Abstract

State-of-the-art and emerging scientific applications require fast access to large quantities of data and commensurately fast computational resources. Both resources and data are oflen distributed in a wide-area network with components administered locally and independently. Computations may involve hundreds of processes that must be able to acquire re-sources dynamically and communicate efficiently. This paper analyzes the unique security requirements of large-scale distributed(grid) computing and develops a security policy and a corresponding security architecture. An implementation of the architecture within the Globus metacomputing toolkit is discussed.

Date

November 1, 1998

Authors

Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman, Gene Tsudik, Steven Tuecke

Book

Proceedings of the 5th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Pages

83-92