Data Avenue: Remote Storage Resource Management in WS-PGRADE/gUSE

State-of-the-art gateways are connected to several distributed computing infrastructures (DCIs) and are able to run jobs and workflows simultaneously in all those different DCIs. However, the flexibility of accessing data storages belonging to different DCIs is a missing feature of current gateways. SZTAKI (Institute for Computer Science and Control) has developed a Data Avenue Blacktop service and aLiferay-based Data Avenue port let that open the door for integrating such features into science gateways. The paper explains the design considerations of the Data Avenue Blacktop service and its usage scenarios in science gateways through the Data Avenue port let.