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| PROJECT DETAILS |
ASTROGRID |
UK contribution to the Global
Virtual Laboratory |
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Countries involved: |
UK |
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| Institutions involved: |
Queens U.Belfast, U.Cambridge, U.Edinburgh,U.Leicester,
Mullard Space Science Lab, Jodrell Bank Observatory, RAL |
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Project Period: |
2001-2004 |
| SYNOPSIS |
AstroGrid aims to build a working datagrid
for key selected databases , with associated datamining facilities
by late 2004. Priority is given to the development of a virtual observatory
capable of supporting efficient and effective exploitation of key
astronomical data sets of importance to the UK community: e.g. data
from WFCAM, VISTA, XMM-SSC, e-MERLIN, SOHO and Cluster. Astrogrid
will form the UK contribution to the Global Virtual Observatory. |
| STATUS |
No informtation on testbed operability |
| FIELDS OF APPLICATION |
Astronomy, Solar physics, Space plasma
physics |
| DEMOS |
N/A
Links to similar astronomy related grid projects abroad linked to
the virtual observatory |
| PROJECT DETAILS |
BIRN |
Biomedical Informatics Research
Network |
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Countries involved: |
USA |
| SYNOPSIS |
A National Institutes of Health (NIH)-National
Center for Research Resources (NCRR)-sponsored initiative, which is
establishing a distributed information technology infrastructure to
improve biomedical research. This "cyberinfrastructure"
will enable researchers throughout the United States to collaborate
on large-scale studies of human disease with unique, multi-resolution
tools. |
| TESTBED |
Three Projets de bancs d'essai are conducting
structural and functional studies of neurological disease:
Function BIRN - studying regional brain dysfunctions related to the
progression and treatment of schizophrenia.
Morphometry BIRN - examining unipolar depression, mild Alzheimer's
disease and mild cognitive impairment.
Mouse BIRN - studying animal models of multiple sclerosis, schiziphrenia,
Parkinson's disease, ADHD, Tourette's disorder, brain cancer. |
| FIELDS OF APPLICATION |
Biomedical |
| 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 |
DOE
SCIENCE GRID |
US Department of Energy Science
Grid |
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Countries involved: |
USA |
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| Institutions involved: |
LBNL, PNNL, ANL, ORNL, NERSC, ESnet |
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Project Period: |
2001 - 2004 |
| SYNOPSIS |
The DOE Science Grid's major objective
is to provide an advanced distributed computing infrastructure based
on Grid middleware and tools which will enable the degree of scalability
in scientific computing necessary for the DOE to accomplish its scientific
missions. The vision for "Grids" is to revolutionise the use of computing
in science by making large scale, diverse systems as easy to construct
and use as today's desktop environments. |
| STATUS |
Testbed operational. |
| FIELDS OF APPLICATION |
N/A |
| DEMOS |
N/A |
| PROJECT DETAILS |
GriDis |
The Grid for Dissemination |
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Countries involved: |
Italy |
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Institutions involved: |
CNR (Consiglio Nazionale delle Richerche)-CED/SRC/IAC/IASI,
INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fiscia Nucleare)-CATANIA/CNAF, NESTOR-Università
di Torvergata |
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Companies involved: |
NICE |
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Project Period: |
N/A |
| SYNOPSIS |
GriDis is an open collaboration aimed
at deploying a testbed of the DataGrid middleware for dissemination
purposes. Users will be allowed to run selected applications on the
testbed, using the Genius web interface produced by Nice and INFN.
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| STATUS |
Testbed operational |
| FIELDS OF APPLICATION |
N/A |
| DEMOS |
N/A |
| PROJECT DETAILS |
GRIDPP |
The Grid for UK Particle Physics |
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Countries involved: |
UK |
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| Institutions involved: |
CERN, Central Lab of the Research Counsils,
18 UK Universities |
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Project Period: |
2000-2004 |
| SYNOPSIS |
GridPP is a collaboration of Particle
Physicists and Computing Scientists from the UK and CERN, who are
building a Grid for Particle Physics. The main objective is to develop
and deploy a large-scale science Grid in the UK for use by the worldwide
particle physics community. |
| STATUS |
Testbeds operational |
| FIELDS OF APPLICATION |
HEP experiments: BaBar, LHCb, ALICE,
ATLAS, CVFII-Fermilab, CMS,D0-Fermilab, UK QCD Collaboration |
| DEMOS |
OptorSim |
Shows what happens to the Grid as jobs
are submitted to it and our replication algorithms control where replicas
of files are created and deleted. |
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WorlGrid |
WorldGrid and DataTAG demonstration |
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Replica Location Service |
Shows the registration of file replica
in the Local Replica Catalogues, the subsequent soft-state propagation
of this information to the higher-level replica location indices,
and examples of queries which can be made over the RLS system. |
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EDG HealthGrid |
Demonstrates the relevance of the grid
paradigm for genomics and medical image processing. |
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All demos are java-applets or flash. |
| PROJECT DETAILS |
IPG |
NASA Information Power Grid |
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Countries involved: |
USA |
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| Institutions involved: |
NASA, PACI, NCSA, ANL, USC/ISI |
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Project Period: |
2000-2004 |
| SYNOPSIS |
IPG is a high-performance computation
and data grid that integrates geographically distributed computers,
databases, and instruments. |
| STATUS |
The testbed is fully operational.Has
already been employed on a variety of NASA projects.(example: http://www.ipg.nasa.gov/aboutipg/case.html
) |
| FIELDS OF APPLICATION |
NASA related projects |
| DEMOS |
N/A |
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Contains a glossary of grid terms |
| PROJECT DETAILS |
NORDUGRID |
Nordic Testbed for Wide Area
Computing and Data Handling |
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Countries involved: |
Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden |
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| Institutions involved: |
Niels-Bohr Inst., Helsinki Inst. of Technology,
U. Bergen, U. Oslo, Royal Technical U., U. Stockholm, U. Lund, U.
Uppsala |
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Project Period: |
2000-2004 |
| SYNOPSIS |
NorduGrid aims to establish an inter-Nordic
test bed facility for implementation of wide area computing and data
handling. The facility will provide the infrastructure for interdisciplinary
feasibility studies of GRID-like computer structures. |
| STATUS |
The testbed is fully operational. |
| FIELDS OF APPLICATION |
HEP-experiments: ATLAS |
| DEMOS |
"Hello World" example |
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Mandelbrot diagram |
| PROJECT DETAILS |
TERAGRID |
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Countries involved: |
USA |
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Institutions involved: |
NCSA, SDSC, ANL, CACR, PSC |
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Companies involved: |
IBM, Intel, Qwest Communications, Myricom,
Sun Microsystems, Oracle |
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Project Period: |
2000-2004 (++) |
| SYNOPSIS |
Teragrid aims to build and deploy the
world's largest, fastest, most comprehensive, distributed infrastructure
for open scientific research. When completed, the TeraGrid will include
20 teraflops of computing power distributed at five sites, facilities
capable of managing and storing nearly 1 petabyte of data, high-resolution
visualization environments, and toolkits for grid computing. These
components will be tightly integrated and connected through a network
that will operate at 40 gigabits per second?the fastest research network
on the planet. |
| STATUS |
Testbed not yet operational. About 4
teraflops will be made available for use in Dec 2003. |
| FIELDS OF APPLICATION |
HEP experiments & lattice QCD, Weather
forecasting, Biomolecular Electrostatics, Eletric and Magnetic Molecular
Properties, etc. |
| DEMOS |
"What
is the Grid?" |
Filmed interviews with key Grid developers
(Quicktime, RealPlayer) |
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Teragrid Network image |
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Network flyby animation |
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NCSA Teragrid video |
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"Teraflop in a minute" video |
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Videos require RealPlayer/MicroMedia |
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