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The Internet2 2006 Fall Member Meeting was held in Chicago, Illinois from Monday December 4th through Thursday December 7th. I attended the meeting to participate in a SURAgrid presentation and demonstration of applications running on SURAgrid, including the UABgrid BLAST application which leverages DynamicBLAST to distribute gene sequence queries across grid resources. I also participated in a meeting to discuss next steps for the continuing myVocs and GridShib integration efforts and project updates.

SURAgrid is a collaborative effort to build a production grid computing environment leveraging existing infrastructure and applications.

the basic idea for a self registration site needs to be that a user can
determine what federation they are from and then either auto-login based
on an existing affiliation in the fed or join the friends zone. this can
let users span across several apps. there is still the need for an
application local user. but this doesn't necarrily need to be exposed, eg.
interface for admin/root to log in to a specific app. when thinking about
standalong orgs though, or all self registered orgs, people aren't really
joining the friends of. in that case they are the organization itself.
the friends of service is needed only if your site has a dominate user