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Services in Computing Portals
•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)
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Portal