ICENI Virtual Organisation Management

Recent advances in high performance distributed computing have led to the emergence of computa-tional and data grids. The resources within a single organisation are being exposed to other users within a ‘virtual organisation ’ (VO). The VO encompasses a dynamic set of distributed resources, a distributed user base and a distributed management infrastructure. Due to this dynamic nature of VOs, there is a need for an infrastructure to facilitate the management of the constituent users and resources. We have developed an easy to use and secure management infrastructure- the Virtual Organisation Management (VOM) Portal- that provides user authentication and authorisation, resource access control and usage logging services based on existing web and grid standards.