The DOE SciDAC funded National Fusion Collaboratory Project has created the National FusionGrid. Information on the NFC Project can be found at the project's web site. What follows, and in the links on the left hand side, is information for scientists who desire to use FusionGrid services.

The philosophy of FusionGrid is:

• data, codes, analysis routines, visualization codes, and communication tools are all thought of as network services easily available to the fusion scientist
• all services share the same security infrastructure that allows for authentication and authorization while at the same time remaining relatively easy to use

In FusionGrid, access to services is stressed rather than portability. The scientific users are shielded from the implementation details such that transparency and ease-of-use are highly valued. However, the authorization aspect of FusionGrid allows stakeholders to still control their own resources. Facility owners can protect computers, data, and experiments, code developers can control intellectual property, and fair use of shared resources can be demonstrated and contolled.

The advantages of FusionGrid are twofold:

• For the scientific user, easier and swifter access to resources creates a more efficient scientific environment with the potential to lead to more rapid scientific understanding
• For the service provider, it becomes relatively easy to make their resource available to a large audience without having to support a large number of duplicate yet geographically disributed installations.

Use the links on the left hand side to explore FusionGrid services.

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