Proxy dynamic delegation in grid gateway
This addresses usability barriers for non-expert users in Grid computing, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing simplification practices for resource access.
The paper tackles the problem of non-expert users struggling to access computational resources on Grid infrastructure by introducing L-GRID, a lightweight web portal that enables job submission from any browser in minutes without requiring Grid knowledge.
Nowadays one of the main obstacles the research comes up against is the difficulty in accessing the required computational resources. Grid is able to offer the user a wide set of resources, even if they are often too hard to exploit for non expert end user. Use simplification has today become a common practice in the access and utilization of Cloud, Grid, and data center resources. With the launch of L-GRID gateway, we introduced a new way to deal with Grid portals. L-GRID is an extremely light portal developed in order to access the EGI Grid infrastructure via Web, allowing users to submit their jobs from whatever Web browser in a few minutes, without any knowledge about the underlying Grid infrastructure.