Security mechanisms for legacy code applications in GT3 environment

Author

Zky, G. Terstyans ; Delaitre, T. ; Goyeneche, A. ; Kiss, T. ; Sajadah, K. ; Winter, S.C. ; Kacsuk, P.

Author_Institution

Centre of Parallel Comput., Univ. of Westminster, London, UK

fYear

2005

fDate

9-11 Feb. 2005

Firstpage

220

Lastpage

226

Abstract

There are many legacy code applications that cannot be run in grid environment without significant modifications. To avoid reengineering of legacy code, we developed the grid execution management for legacy code architecture (GEMLCA) that enables deployment of legacy code applications as grid services. GEMLCA is an OGSI grid service layer that supports submitting jobs, getting their results and status back. Security requirements are essential to any grid application to preserve the confidentiality and integrity of data. To meet these requirements the GT3 security model was implemented in GEMLCA. The paper introduces GEMLCA and how grid security infrastructure (GSI) components have been added to GEMLCA in order to enable secure execution of jobs in grid. The paper also presents how a legacy code traffic simulator was transformed into a grid service using GEMLCA and gives some simulation results.

Keywords

data integrity; digital simulation; grid computing; open systems; security of data; software maintenance; traffic engineering computing; GEMLCA; GSI components; GT3 security model; OGSI grid service layer; data integrity; grid execution management; grid security infrastructure; legacy code architecture; legacy code traffic simulator; Application software; Computational modeling; Computer architecture; Concurrent computing; Data security; Distributed computing; Grid computing; Java; Testing; Wrapping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing, 2005. PDP 2005. 13th Euromicro Conference on

ISSN

1066-6192

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2280-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EMPDP.2005.38

Filename

1386062