Selected Major Grid Application and Deployment Projects in Science and Engineering
Queries or comments to: Ian Foster, [email protected]
I list separately projects that are primarily:
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International Projects and Activities
Name
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Domain |
Support |
Focus
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IBM
IntraGrid |
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IBM |
Grid
testbed linking IBM laboratories |
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International
Virtual Data Grid Laboratory (iVDGL) |
ivdgl.org |
NSF |
Create
international Data Grid to enable large-scale experimentation on Grid
technologies & applications |
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Global Grid Forum |
gridforum.org |
Members and sponsors |
Community and standards organization for Grid computing |
| Global Virtual Observatory | Various | See U.K. AstroGrid and U.S. NVO. |
Name
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Domain |
Support |
Focus
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| CrossGrid | crossgrid.org | European
Union |
Develop, implement, and exploit new Grid components for interactive compute and data intensive applications. |
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DATATAG |
datatag.org |
European
Union |
Research and technology development for a transAtlantic Grid |
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European
Union (EU) DataGrid |
eu-datagrid.org |
European
Union |
Create
& apply an operational grid for applications in high energy physics,
environmental science, bioinformatics. |
| Damien | www.hlrs.de/organization/pds/ projects/damien |
European Union | Develop building blocks for a middleware environment for distributed simulation and visualization |
| European Grid of Solar Observatories (EGSO) | www.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/grid/egso | European
Union |
Create a virtual archive by federating solar data centers scattered across Europe into a Data Grid |
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EuroGrid
& Grid Interoperability (GRIP) |
eurogrid.org |
European
Union |
Create
technologies for remote access to supercomputer resources and simulation
codes; in GRIP, integrate with Globus |
| Grid Resources for Industrial Applications (GRIA) | European
Union |
Application-driven Grid testbed focused on outsourcing of computational services for structural analysis and digital film post production | |
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GridLab |
gridlab.org |
European
Union |
Grid
technologies and applications |
| INFN Grid | server11.infn.it/grid/ | Italian Government | Grid technologies, deployment, and applications |
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Unicore
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German
Government |
Technologies
for remote access to supercomputers |
Name
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Domain |
Support |
Focus
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| AstroGrid | U.K.
eScience Program |
Build a grid infrastructure that will allow a Virtual Observatory, unifying interfaces to astronomy databases and providing remote access as well as assimilation of data | |
| Comb-e-chem | U.K.
eScience Program |
Support combinatorial synthesis of new compounds by combining structure and property data sources within a grid-based information-and knowledge-sharing environment | |
| Discovery Net | U.K.
eScience Program |
e-Science testbed for processing of data from high throughput devices in biochemistry, environmental studies, etc. | |
| Distributed Aircraft Maintenance Environment (DAME) | U.K.
eScience Program |
Build a grid-based distributed diagnostics system for aircraft engines | |
| Grid Enabled Optimisation & DesIgn Search for Engineering (GEODISE) | U.K.
eScience Program |
Provide Grid-based access to a knowledge repository, optimisation and search tools, industrial strength analysis codes, and distributed computing and data resources. | |
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GridPP |
gridpp.ac.uk |
U.K.
eScience Program |
Create
and apply an operational grid within the U.K. for particle physics
research |
| MyGrid | mygrid.org.uk | U.K. eScience Program | Develop and apply eScience workbench for bioinformatics applications |
| Reality Grid | U.K.
eScience Program |
Enable the realistic modelling of complex condensed matter systems at the molecular and mesocale levels | |
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UK Grid Center
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grid-support.ac.uk |
U.K. eScience Program |
Support
center for Grid projects within the U.K. |
Name
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Domain |
Support |
Focus
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Access
Grid |
accessgrid.org |
DOE,
NSF |
Create
& deploy group collaboration systems using commodity display
technologies |
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DISCOM |
www.cs.sandia.gov/ |
DOE
Defense Programs |
Create
an operational Grid providing access to resources at three U.S. DOE
weapons laboratories |
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DOE
Science Grid |
sciencegrid.org |
DOE
Office of Science |
Create
an operational Grid providing access to resources and applications at
U.S. DOE science laboratories and partner universities |
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Earth
System Grid (ESG) |
earthsystemgrid.org |
DOE
Office of Science |
Delivery
and analysis of large climate model datasets for the climate research
community. |
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Fusion
Collaboratory |
fusiongrid.org |
DOE
Office of Science |
Create
a national computational collaboratory for fusion research. |
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Globus |
globus.org |
DARPA,
DOE, NASA, NSF |
Research
on Grid infrastructure and tools; development of community-based, open
source, open architecture Globus Toolkit |
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Grid
Research Integration Development & Support (GRIDS) Center |
grids-center.org |
NSF |
Integration,
deployment, support of the NSF Middleware Infrastructure for research
& education |
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Grid
Application Development Software |
hipersoft.rice.edu/grads |
NSF |
Research
into program development methodologies for Grid applications |
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Grid
Physics Network (GriPhyN) |
griphyn.org |
NSF |
Technology
R&D for data analysis in physics experiments: ATLAS, CMS, LIGO, SDSS |
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Information
Power Grid |
ipg.nasa.gov |
NASA |
Create
and apply a production Grid for aerosciences and other NASA missions |
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Network
for Earthquake Eng. Simulation Grid |
neesgrid.org |
NSF |
Create
and apply a production Grid for earthquake engineering |
National Virtual Observatory (NVO) |
www.srl.caltech.edu/nvo |
NSF |
Create and apply production Grids for data analysis in astronomy |
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Particle
Physics Data Grid (PPDG) |
ppdg.net |
DOE
Office of Science |
Create
and apply production Grids for data analysis in high energy and nuclear
physics experiments |
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Southern
California Earthquake Center 2 |
scec.org |
NSF |
Full geophysics modeling using Grids and
knowledge-based systems |
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TeraGrid
|
teragrid.org |
NSF |
U.S. science infrastructure linking four major resource sites at 40 Gb/s |