Services in Computing Portals
Object Lookup and Registration
Object Persistence and Database support (as in EIP’s)
Event and Transaction Services
Job Status as in HotPage and myGrid
File Services (as in NPACI Storage Resource Broker)
- Support computational science specific metadata like MathML, XSIL
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)
Many of these are critically dependent on Grid Forum -- Others depend on general “portal approaches”