SciencePAD is currently in its early design and prototyping phase. Most of the functionality of this site is under development and it is not as automated or user friendly as we plan it to be for the final production version. Your contributions to the site with new registrations of users, organizations, collaborations and software, comments and new ideas are warmly welcome. For more information make sure to check the current SciencePAD Roadmap

Credential handling

GridSite

GridSite was originally a web application developed for managing and formatting the content of the GridPP website. It has further grown into a set of extensions to the Apache web server and a toolkit for Grid credentials, GACL access control lists and HTTP(S) protocol operations. In its simplest application, GridSite uses X.509 certificates loaded into unmodified versions of web browsers like Internet Explorer, Netscape or Mozilla to authenticate users, and then grant

ARC

Advanced Resource Connector (ARC)

The Advanced Resource Connector (ARC) middleware integrates computing resources (usually, computing clusters managed by a batch system or standalone workstations) and storage facilities, making them available via a secure common Grid layer. In the past this middleware was called NorduGrid middleware, since it is being developed by the NorduGrid Collaboration. This software solution uses Grid technologies to enable sharing and federation of computing and storage resources distributed across different administrative and applica