Large Scale Network (LSN)
Middleware And Grid Infrastructure Coordination (MAGIC) Team
Overview
The MAGIC Team provides coordination among Federal agencies with responsibility for middleware and Grid projects, individuals involved in middleware and Grid research and infrastructure, individuals involved in implementing or operating Grids, and users of Grids and middleware. Federal agency and Federal lab participants include: ANL, DOE/SC, LANL, LBL, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, NSF, PNNL, and UCAR. Non-Federal participants include The Boeing Company, Cisco Systems, Educause, Hewlett-Packard, IMB, Internet2, Information Sciences Institute, Level3 Communications, Microsoft, the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Wisconsin.
Current projects are:
- Coordinating R&D program directions for Grid applications and middleware
- Coordinating technical activities and sharing of resources among projects and programs
- Expediting operations and resolving emerging problems and technical issues
- Promoting interoperability, identifying best practices, and encouraging technical consensus
- Coordinating international issues such as Grid federations
- Addressing issues of persistence and long-term support for tools and infrastructure
- Providing outreach and information to potential users
The MAGIC Team was created in 2002.
The MAGIC Team reports to the Large Scale Networking (LSN) Coordinating Group of the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Subcommittee.
MAGIC Meeting Minutes and Materials
Conferences and Workshops
Presentation on Security at Line Speed Workshop (August 12-13, 2003) 
MAGIC Material
TRUST AND ON DEMAND: Enabling Privacy, Security, Transparency, and Accountability in Distributed Systems presentation given at the MAGIC Team meeting held in Arlington, VA (September 7, 2005)
System Overview presentation given by Carl Kesselman, USC/ISI, at the MAGIC Team meeting held
in Arlington, VA (July 7, 2004)
ESE Grid Prototypes at the Goddard Space Flight center presentation given by Ken McDonald, NASA/GSFC, at the MAGIC Team meeting held in
Arlington, VA (April 7, 2004)
Grid Security: The Globus Perspective presentation given by Steve Tuecke, lead Software Architect in the Distributed Systems Laboratory
(DSL), in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory, at the MAGIC Team meeting held in Arlington, VA
(April 7, 2004)
