CaGrid

caGrid is the underlying service oriented infrastructure that supports caBIG™, an initiative of the National Cancer Institute. Driven primarily by scientific use cases from the cancer research community, caGrid provides the core enabling infrastructure necessary to compose the Grid of caBIG™. It provides the technology that enables collaborating institutions to share information and analytical resources efficiently and securely, and allows investigators to easily contribute to and leverage the resources of a national-scale, multi-institutional environment. The first public release (version 0.5) of caGrid came in September of 2005, and the first 1.0 release was made on December 15, 2006. caGrid 1.1 was released in September of 2007, and represents a minor, backwards compatible release of caGrid, with a focus on increased usability, bug fixes, and various feature enhancements.