Cooperative Grid Vortals
Tomasz A. Haupt, Anand Kalyanasundaram · Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience · 2007
Abstract Vertical Grid portals, or Vortals, proved to be useful by providing access to applications running on high‐performance computational platforms and to distributed data enabling data sharing and other forms of collaboration. This paper identifies the commonalities between Vortals in various application domains, i.e. application‐independent patterns of orchestrating Grid services employed by a typical Vortal. These patterns can be captured as façades—a software layer between the Vortal business logic and generic Grid services that promotes a horizontal integration. The façades are reusable and considerably simplify the development of new Vortals. Furthermore, the façades foster interactions between different Vortals, and hence making them the cooperative Grid Vortals. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.