myGrid developer blog

I’m currently looking into an old bug, TAV-480, that seems to have reappeared. This bug is related to Raven, our classloader system based on Maven that allows us to do plugins and network updates. I’ll come with another post about this bug, but first let’s do an introduction of Raven.
The idea of Raven is quite […]

Taverna 1.7.1 was released today, including an updated preview of t2, the enactor of Taverna 2.0 scheduled for June 2008.
You can download 1.7.1 from SourceForge.

Daniel Bayer at University of Lübeck has implemented an ARC Grid plugin for Taverna for submitting job to the grid system ARC, in particular for usage with KnowARC. Bayer, together with Steffen Möller and Hajo N. Krabbenhöft also recently got published in Bioinformatics.
The work seems very promising, and in particular because it seems to have […]

Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a programme hosted by Google that gives students a chance to work (and paid a scholarship) during the summer 2008 for an open source project.
We’re happy to announce that OMII-UK (the mother organisation of myGrid) has been accepted as one of GSoC’s mentoring organisations. Some of the ideas for […]

We’re hopefully doing our code freeze for Taverna 1.7.1 today, 2008-03-28.
There’s a few bug fixes, in addition to quite a bit of work on t2. There will also be a drag-and-drop-able, interactive workflow editor, basically you can edit the workflow by connecting lines between the processors. Those of you who remember Taverna 1.4 might notice […]