The UNICORE architecture: seamless access to distributed resources

Author

Romberg, Mathilde

Author_Institution

Central Inst. for Appl. Math., Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH, Germany

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

287

Lastpage

293

Abstract

Seamless access to different systems of different vendors at different sites is an important prerequisite to effective and efficient use of distributed resources. Learning about new systems, new software, and new interfaces is a time-consuming task for users who actually want to run their applications. UNICORE is a project to overcome these difficulties by providing a uniform interface for job preparation and control which gives seamless and secure access to supercomputer resources. It is an ambitious project delivering a production ready prototype within two years. The article focuses on the UNICORE architecture, especially the protocol and the underlying security mechanism

Keywords

distributed processing; security of data; user interfaces; UNICORE architecture; job control; job preparation; protocol; seamless distributed resource access; seamless supercomputer resource access; secure supercomputer resource access; security mechanism; Access protocols; Application software; Computer architecture; Computer interfaces; Data security; Grid computing; Mathematics; Pervasive computing; Prototypes; Resource management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High Performance Distributed Computing, 1999. Proceedings. The Eighth International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Redondo Beach, CA

ISSN

1082-8907

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5681-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HPDC.1999.805308

Filename

805308