Secure Information Sharing and Information Retrieval Infrastructure with GridIR

This poster describes the emerging standard for information retrieval on computational grids, GridIR. GridIR is based on the work of the Global Grid Forum (GGF). GridIR implements a multi-tiered security model at the collection, query and datum level. Unlike large monolithic search engines and customized small-scale systems, GridIR provides a standard method for federating data sets with multiple data types. Three main components make up GridIR. The components can exist on any computer on the computational grid with sufficient computational resources, software and access permissions to join a Virtual Organization (VO):