The Charité Grid Portal: User-friendly and Secure Access to Grid-based Resources and Services

Journal of Grid Computing

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 709-724

  Wu, Jie ^a   Siewert, René ^b   Hoheisel, Andreas ^c   Falkner, Jürgen ^d   Strauß, Oliver ^d   Berberovic, Dinko ^d   Krefting, Dagmar ^b  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c Inubit AG   (Germany)

^d FRAUNHOFER IAO   (Germany)

Author keywords

Grid computing; Grid portal; HealthGrids; Security; Usability

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; BRAIN-IMAGING DATA; CREDENTIAL MANAGEMENT; GRID ENVIRONMENTS; GRID PORTALS; GRID RESOURCE; GRID-BASED; HEALTHGRIDS; HIGH-SPEED DATA; LUNG SOUNDS; MANAGEMENT COMPONENTS; PORTLETS; SECURITY; SPECIFIC COMPONENT; USABILITY; WORK-FLOWS; WORKFLOW EXECUTION;

IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; WEB SERVICES;

GRID COMPUTING;

EID: 84871665355     PISSN: 15707873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10723-012-9234-3     Document Type: Article

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