Sign up now for Security and VO Management in Grids, to be held at the International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS'09) June 8-12, 2009, at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, in Westchester, New York.

Security and VO Management in Gridsprovides an overview of security and Virtual Organization management in established and new Grid systems. We survey the security and Virtual Organization management features provided by some major Grid middleware packages, and introduce the comparable functionality in XtreemOS, a Grid-based operating system.

Concepts in Grid security are introduced, including their respective challenges and protection mechanisms. We describe the Globus, gLlite and UNICORE middleware packages, showing the services they provide, their VO management functions, and security abilities. The tutorial then explores the features of the XtreemOS Grid operating system, demonstrating the advantages of close integration between Grid functionality and operating system facilities.

The tutorial will be given by members of the XtreemOS project, an Integrated Project supported by the European Commission's IST program to develop a next-generation Grid-aware operating system: Dr Christine Morin (scientific coordinator of the project) and Dr. Yvon Jégou.