Grid Computing with GridSphere

Jakub Dziwisz, Pawel Plaszczak

Grid users want to access Grid resources in a graphical and
easy, yet secure way. For them Grid portals are the only
reasonable way to use the Grid. Grid portals reinforce code
sharing and reusing.

One of most popular Grid portal solutions is GridSphere
which uses portlets as pluggable user interface
components that provide a presentation layer to information
systems. Interoperability between portlets and portals is
enabled by Java Specification Request 168, the Portlet
Specification.

GridSphere provides both a portlet container, a collection
of core portlets and an advanced user interface library that
makes developing new portlets easier for application developers.

But, do GridSphere portal and Grid systems have more in
common than just name? We will try to answer this question
at the seminar.