Extending the collaborative online visualization and steering framework for computational Grids with attribute-based authorization

  • Authors:
  • M. Riedel;W. Frings;S. Habbinga;T. Eickermann;D. Mallmann;A. Streit;F. Wolf;T. Lippert;A. Ernst;R. Spurzem

  • Affiliations:
  • Julich Supercomput. Centre, Forschungszentrum Julich, Julich;Julich Supercomput. Centre, Forschungszentrum Julich, Julich;Julich Supercomput. Centre, Forschungszentrum Julich, Julich;Julich Supercomput. Centre, Forschungszentrum Julich, Julich;Julich Supercomput. Centre, Forschungszentrum Julich, Julich;Julich Supercomput. Centre, Forschungszentrum Julich, Julich;Julich Supercomput. Centre, Forschungszentrum Julich, Julich;Julich Supercomput. Centre, Forschungszentrum Julich, Julich;Astron. Rechen-Inst., Univ. of Heidelberg, Heidelberg;Astron. Rechen-Inst., Univ. of Heidelberg, Heidelberg

  • Venue:
  • GRID '08 Proceedings of the 2008 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Especially within grid infrastructures driven by high-performance computing (HPC), collaborative online visualization and steering (COVS) has become an important technique to dynamically steer the parameters of a parallel simulation or to just share the outcome of simulations via visualizations with geographically dispersed collaborators. In earlier work, we have presented a COVS framework reference implementation based on the UNICORE grid middleware used within DEISA. This paper lists current limitations of the COVS framework design and implementation related to missing fine-grained authorization capabilities that are required during collaborative COVS sessions. Such capabilities use end-user information about roles, project membership, or participation in a dedicated virtual organization (VO). We outline solutions and present a design and implementation of our architecture extension that uses attribute authorities such as the recently developed virtual organization membership service (VOMS) based on the security assertion markup language (SAML).