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Abridging Scientific Communities Integration with A General Purpose Grid and Cloud Portal |
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In the framework of the Italian Grid Infrastructure, we have designed
a web portal which aims at providing a powerful and easy to use
gateway to distributed computing resources and cloud services
provisioning. We feel that one of the key points that this kind of
application must be able to address is the possibility to hide the
complexity of the X.509 certificates management. In fact, while the Public Key
Infrastructure is certainly one of the main aspects of the Grid
environment, it is also one of the bigger obstacles that very often
prevents the new users from approaching it. Through the portal users
can securely run their applications without facing the complexity of
the authentication infrastructure. It also interfaces with external
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) frameworks for the dynamic
provisioning of computing resources. The portal architecture is based
on an external authentication layer providing strong user
identification by means of an accredited identity federation. The
generation of a credential is handled interfacing the portal to an online CA
using the OAuth protocol and saving the certificate into a
MyProxy server. The portal gives full access to Grid functionality
without requiring the users to have an X.509 certificate, hiding the
complexity of proxy management. The portal also provides simplified
access to common Grid data management operations avoiding bottlenecks
for large or many concurrent file transfers. Our data management
solution consists in one or more WebDAV storage devices, external to
the portal, where users can easily upload their data from a
standard desktop or laptop with every kind of operating system without
requiring the installation of custom Grid software on the client side.
The portal subsequently is in charge to asynchronously copying and
registering the data over the Grid infrastructure hiding the Grid
middleware complexity to the end user. |
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52 |
Place: |
BHSS Room: Media Conference Room |
Starting date: |
29-Feb-2012 |
14:22 (Asia/Taipei) |
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Duration: |
22' |
Contribution type: |
Oral Presentation |
Primary Authors: |
Dr. BENCIVENNI, Marco (INFN CNAF & IGI) Dr. VERONESI, Paolo (INFN CNAF & IGI) Dr. CECCANTI, Andrea (INFN CNAF & IGI) Dr. MISURELLI, Giuseppe (INFN CNAF & IGI) Dr. VALERIO, Venturi (INFN CNAF & IGI) Dr. GAIDO, Luciano (INFN Torino & IGI) Dr. BRUNETTI, Riccardo (INFN Torino & IGI) Dr. CIASCHINI, Vincenzo (INFN CNAF) Dr. MICHELOTTO, Diego (INFN Ferrara & INFN CNAF) Dr. DONVITO, Giacinto (INFN Bari & IGI) |
Presenters: |
Dr. CESINI, Daniele |
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Included in session: |
Middleware & Interoperability |
Included in track: |
Middleware & Interoperability |
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