GCE 2005 (Workshop on Grid Computing Portals) Session: GCE 2005 (Workshop on Grid Computing Portals) Event Type: Workshop Time: 8:30am - 12:00pm Speaker(s): Mary Thomas Location: 606-607 Abstract: Grid computing portals have emerged to be important components of many large-scale Grid computing projects, often serving as the primary gateway for extended and diverse communities users. Portals provide well-established mechanisms for providing familiar interfaces to secure grid resources, services, applications, tools, and collaboration services. Furthermore, portals deliver complex grid solutions to users wherever they have access to a web browser running on the Internet without the need to download or install any specialized software or worry about networks and ports, etc. As a result, the science application user is isolated from the complex details and infrastructure needed to operate an application on the grid. The portal development community is currently undergoing a revolution as component-based architectures and services become standardized and widely adopted. Grid middleware is also changing in response to the services oriented architecture (SOA) approach to hosting services. The move towards an SOA grid maps very well to the architecture already employed by portals, further increasing their value within the grid community. This workshop will focus on portal projects that are adopting these new technologies and services. We seek papers from all aspects of portal development including portal architecture design and standards studies, toolkits developed in support of portals, as well as high-level application portals that utilize these technologies. Chair/Speaker Details: Mary Thomas SDSU