Globus Nexus: An identity, profile, and group management platform for science gateways and other collaborative science applications

Author

Ananthakrishnan, Rachana ; Bryan, Josh ; Chard, Kyle ; Foster, Ian ; Howe, Tom ; Lidman, Mattias ; Tuecke, Steven

Author_Institution

Comput. Inst., Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

23-27 Sept. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

Globus Nexus is a flexible and powerful Platform-as-a-Service to which developers can outsource identity, group, and profile management needs. By providing these frequently important but always challenging capabilities as a service, accessible over the network, Globus Nexus streamlines web application development and makes it easy for individuals, teams, and institutions to create collaborative web applications such as science gateways for the science community. We introduce the capabilities of this platform and review representative applications.

Keywords

cloud computing; groupware; natural sciences computing; outsourcing; Globus Nexus; Web application development; collaborative Web applications; collaborative science applications; group management platform; group outsourcing; identity outsourcing; platform-as-a-service; profile management outsourcing; science community; science gateways; Authorization; Social network services; authentication; authorization; group; identity; platform; profile; science gateways;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Cluster Computing (CLUSTER), 2013 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Indianapolis, IN

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLUSTER.2013.6702693

Filename

6702693