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There are many large-scale problems which require new approaches to computing,
such as earth observation, environmental management, biomedicine, industrial and
scientific modelling. The CrossGrid project addresses realistic problems in
medicine, environmental protection, flood prediction, and physics analysis.
These applications are oriented towards specific end-users.
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medical doctors, who could obtain new tools to help to obtain
correct diagnoses and to guide them during operations simulation
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Floods |
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flood crisis
teams, which could predict the risk of a flood on the basis of
historical records and actual hydrological and meteorological data flooding crisis team decision support system. |
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Particle Physics |
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physicists, who could
optimise the analysis of massive volumes of data distributed across
countries and continents distributed data analysis in high-energy
physics. |
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Meteo/Pollution |
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industries,
which could be advised on the best timing for some critical operations
involving risk of pollution & air pollution combined with weather forecasting. |
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Click
here
for the Grid Primer
Successful CrossGrid Final Review
The EU IST CrossGrid Project
IST-2001-32243
(www.eu-crossgrid.org)
had its Final Review on 16-17 February 2005 in
Amsterdam. The results of the Project were
demonstrated at the European Grid Conference (http://genias.biz/egc2005/)
in a series of technical talks and live demonstrations
of applications, software services and tools, deployed
on the CrossGrid testbeds.
The results were appreciated by the audience, by the EU Project Officer and
by the Reviewers; all internal
deliverables and presentations concerning technical, managerial and
exploitation issues were approved.
The Final CrossGrid Review concluded successfuly.
About 200 persons from 21 institutions, representing 11 countries,
contributed to the Project. The
CrossGrid community is satisfied with the results produced over the last
four years, and made possible by
the cooperation and financial support of all partners, the EU
IST F2 unit and local funding
agencies.
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International Testbed
Organization |
The international testbed is a key component
of the CrossGrid Project, as it will provide the framework to run the
applications in a realistic GRID environment. In particular, organisational
issues and performance and security aspects...
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CrossGrid testbed accessible by external users
The CrossGrid international testbed
infrastructure is open to external users wishing to evaluate the
parallel and interactive applications environment developed in the
project. The environment includes tools and services designed to
develop, optimize and run grid applications in a friendly way. Users
wishing to obtain access to the CrossGrid testbed should send a
request with detailed information to
grid.support@lip.pt The request will be evaluated based on
the expected grid resource usage and potential interest for the
project.
The request must include at least:
- Responsible Institution in the testbed (if applicable);
- CrossGrid contact (if applicable);
- Personal data (from certificate: Name, Surname);
- e-mail;
- Field/Area;
- Motivation for the request;
- Description and location of Executables;
- Typical time of execution using only 1 CPU;
- Number of nodes/CPU needed usually;
- Number of executions expected for next 3 months;
- Typical size of input/output data
The users will need to obtain authentication
certificates for grid computing. The CrossGrid
project uses the EuGridPMA X.509 certificate
infrastructure. To obtain information about
the available certification authorities please consult the site
www.eugridpma.org.
Once a user is accepted his certificate will be registered in a
virtual organization thus authorizing the certificate owner to
access the testbed resources and services.
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