Building Grid Services for User Portals

Abstract

A Grid portal is a user’s point of access to a Grid system [3,5,6,9]. It provides an environment where the user can access Grid resources and services, execute and monitor Grid applications, and collaborate with other users. A number of Grid portals exist or are currently under construction including the NEESgrid Portal [14], the Alliance Portal [22], the GENIUS Portal for the European Data Grid [19], and the IeSE (Integrated e