HotGrid: Graduated Access to Grid-Based Science Gateways

We describe the idea of a Science Gateway, an application-specific task wrapped as a web service, and some examples of these that are being implemented on the US TeraGrid cyberinfrastructure. We also describe HotGrid, a means of providing simple, immediate access to the Grid through one of these gat...

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Published inAdvances in Grid Computing - EGC 2005 pp. 78 - 87
Main Authors Williams, Roy, Steenberg, Conrad, Bunn, Julian
Format Book Chapter Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2005
Springer
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
Subjects
Anonymous User
Application Programming Interface
Applied sciences
Compact Muon Solenoid
Computer science; control theory; systems
Computer systems and distributed systems. User interface
Exact sciences and technology
Grid Resource
Power User
Software
High performance
Grid
World wide web
Web service
Information gateway
Internet
Distributed system
Distributed computing
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Summary:We describe the idea of a Science Gateway, an application-specific task wrapped as a web service, and some examples of these that are being implemented on the US TeraGrid cyberinfrastructure. We also describe HotGrid, a means of providing simple, immediate access to the Grid through one of these gateways, which we hope will broaden the use of the Grid, drawing in a wide community of users. The secondary purpose of HotGrid is to acclimate a science community to the concepts of certificate use. Our system provides these weakly authenticated users with immediate power to use the Grid resources for science, but without the dangerous power of running arbitrary code. We describe the implementation of these Science Gateways with the Clarens secure web server.
ISBN:3540269185
9783540269182
ISSN:0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI:10.1007/11508380_10