XSEDE Capability Delivery Plan for "SPI-07: Enable a research community to install software on a resource"

Use Case SPI-07: Enable a research community to install software on a resource

Area: Community Building
URLs: Public, Review

Executive Summary: A service provider wants to enable research communities to install software on a resource they administer so the software can be used by the community and so community information systems contain resource-specific instructions that researchers can find and follow.

Organization: 
XSEDE
URLs: Public, Source
First CDP: 2018-11-30
Current CDP: 2018-11-30
Current Implementation Status: 
Time & Effort Summary: 

The functionality described in this use case is fully supported by the operational components listed here.

 

Significant Revisions:
This capability is currently supported by the following 2 components:
Component User facing? Component’s role in the capability
Research Software Portal (RSP) yes The SP learns that RDR is used to maintain resource information, and that they need to choose whether to support the Community Software Area (CSA) feature on their resource(s).
Resource Description Repository (RDR) yes SP records that a resource offers the CSA feature, and records instructions for the researcher on requesting a CSA and how to advertise software the researcher is making available thru the CSA.