A Single Sign-On Infrastructure for Science Gateways on a Use Case for Structural Bioinformatics
| Autor: | Dirk Blunk, Georg Birkenheuer, Sandra Gesing, Sonja Herres-Pawlis, Lars Packschies, Martin Wewior, Oliver Kohlbacher, Sebastian Breuers, Miklos Kozlovszky, René Jäkel, Gregor Fels, Bernd Schuller, Anna Szikszay Fabri, Richard Grunzke, Patrick Schäfer, Jens Krüger, André Brinkmann, Johannes Schuster, Ákos Balaskó, Ralph Müller-Pfefferkorn, Thomas Steinke, Péter Kacsuk |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Computer Networks and Communications
Computer science business.industry Distributed computing 020206 networking & telecommunications Cloud computing 02 engineering and technology Grid computer.software_genre Security Assertion Markup Language Structural bioinformatics Hardware and Architecture Middleware (distributed applications) 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering 020201 artificial intelligence & image processing Single sign-on Web service User interface business computer Software Information Systems |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Grid Computing |
| ISSN: | 1572-9184 1570-7873 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10723-012-9247-y |
| Popis: | Structural bioinformatics applies computational methods to analyze and model three-dimensional molecular structures. There is a huge number of applications available to work with structural data on large scale. Using these tools on distributed computing infrastructures (DCIs), however, is often complicated due to a lack of suitable interfaces. The MoSGrid (Molecular Simulation Grid) science gateway provides an intuitive user interface to several widely-used applications for structural bioinformatics, molecular modeling, and quantum chemistry. It ensures the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data via a granular security concept, which covers all layers of the infrastructure. The security concept applies SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) and allows trust delegation from the user interface layer across the high-level middleware layer and the Grid middleware layer down to the HPC facilities. SAML assertions had to be integrated into the MoSGrid infrastructure in several places: the workflow-enabled Grid portal WS-PGRADE (Web Services Parallel Grid Runtime and Developer Environment), the gUSE (Grid User Support Environment) DCI services, and the cloud file system XtreemFS. The presented security infrastructure allows a single sign-on process to all involved DCI components and, therefore, lowers the hurdle for users to utilize large HPC infrastructures for structural bioinformatics. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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