Unlocking Grid Security Complexity
Follow @infoworldIn enterprise environments, it is rather trivial to get web servers, scripting languages, databases and common systems up and running. In many OS distributions, these systems are a check box option in a simple admin GUI.
Not so with Grid computing, where intricate security dependencies can really complicate things.
Here's a link to an IBM developerWorks tutorial that highlights some of these complex dependencies and discusses a unique approach, the Grid Accounts Management Architecture (GAMA) to unify Grid security components and present a more concise interface for Grid deployment. Tools like GAMA are bringing the goal of Grid ubiquity closer to reality. The entire set of articles in this "Building a Unified Grid" series is a great reference for enterprise developers building an end-to-end Grid process.
