Joint EGEE and OSG Workshop on VO Management in Production Grids

Session

Keynote

24 Jun 2008, 09:15

HPDC 2008, Boston, MA, USA

1. The Sociology of the Grid

Ian Foster (ANL)

24/06/2008, 09:15

(Joint work with Carl Kesselman, USC/ISI) The term virtual organization (VO), when used to denote a dynamic collection of individuals, institutions, and resources united by some common interest or task, has emerged as a popular, and presumably useful, organizing principle in distributed systems. It is common to see systems being deployed to support one or more VOs, policies may be expressed...