Paper Info
Title
MediGRID: Towards a user friendly secured grid infrastructure
Abstract
Many scenarios in medical research are predestined for grid computing. Large amounts of data in complex medical image, biosignal and genome processing demand large computing power and data storage. Integration of distributed, heterogeneous data, e.g. correlation between phenotype and genotype data are playing an essential part in life sciences. Sharing of specialized software, data and processing results for collaborative work are further tasks which would strongly benefit from the use of grid infrastructures. However, two major barriers are identified in existing grid environments that prevent extensive use within the life sciences community: Extended security requirements and appropriate usability. To meet these requirements, the MediGRID project is enhancing the basic D-Grid infrastructure along with the implementation of prototype applications from different fields of biomedical research. In this paper, we focus on the developments for ease-of-use under consideration of different aspects of security. They encompass not only security within the grid infrastructure, but also the boundary conditions of network security on the site of the research institutions. For medical grids, we propose a strictly web-portal-based access to grid resources for end-users, with user-guiding, application specific, graphical interfaces. Different levels of authorization are implemented, from fully authorized users to guests without certificate authentication in order to allow hands-on experience for potential grid users.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1016/j.future.2008.05.005
Future Generation Comp. Syst.
Keywords
Field
DocType
grid computing,healthgrids,usability,potential grid user,extended security requirement,security,grid resource,heterogeneous data,grid infrastructure,grid environment,user friendly secured grid,medical grid,data storage,genotype data,network security,ease of use,graphical interface,boundary condition
Grid computing,Authentication,Computer science,Computer security,Data grid,Usability,Network security,Semantic grid,Grid,Distributed computing,Certificate
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
25
3
Future Generation Computer Systems
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
39
2.60
13
Authors
19
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dagmar Krefting19914.27
Julian Bart2392.60
Kamen Beronov3392.94
Olga Dzhimova4392.94
Jürgen Falkner5546.12
Michael Hartung639522.90
Andreas Hoheisel726518.62
Tobias A Knoch8618.01
Thomas Lingner934331.15
Yassene Mohammed10638.43
Kathrin Peter11698.16
Erhard Rahm127415655.09
Ulrich Sax136113.73
Dietmar Sommerfeld14445.13
Thomas Steinke15848.46
Thomas Tolxdorff16735110.45
Michal Vossberg17705.83
Fred Viezens18515.82
Anette Weisbecker1920234.72