•Security
•Fault
Tolerance
•Object
Lookup and Registration
•Object
Persistence and Database support (as in
EIP’s)
•Event and
Transaction Services
•Collaboration among
scientists around world
•Job
Status as in HotPage (NPACI) and myGrid
(NCSA)
•File
Services (as in NPACI Storage Resource
Broker)
–Support (XML based) computational science specific metadata
like MathML, XSIL
•Visualization
•Programming
•Application
Integration (chaining services viewed as
backend compute filters)
•“Seamless
Access” and integration of resources
between different users/application
domains
•Parameter
Specification Service (get data from Web
form into Fortran program wrapped as backend
object)