The Grid Portal Development Kit

Abstract

Computational science portals are emerging as useful and necessary interfaces for performing operations on the Grid. The Grid Portal Development Kit (GPDK) facilitates the development of Grid portals and provides several key reusable components for accessing various Grid services. A Grid portal provides a customizable interface allowing scientists to perform a variety of Grid operations including remote program submission, file staging, and querying of information services from a single, secure gateway. The GPDK leverages off existing Globus/Grid middleware infrastructure as well as commodity Web technology including Java Server Pages and servlets. The design and architecture of the GPDK is presented as well as a discussion on the portal building capabilities of the GPDK, allowing application developers to build customized portals more effectively by reusing common core services provided by the GPDK.

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“…Currently there are many grid portals, including the Alliance Portal [30], the NEESgrid Portal [31], the Genius Portal [32] and the IeSE Portal [33]. Also, there are many grid portal development frameworks including the Gridsphere Portal [34], the GridPort Portal [35], the Grid Portal Development Toolkit (GPDK) [36] and the OCGE Portal Toolkit [37].…”

A Grid-Aware Branch, Cut and Price Implementation

“…Currently there are many grid portals, including the Alliance Portal [23], the NEESgrid Portal [24], the Genius Portal [25] and the IeSE Portal [26]. Also, there are many Grid portal development frameworks including the Gridsphere Portal [27], the GridPort Portal [28] and the Grid Portal Development Toolkit (GPDK) [29].…”

The Virtual Instrument: Support for Grid-Enabled Mcell Simulations

“…Related works also include portal activities (Thomas et al, 2001;Novotny, 2002) and the VI software could ultimately be integrated as a user portal. Computational steering has been an active field of research and several projects have provided models, methodologies, and software for steering scientific applications: SCIRUN (Parker et al, 1998), VASE (Jablonowski et al, 1993), Progress (Vetter and Schwan, 1995), Magellan (Vetter and Schwan, 1997), CUMULVS (Geist et al, 1997).…”

“…Such environments include Grid portals, which have been implemented successfully for many scientific applications and provide users with a familiar Web browser interface to launch and monitors application runs on Grid resources: for instant the GAMESS portal, https://gridport.npaci.edu/GAMESS/, and the Telescience portal, https://gridport.npaci.edu/Tel-escience/ (Allen et al, 2001). As a result, several efforts have provided toolkits to help in the development of Grid portals; see Thomas et al (2001), Novotny (2002), Suzumura et al (2002) and the Grid Portal Collaboration (http:// www.ipg.nasa.gov). Another solution is to build integrated software environments targeted to specific applications or classes of applications.…”