ADMIRE (Advanced Data Mining and Integration Research for Europe)
ADMIRE, which is led by EPCC, will accelerate access to, and increase the benefits that can be gained from, data exploitation for the European citizen and economy. It will achieve this by delivering consistent and easy-to-use technology for extracting information and knowledge. To cope with complexity, change and heterogeneity of services, data, and processes, an […]
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BEinGRID
As Grid technologies mature, their relevance to business is increasing dramatically. BEinGRID carried out a series of Business Experiments to demonstrate the benefits of Grid computing. EPCC was involved in two of these: GRID2(B2B) and FilmGrid.
EPCC has added important functionality to its OGSA-DAI middleware in the form of the OGSA-DAI Trigger. This component was […]
BEinGRID Business Experiment BE02: FilmGrid
Film post-production requires collaboration between geographically-distributed companies and individuals. The distribution and management of digital assets (film footage and related data) in current post-production workflows are largely manual, relying heavily on couriers and supervisors. These labour-intensive processes make it difficult to maintain an accurate picture of the status of a production, leading to inefficiencies and […]
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BEinGRID Business Experiment BE24: GRID2(B2B)
The GRID2(B2B) BEinGRID Business Experiment provided an efficient, open, reliable and affordable integration architecture that allows companies, especially SMEs, to join existing B2B platforms without changing their legacy information system.
To achieve the automated data interchange, two components were created: a GRID2(B2B) Data Federation Agent and a GRID2(B2B) Data Service. A Configurator component facilitates the deployment […]
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DEISA
DEISA (Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications) is a consortium of leading national supercomputing centres in Europe aiming to jointly build and operate a distributed terascale supercomputing facility. This objective will be attained by a deep integration - using modern Grid technologies - of existing high end national High Performance Computing (HPC) platforms.
The DEISA partners […]
EGEE
EGEE is a project that brings together scientists and engineers from more than 90 institutions in 32 countries world-wide to provide a seamless Grid infrastructure for e-Science that is available to scientists 24 hours-a-day. Conceived from the start as a four-year project, the second two-year phase started on 1 April 2006, and is funded by […]
ePortal (2000-2001)
EPCC’s ePortal Project focused on the Grid concept of “portal computing”. In this model the user interface, rather than user source code, is portable across Grid computing resources. The difficult job of porting application codes between platforms is undertaken, as it should be, by the application provider, not the user.
In the ePortal model, the system […]
EUFORIA
EUFORIA (EU fusion for ITER Applications)is a European-funded project that aims to provide HPC and Grid resources to the European fusion research community. It will provide European fusion scientists with the simulation modelling tools and platforms that they will need to obtain experimental time on ITER.
EPCC is involved in three areas of work in […]
FireGrid
The FireGrid cluster is a multidisciplinary collaboration investigating next-generation emergency response systems.
FireGrid’s mission is
to establish a cross-disciplinary collaborative community to pursue fundamental research for developing real time emergency response systems, using the Grid beginning with fire emergencies.
EPCC’s role is to provide expertise on high-performance computing for simulation and modelling.
More information can be […]
FirstDIG (2003-2004)
The FirstDIG project was a collaboration between First plc and the National e-Science Centre, as represented by EPCC. The project deployed an early implementation of the OGSA Data Access and Integration (OGSA-DAI) services within the First South Yorkshire bus operational environment. The project had two central goals. The […]
Grid-SAFE
The Grid-SAFE project was tasked with developing a software framework to support
accounting, reporting and usage monitoring, and resource management on advanced
computing facilities. The project, funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee
(JISC), was based on extending the EPCC SAFE software system that currently provides
this functionality for UK national HPC service, HECToR.
The software framework produced by the […]
Gridweaver (2002-2003)
GridWeaver was a Collaboration between EPCC, The School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh; and HP Laboratories, Bristol. Funded under the eScience Grid Core Programme with the name HPFabMan, this project investigated and proposed solutions to the problem of automating the configuration and management of Grid computing fabrics.
The goal of this project was to bring together […]
INWA
INWA - Informing Business & Regional Policy : Grid-enabled fusion of global data and local knowledge
The INWA project has been using existing Grid technologies to allow researchers to analyse commercial data located at sites in the UK, Australia. Recently the project has been extended to include a site in China.
The project is funded by […]
MouseGrid (2001-2003)
3D OPT Microscopy Grid
The 3D OPT Microscopy Grid project was a collaboration between EPCC/NeSC and the MRC Human Genetics Unit to demonstrate the benefits of Grid technologies to biological research.
Modern biological research is data intensive and relies on an efficient informatics infrastructure. Research on the genetic control of embryo development involves large volume image data […]
MS.NET-Grid (2003-2004)
The MS.NET Grid Project
With the advent of the Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) and its underlying infrastructure - the Open Grid Services Infrastructure (OGSI) - there was an increasing interest within Grid communities worldwide in Microsoft .NET Web Services technologies and their applicability to Grid services. This collaboration between EPCC; Microsoft Research Limited; and NeSC, […]
NextGRID
NextGRID was part of a major initiative to ensure that Europe is a world leader in Grid technology, central to the new knowledge-based economy.
NextGRID’s objectives were to direct developments in Grid technologies to meet the needs of communities beyond the current scientific user groups, in particular business users.
EPCC’s role in NextGRID was twofold:
we led the […]
ODD-Genes (2003)
OGSA-DAI Demo for Genetics
This project has demonstrated how Grid technologies can be used to enable true e-Science - discoveries that would not otherwise have been achieved without this infrastructure in place.
Professor Peter Ghazal, Director, GTI.
Funded under the UK eScience Programme, this project built upon the results of two others, the Open Grid Services Architecture Data […]
OGSA-DAI
OGSA-DAI is developing a framework for the access, management and integration of distributed, heterogeneous data resources. It is fully-customisable allowing it to be tailored for the data access, translation, integration, management and security requirements of specific communities, projects and businesses.
Since 2002, OGSA-DAI has been successfully used to devise novel data management solutions in areas as […]
OGSA-DAI Trigger
The OGSA-DAI Trigger component was developed in BEinGRID and validated by the GRID2(B2B) project. It provides a mechanism to notify an OGSA-DAI server when a table in an SQL database has had its rows modified. It then executes a stored OGSA-DAI workflow to perform an action based on the notification. The Trigger also […]
OMII-EU
The Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute for Europe (OMII-EU) was a major initiative to identify and gather together key webservice-based Grid middleware components. The projects key aim was to provide a repository of quality-assured, interoperable middleware services for the three key low-level infrastrucure layers of Globus, UNICORE and gLite.
EPCC’s primary role in OMII-EU was to […]
PGPGrid (2003-2004)
Pepper’s Ghost Productions Grid
In the commercial world an increasing number of projects are being undertaken by consortia of companies that come together for the lifetime of a contract and then break up on successful completion of the work. This form of working is commonplace in, for instance, the construction and aerospace industries, but also in […]
QCDGrid
Since 2002, software engineers at EPCC have been developing a scientific data infrastructure to manage the large volumes (hundreds of Terabytes) of data produced by the UKQCD collaboration (UK Quantum Chromodynamics). To fulfil the UKQCD’s requirements, we have developed a Grid application called DiGS, which streamlines and automates the administration of large volumes of scientific […]
SunGrid (2002-2004)
Sun Data and Compute Grids
This project was a collaborative work between EPCC and Sun Microsystems funded by the UK’s DTI/EPSRC e-Science Core Program, through the UK’s National e-Science Centre (NeSC).
The project developed an industry-strength fully Globus-enabled compute and data scheduler based around Grid Engine, Globus and a variety of data technologies.
The […]