Interconnecting the Virtual Observatory with computational grid infrastructures
FABIO PASIAN, Giuliano Taffoni, Claudio Vuerli · Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union · 2006
The term ‘grid’, in the Virtual Observatory (VO) context, has mainly been used to indicate a set of interoperable services, allowing transparent access to a set of geographically distributed and heterogeneous archives and catalogues, data exchange and analysis, etc. The design of the VO has been however mainly geared at allowing users to access registered services.