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Grid systems are expected to connect a large number of heterogeneous resources (PCs, databases, HPC clusters, instruments, sensors, visualization tools, etc.), to be used by many users and to execute a large variety of applications (number crunching, data access, multimedia, etc.) and may deal with many scientific fields (health, economy, computing etc.).
Grids are distributed systems and, like them, the notion of security, the way we manage such large system and the way we control the grid system are of particular interest. For instance, the word ‘controllable’ means how we measure the activity of the grid and how we report it. The word ‘manageable’ means how we deploy the grid architecture, the grid softwares, and how we start jobs (under controllable events such as the availability of resources). The word ‘security’ refers to the traditional fields of authentication, fault tolerance but also refers to safe execution (how to certify results, how to adapt computation according to some metric). Moreover, all these services should collaborate, making the building of middleware a challenging problem. In this context questions about who holds the sensitive information, who has permissions to access it, how this information is handled are raised. Therefore, the building of a chain of trust between software components as well as the integration of security and privacy mechanisms across multiple autonomous and/or heterogeneous grid platforms are key challenges.
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Cérin, C. (2009). Workshop on Secure, Trusted, Manageable and Controllable Grid Services (SGS 2008). In: César, E., et al. Euro-Par 2008 Workshops - Parallel Processing. Euro-Par 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5415. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00955-6_24
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