Chirp Paper at CCGrid

Patrick Donnelly is presenting his most recent paper, Fine-Grained Access Control in the Chirp Distributed File System at the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing in Ottowa this week.

This paper describes a lightweight authentication technique that allows jobs submitted to a batch system to access only the exact files that they need from a shared file server. The capability is integrated into the Chirp distributed filesystem which is currently available for download.