Workflow-Oriented collaborative grid portals

  • Authors:
  • Gergely Sipos;Gareth J. Lewis;Péter Kacsuk;Vassil N. Alexandrov

  • Affiliations:
  • MTA SZTAKI Computer and Automation Research Institute, Budapest, Hungary;Advanced Computing and Emergent Technologies Centre, School of Systems Engineering, University of Reading, Reading, UK;MTA SZTAKI Computer and Automation Research Institute, Budapest, Hungary;Advanced Computing and Emergent Technologies Centre, School of Systems Engineering, University of Reading, Reading, UK

  • Venue:
  • EGC'05 Proceedings of the 2005 European conference on Advances in Grid Computing
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

The paper presents how workflow-oriented, single-user Grid portals could be extended to meet the requirements of users with collaborative needs. Through collaborative Grid portals different research and engineering teams would be able to share knowledge and resources. At the same time the workflow concept assures that the shared knowledge and computational capacity is aggregated to achieve the high-level goals of the group. The paper discusses the different issues collaborative support requires from Grid portal environments during the different phases of the workflow-oriented development work. While in the design period the most important task of the portal is to provide consistent and fault tolerant data management, during the workflow execution it must act upon the security framework its back-end Grids are built on.