The Legion Grid Portal

-- The Legion Grid Portal is an interface to a grid system. Users interact with the portal, and hence a grid through an intuitive interface from which they can view files, submit and monitor runs, and view accounting information. The architecture of the portal is designed to accommodate multiple diverse grid infrastructures, legacy systems and application-specific interfaces. The current implementation of the Legion Grid Portal is with familiar web technologies over the Legion grid infrastructure. The portal can be extended in a number of directions -additional support for grid administrators, greater number of application-specific interfaces, interoperability between grid infrastructures, and interfaces for programming support. The portal has been in operation since February 2000 on npacinet, a worldwide grid managed by Legion on NPACI resources. I. OVERVIEW he Legion Grid Portal is a grid computing environment project designed to make grids accessible to users via easy-to-use interfa...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2002
• Where: CONCURRENCY
• Authors: Anand Natrajan, Anh Nguyen-Tuong, Marty Humphrey, Michael Herrick, Brian P. Clarke, Andrew S. Grimshaw
• Keywords: CONCURRENCY 2002, Grid, Legion Grid Portal, Multiple Diverse Grid