Reporting period - This report covers work completed July 2004 - September 2004

Accomplishments

Work on the scalable and secure peer-to-peer information sharing tool project focused on publicizing our work, updated releases of the implementation, and supporting our software user community.

Work on the security aspects focused on publishing and publicizing the work accomplished to date. We presented our published work at the Fourth IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing.  We have also had preliminary conversations with a number of open source projects about possible collaborations related to this work.

In an effort to publicize our current work and our future vision we submitted two papers, presented a poster, and gave a presentation at the National Collaboratories program meeting. 

We have continued to provide updated releases of the implementation. The software is located at http://www.dsd.lbl.gov/scishare.  The updates have addressed bug reports (http://dsd.lbl.gov/bugzilla) and new features, such as:

• Integrated, context-sensetive and searchable help system. 
• Trusted, untrusted and psuedo users are represented by different color schemes

A full list of the improvements and bug fixes in each of the releases can be found at http://dsd.lbl.gov/scishare/whatsnew.html.

In an effort to support our user community we have created a mailing list for our software users.  Information on joining the list and links to the archives can be found at http://dsd.lbl.gov/scishare/mail_archive/scishare-users.html.

Publications

• Securing Dynamic Collaborations
  K. Berket, A. Essiari, and M. Thompson, U.S. Department of Energy National Collaboratories Program Meeting, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, Aug. 10-12, 2004.
• Resource Discovery Infrastructure
  W. Hoschek, K. Berket, and D. Agarwal, U.S. Department of Energy National Collaboratories Program Meeting, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, Aug. 10-12, 2004.

Presentations

• PKI-Based Security for Peer-to-Peer Information Sharing
  Presented by A. Essiari at the Fourth IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing, Zurich, Switzerland, Aug. 25-27, 2004.
• Supporting the Collaboration Continuum
  Presented by K. Berket at the U.S. Department of Energy National Collaboratories Program Meeting, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, Aug. 10-12, 2004.

Posters

• A Scalable and Secure Peer-to-Peer Information Sharing Tool
  K. Berket, A. Essiari, A. Muratas, and A. Pillai, U.S. Department of Energy National Collaboratories Program Meeting, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, Aug. 10-12, 2004. (pdf)

Workshops, Conferences and Meetings

• Fourth IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing, Zurich, Switzerland, Aug. 25-27, 2004. A. Essiari presented accepted paper.
• U.S. Department of Energy National Collaboratories Program Meeting, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, Aug. 10-12, 2004. K. Berket presented a poster, gave a presentation and was a panelist on the Future Technology Examples panel.

Future Plans 

• continue adding security mechanisms to the implementation
• enhance the user interface and application functionality based on feedback from initial users
• instrumentation of system characteristics

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Credits: A Scalable and Secure Peer-to-Peer Information Sharing Tool research and development is funded by the U.S. Dept. of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research, Mathematical, Information, and Computational Sciences Division; Support Credits identify the funding sources and the organizational context of the work described in this document.