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Manage security: The administrator is responsible for creating user accounts,
defining security policies, checking users activity, and other tasks necessary
to assure the security of the system.
Monitor and maintain system: The administrator is the person responsible for
monitoring and tuning the system so that bottlenecks are detected and
eliminated. Additionally, this person has to provide technical support for the
users and make available all the tools needed to participate into the
community.
8.3 Case design
As we can see, all the requirements presented in the previous section address
problems typically tackled by grid solutions: high storage capacity, high network
throughput, and system inte ...