ApGrid - ApGrid is a partnership for Grid computing in the Asia Pacific region. ApGird is an open community encouraging collaboration and it is not restricted to just a few developed countries. As of the end of May 2004, 49 organizations from 15 countries were participating in ApGrid. The objectives of ApGrid are to develop a partnership among Asia Pacific communities to
build an international Grid testbed.
provide a venue for sharing and exchanging ideas and information.
provide a venue for helping to initiate new projects.
collaborate and build on each others work.
encourage application communities and assist them in using our technologies along with other technologies.
become an interface to global Grid efforts such as the Global Grid Forum.
Cluster Ohio - Cluster Ohio, an initiative of the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC), the Ohio Board of Regents and the OSC Statewide Users Group, encourages Ohio faculty to build local computing clusters.
DHPC Group's Beowulf Cluster Projects - Beowulf clusters are high-performance computers built from off-the-shelf commodity components. They usually consist of a cluster of PCs running Linux and connected using a Fast Ethernet network, however some clusters use high-end Unix workstations (such as Compaq Alpha or Sun UltraSPARC machines) and/or high-end gigabit networks (such as Myrinet, ServerNet or Giganet).
Distributed Geographic Information Systems (DGIS) Project - The Distributed Geographic Information Systems (DGIS) Project involves applying and demonstrating distributed and high performance computing technology for decision support applications based on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) utilising large geospatial data archives.
The Distributed Information Systems Control World (DISCWorld) is a smart middleware system designed to integrate processing and storage resources across wide area heterogeneous networks, exploiting broadband communications where available.
Metacomputing has come to mean the ``integration of distributed computing resources so that a user connected to a single platform can enjoy the functionality and performance of the whole system with some degree of transparency''. The term implies more than distributed computing or clustered computing and often involves a ``meta-level'' of software above the individual operating systems of the component hosts that provides the glue to enable transparent access for users. The term metacomputing usually implies interactions across computing resources that would otherwise be uncoupled at the operating systems level, and often also implies interactions across wide areas. A number of metacomputing environments and software packages have been developed recently by other researchers, each addressing different aspects of the problem.
This project provides a framework for many of the threads of research in high performance and distributed computing that we are carrying out both in the DHPC Group and under the OLDA program of the ACSys CRC. The sub-projects include:
* Parallel Computing and Cluster Development
* Networks Evaluation and Benchmarking
* Distributed Storage Systems Management Software
* Java for Distributed and High-Performance Computing
Grid Execution Management for Legacy Code Architecture (GEMLCA) - GEMLCA is a general solution in order to deploy existing legacy code applications written in any programming language as a Grid service without modifying or even requiring access to the legacy code (source or binary) and without any real user effort.
Gridbus Project - 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 BUS iness 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.
North Carolina BioGrid - The NC BioGrid project was established in the Fall of 2001 to research and implement new grid computing technologies that will enable researchers and educators throughout North Carolina to take full advantage of the genomic revolution. The vision for the NC BioGrid was provided by the High Performance Computing and Data Storage Focus Group of the NC Genomics and Bioinformatics Consortium (NCGBC). The NCGBC is facilitated through the NC Biotech Center .
DACS Gold Practice Initiative
