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Although several grid projects have the aim to develop portals that hide the complexity of distributed computing infrastructures, only few of these portals support workflow-based applications. The number of portals that enable collaborative workflow development or collaborative resource access is even lower. The paper introduces a model to categorize workflow-oriented grid portals based on two general features: ability to access multiple grids simultaneously and support for collaborative problem solving. The generic features of the different categories are discussed and the Globus-based implementations of the various categories are demonstrated by the P-GRADE Portal.
The work described in this paper is supported by the Hungarian grid project (IHM 4671/1/2003) and by the Hungarian OTKA project (No. T042459).
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Sipos, G., Kacsuk, P. (2005). Classification and Implementations of Workflow-Oriented Grid Portals. In: Yang, L.T., Rana, O.F., Di Martino, B., Dongarra, J. (eds) High Performance Computing and Communications. HPCC 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3726. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11557654_79
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