CSBase: A Framework for Building Customized Grid Environments

This paper describes CSBase, a framework that allows the development of customized grid environments. CSBase provides end-users with a simplified access to grid resources and applications. Although all CSBase instances share some common services, such as user and algorithm management services, each instance has its own web interface and specialized applications and services. CSBase is based on the experience gathered from projects developed by our research group in collaboration with industrial partners. This paper also describes some of these projects.