Outstanding Achievement Award - caGrid
caBIG™ 2007 Recognition Award Winners
Outstanding Achievement Award winners have realized significant accomplishments and made important contributions to the caBIG™ Program. Awardees have demonstrated excellence in the areas of project management, product and tool development and adoption, and collaboration. Awardees have also exhibited thought leadership that significantly contributed to the progress of the caBIG™ Program.
The caBIG™ Program is proud to award the following teams and individuals with Outstanding Achievement Awards:
The caGrid 1.0 Developer Team: Dave Ervin, Shannon Hastings, Tahsin Kurc, Stephen Langella, Scott Oster, Joel Saltz (Ohio State University); Bill Allcock, Ian Foster, Jarek Gawor, Raj Kettimuthu, Ravi Madduri, Frank Siebenlist, Mike Wilde (University of Chicago / Argonne National Laboratory); Patrick McConnell (Duke University Comprehensive Cancer Center); Val Bragg, David Wellborn (ScenPro, Inc.); Srini Akkala, Ram Chilukuri, Vinay Kumar, Joshua Phillips (SemanticBits, LLC.); Manav Kher (Science Applications International Corporation [SAIC]); Wendy Erickson-Hirons (Northern Taiga Ventures, Inc. [NTVI])
In recognition of excellence for their tremendous achievement in working together as a cohesive team and developing production quality infrastructure to support the needs of caBIG, the caGrid 1.0 Developer Team has been awarded an Outstanding Achievement Award. caGrid 1.0 is the unifying architecture and operating environment for systems and applications in caBIG, and culminates the development of the federated infrastructure that will more fully support the needs of the cancer research community.
The caGrid team worked with cutting edge technologies to build open standards-based enterprise level service infrastructure that satisfied the complex requirements of the caBIG community. They integrated existing proven solutions built by other teams into the caGrid infrastructure to deliver high quality software to caBIG in a short period of time. The tools developed by the caGrid team are of exceptional value to the biomedical informatics community in reducing barriers to developing, delivering, and using interoperable grid services in a federated environment.