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- EGI Europien Grid Initiative. Europe has invested
heavily in e-science programmes over the past years both at the National and
the European levels with impressive results. Grid technology is recognized as
a fundamental component for e-infrastructures. Many countries have launched
National Grid Initiatives (NGI) to establish National grid infrastructures.
Driven by the needs and requirements of European research community, the EGI
Design Study represents a project for the conceptual setup and operation of a
new organizational model of a sustainable pan-European grid infrastructure. To
this day already 39 National Grid Initiatives in Europe have recognised the
need to link existing national grid initiatives and to support the setup and
initiation of new grid initiatives. The EGI project will interact and
encourage the member states to make the strategic decisions required to
establish and support a sustainable grid infrastructure and initiate its
implementation.
- Grid Computing Info Centre (GRID Infoware)
The Grid Computing Information Centre (GRID Infoware:
http://www.gridcomputing.com) aims to promote the development and advancement
of technologies that provide seamless and scalable access to wide-area
distributed resources. Computational Grids enable the sharing, selection, and
aggregation of a wide variety of geographically distributed computational
resources (such as supercomputers, compute clusters, storage systems, data
sources, instruments, people) and presents them as a single, unified resource
for solving large-scale compute and data intensive computing applications
(e.g, molecular modelling for drug design, brain activity analysis, and high
energy physics). This idea is analogous to electric power network (grid) where
power generators are distributed, but the users are able to access electric
power without bothering about the source of energy and its location.
- Grid.Org - is an online community for open source cluster
and grid software users, administrators and developers. The mission of the
site has evolved to one focused on providing a single location where
open-source cluster and grid information can be aggregated so that people with
a similar range of interests can easily exchange information, experiences, and
ideas related to the complete open source cluster software stack.
- Legion - Worldwide Virtual Computer. Legion is an
object-based, meta-systems software project at the University of Virginia.
From the project's beginning in late 1993, the Legion Research Group`s goal
has been a highly useable, efficient, and scalable system founded on solid
principles.
- NetSolve - NetSolve/GridSolve is a project
that aims to bring together disparate computational resources connected by
computer networks. It is a RPC based client/agent/server system that allows
one to remotely access both hardware and software components.
The purpose of GridSolve is to create the middleware necessary to provide a
seamless bridge between the simple, standard programming interfaces and
desktop Scientific Computing Environments (SCEs) that dominate the work of
computational scientists and the rich supply of services supported by the
emerging Grid architecture, so that the users of the former can easily access
and reap the benefits (shared processing, storage, software, data resources,
etc.) of using the latter.
This vision of the broad community of scientists, engineers, research
professionals and students, working with the powerful and flexible tool set
provided by their familiar desktop SCEs, and yet able to easily draw on the
vast, shared resources of the Grid for unique or exceptional resource needs,
or to collaborate intensively with colleagues in other organizations and
locations, is the vision that GridSolve will be designed to realize.
- XenoServers support the deployment of
global-scale services on-demand, whenever and wherever needed.
The project is developing a network of globally distributed servers on which
competing users can deploy any kind of untrusted, unverified computation. The
servers are able to safely run the deployed tasks, perform accounting and
auditing, and ultimately charge users for the resources consumed by the tasks.
- PlanetLab -- an open platform for developing,
deploying, and accessing planetary scale services.
- The Globus Alliance is a community of
organizations and individuals developing fundamental technologies behind the
Grid, which lets people share computing power, databases, instruments, and
other on-line tools securely across corporate, institutional, and geographic
boundaries without sacrificing local autonomy.
- Grid Today -- The Leading Source for Global News
and Information from the evolving Grid ecosystem,
including Grid, SOA, Virtualization, Storage, Networking and Service-Oriented
IT
- GridClub (mainly in Russian) Internet portal on Grid
technology: projects, technics, software, basic publications, news, views, etc.
- Virtual Data Tool Kit - is an ensemble of many Grid middleware tools
- Science grid this week - descibes stories about Grid and Grid events
- LHC Computing Grid (LCG) project
- Grid3 The Grid3 collaboration has deployed an
international Data Grid with dozens of sites and thousands of processors. The
facility is operated jointly by the U.S. Grid projects iVDGL, GriPhyN and
PPDG, and the U.S. participants in the LHC experiments ATLAS and CMS.
Project highlights include:
- Participation by more than 25 sites across the US and Korea which
collectively provide more than 2000 CPUs
- Resources used by 7 different scientific applications, including 3 high
energy physics simulations and 4 data analyses in high energy physics,
bio-chemistry, astrophysics and astronomy
- More than 100 individuals are currently registered with access to the
Grid
- A peak throughput of 500-900 jobs running concurrently with a completion
efficiency of approximately 75%
- GridPP Grid activity in UK physics
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- Enabling Grids for E-SciencE (EGEE) The Enabling
Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) project is funded by the European Commission and
aims to build on recent advances in grid technology and develop a service grid
infrastructure which is available to scientists 24 hours-a-day
- RDIG (Russian, English) EGEE & RDIG.
The Russian consortium RDIG (Russian Data Intensive Grid, www.egee-rdig.ru)
was set up in September 2003 to create Grid infrastructure in Russia for
intensive scientific data operations. Such infrastructure is necessary for the
participation of Russian scientists in experiments at LHC (CMS, ALICE, ATLAS,
LHCb) and other ones in high energy physics, biology, geophysics and more. The
memorandum of establishing the consortium was signed by top authorities of the
following eight major institutes: the Institute of High Energy Physics
(Protvino, www.ihep.su), Institute of Mathematical Problems in Biology
(Pushchino, www.impb.ru), Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics
(Moscow, www.itep.ru), Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (Dubna,
www.jinr.ru), Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics (Moscow,
www.keldysh.ru), Institue of Nuclear Physics at MSU (Moscow, www.sinp.msu.ru),
St. Petersburg Institute of Nuclear Physics (www.pnpi.spb.ru), and Kurchatov
Institute (Moscow, www.kiae.ru). RDIG participates in the EGEE structure as a
regional federation providing Russia's full-scale participation in EGEE.
- NorduGrid - another flavor for Grid - NorduGrid
is a Grid Research and Development collaboration aiming at development,
maintenance and support of the free Grid middleware, known as the Advance
Resource Connector (ARC). The collaboration is based on the Memorandum of
Understanding.
- Open Science Grid (OSG) USA Grid consorcium. The Open Science Grid is a national production-quality grid computing infrastructure for large scale science, built and operated by a consortium of U.S. universities and national laboratories. The OSG Consortium was formed in 2004 to enable diverse communities of scientists to access a common grid infrastructure and shared resources. Groups that choose to join the Consortium contribute effort and resources to the common infrastructure.
The OSG capabilities and schedule of development are driven by U.S.
participants in experiments at the Large Hadron Collider, currently being
built at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. The distributed computing systems in the
U.S. for the LHC experiments are being built and operated as part of the OSG.
Other projects in physics, astrophysics, gravitational-wave science and
biology contribute to the grid and benefit from advances in grid technology.
The services provided by the OSG will be further enriched as new projects and
scientific communities join the Consortium.
The OSG includes an Integration and a Production Grid. New grid technologies
and applications are tested on the Integration Grid, while the Production Grid
provides a stable, supported environment for sustained applications. Grid
operations and support for users and developers are key components of both
grids. The core of the OSG software stack for both grids is the NSF Middleware
Initiative distribution, which includes Condor and Globus technologies.
Additional utilities are added on top of the NMI distribution, and the OSG
middleware is packaged and supported through the Virtual Data Toolkit.
The OSG is a continuation of Grid3, a community grid built in 2003 through a
joint project of the U.S. LHC software and computing programs, the National
Science Foundations. GriPhyN and iVDGL projects, and the Department of
Energy.s PPDG project.
- Global Grid Forum The Global Grid Forum (GGF) is the
community of users, developers, and vendors leading the global standardization
effort for grid computing. The GGF community consists of thousands of
individuals in industry and research, representing over 400 organizations in
more than 50 countries. Together we work for the pervasive adoption of grid
computing worldwide because we believe grids will lead to new discoveries, new
opportunities, and better business practices.
The work of GGF is carried out though community-initiated working groups,
which develop best practices and specifications in cooperation with other
leading standards organizations, software vendors, and users. GGF is funded
through its Sponsor Members, including technology producers and consumers as
well as academic and government research institutions. GGF meets as a
worldwide community three times annually to share best practices and further
develop grid-related specifications.
- GRIDS Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS)
Laboratory. The Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Laboratory is
a software research and development group within the Dept. of Computer
Science and Software Engineering at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
The GRIDS Lab is actively engaged in the design and development of
next-generation computing systems and applications that aggregate or lease
services of distributed resources depending on their availability, capability,
performance, cost , and users' quality-of-service requirements. The lab is
working towards realising this vision through its flagship project called
Gridbus. The project name GRIDBUS is derived from its research theme: to
create next-generation GRID computing and BUSiness technologies that power the
emerging eScience and eBusiness applications. The Gridbus project builds on
our founder's early work in grid economy and distributed resource management
to realise its full potential to serve as an enabler for the creation of
service-oriented computing industries.
- SETI@HOME -- SETI@home is a scientific
experiment that uses Internet-connected computers in the Search for
Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). You can participate by running a free
program that downloads and analyzes radio telescope data.
- LHC@Home What is LHC@home? Help
scientist at CERN to simulate particles travelling in the LHC.
- Folding@Home -- distributed computing facility
for medicine purposes [Our goal: to understand protein folding, misfolding,
and related diseases].
- NanoHive@HOME is a
distributed computing system used for large-scale nanotech systems simulation
and analysis that draws its computing power from otherwise idle computers
sitting in people's homes. Users download and install a special client program
onto their computer. When the computer's screensaver comes on, the client
program requests some work from a NanoHive@Home server, calculates it with the
NanoHive-1 simulator, then sends the results back to the server.
The goal of NanoHive@Home is to perform large-scale nanosystems simulation and
analysis that is otherwise too intensive to be calculated via normal means,
and thereby enable further scientific study in the field of nanotechnology.
Here are some key points about NanoHive@Home with links to more detailed
explanations:
- Completely open-source and free (as in beer)
- Not-for-profit, and with all results made available to the public
- domain, free and clear
- Benefits humanity by advancing our knowledge and understanding of
- nanotechnology
- Calculations are performed with state-of-the-art simulation software
- making the most use of your donated computing power
- Attention to security and safety so that you can run our software
- without worrying that it will damage your computer
- Interesting and interactive graphics and screensaver that shows more of
- the simulation results as they become available
- Uses the popular Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing
- (BOINC) platform so you can contribute via a familiar interface
- Genome@Home The Human Genome Project is
nearing completion, and scientists are working hard to develop the
understanding needed to use this wealth of genetic information in ways that
will be significant to medicine and humankind. One of the most important ways
to do this is to study the other genomes and individual gene sequences that
are already available to us. By understanding how these genomes work, we will
be able to put the huge amounts of data (over 50, 000 genes and 3 billion
nucleotide base pairs) from the Human Genome Project into biological and
medical context, giving it real meaning.
- fightAIDS@Home FightAIDS@Home is the first
biomedical distributed computing project ever launched. It is run by the
Olson Laboratory at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California. We
provide free software that you download and install. The software uses your
computer's idle cycles to assist fundamental research in discovering new
drugs, building on our growing knowledge of the structural biology of AIDS. In
addition, this research helps us study the mechanisms of multi-drug-resistance
that the "super bugs" of HIV use to escape the current anti-AIDS drugs. And
this research helps us create, test, refine, and share the tools and protocols
that thousands of other labs use in their research against other diseases.
- gridRepublic GridRepublic members run a
screensaver that allows their computers to work on public-interest research
projects when the machines are not otherwise in use. This screensaver does not
affect performance of the host computer any more than an ordinary screensaver
does.
By aggregating idle resources from users around the world, we create a massive
supercomputer.
GridRepublic is built on BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network
Computing), a proven, secure, and reliable platform for distributed computing
using volunteered resources.
In other words this site is good source of information about projects of type
something@home.
- BOINC -- The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for
Network Computing (BOINC) is a distributed computing infrastructure intended
to be useful to fields beyond SETI. It is being developed by a team based at
the University of California, Berkeley led by the project director of
SETI@home, David Anderson.
- Grid @ IBM Grid continues IBM's history of IT
innovation for business, offering a full line of solutions backed by deep
expertise.
- Grid @ HP Imagine
linking your IT components into one virtual resource that
can be shared across your global enterprise and provided as a
service, on demand. That's the promise of grid computing.
- Grid @ Oracle Grid computing
enables you to create a single IT infrastructure that can be shared by all
your business processes. Oracle 10g software is specifically designed for grid
computing, delivering a higher quality of service to those business processes
at a much lower cost.
- Grid @ SGI It's about maximal utilization
of your most precious corporate resources. It's about enabling users to
interact visually with their data and to collaborate with each other across
organizations and across the globe.
- Grid @ SUN Experienced engineers from Sun and its
partners will assess, design, implement and support a grid solution that
addresses your unique business needs. Built from standardized and
interoperable building blocks, it offers leading performance, scalability and
resilience, while still remaining cost-effective.
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