Grid portal solutions: a comparison of GridPortlets and OGCE

Abstract

SUMMARYIn this paper we discuss two of the major Grid portal solutions, the Open Grid Computing Environments Collaboratory (OGCE) and GridPortlets, both of which provide basic tools that portal developers can use to interact with Grid middleware when designing their own custom or application-specific Grid portals. We investigate and compare what each of these packages provides, discuss their advantages and disadvantages, and identify missing features vital for Grid portal development. The main purpose of this paper is to identify what current toolkits provide, reveal some of their limitations, and provide motivation for the evolution of Grid portal solutions. Application groups should find this paper useful in helping to choose an appropriate Grid portal toolkit for building their Grid portals rapidly in a flexible and modular way.

Special Issue: Workshop on Grid Computing Portals (GCE 2005)

“…These are followed by papers addressing development in portal frameworks [24,7,22,21,29] and technologies [30,23], and application portals [28,33]. We conclude the issue with the review articles [25,26].…”

“…Technology presentations include portal frameworks and SOA/Web technologies [21][22][23][24][25][26], collaborative environments 1565 and workflows [27,7,28,29], grid usage [30], and sensors and instrumentation [31]. Application papers include a diverse representation of the types of applications that are being developed for portals, including water resource management [32], coastal observation [19], computational material science [33], collaborative informatics [28], and geology [34].…”

“…Application papers include a diverse representation of the types of applications that are being developed for portals, including water resource management [32], coastal observation [19], computational material science [33], collaborative informatics [28], and geology [34]. Two of the papers could be categorized as review or overview papers comparing portal frameworks [26] and Web services for remote portals (WSRP) [25].…”

“…The specializations include water resource management [32], coastal observation [19], computational material science [33], collaborative informatics [28], and geology [34]. In general, each portal presented a resource to a large community of users, who use a computational model as in the case of the Vlab project [33] or who access large analyzed data sets as in the GEON [33] and the SURA Coastal Ocean Observing Program (SCOOP) user portal [26]. The best paper [26] represents a typical HPC grid portal with components that include integration with sensors and sensor data, workflow, data archival storage and retrieval, visualization of results, and publication of data.…”

“…In general, each portal presented a resource to a large community of users, who use a computational model as in the case of the Vlab project [33] or who access large analyzed data sets as in the GEON [33] and the SURA Coastal Ocean Observing Program (SCOOP) user portal [26]. The best paper [26] represents a typical HPC grid portal with components that include integration with sensors and sensor data, workflow, data archival storage and retrieval, visualization of results, and publication of data. Additionally, a project such as the SCOOP portal represents cutting edge grid computing in the area of rapid response to catastrophic events such as hurricanes.…”