Grid Computing Pros Weigh in on Security Issues

Highlights include:

* IBM's chief architect on identity management outlines specific security
challenges that the Grid community is working hard to address today, and
discusses the recent launch of the Higgins Trust Framework.

* Georgetown's Advanced Research Computing team explains how they've
leveraged Shibboleth to reconcile the security requirements of medical
researchers.

* The GAMA (Grid Account Management Architecture) project leaders explain
their quest to make Grid security 'as easy to use as any commercial Web
site.'

* A senior scientist from the NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing
Applications) traces the evolution of single sign-on Grid security
directions and the momentum of MyProxy.

* GGF Security Area directors bring GCJ readers up to speed on where the
Grid security action is today, and what issues are being reconciled within
the Global Grid Forum.

The Globus Consortium (www.globusconsortium.org) is a non-profit group that
supports the Globus Toolkit, the de facto standard for open source Grid
computing. Members include IBM, Cisco, Intel, HP, Sun, Nortel and Univa.