Grid Middleware for Research Communities: gLite, Globus, UNICORE and Emerging Standards

Session

Introduction to Grids, Middleware and Standards

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11 Jul 2007, 09:30

e-Science Institute

Description

This session of introductory talks is open to anyone who wishes to attend - but registration is still essential.... see above.

0. Introduction to morning

11/07/2007, 09:30

1. Grid concepts

11/07/2007, 09:35

2. Production Grid Infrastructures

11/07/2007, 10:20

This talk will describe several prominent production grids: the UK's National Grid Service, the international EGEE grid, and DEISA among them.

3. Basics of Grid middleware - 1

11/07/2007, 11:10

This talk will outline the basic services that are provided by grid middleware - for job execution, data management,... It will explain the role of certificates and Certificate Authorities, as a basis for "single sign-on" to the distributed resources provided by grids.

4. Basics of Grid middleware - 2

11/07/2007, 11:55

This talk explains the convergence of web services and grid middleware, introduces the OMII-Europe project and the standards that it is using for several key grid services: job execution, data access and integration, accounting. It gives a brief overview of Globus, gLite and UNICORE middleware.

5. Discussion

11/07/2007, 12:40

20. End of open session

11/07/2007, 12:55