Title
Walden: A Scalable Solution for Grid Account Management
Abstract
A large and diverse consortium of grid clusters, as can be found in a university setting, requires a flexible authorization model that is scalable, extensible and easy to administer. Current approaches to grid authorization suffer from administrative interfaces that don't scale, authorization models that don't provide needed functionality, or both. This paper proposes a solution with initial implementation that uses existing standards to support the requirements of such a consortium of grid clusters. Our solution eliminates the need to manage authentication and authorization on a per-host basis, and implements a mechanism to temporarily bind a grid user to a local guest account on grid resource.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1109/GRID.2004.66
GRID
Keywords
Field
DocType
grid user,grid account management,flexible authorization model,scalable solution,grid resource,authorization model,grid cluster,grid authorization,current approach,diverse consortium,administrative interface,initial implementation,grid computing,authorisation,message authentication
DRMAA,Authentication,Grid computing,Message authentication code,Computer science,Authorization,Semantic grid,Grid,Scalability,Distributed computing
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7695-2256-4
5
0.59
References 
Authors
11
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Beth A. Kirschner150.59
Thomas J. Hacker233832.29
William A. Adamson3357.85
Brian D. Athey430622.13