Building Grid Services for User Portals
Dennis B. Gannon, Marcus A. Christie, Octav Chipara, Liang Fang, Matthew Farrellee, Gopi Kandaswamy, Wei Dong Lu, Beth Plale, Aleksander Slominski, Anuraag Sarangi, Yogesh L. Simmhan · 2003
A Grid portal is a user’s point of access to a Grid system [3,5,6,9]. It provides an environment where the user can access Grid resources and services, execute and monitor Grid applications, and collaborate with other users. A number of Grid portals exist or are currently under construction including the NEESgrid Portal [14], the Alliance Portal [22], the GENIUS Portal for the European Data Grid [19], and the IeSE (Integrated e-