| What is the Int.EU.Grid project |
| What is the GRID |
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| LIP and GRID Computing |
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The objective of the project is the deployment of an advanced Grid empowered infrastructure in the European Research Area specifically oriented to support the execution of interactive demanding applications.
While guaranteeing interoperability with existing large e-Infrastructures like EGEE by providing basic common middleware services, the initiative will exploit the expertise generated by the EU CrossGrid project to provide researchers an interactive and simultaneous access to large distributed facilities through a friendly interface with powerful visualization.
The Interactive European Grid will focus on the support for remote interactive collaboration and the reinforcement of the global framework for operation of virtual organizations for research projects in areas like biomedicine, astronomy, environment, or physics. The infrastructure operation will benefit from certification and active security policies, and will include support for significant powerful architectures like multiprocessor or large RAM machines.
The consortium involves 13 leading institutions in 7 countries, with significant computing capacity and expertise in Grid technology.
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"The GRID is a service for sharing computer power and data storage capacity over the Internet. The Grid goes well beyond simple communication between computers and aims ultimately to turn the global network of computers into one vast computational resource. According to the list of grid characteristics extracted from literature and to the different categories of support provided by grids, a grid can also be defined as a large-scale geographically distributed hardware and software infra-structure composed of heterogeneous networked resources owned and shared by multiple administrative organizations which are coordinated to provide transparent, dependable, pervasive and consistent computing support to a wide range of applications. These applications can perform either distributed computing, high throughput computing, on-demand computing, data-intensive computing, collaborative computing or multimedia computing."
To get access to the Grid resources, a potential user have to obtain personal certificate and then to apply for membership in a Virtual Organization. The concept of a Virtual Organization has been formulated to describe all those distributed communities willing to share their resources in order to achieve common goals. A Virtual Organization is a set of resources, users and rules governing the sharing of the resources. Successful registration to a VO allows users to run their application and use storage space on a Grid infrastructure.
The benefits of the Grid will include the enabling of large-scale scientific collaborations, encompassing distributed data from various sources, involving virtual organizations spanning many countries, supported by pervasive computing infrastructure combining the power of many high-performance centres. The GRID is constantly spreading to new countries, spanning numerous sites around the world. In Europe, many organizations are involved in development of Grid technologies, participating in numerous Grid projects supported by the European Commission.
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LIP is a portuguese laboratory devoted to Experimental High Energy Particle Physics. All LIP research projects are developed in close collaboration with CERN, the world biggest centre for nuclear and particle physics research, or with others international cientific organizations, such as ESA. LIP is a non-profit private institution, which due to its highly qualified work, has been considered as an associated laboratory and as a public interest organization by the portuguese government.
LIP has been involved in CERN activities since more than twenty years, and presently, it has severals of its members with big responsibilities in the two largest CERN LHC experiments, ATLAS and CMS. These experiments are expected to colect about 8 Petabytes of experimental data per year, as soon as the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) accelerator starts operating. These data can not be processed using the standard computing facilities and will have to be accessible to cientists in institutions spread all over the world. Grid Computing is being used to developd a new computing infrastructure which integrates computing resources from organizations in different coutries and continents, and will allow to process the LHC data in a more efficient way. Top |
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LIP has participated in several international projects regarding research, development and aplication of Grid Computing which has allowed LIP to obtain the necessary skills and expertise regarding Grid solutions. All these projects aim to develop the grid technologies and infrastructures for generic use and to cope with the LHC specific needs. The participation in these projects allowed LIP to gain considerable experience and know-how in the development, test and deployment of grid based solutions. In the context of the EGEE project LIP is applying this knowledge to support the deployment and use of grid technologies for scientific research in Europe, in lots of different areas of research. Top |
