A Novel Approach to Remote File Management in Grid Environments

摘要

File management is usually one of the most important services in Grid. In this paper, a novel and convenient approach to managing remote files and directories in a Grid environment will be introduced. Adding a new driver to the client machine, ordinary file operations, such as creating new folders, copying and removing, as well as drag'n'dropping files, are done locally inside the file manager which is bundled with the operating systems. In contrast with file services provided by Grid portals, it is more convenient and efficient for Grid users and more features are supported.