Title :
Globus Nexus: An identity, profile, and group management platform for science gateways and other collaborative science applications
Author :
Ananthakrishnan, Rachana ; Bryan, Josh ; Chard, Kyle ; Foster, Ian ; Howe, Tom ; Lidman, Mattias ; Tuecke, Steven
Author_Institution :
Comput. Inst., Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Abstract :
Globus Nexus is a flexible and powerful Platform-as-a-Service to which developers can outsource identity, group, and profile management needs. By providing these frequently important but always challenging capabilities as a service, accessible over the network, Globus Nexus streamlines web application development and makes it easy for individuals, teams, and institutions to create collaborative web applications such as science gateways for the science community. We introduce the capabilities of this platform and review representative applications.
Keywords :
cloud computing; groupware; natural sciences computing; outsourcing; Globus Nexus; Web application development; collaborative Web applications; collaborative science applications; group management platform; group outsourcing; identity outsourcing; platform-as-a-service; profile management outsourcing; science community; science gateways; Authorization; Social network services; authentication; authorization; group; identity; platform; profile; science gateways;
Conference_Titel :
Cluster Computing (CLUSTER), 2013 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Indianapolis, IN
DOI :
10.1109/CLUSTER.2013.6702693
