On-the-fly Dynamic Virtual Organizations in a Secured Grid Environment

This paper describes a system for managing dynamic collaborative workflows among business partners working in the engineering field and submitting proprietary applications to the grid. Although grid Virtual Organizations allow users from different administration domains to share resources for job submission, building static Virtual Organizations and managing the security concerns is a burden for partners who wish a short-lived collaboration. We present X-DVOs which are on-the-fly and automatically built dynamic Virtual Organizations. They manage the security configurations on behalf of grid users. In the future X-DVOs will allow business partners to automatically initiate engineering choreographies and orchestrations on geographically dispersed grid and cloud resources.