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Session Outline

  • What is Grid computing?
  • Overview of Grid functionality
  • Overview of Grid security
  • Globus and OGSA
  • The National TeraGrid, NPACI & NMI
  • NASA, DoE, Center for Science and other large-scale initiatives
  • Fundamental weaknesses:
    • Complexity of middleware
    • Vulnerabilities in the underlying OSs
    • Application security
    • Trusted infrastructure
  • Securing the Grid
  • Towards the future
  • Things to do for further study

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