Enhancing scientific workflows with secure shell functionality in UNICORE grids

Author

Riedel, Morris ; Mallmann, Daniel ; Streit, Achim

Author_Institution

Central Inst. of Appl. Math., Res. Centre Julich

fYear

2005

fDate

1-1 July 2005

Lastpage

139

Abstract

The UNICORE grid technology provides a seamless, secure and intuitive access to distributed grid resources such as computational or storage related resources. In addition, its extensible character through application-specific plug-ins and its enhancements developed in various European-funded projects leads to the UNICORE technology that is used in daily production at many supercomputer centers and research facilities world-wide today. In this paper we present an enhancement that provides the dynamic capabilities of a secure shell terminal within the UNICORE grid technology while single sign-on remains. This enhancement allows the integration of the dynamic work-behavior of scientists, or existing scientific applications, to be more integrated into the usual workflow with UNICORE and therefore in collaborative grid environments. As a well-known tool in the scientific community, a secure shell terminal provides the most flexible way of working on remote systems that no graphical user interface or advanced tooling in grid computing can ever provide

Keywords

grid computing; groupware; natural sciences computing; security of data; UNICORE grid technology; collaborative grid environments; distributed grid resource access; grid computing; remote systems; scientific applications; scientific workflows; secure shell terminal; Collaboration; Collaborative work; Distributed computing; Graphical user interfaces; Grid computing; Large-scale systems; Mathematics; Production; Secure storage; Supercomputers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

e-Science and Grid Computing, 2005. First International Conference on

Conference_Location

Melbourne, Vic.

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2448-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/E-SCIENCE.2005.37

Filename

1572218