| Title: | Core Grid Middleware | |
| Department/University: | School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne | |
| Investigators: |
Professor Paul Watson Dr. Savas Parastatidis |
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| Abstract: |
The North-East Regional e-Science Centre is involved in a large
number of research projects that rely on the design and development
of a Grid-based infrastructure. Building a large number of different
infrastructures would be time-consuming, difficult and risky;
currently available Grid middleware is relatively immature and
subject to frequent change, while the knowledge and experience of
it among e-Science researchers is understandably very limited. A
further problem is that many e-Science projects—both at Newcastle
and elsewhere—are currently based on Web Services, but there is the
intention to move to Grid Services at some point in the future. The
method of making the transition is not yet clear, and nor is the
extent of the extra work, delays and risks that this will introduce
into projects. Consequently, it was decided to analyse the requirements of all the Newcastle projects and to de-sign and build a common Core Grid Middleware. The core will consist of an interoperable set of Grid Services. Each project can adopt the Core Grid Middleware and build its own application-specific services on top of it. This should reduce development effort, time and risk. |
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| Project web site | http://www.neresc.ac.uk/projects/CGM/web |
| Core Grid Middleware Leaflet (PDF format) | |
| Core Grid Middleware video (Real format) - You may need to save it to your local drive before watching it. |