Globus Nexus: A Platform-as-a-Service provider of research identity, profile, and group management
Globus Nexus: A Platform-as-a-Service provider of research identity, profile, and group management
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DOI：
10.1016/j.future.2015.09.006
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发表时间：
2016-03-01
影响因子：
7.5
通讯作者：
Foster, Ian
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作者：
Chard, Kyle;Lidman, Mattias;Foster, Ian
Globus Nexus是一个专业托管的平台即服务，为研究社区提供身份，配置文件和组管理功能。许多协同e-Science应用程序需要管理大量的用户身份、配置文件和组。然而，考虑到现代安全协议的复杂性以及对可扩展、健壮和高可用性实现的要求，开发和维护这些功能通常具有挑战性。通过将此功能外包给Globus Nexus，开发人员可以利用最佳实践实现，而不会产生开发和运营开销。用户可以从身份联合、灵活的配置文件管理和面向用户的组管理等增强功能中受益。在本文中，我们提出Globus Nexus，描述其功能和架构，总结了几个电子科学应用程序如何利用这些功能，并提出了结果，其可扩展性，可靠性和可用性的特点。(C)2015爱思唯尔B.V.保留所有权利。
Globus Nexus is a professionally hosted Platform-as-a-Service that provides identity, profile and group management functionality for the research community. Many collaborative e-Science applications need to manage large numbers of user identities, profiles, and groups. However, developing and maintaining such capabilities is often challenging given the complexity of modern security protocols and requirements for scalable, robust, and highly available implementations. By outsourcing this functionality to Globus Nexus, developers can leverage best-practice implementations without incurring development and operations overhead. Users benefit from enhanced capabilities such as identity federation, flexible profile management, and user-oriented group management. In this paper we present Globus Nexus, describe its capabilities and architecture, summarize how several e-Science applications leverage these capabilities, and present results that characterize its scalability, reliability, and availability. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.