Joshua's interests are web, grid service technologies and cloud computing.  He is the lead developer on two python Web services toolkits and the grid Rapid Application Virtualization Interface (gRAVI).   Josh has extensive experience with portal and cloud technologies, and is working on bringing next generation of the Globus toolkit into this developing landscape

Computer Systems Engineer III

Contact [jrboverhof@lbl.gov]

Grid Remote Application Virtualization Interfaces (gRAVI)

Science Gateways

• NERSC Portal
• NERSC Science Gateways
  

Other

• ZSI python SOAP/WSDL toolkit
• pyGridWare: python WSRF toolkit, included in globus-4.0.* releases

Inactive

• DOE Science Grid: advanced distributed computing infrastructure based on Grid middleware and tools
• Remote Access Grid Explorer (RAGE): remote controlled robot with mobile interactive audio and video
• Nettest: secure, real-time network monitoring

• Wrap Scientific Applications as WSRF Grid Services using gRAVI, Chard, K.; Boverhof, J.; Tan, W.; Madduri, R.; Foster, I.; to appear in Proceedings of the International Conference on Web Services, Los Angeles, CA, July 2009. PDF
  
  
• Enabling petascale science: data management, troubleshooting,
  and scalable science services, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Volume 125, 2008. (Also appeared in Proceedings of SciDAC 2008 Conference, 13-17 July, 2008, Seattle, Washington, USA.) [pdf]
  
• Service Oriented Science Tutorial (open source grid cluster conference 2008)
• Python-WS Core (GlobusWorld 2006) [ppt]
• State and Events for Web Services: A Comparison of Five WS-Resource Framework and WS-Notification implementations (HPDC 14, 2005) [pdf]
• Python Web/Grid Services (OReily Open Source Convention 2004) [ppt]

• Outstanding Performance Award (LBNL)
• R&D 100 Award