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Grid Services Security
Ashraf Memon of the San Diego Supercomputer Center discusses the
convergence of web services and grid computing and security for grid
services.
Grid Data Service Specification
This is a draft of the specification for grid database services from the Global Grid
Forum Database Access and Integration Services (DAIS) Working
Group. It describes generic, extensible data access
interfaces.
Federated
Identities
Thor Larholm discusses security issues related to federated identities.
Interview and Thor's slides from the SDSIC web services conference
(2004).
Microsoft and Grid Computing
Jim Gray (Microsoft Research)
This paper outlines Microsoft's interest in grid computing. Jim Gray has been involved with
SkyQuery and
SkyQuery+.
Open Grid Services Infrastructure
Grid and web services technologies provide an infrastructure for grid services. The Open Grid Services Infrastructure
(OGSI) specification explains how to create grid services and how they will exchange information.
The Physiology of the Grid: An Open Grid Services Architecture for Distributed Systems Integration
Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman, Jeffrey M. Nick, Steven Tuecke
Describes OGSA grid service semantics and techniques for creating, naming, and discovering
grid service instances. It also provides multiple protocol bindings for service
instances.
Thoughts on Commercial Grid Standards
Charlie Cattlett (Chair, Global Grid Forum)
The author discusses the viability of the Global Grid Forum as a standards organizations for commercial grids.
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