Thebes

Hi all,

First, welcome to the revised Thebes site. These revisions were made to reflect expanded directions in the Thebes project, as well as recent development.

Thebes is no longer limited to the technology formerly called the grid. As we move forward in the arena of security token services and web services access to SAML tokens, the grid is just one of several areas Thebes is interested in exploring in the future.

Of course, sharing computational resources remains our first love, and to that end you'll find interesting work being done in the latest version of the service access software. A little help in naming this would be welcomed. As soon as we have some code posted for review and testing, we have permission to start working on SWITCH's Security Token Service, which will enable web services access to create SAML tokens (as well as any other security tokens). This is an exciting time!

So, in summary, Thebes bears little resemblance to what it was two years ago.

I've made attempts to maintain a blog on the GridsWatch site, which I really did not have a lot of success with. The lack of responses did not help keep my motivation up! I'll repost a few of my favorite entries here where I have control over their future, and I will then start posting here. Please let me know what you think.

Arnie