Security Implications of Typical Grid Computing Usage Scenarios
A Computational Grid is a collection of heterogeneous computers and resources spread across multiple administrative domains with the intent of providing users uniform access to these resources. There are many ways to access the resources of a Computational Grid, each with unique security requirements and implications for both the resource user and the resource provider. A comprehensive set of Grid usage scenarios are presented and analyzed with regard to security requirements such as authentication, authorization, integrity, and confidentiality. The main value of these scenarios and the associated security discussions are to provide a library of situations against which an application designer can match, thereby facilitating security-aware application use and development from the initial stages of the application design and invocation. A broader goal of these scenarios are to increase the awareness of security issues in Grid Computing.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Director, Office of Science. Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research. Mathematical, Information, and Computational Sciences Division (US)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC03-76SF00098
- OSTI ID:
- 789134
- Report Number(s):
- LBNL-47047; R&D Project: 527501; TRN: AH200137%%338
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: High Performance Distributed Computing, San Francisco, CA (US), 08/07/2001--08/09/2001; Other Information: PBD: 5 Jun 2001
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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