Cooperative Grid Vortals

Haupt, T., & Kalyanasundaram, A. (2007). Cooperative Grid Vortals. Cooperative Grid Vortals. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience: Wiley InterScience. 19(12), 1671 - 1681.

Vertical Grid portals, or Vortals, proved to be useful by providing access to applications running on high-performance computational platforms and to distributed data enabling data sharing and other forms of collaboration. This paper identifies the commonalities between Vortals in various application domains, i.e. application-independent patterns of orchestrating Grid services employed by a typical Vortal. These patterns can be captured as façades - a software layer between the Vortal business logic and generic Grid services that promotes a horizontal integration. The façades are reusable and considerably simplify the development of new Vortals. Furthermore, the façades foster interactions between different Vortals, and hence making them the cooperative Grid Vortals.