to a broader community of users without pushing the barrier to entry beyond their reach. 
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> In this talk we will look at one popular solution to this problem, iPlant's Agave API (http://agaveapi.co). The Agave API is a secure, RESTful, science-as-service API platform that provides thousands of users access to hundreds of applications spanning dozens of compute and data systems around the globe. Agave allows administrators, developers, and end users alike to go from proposal to production without worrying about the size, capacity, distribution, or availability of the underlying resources and applications. Join us as we walk through a brief overview of Agave's capabilities, developer tools, highlight several gateways using it in production today.
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> Bio of Speaker:
> Rion Dooley is a research associate at the Texas Advanced Computing where he leads the Web and Cloud Services group. He earned his PhD in CS from LSU in 2004 with the support of a Board of Regents Fellowship. He worked at LSU's Center of Computation and Technology for 2 years before moving to UT. Past projects include the development of science gateways such as GridChem, the TeraGrid Mobile User Portal, and the XSEDE User Portal. Rion is currently the lead architect of the Agave API, and co-PI of the Distributed Web Security for Science Gateways project (http://www.sciencegatewaysecurity.org). He is also a senior participant in the Science Gateway Institute planning project (http://sciencegateways.org) and the newly funded Arabidopsis Informatics Portal. Rion's primary research interests include distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and data management.
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> Call Time: 10/25 (Friday) at  Noon Eastern (9 am Pacific).
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> To join the meeting:
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> * Click on https://meet.illinois.edu/tcckrll/9KT391SK, If your institution uses Microsoft Lync it will open up the Lync client. For others, the website will prompt to use Lync Webapp which should allow both to listen to audio and view presentation. Alternatively, you can join the audio by phone (+1 888 983 3631, Conference ID: 15785694). On Mac's the web app is known to work on Firefox and Safari and not on Chrome. 
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> * Non-Lync institutions and Windows OS: You can join over a network using the MS Lync Attendee software client, and this gives you full VOIP capability including video conferencing and screen-sharing. Download and install this software here http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=15755. For Windows only.
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> If you have trouble with audio using the Lync client or the Lync Webapp, you can use the following phone line for audio. 
> The telecon number is: +1 888 983 3631, Conference ID: 15785694
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> Please contact smarru at iu.edu if you have trouble seeing the presentation or joining the audio conference.
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