A roadmap for caGrid, an enterprise Grid architecture for biomedical research.
caGrid is a middleware system which combines the Grid computing, the service oriented architecture, and the model driven architecture paradigms to support development of interoperable data and analytical resources and federation of such resources in a Grid environment. The functionality provided by caGrid is an essential and integral component of the cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) program. This program is established by the National Cancer Institute as a nationwide effort to develop enabling informatics technologies for collaborative, multi-institutional biomedical research with the overarching goal of accelerating translational cancer research. Although the main application domain for caGrid is cancer research, the infrastructure provides a generic framework that can be employed in other biomedical research and healthcare domains. The development of caGrid is an ongoing effort, adding new functionality and improvements based on feedback and use cases from the community. This paper provides an overview of potential future architecture and tooling directions and areas of improvement for caGrid and caGrid-like systems. This summary is based on discussions at a roadmap workshop held in February with participants from biomedical research, Grid computing, and high performance computing communities.
Biomedical Informatics Department, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.
Joel
J
Saltz
Shannon
S
Hastings
Stephen
S
Langella
Scott
S
Oster
Tahsin
T
Kurc
Philip
P
Payne
Renato
R
Ferreira
Beth
B
Plale
Carole
C
Goble
David
D
Ervin
Ashish
A
Sharma
Tony
T
Pan
Justin
J
Permar
Peter
P
Brezany
Frank
F
Siebenlist
Ravi
R
Madduri
Ian
I
Foster
Krishnakant
K
Shanbhag
Charlie
C
Mead
Neil
N
Chue Hong
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