Skip to main content

DevelOpment of GRID Environment for InteRaCtive ApplicationS

Cel

The Cross Grid project will develop, implement and exploit new Grid components for interactive compute and data intensive applications like simulation and visualisation for surgical procedures, flooding crisis team decision support systems, distributed data analysis in high-energy physics, air pollution combined with weather forecasting. The elaborated methodology, generic application architecture, programming environment, and new Grid services will be validated and tested thoroughly on the Cross Grid test bed, with an emphasis on a user-friendly environment. The work will be done in close collaboration with the Grid Forum and the Data Grid project to profit from their results and experience, and to obtain full interoperability. This will result in the further extension of the Grid across eleven European countries.

Objectives:
The project objectives are: expanding the Grid for a new category of applications in medicine, environmental control, and physics, running interactively, and extending the Grid infrastructure across eleven European countries. Efficient development of these kinds of applications on the Grid requires new tools for verification of source code, performance prediction, evaluation and on-line analysis. The Grid will be equipped with new components for monitoring of application performance, efficient distributed data access, specific resource management, as well as portals and mobile personalised user interfaces. The new software will be validated and tested on the Cross Grid test bed. Cross Grid will collaborate closely with Data Grid - a common cluster project is planned to obtain full interability.

Work description:
The work of this project will research, design, develop, implement and test the technology and components essential for the implementation of new tools and services that will allow one to deploy a large range of scientific and engineering applications across a Grid. This is a complex project involving many organizations, software engineers and scientists. It builds upon many national initiatives in this area and as indicated in each of the subsequent work package descriptions, many of the contributing partners are making available considerably more effort to the project then they are requesting EU funding for. They do this to ensure success.

The work is split into six work packages:
WP1 Cross Grid Application Development;
WP2 Grid Application Programming Environments;
WP3 New Grid Services and Tools, will each develop specific well-defined parts of different applications and Grid middleware;
WP4 International Tested Organization will collect all the developments from the work packages WP1-3 and integrate them into successive software releases. It will also gather and transmit all feedback from the end-to-end application experiments back to the developers, thereby linking development, testing and user experience;
WP5 Information and Dissemination and Exploitation;
WP6 Project Management, will ensure the active dissemination of the project results and its professional management. Each of the development work packages will start with a user requirements gathering phase, followed by an initial development phase before delivering early prototypes to the tested work package. Following the delivery of these prototypes a testing and refinement phase will continue for each component up to the end of the project.

Milestones:
Year 2002. First version of medical and flood prediction applications, and first prototypes of new Grid software tested on local clusters. Installation of the national test beds;
Year 2003. Deployment of all prototype applications, prototypes of new Grid software and services, on the Grid. Integration of the Cross Grid and Data Grid test beds;
Year 2004. Demonstration of the developed Grid infrastructure and software, medical, environmental control, and physics applications. Results on dissemination.

Zaproszenie do składania wniosków

Data not available

Koordynator

AKADEMICKIE CENTRUM KOMPUTEROWE CYFRONET AKADEMII GORNICZO-HUTNICZEJ IM. STANISLAWA STASZICA W KRAKOWIE
Adres
Ul. Nawojki 11
30-950 Krakow
Polska

Zobacz na mapie

Uczestnicy (20)

ALGOSYSTEMS S.A.
Grecja
Adres
206, Syngrou Avenue
17672 Kalthea

Zobacz na mapie

ANDRZEJ SOLTAN INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR STUDIES
Polska
Adres

05-400 Swierk-otwock

Zobacz na mapie

ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI
Grecja
Adres
University Campus, Administraton Building
54124 Thessaloniki

Zobacz na mapie

CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS
Hiszpania
Adres
C/ Serrano 117
28006 Madrid

Zobacz na mapie

DATAMAT S.P.A.
Włochy
Adres
Via Laurentina 760
00143 Roma

Zobacz na mapie

FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM KARLSRUHE GESELLSCHAFT MIT BESCHRAENKTER HAFTUNG
Niemcy
Adres
Weberstrasse 5
76133 Karlsruhe

Zobacz na mapie

INSTYTUT CHEMII BIOORGANICZNEJ PAN W POZNANIU
Polska
Adres
Noskowskiego 12/14
61-704 Poznan

Zobacz na mapie

INSTYTUT FIZYKI JADROWEJ IM HENRYKA NIEWODNICZANSKIEGO POLSKIEJ AKADEMII NAUK W KRAKOWIE
Polska
Adres
Radzikowskiego 152
31-342 Krakow

Zobacz na mapie

JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITAET LINZ - INSTITUT FUER TECHNISCHE INFORMATIK UND TELEMATIK
Austria
Adres
Altenbergerstrasse 69
4040 Linz

Zobacz na mapie

Laboratorio de Instrumentaçao e Fisica Experimental de Particulas
Portugalia
Adres
Av. Elias Garcia 14, 1
1000-149 Lisboa

Zobacz na mapie

NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH "DEMOKRITOS"
Grecja
Adres

15310 Aghia Paraskevi Attikis

Zobacz na mapie

TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN
Niemcy
Adres
Arcisstrasse 21
80333 Muenchen

Zobacz na mapie

THE PROVOST FELLOWS & SCHOLARS OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY AND UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH NEAR DUBLIN
Irlandia
Adres
College Green
Dublin

Zobacz na mapie

UNIVERSIDADE DE SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA
Hiszpania
Adres
Praza Do Obradoiro S/n, Pazo De San Xerome
15782 Santiago De Compostela

Zobacz na mapie

UNIVERSITAET STUTTGART
Niemcy
Adres
Keplerstrasse 7
70174 Stuttgart

Zobacz na mapie

UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA
Hiszpania
Adres
Campus Universitari S/n
08290 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola Del Valles)

Zobacz na mapie

UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM
Niderlandy
Adres
Spui 21
1012 WX Amsterdam

Zobacz na mapie

UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS
Cypr
Adres
Kallipoleos Street 75
1678 Nicosia

Zobacz na mapie

UNIWERSYTET WARSZAWSKI
Polska
Adres
Krakowskie Przedmiescie 26/28
00-927 Warszawa

Zobacz na mapie

USTAV INFORMATIKY, SLOVENSKA AKADEMIA VIED
Słowacja
Adres
Dubravska Cesta 9
84507 Bratislava

Zobacz na mapie