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| PROJECT DETAILS |
BIOGRID |
Construction of a Supercomputer Network |
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Countries involved: |
Japan |
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| Institutions involved: |
Osaka Univeristy, various Japanese research institutions |
| SYNOPSIS |
The Biogrid project endevours to develop a series
of analyzers deployed on a supercomputer network, "data grid technology"
to allow total and safe linkage and manipulation among various types
of huge databases, and "computing grid technology" to facilitate truly
systematic linkage among the databases and data processing requiring
ultra high-sped computing resources. |
| CATEGORY |
Middleware, networking |
| DEMOS |
N/A |
| PROJECT DETAILS |
CONDOR |
Condor High Troughput Computing |
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Countries involved: |
USA |
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| Institutions involved: |
U.Wisconsin-Madison |
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Project Period: |
1988 - ... |
| SYNOPSIS |
The goal of the Condor Project is to
develop, implement, deploy, and evaluate mechanisms and policies that
support High Throughput Computing (HTC) on large collections of distributively
owned computing resources. Condor is a specialized workload management
system for compute-intensive jobs. Like other full-featured batch
systems, Condor provides a job queueing mechanism, scheduling policy,
priority scheme, resource monitoring, and resource management. Users
submit their serial or parallel jobs to Condor, Condor places them
into a queue, chooses when and where to run the jobs based upon a
policy, carefully monitors their progress, and ultimately informs
the user upon completion. Condor incorporates many of the emerging
Grid-based computing methodologies and protocols; Condor-G is fully
interoperable with resources managed by Globus. |
| CATEGORY |
Middleware |
| COMMENTS |
Condor Software download |
| PROJECT DETAILS |
CROSSGRID |
Large-scale Grid-enabled Simulations |
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Countries involved: |
Austria, Cyprus, Germany, Greece, Ireland,
Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain |
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| Institutions involved: |
Several European universities and research
institutes |
| SYNOPSIS |
The CrossGrid project aims to
develop Grid services and programming tools for large-scale, real-time
simulations and visualisation in the fields of medicine, physics and
earth sciences. |
| CATEGORY |
Middleware, Infrastructure, Programming
Environment, Applications |
| FIELDS OF APPLICATION |
Biomedicine, Physics, Earth Sciences |
| DEMOS |
N/A |
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| PROJECT DETAILS |
DAMIEN |
Distritubted Applications
and Middleware for Industrial use of European Networks |
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Countries involved: |
France, Germany, Spain |
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| Institutions/Companies involved: |
CRIHAN - Centre de Ressources Informatiques
de Haute-Normandie, HLRS - High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart,
PALLAS, CEPBA - European Center for Parallelism of Barcelona, EADS
- European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company |
| SYNOPSIS |
The DAMIEN project deals with
the problem of how to develop applications for coputational grids.
The central objective is to extend traditional HPC standards and tools
to the properties of computational grids. Additinally, these tools
are to be tested in industrial environments using applications in
everyday production. |
| CATEGORY |
Middleware (messaging) |
| FIELDS OF APPLICATION |
One test is performed at EADS where
the simluation is a coupled application simulating the effect of acoustic
signals on the stability of rockets during the launch |
| DEMOS |
N/A |
| PROJECT DETAILS |
DATAGRID |
see La grille au CERN |
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Countries involved: |
Europe |
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| Institutions involved: |
CERN - European Organization for Nuclear
Research, CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - France,
ESA ESRIN - European Space Research Institute - Italy, INFN - Istituto
Nationale di Fisica Nucleare - Italy, NIKHEF - The National Institute
for Nuclear Physics and High Energy Physics - Netherlands, PPARC -
The Physics of the Universe
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Project Period: |
2001-2003 |
| SYNOPSIS |
The DataGrid Project aims to enable
next generation scientific exploration which requires intensive computation
and analysis of shared large-scale databases, millions of Gigabytes,
across widely distributed scientific communities. "DataGrid"
is funded by European Union. |
| CATEGORY |
Middleware and testbed developments |
| DEMOS |
N/A |
| PROJECT DETAILS |
DATATAG |
Research & Technological Development
for a TransAtlantic Grid |
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Countries involved: |
Canada, France, Italy, the Netherlands,
Switzerland, UK, USA |
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| Institutions involved: |
CERN, INFN (Italian National Inst. for
Nuclear Research), INRIA (Inst. National de Recherche en Informatique
et en Automatique), PPARC, U.Amsterdam, Caltech, Starlight, ANL, Northwestern
U., U.Illinois at Chicago, U.Michigan, SLAC, FNAL, LBNL |
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Project Period: |
2001-2003 |
| SYNOPSIS |
The DataTAG project will create
a large-scale intercontinental Grid testbed that will focus upon advanced
networking issues and interoperability between European and US projects.
Two types of intercontinental network connections will be used: a
new link for high performance network service and data transfer application
development, and the other a set of existing production links for
interoperability test activities which do not require separation from
production traffic. |
| CATEGORY |
High Performance inter-Grid Networking:
sustained & reliable data replication, end-to-end advanced network
services, monitoring techniques |
| DEMOS |
N/A |
| PROJECT DETAILS |
DOE
SciDAC |
Scientific Discovery through Advanced
Computing |
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Countries involved: |
USA |
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Institutions involved: |
US Department of Energy |
| SYNOPSIS |
SciDAC aims to create a
new generation of Scientific Challenge Codes for terascale computers,
the mathematical and systems software to harness the power of terascale
computers and collaboratory software infrastructure to allow geographically
separated research groups to work effectively together as a team.
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| CATEGORY |
software development |
| DEMOS |
N/A |
| PROJECT DETAILS |
ESnet |
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Countries involved: |
USA |
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| Institutions involved: |
US Dept. of Energy (DOE), Lawrence Berkely
National Lab. (LBNL) |
| SYNOPSIS |
ESnet provides high performance
connections to all major DOE sites, as well as fast interconnections
to more than 100 other networks, to allow scientists to make effective
use of DOE research facilities and computing resources. |
| CATEGORY |
High-speed Networking: route registration,
network statistics, border gateway protocol, ATM, multicast, internet
protocols, QoS (Quality of Service) |
| DEMOS |
N/A |
| PROJECT DETAILS |
GÉANT |
The pan-European Gigabit Research
Network |
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Countries involved: |
Europe |
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| Institutions involved: |
Consortium of 27 European national research
and education networks; DANTE acts as coordinating partner |
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Project Period: |
4 year |
| SYNOPSIS |
GÉANT provides the highest capacity
and offers the greatest geographic coverage of any network of its
kind in the world. It has dual roles of providing an infrastructure
to support researchers, as well as providing an infrastructure for
(network) research itself. GÉANT has four key objectives: 1. Gigabit
speeds, 2. Geographical expansion, 3. Global Connectivity, 4. Guaranteed
QoS. |
| CATEGORY |
High-speed networking |
| DEMOS |
Video introducing GÉANT |
| PROJECT DETAILS |
GLOBUS |
The Globus Project |
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Countries involved: |
US,(Sweden) |
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Institutions involved: |
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), University
of Chicago, U.Southern California Information Sciences Institute |
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Collaborators: |
Condor Project, IBM, Microsoft Research,
LBNL, LANL, KTH-Stockholm, various US universities |
| SYNOPSIS |
The Globus Project is developing fundamental
technologies needed to build computational grids, which will enable
software applications to integrate instruments, displays and computational
and information resources that are managed by diverse organisations
in widespread locations. The project includes investigations of security,
resource management, communication protocols, data management mechanisms,
etc. |
| CATEGORY |
Middleware |
| DEMOS |
N/A |
| PROJECT DETAILS |
GRACE |
GRACE - GRid seArch &
Categorization Engine |
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Countries involved: |
Europe |
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Institutions involved: |
CERN, Telecom Italia Lab (Italy),
Virtual Self (Israel), GL 2006 Europe (UK), Sheffield Hallam University
(UK), Stuttgart University Library (Germany), Stockholm University
Library (Swede) |
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Project Period: |
September 2002 -February 2005. |
| SYNOPSIS |
The GRACE project proposes the development
of a distributed search and categorization engine that will enable
just in time, flexible allocation of data and computational resources.
GRACE handles unstructured textual information (text files, documents,
Web pages, text stored in databases), the kind of information that
is typically handled by search engines. |
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DETAILS |
GRIDBUS |
The Gridbus Project |
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Countries involved: |
Australia |
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| Institutions involved: |
University of Melbourne |
| SYNOPSIS |
The key objective of the Gridbus project
is to develop fundamental, next-generation cluster and grid technologies
that support a true utility-driven service-oriented computing. |
| CATEGORY |
hardware/software development |
| DEMOS |
N/A |
| PROJECT DETAILS |
GRIP |
GRid Interoperability Project |
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Countries involved: |
Poland, Germany, UK |
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| Institutions involved: |
Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, Pallas
GmbH, Victoria U. of Manchester, University of Warsaw, Deutscher Wetterdienst,
U.Southampton |
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Project Period: |
2 year |
| SYNOPSIS |
The GRIP project works to realise the
interoperability of Globus and UNICORE and to work towards standards
for interoperability in the Global Grid Forum. |
| CATEGORY |
Middleware |
| DEMOS |
N/A |
| PROJECT DETAILS |
LEGION |
Worldwide Virtual Computer |
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Countries involved: |
USA |
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| Institutions involved: |
U.of Virginia |
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Project Period: |
1993-... |
| SYNOPSIS |
Legion is a project developing software
to support large degrees of parallelism in application code and manage
the complexities of the physical computer system for the user. Legion
addresses key issues such as scalability, programming ease, fault
tolerance, security and site autonomy. |
| CATEGORY |
Parallel processing, high performance,
object-oriented, distributed systems, metasystems, wide area, gigabit
networks |
| DEMOS |
Technical demos run on Centurion and
NPACI testbeds |
| PROJECT DETAILS |
NAREGI |
(Japan) National Research Grid Initiative |
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Countries involved: |
Japan |
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Institutions involved: |
Several Japanese universities and research
institutes |
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Companies involved: |
Fujitsu, NEC, Hitachi
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Project Period: |
N/A |
| SYNOPSIS |
NAREGI is a collaborative
project involving academia, industry and government doing research
on Grid middleware and networking technologies, with added focus on
nanoscience applications. |
| CATEGORY |
Middleware, Networking |
| FIELDS OF APPLICATION |
Nanoscience |
| Comments: |
Links to various Japanese Grid initiatives |
| PROJECT DETAILS |
NSF
MIDDLEWARE INITIATIVE |
NSF Middleware Initiative |
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Countries involved: |
USA |
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Institutions involved: |
U. of Southern California, U. of Chicago,
National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), San Diego
Supercomputer Center (SCSC), U. of Wisconsin at Madison, Internet2,
EDUCAUSE, SURA |
| SYNOPSIS |
NMI aims to create and
deploy advanced network services for simplifying access to diverse
Internet resources so as to help help scientists use the Internet
to effectively share instruments, laboratories and data, and to collaborate
with their colleagues. |
| CATEGORY |
Middleware, Networking |
| DEMOS |
N/A |
| PROJECT DETAILS |
UNICORE
Plus |
Uniform Interface to Computing
Resources |
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Countries involved: |
Germany |
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| Institutions involved: |
Several German universitites and institutions |
| SYNOPSIS |
UNICORE Plus aims to develop
a grid infrastructure together with a computing portal for engineers
and scientists to access supercomputer centers from anywhere on the
Internet. Platform differences are hidden from the user thus creating
a seamless interface for accessing supercomputers, compiling and running
applications, and transferring input/output data. |
| CATEGORY |
Infrastructure, Portal |
| DEMOS |
N/A |
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