TF-EMC2- Grid
Collaboration with the Grid Community
Responsible: Milan Sova, CESNET
What is Grid?
The increasing demand of bandwidth and memory to run applications has turned distributed computing into a competitive solution to face the problem. While conventional networks focus on communication among devices and each computer plays a standard role, grid computing exploits unused processing cycles of all computers in a network for solving problems too intensive for any stand-alone machine, with the result that a distributed computer environment operates as it were a unique environment. Grid can therefore be defined as a type of parallel and distributed system that enables the sharing, selection, and aggregation of resources distributed across "multiple" domains. Sharing in a Grid environment is not related only to file exchange, but it is meant as a direct access to data, software and processors.
In Grid there is a separation between authentication, based on X.509 certificates and authorisation, performed by the Virtual Organisation (VO). In order for users to access Grid facilities, they need to register to a VO.
Aim of this Work Item
The work item will focus mainly on the authentication procedures and will monitor the work of IGTF (International Grid Trust Federation) and OGF (Open Grid Forum).